{"id":17027,"date":"2026-02-03T17:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=17027"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:56:13","slug":"and-the-lord-god-made","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/and-the-lord-god-made\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Lord God Made"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>725. \u201cThus says God the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out.\u201d When the Creator created His world, He created them from nothing and realized them, and made them real. Wherever there is the word \u201cCreator,\u201d it is about something that He created existence from absence and realized it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>726. From where were the sky created? Were they not created from the same light of above? The body of the sky was from absence, and their form was from existence, from the light of above. So is man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>727. We find that there is creation in the sky, creation and then doing, as it is written, \u201ccreator of the heaven,\u201d meaning existence from absence, the body of the sky. Doing, as it is written, \u201cto the Maker of heaven,\u201d from something real, from the light of above, which is the form of the sky. Doing means correction of the matter into more greatness and merit than it had, as it is written, \u201cAnd David made a name.\u201d For this reason, it is written \u201cCreator of the heaven\u201d about the Guf [body]. \u201cTo the Maker of heaven\u201d is written about the form, which is the completeness and the merit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>728. \u201cAnd the Lord God formed.\u201d \u201cFormed\u201d is written with two letters Yod. All the other \u201cand formed\u201d are written with one Yod. However, everything that the Creator created in His world, He created only in merit, in Bina, except for man, in whom He placed power from the upper ones to know and to recognize and distinguish between good and evil. He is crowned with honor and glory, as it is written, \u201cYou shall crown him with honor and glory,\u201d and he reigns over all the works of his hands, as it is written, \u201cYou have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands.\u201d After all the praise, when he remembers that he is dust and will return to dust, everything becomes worthless before him and he says \u201cWoe.\u201d \u201cAnd formed\u201d has the letters of \u201cWoe that He formed\u201d the man. \u201cWoe the Lord God formed the man dust from the ground,\u201d and he will return to dust, as he was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>729. \u201cAnd the Lord God formed the man dust from the ground.\u201d He formed him with two inclinations: the good inclination and the evil inclination. This is unlike the rest of creations, in order to test the man and to open for the righteous, who ordain the good inclination over the evil inclination, an outlet to speak, and not give the wicked, who are taken after the evil inclination, an outlet to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>730. It is written HaVaYaH, and then Elokim [God]. \u201cAnd the Lord God formed.\u201d The name HaVaYaH is truly His name, the name of existence. It is said about the soul of the person that it exists in a person. Elokim is a common name to the Creator, as well as to created beings, as it is written, \u201cYou shall not curse God,\u201d which is written about man\u2019s body, in which the created beings have partnership since there are three partners in a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>731. The name of existence, the name HaVaYaH, decrees and rules over His creations, and compared to Him they are as chaff that the feet blown away. This name is not lent to another like the name Elokim, which is why the name HaVaYaH is not mentioned in the work of creation, but only one letter of His name, the bottom Hey, as if saying, \u201cHe created them with Hey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>732. The Hey of \u201cWhen they were created\u201d is the name of the Shmita [7<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;year remission]: Burden, sunburned, the king\u2019s torn [part], a government in which He left a small signet to rule under it, as it is written, \u201cWho is like you among the gods, Lord?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world was created with the small Hey, the judgments in her in the first state, when she was Hochma without Hassadim, and the main part of Malchut in the first state in her, although she is all judgments. This is so because in the second state, she has nothing of her own, and she has only what ZA gives her. For this reason, it explains the Hey of \u201cwhen they were created\u201d in the form of the judgments in Malchut during her first state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hey of \u201cwhen they were created\u201d is Malchut in the state of Shmita, when there are no sowing or harvesting in her and she does not yield fruits, which is the first state. At that time, she is called \u201ca burden,\u201d when it is as hard to bear the judgments in her as a heavy burden. And \u201csunburned,\u201d for it is written about that state, \u201cDo not see me that I am dark, that the sun has burned me.\u201d She is the king\u2019s torn part, since then she is torn off from ZA and adheres to the left line of Bina. She is a government in which there is a small signet, a small governance, the governance of the night. To rule under Him, since at night, Malchut rules instead of ZA, since ZA rules only during the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It brings evidence that without the Hey of \u201cwhen they were created,\u201d it would be impossible to create the world, from the verse, \u201cWho is like You among the gods, Lord,\u201d that gods could not create the world until He took the letter Hey from His name and in it, the world was created and the Elim [gods] became Elokim [God].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>733. \u201cAnd the Lord God formed the man.\u201d \u201cThe\u201d comes to include all the forces in the man, \u201cDust from the ground.\u201d How can the man exist in this world, since the Torah testifies about him that he is dust?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>734. He was created from dust and not from matter, clay. If he were from clay, he would be more sustainable, since a building that is built from clay can exist, but from actual dust, it cannot exist, as it is written, \u201csince from dust you are, and to dust you will return.\u201d It is not written \u201csince you are clay.\u201d It is also written, \u201cEven dwellers of clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>735. However, that verse was said about this world, which is not so in existence. This is written about people, whose dwelling is in this world, and whose buildings are from clay, which is why He calls them \u201cdwellers of clay houses.\u201d Since the building is from clay and can exist, the appropriate element is, as it is written, \u201cbig stones, precious stones to establish the house.\u201d But it is not a strong building if the building is clay and the foundation is dust, and for this reason, it does not exist, as it is written, \u201cEven dwellers of clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust,\u201d which is unsustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>736. \u201cAnd He breathed into his nostrils the soul of life.\u201d The Torah yells at Adam HaRishon, \u201cSee what this Adam did, since the Creator placed in him a holy soul, to give him life in the next world, and he, with his iniquities, was returned to that living soul, which is the beastly soul that the earth extracted for the beasts and animals, as it is written, \u2018Let the earth bring forth a living soul after its kind.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>737. It is not written, \u201cAnd He made the man into a living soul,\u201d but rather \u201cAnd the man became a living soul,\u201d teaching that he himself, by the sin that he sinned, returned to that force of the beasts that is derived from the ground, and left the force of the soul that is derived from above and which gives life to its owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>738. It is written, \u201cThus says God the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out.\u201d He created the body of the sky existence from absence, and then stretched it out like a tent, giving it shape, as it is written, \u201cand spreads them like a tent to dwell in.\u201d This implies that He stretched them out like a tent, for it is written, \u201cwho stretches out the heavens like a curtain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>739. \u201cWho spread forth the earth and its offspring,\u201d meaning that all the forms and forces in it were scattered in the earth. \u201cWho gives a soul to the people on it,\u201d meaning after the earth had made the body of the man, I will place the soul in him. \u201cOn it,\u201d on that deed of the body of Adam that she did. \u201cOn it,\u201d to those who rule over the forces of the earth, who subjugate the earthliness in them, to them I have given the soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>740. \u201cAnd spirit to those who walk in it.\u201d Those who participate in it, in its forces, which are drawn after the earthliness, have only the living soul, called \u201cthe spirit of the beast, which goes down to the earth.\u201d This is why it is written, \u201cwho gives a soul to the people on it,\u201d to those who rule it, its forces, they have a holy soul that is derived from above. 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