658. \u201cAnd God said, \u2018Let us make man in our image.\u2019\u201d It is written, \u201cWhat is man, that You should remember him, and the son of man, that You should visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels.\u201d When the Creator wanted to create the man, He consulted with the angels surrounding His throne and said to them, \u201cLet us make man.\u201d They said to Him, \u201cLord of the world, what is the nature of this man, what is man, that You should remember him?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
659. In the whole of the Torah, we never find that the Creator consults with the angels, about any of the things that He must do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
660. Above and below, there is no one who attains the mind of the Creator. When they want to attain, they immediately retreat from their attainment like a bird that flies and returns to the place where it dwells. So are the angels, until they return and say, \u201cBlessed is the glory of the Lord from His place.\u201d Therefore, how can it be that the Creator would consult with the angels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
661. You find that the Creator created the first light, and from that light, He created the rest of His servants. If He did not consult with the first light, which was created first, when He wanted to extract from it the rest of His hosts, He certainly did not need to consult when He came to create the man, for man was akin to mouth vapor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
663. As the king was the ruler of everything, and wanted to show Himself, that everyone is incorporated in Him and He is everything, He spoke of Himself in plural form. So is the Creator: Since He wanted to show that the whole world is His, and everything is given to His hand, He used plural form to show that He is everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
664. Rabbi Shimon came to Tiberias to purify all the markets of Tiberias. Rabbi Pinhas and Rabbi Yitzhak saw him and said, \u201cUntil when will we sit in one existence and will not be able to walk?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
665. Rabbi Abaho came; he said to Rabbi Shimon, \u201cIf we do not hear an answer to this matter, the thieves will have a pretext in this verse, \u2018Let us make man in our image, after our likeness,\u2019 for it is written \u2018let us make\u2019 in plural form.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
666. It is written, \u201cThe deaf heard and the blind looked to see.\u201d Did the Torah say this to the blind and the deaf? Rather, \u201cblind\u201d means blind in the Torah, that they have a straight path ahead of them, yet they walk in twisted ways like blind, and do not know the crux of the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
667. When the Creator created the world, everything was essentially water, and from water, He planted the whole world. The Creator made three craftsmen to do His craft in this world: the sky, the earth, and water. Through these, all that there is in this world was created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
668. He invited these three so each of them would elicit creations that the world needs. He summoned the water and said to them: \u201cYou, bring out the earth that is beneath you, and you, go gather into one place.\u201d The water did that, as it is written, \u201cLet the waters be gathered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
669. He called the earth and said to her: \u201cYou, extract creations from you, beasts and animals.\u201d She promptly did so, as it is written, \u201cAnd God said, \u2018Let the earth bring forth the living soul after its kind.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
670. He called the sky and said to them, \u201cYou, divide between water and water.\u201d They did so, as it is written, \u201cAnd God made the firmament.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He called the earth and said to her, \u201cBring forth grasses and herbs, crops and the fruits of the tree.\u201d Promptly, \u201cAnd the earth brought forth grass, herb-yielding seed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
671. He called the sky and said to them, \u201cThere will be lights in you, and candles to shine on the earth, as it is written, \u2018Let there be lights in the firmament of the sky.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He called the water and said to them, \u201cYou, bright forth insects, fish, and birds, and the likes of them, as it is written, \u2018Let the water swarm with swarms of living souls.\u2019\u201d Through those three, all the works of creation were done, each according to its kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
672. When the sixth day came, in which the man was created, they were all ready to create as on the rest of the days. The Creator said to them, \u201cNone of you can create this creation alone, as with all the creations have been thus far. Rather, all of you will unite together, and I am with you, and we will make the man, for you will not be able to do him on your own. But the body will be yours, the three of you, and the soul will be Mine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
673. Therefore, the Creator called them and said to them, \u201cLet us make man, you and I, I the soul, and you the body.\u201d And so it is\u2014the body is from the three of them, who were the craftsmen in the rest of the work of creation, and the Creator gave the soul, participating with them in her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
674. \u201c\u2018In our image, after our own likeness,\u2019 as it should be for us, since the body that was taken from you will know and be similar to you, like the one that was taken from Me, which is the soul. He will be similar to Me, aloof from worldly matters and desiring and yearning for the upper, holy ones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
675. \u201c\u2018In our image, after our own likeness,\u2019 that the body that was taken from you will not exist forever, because of you, as it is like those creations you have produced, since it is dust like the rest of creations. And the holy soul that I have placed in him will exist forever, as she is not a body and will be similar to me\u2014in eternal existence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
676. That answer is the clarification of the matter since it was found in the work of creation that there were those three: the sky, the earth, and the water. This is why it is possible that the Creator told them \u201cLet us make man,\u201d that He participated with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
