753. There are three watches in the night, in which three sects of the ministering angels are divided\u2014to praise their Maker on every watch. Corresponding to them there are three prayers in the day, when Israel assemble to praise their Maker in each and every prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
754. In the morning, when the sun rises, it is the time of prayer and request of Israel. From the sixth hour to the nineth hour, it is the time of the noon prayer, and from the setting of the sun until it is dark, it is the last prayer. Once the sun has set, and until two stars are seen, it is the time of the last prayer, the evening prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
755. Once two stars are seen, it is the beginning of the first watch, when the first sect of ministering angels comes and waits for Israel until the time when they conclude their prayer and begin to sing. At that time, all the gates that receive the praises of below are locked, and from then on, gates are opened only to the ministering angels who are singing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
756. Anyone who reads in the Torah at night, the Creator draws upon him a thread of Hesed [mercy] during the day, as it is written, \u201cBy day, the Lord commands his mercy,\u201d since as it is written, \u201cand at night, His song is with me.\u201d Thus, how is it said here that at night, all the gates are locked from receiving from below, and the gates are open only to the singing of the angels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
757. When he completes the praises in the day, and engages in Torah from midnight onward, at that time, they receive from below since then the Creator comes out from those worlds He desires, which shine in the light of Hassadim, which the Creator, ZA, desires, as it is written, \u201cfor He desires mercy,\u201d and goes to entertain Himself with the righteous in the Garden of Eden, to entertain in the illumination of Hochma, since Hochma is called Eden. At that time, it shines in the garden, in Malchut. This is the meaning of what David said, \u201cAt midnight, I will rise to thank You.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
758. When the Creator enters the Garden of Eden, Malchut, with the righteous, all the gates of heaven above open\u2014above the animals, as well as below them\u2014and it is a time of good will to engage in Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
759. Those sects of ministering angels and all the perfumes of the Garden of Eden, and all the righteous, begin to sing before the one who said, \u201cLet there be the world,\u201d as it is written, \u201cSurely the righteous shall give thanks to Your name, when the upright dwell in Your presence,\u201d meaning when they sit before Him in the Garden of Eden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
760. The third sect of the ministering angels sings until dawn. When the dawn rises, it is obligatory for Israel to rise and strengthen themselves with songs and praises before the Creator, since they take the singing immediately after the ministering angels, and the Creator is with them below, as it is written, \u201cThose who see Me shall find Me.\u201d They say psalms and praises at the break of dawn, as long as one does not stop once he begins until he prays when the sun rises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
761. When the Creator exits these worlds and desires them, and comes to enter with the righteous in the Garden of Eden, He waits and sees if He hears a voice engaging in Torah, and that voice is more beautiful to Him than all the songs and praises that the ministering angels say above, as it is written, \u201cI went down to the walnut garden to see,\u201d see those who engage in Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
762. Is the Garden of Eden called \u201ca walnut garden\u201d? It is called \u201ca walnut garden,\u201d meaning the Garden of Eden, since Eden is called a walnut. As the walnut is closed from all its sides, and there are several shells over it, so Eden above is closed from all its sides, and there are several guards over it that do not allow seeing it, not an angel, not a Seraph, not a HASHMAL, and not the eye of a prophet or a visionary, as it is written, \u201cThe eye has not seen a God besides You.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
763. Now I will be rewarded with the merit of the walnut garden with the pious ones in Israel. The Creator called the Garden of Eden a walnut garden. As the walnut is shell after shell, and its fruit is inside, so Eden is world after world, and it is inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
764. That garden, the Creator planted it under the Garden of Eden, Hochma, and it is impossible for the garden to be equal to the Garden of Eden, but rather the garden is in the earth, in Malchut, and the Eden is over it from above, the upper Hochma, and the core and essence of the garden is from Eden since the core of Malchut is from Hochma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
765. \u201cAnd a river comes out from Eden to water the garden.\u201d It should have written \u201cAnd a river comes down of Eden to water the garden.\u201d However, there is Eden below and Eden above, a garden above and a garden below, and both aim one opposite the other, and the planted one below the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The upper Garden of Eden: Upper Hochma is called \u201cEden\u201d; upper Bina is called \u201cgarden,\u201d which receives from this Eden. The bottom Garden of Eden: Bottom Hochma is called \u201cEden,\u201d and Malchut that receives her is called \u201cgarden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eden below is the bottom Hochma; Eden above is upper Hochma. The garden above is Bina; the garden below is Malchut. Both aim one opposite the other, where the bottom Garden of Eden aims opposite the upper Garden of Eden, and the bottom Garden of Eden receives its abundance from the upper Garden of Eden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
