686) \u201cA Song of ascents for Solomon: Unless the Lord builds a house, they who built it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman watches in vain.\u201d Did Solomon say this praise while he was building the Temple? It is not so. Rather, King David said it for his son, King Solomon, when Prophet Nathan came to him and told him about Solomon that he would build the Temple. Afterwards, King David showed Solomon the shape of the Temple. When David saw the shape of the Temple and all its corrections, he said a psalm about Solomon and said, \u201cUnless the Lord builds a house.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
687) \u201cA Song of ascents for Solomon,\u201d to the king that peace is his, to him who is ZA. This singing is a song and praise more than all other songs. This singing exceeds them all. \u201cUnless the Lord builds a house,\u201d since King David saw all those seven pillars, HGT NHYM of ZA, on which the house, Malchut, stands. They stand row by row to build this house, and atop them all stands the landlord, Bina, walking over them and giving each of them strength and courage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
688) David said about that, \u201cUnless the King that peace is all His, Bina, the landlord, does not build this house, they who built it labor in vain, meaning the pillars, HGT NHYM of ZA, which are poised to build that house.\u201d If Bina did not sweeten the Malchut, who is called \u201chouse,\u201d Malchut would be unfit to receive any light. \u201cUnless the Lord guards the city\u201d is the King that peace is all His, Bina, \u201cThe watchman watches in vain, which is one pillar on which the world, Malchut, was established.\u201d This is the righteous, Yesod of ZA, who keeps this city, Malchut. Bina is called \u201cThe King that peace is all His,\u201d from which all the Mochin extend. And ZA is called \u201cThe king that peace is His,\u201d Yesod, who is called \u201cpeace.\u201d For this reason, \u201cA Song of ascents for Solomon,\u201d ZA, \u201cUnless the Lord,\u201d Bina, \u201cBuilds a house.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
689) The tabernacle that Moses did, which is Malchut in Mochin of VAK, Joshua always stood and guarded it. There is no guarding except in him, who is called \u201ca youth,\u201d Matat, as it is written, \u201cHis servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not move from the tent.\u201d This tabernacle was not guarded by another youth, as it is written, \u201cAnd the boy Samuel was ministering,\u201d since there is no guarding of the tabernacle but in a youth, and that guard is the same one who guards the upper tabernacle, Malchut in Mochin of VAK, and he is called \u201ca youth,\u201d Matat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
690) But you high and holy ones, your guarding is not as the guarding of the tabernacle. Rather, your guarding is as the guarding of the Temple, the Malchut in Mochin of face-to-face with ZA, which only the Creator guards, as it is written, \u201cUnless the Lord guards the city, the watchman watches in vain.\u201d It is so because whenever the righteous are walking on the road, the Creator always guards them, as it is written, \u201cThe Lord will keep your going out and your coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
691) \u201cFor He will give His angels charge concerning you, to guard you in all your ways. They will carry you in their hands.\u201d First it writes, \u201cFor He will give His angels charge concerning you, to guard you,\u201d which is the angel Matat. Then it is written, \u201cThey will carry you in their hands,\u201d which is the Creator Himself, Bina, who carries Malchut and the righteous in His hands, for her diminution that she received through the Malchut. By that, she can later bestow her Gadlut, as well, upon the righteous and upon Malchut. It is written, \u201cThey will carry you in their hands,\u201d meaning on her diminution and Katnut, which is called \u201chands,\u201d since \u201cThat you do not strike your foot against a stone,\u201d which is the quality of judgment of Malchut of the first restriction. It is called \u201ca stone,\u201d for wherever it appears, all the Mochin promptly part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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