677. However, only the earth took the power of the three of them until there were four elements in her: fire, wind, water, and dust. She took two from the sky, fire and wind, and one from the water: water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And one that is in her, the earth, brought forth the mass of the man, and the Creator placed in it the soul, as it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord God made the man dust from the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the soul of life.\u201d Thus, both of them, the earth and the Creator, participated together in making him. This is why He said, \u201cLet us make man,\u201d and the Creator told her, \u201cMake the body, and I the soul.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
678. In a similar manner, the Creator engaged the dwellers of the world in the creation of the people, since there are three partners in a person: the man, his wife, and the Creator. Similarly, in the creation of Adam HaRishon, there were the sky, the earth, and the Creator. The sky corresponds to the man; the earth corresponds to his wife, and the Creator always participates with them. This is why it is written, \u201cLet us make man,\u201d phrased as partnership. But the Creator never partners with any creation in the world except with man, in whom He placed the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
679. Who participates with the rest of the creations? After all, they have a living soul! The power of the earth, which is a living soul. But the Creator participates only with man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
680. Woe to the wicked, who do not want to adhere to the partnership with the Creator, who do not want to adhere to that soul that He has given, but go and adhere to the power of the beasts, as it is written, \u201cNevertheless, man, though in honor, does not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.\u201d \u201cDoes not remain\u201d means he did not want to stand in that preciousness and glory of the soul. But the sin that he made was that he was like the beasts, in the same power as theirs. \u201cLike\u201d means cut off and quickly becoming similar, and not rising above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
681. It is written, \u201cAnd his eye sees every precious thing.\u201d These are the souls of the righteous, who are precious and glory for the world and for all eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
682. Man\u2019s merit is that the Creator distinguished him from all other creations. How did He distinguish him? Everything that the Creator created, He said to those workers\u2014the sky, the earth, and the water\u2014to do it on their own, and He did not unite with them. He said about creations, \u201cLet the earth bring forth a living soul.\u201d He said to the water, \u201cLet the water swarm,\u201d and He did not unite with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
683. When He created the man, the Creator united with them in making him, and said, \u201cLet us make man.\u201d He placed in him dignity, sight, smell, stature, walking, touching, speech, and doing. He likened him to the work of His hands, as it is written, \u201cYou have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
684. When He threw the soul in him, he rose to his feet and was like the lower ones and the upper ones. His body was similar to the earth, and his soul to the upper ones in appearance, in beauty, in honor, in dread, and in fear, as it is written, \u201cYou have crowned him with glory and honor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
685. It is written, \u201cFor You have made him a little lower than God.\u201d What equivalence is that? In his soul, which is holy and similar to Him. But the flaw in him is over the body, which was taken from the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
686. The equivalence with God cannot be in knowledge or in wisdom, since man is far from the upper ones. The angels who are close receive the power of abundance of the mirror of above first, and from them it descends to those angels who are not near, and from them, it descends to the sky and to all their hosts, and from them to man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
687. The throne receives first, and from it to the upper angels, and from them to those who are not so superior and high as they are, and from them to the sky, and from them to man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
688. But the man is similar to the Creator in the soul, which is holy and will never perish, since she was taken from Him, from His power and might, unlike the body, which was taken from the ground and will perish and return to dust, as it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
699 The man and his mate were created together, as it is written, \u201cHe created them male and female.\u201d He took her from his ribs and prepared her, and brought her to the man, as it is written, \u201cAnd He took one of his ribs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
690. The rib that He took from his ribs was the first Eve. He took it from him, and she harms people, as it is written, \u201cAnd He took one of his ribs.\u201d This is the first one that was taken from him, since she is a harmful spirit. \u201cAnd closed up with flesh under it,\u201d meaning He established another one instead of her, flesh and not spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
691. \u201cAnd closed up with flesh under it,\u201d meaning she was flesh, but the first one was not flesh, but was rather the filth of the earth and its yeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
692. When the Creator created the man, He gave him luster in his face which shines all over the world. When he sinned, it is written, \u201cand the sternness of his face is changed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
693. \u201cAnd God said, \u2018Let us make man.\u2019\u201d Why is it not written right away, \u201cand it was so,\u201d as on the rest of the days, when the Creator would say something, and it is immediately written, \u201cand it was so\u201d? Rather, here it is not written, but rather after He said \u201cLet us make man,\u201d it is written, \u201cAnd God created the man.\u201d It should have been written \u201cand it was so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