766. Did the Creator actually plant the Garden of Eden? Yes. His plantings are not like the rest of the plantings; they are superior to the rest of the plantings. It was a planting of the Creator, as it is written, \u201cthe planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified,\u201d glorified in its praise, for one who sees it says, this must be a planting of the Creator, and not from another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
767. It is nevertheless a planting of the Creator, who planted there each tree that is a delight to see. How did He plant? When the earth brought forth her trees and fruits, she first brought forth in the Garden of Eden, and then in the whole world. The Creator chose the place and prepared it, to be there forever, and He visits it and waters with His kindness from that good that is poured from the Eden of above, as it is written, \u201cThe trees of the Lord are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon which He planted.\u201d These are the trees in the Garden of Eden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
768. The Garden of Eden in the earth is needed for the delight of the soul, which receives it from the Eden of above. Not all the souls will be able to receive from the Garden of Eden of above. Those who are not given permission to rise up, have pleasure and delight in that Garden of Eden of below from what it receives from above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
769. Every beginning of the month, the souls rise to the upper seminary above. In that lower Garden of Eden dwells Adam HaRishon, and the Creator places the man there so his abode will be there, as it is written, \u201cand there He placed the man whom He had formed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
770. Everything that the Creator does, whether above or below, they all yearn and exert to go to their kind. The body goes after its kind\u2014the earth, from which it was taken. And the soul has no delight except in the place from which she was taken, since everything He did desires its own kind, as it is written, \u201cMy soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the Lord,\u201d and not for this world, like the body desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
771. Happy are the righteous, who are called life for the next world. Are the righteous regarded as living because the soul persists in her existence? But the body rots in the earth even though he is complete and righteous, and the soul always remains in her existence, and life and death do not apply to her. Death and life apply only to the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
772. However, it was decreed that when the righteous passes away from this world, the Creator summons for him another body, kosher [fitting\/worthy] and good, so he will not be in the filth and dirt of this body. He installs in it the holy soul, and keeps him in his existence in the body in the Garden of Eden of below, and that body will be for the righteous in the next world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
773. Each beginning of the month, they go out and see the wicked who are punished in Hell, as it is written, \u201cAnd go out and see the carcasses of the people who transgress against Me.\u201d They went outside the Garden of Eden of below to see the wicked, the Creator elevates them to the seminary in the firmament each Shabbat [Sabbath] and beginning of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
774. Each night, when the morning shines, the Creator renews the souls for the righteous, as it is written, \u201cThey are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.\u201d Even for each person who sleeps his sleep each night in this world, and whose soul rises up and is in several flaws and transgressions against the Creator, great is the faith that the Creator returns the soul to the body, and the Creator renews her, since \u201cgreat is Your faithfulness.\u201d Because \u201cgreat is Your faithfulness,\u201d He returns the soul although she is sinful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
775. One who lends money to his friend\u2014and his friend writes him a letter of pledging to keep with him\u2014is forbidden to keep it until his friend gives it to him. Even if the courthouse gives it to him, he must not keep it, as it is written, \u201cIf you ever take your neighbor\u2019s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
776. It is written, \u201cand there He placed the man whom He had formed,\u201d in general. In other words, He did not interpret what he would do there. Afterwards, it is written, \u201cand placed him in the Garden of Eden to work in it and keep it.\u201d What work is there here? It is the work of the soul to complete it in her completions, which she did not complete in this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
777. The Creator placed Adam HaRishon in the Garden of Eden and gave him His law to work in it and keep its commandments, as it is written, \u201cAnd the tree of life in the midst of the garden. It is also written, \u201cShe is a tree of life for those who keep it.\u201d The Creator said, \u201cWhen the man has pleasure in this garden, he will engage in her and keep her. But because of the subtleties and pleasures that Adam had there, he did not keep His law until He drove him out of there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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