694. However, there was not only that in the work of creation, that it is not written in it \u201cand it was so,\u201d since it is written, \u201cAnd God said, \u2018Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,\u2019\u201d and it is not written \u201cand it was so, but rather \u201cand God made the firmament.\u201d Also, \u201cLet there be lights in the firmament of the sky\u201d; it should have been written immediately \u201cand it was so,\u201d but it is written, \u201cAnd God made the two great lights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
695. However, anything that did not have in it a force that is emanated from above that would come and complete it, it is immediately written, \u201cand it was so,\u201d since the earth extracted them in completeness of all their operation and they did not need to wait for the upper force to come and complete the completeness of that operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
696. However, anything that the earth extracted that did not have the completeness of the operation in it had to wait until the force would come from above and make the existence and completeness of the operation. And then it is not written immediately, \u201cand it was so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
697. In the man, too, the earth extracted the thing that she could do, and stood until He would give the force that He is able to give. This is why it is not written immediately, \u201cand it was so,\u201d until the Creator came and installed in him the force from above, and made the existence, and then it is written, \u201cAnd God created.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
698. What did the Creator see that He made the man only on the sixth? It was in order for the man not to be able to say that he helped in some way with anything that was created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
699. Rabbi Elazar rose, lowered his head, placed his hands on his mouth and wept. Rabbi Akiva told him, \u201cRabbi, why are you crying?\u201d He told him, \u201cOver your question why Adam was crated on the sixth; I saw a vision and the matter is troubling me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
700. \u201cAkiva, who will be rewarded with this prolonged exile, which has been ongoing? After all, no man will rise, the Messiah, who is destined to come to reach the clouds in the sky, before the sixth day, for Adam was created on the sixth day, which is in the 6,000 years, in the sixth millennium, and not in its completion but during the sixth millennium, except if they strengthen themselves in repentance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is so because the governance of man is only on the sixth, which is Yesod, since the six days are HGT NHY, and the sixth day is Yesod. And also, 6,000 are HGT NHY, and the sixth millennium is Yesod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
701. \u201cOn the seventh millennium, the world will remain in remission and ruined, and on the eighth millennium, the world will be renewed as before, and what will be will be, as it is written, \u201cAnd it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called \u2018holy,\u2019\u201d and it is written about them, \u201cMay the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in His works.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
702. \u201cThese are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were created, on the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven.\u201d After he told all the generations that the heaven and the earth extracted, so you will not say that they were all created in six days\u2014this creation on this day, and that creation on that day\u2014but rather all the generations that were made from the heaven and the earth, were \u201con the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven,\u201d meaning on the very same day that the heaven and earth were made, all the generations that formed from the heaven and the earth were immediately within them, as it is written, \u201con the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven,\u201d that heaven and earth and all their generations emerged and were formed at the same moment as His thought when He thought of their formation. However, they emerged and were revealed each in his day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
703. It is written, \u201cThis is the book of the generations of Adam on the day when God created man.\u201d Thus, on the very day when the man was created, all his generations were created, as with the heaven and the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
704. Similarly, on the same day when the man was born, all his generations were made with him. On that day, the Creator showed him all his generations and passed the souls before Him in their form. He would say, \u201cThis is so and so, and this is so and so, this is the sage of the generation, and this is the judge of the generation, and likewise all the generations and their leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
705. It is written, \u201cThus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished,\u201d after it is written, \u201cAnd God saw everything that He had made, and indeed, it was very good.\u201d What is \u201call that He had done\u201d? \u201cAll\u201d comes to include the matter of the angels, who are very good. About all the created beings, it is written only \u201cthat it was good,\u201d but here, \u201cand behold, indeed, it was very good,\u201d teaching that the angels were created, and it is written about them, \u201cand indeed, it was very good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
706. Why does the text also add \u201cfinished\u201d after it is already written \u201call that He had done\u201d? It is a term of yearning, from the words, \u201cmy soul yearns for You.\u201d \u201cAnd all their hosts,\u201d in general, are the angels, who are called \u201cthe hosts of heaven,\u201d as it is written, \u201cand all the hosts of heaven standing over him.\u201d When He completed the work, she was longed and yearned for by all who see her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
707. \u201cFinished\u201d means finished from action and finished from thought. The Creator made the day of Shabbat [Sabbath] similar to the next world, when the Creator is destined to rest on the seventh, the seventh millennium, when the world is ruined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
708. On the day of Shabbat, an additional soul is added to a person. This is the holy spirit that is on him, which crowns a person with the holy crown, the crowns of the angels. It is of that same spirit that is destined to be in the righteous in the days to come. For this reason, a person must cherish the day of Shabbat for that holy guest who is with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
709. That additional spirit of Shabbat is called \u201cglorified\u201d and called \u201choly,\u201d as it is written, \u201cand call the Shabbat \u2018delight,\u2019\u201d literally. \u201cThe holy day of the Lord honorable\u201d is the additional spirit that is called \u201choly day of the Lord,\u201d who is called \u201chonorable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
710. When they completed all the works, the Creator blessed them and prepared them in the world, and commanded each one not to change His preparation from the matter that He had made him, and that each one would bring forth its appropriate generation from now and forever, as it is written, \u201cwhich God has created to do.\u201d \u201cTo do\u201d means that he will engender and extract everything like Him. Also, \u201cto do\u201d concerns the body of the demons, whose work was not completed until the sanctification of the Shabbat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
711. When Shabbat entered [began], all the things that were created in the work of creation rested and calmed, each according to its creation. Those craftsmen that extracted their generations each of the six days of creation quieted and rested on the day of Shabbat, and saw that they were all completed, and all their generations were with them in existence and in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
712. These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were created,\u201d like a person praising and saying \u201cThese are the things that there is nothing like them.\u201d \u201cWhen they were created\u201d means \u201cHe created them with a Hey.\u201d \u201cWhen they were created\u201d means truly in their image and completeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
713. Rav Nachman said, \u201cDo not pronounce it \u201cwhen they were created\u201d but \u201cin Abraham,\u201d for he accepted His law and His covenant, which he had placed in him. Were it not for Abraham, who accepted the law and the covenant of the Creator, the heaven and earth would not have existed, as it is written, \u201cIf not for My covenant day and night, I have not placed the ordinances of heaven and earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
714. It is written, \u201cThe high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the rock rabbits.\u201d It is no wonder that the world was created for Abraham, who observed the whole Torah and all that he was commanded by the Creator. Also, \u201cWhen they were created\u201d means \u201cin the bottom Hey of the name HaVaYaH He created them,\u201d as it is written, \u201cfor My name is in the midst of him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
715. The name of the Creator was not unified in all the created beings, but only in those where it is written, \u201con the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven.\u201d No animals or beasts were mentioned, nor any created being from among those that are flawed and fleeting. Rather, He mentioned His names on those who exist forever, namely heaven and earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
716. \u201cOn the day when the Lord God made heaven and earth,\u201d a day when the creation of heaven and earth, the day of Shabbat, were pleasing to the Creator. It is written about it that they were finished, which is a term of delight. He saw the Shabbat, that it is rest and holiness; He prepared it for posterity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
717. There is not a single Shabbat when the Creator does not go to make a dance [also forgiveness] with the righteous in the Garden of Eden, and they are nourished from the brightness of the shining mirror, as it is written, \u201cuntil the day breathes,\u201d which is the day of Shabbat. \u201cI will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense,\u201d this is the next world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
718. It is no wonder, and as in this world, the Creator gives the holy spirit to each one on the day of Shabbat, and crowns them with it, the righteous, who are in the next world, He will certainly crown them with a crown on the day of Shabbat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
719. Even the wicked in Hell are crowned on the day of Shabbat, and they quiet down and rest. There is not a wicked one from Israel who does not have good deeds which help him in the next world. When do they help him? On the day of Shabbat, so they will all be crowned with the crown of Shabbat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
720. The wicked who desecrated the Shabbat in front of everyone have a merit in the crown of Shabbat, for it is written, \u201cAnd it came to pass that on the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread.\u201d For this reason, on the sixth day, the wicked are sentenced twice, so as to have relief on the day of Shabbat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
721. The day of Shabbat is called \u201ccomplete\u201d and not \u201cdeficient.\u201d Therefore, it does not deny the good and pleasure in it, neither to the righteous nor to the wicked, and to show that it is with good reason that the Torah said, \u201cObserve the Shabbat,\u201d and cautioned about the day of Shabbat more than about the whole Torah, and anyone who observes Shabbat, it is as though he observes the whole Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
722. The Creator did not sit on His throne until Shabbat came; then He ascended and sat on His throne. But before the world was created, He sat was present and future? If this means for us that He actually sat on His throne, it is not so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
723. However, before the world was created there was no one to praise the Creator and know Him. When He created His world, He created the angels and holy animals, the sky and all their hosts, and He created man, and they are all ready to praise their Maker and glorify Him. But still, there were no praise and glory before Him until Shabbat entered and everyone were quieted and began to sing and praise, upper ones and lower ones, and then He sat on His throne, meaning that then there was someone to know His glory and praise His glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
724. There is not a praise of the Creator as the praise of the Shabbat, as the upper ones and lower ones all praise Him as one, and even the day of Shabbat praises Him, as it is written, \u201cA psalm, a song for the day of Shabbat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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