818) Similarly, couplings are as hard for the Creator as the tearing of the Red Sea. Like the Red Sea, where He kills those on that side and sustains those on this side, it is the same with the couplings. It is written, \u201cHe leads out the prisoners into prosperity,\u201d which has the letters of \u201cweeping\u201d and \u201csinging\u201d [in Hebrew], for one dies and there is weeping, and he gives his wife to another, and there is singing. Sometimes a wicked comes by a good wife. For this reason, couplings are as hard for Him as the tearing of the Red Sea. However, these are hidden secrets in everything, and all is in judgment. What they commented about it is to explain why this was rejected from that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
819) Couplings are as hard for the Creator, not before the Creator, since \u201cfor\u201d means that he stands before the Creator and serves Him, meaning Malchut, who receives from the Creator. This is why we do not learn that couplings are hard for the Creator, or that man\u2019s nourishments are hard for the Creator, but before the Creator, which is the Malchut. It is so because for this, for Malchut, all those are hard because they are not in her domain. Although she works, she works in the domain of another, for she receives everything from the Creator. This is why it can be said that things are hard for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
820) What is \u201cbefore\u201d? It is the next world, Bina, where all of life is found. Another interpretation: it is the upper channel, a river whose waters never stop, Yesod of ZA that receives all the refinements of the next world, Bina. It is written, \u201cThat soul shall be cut off from before Me,\u201d meaning that the soul will be cut off from all the upper refinements in the place where there is the pleasantness of the Creator, Bina. This is what the word \u201cbefore\u201d indicates, \u201cBefore the Creator,\u201d that the Creator receives from it, meaning Bina who gives to ZA, who is called \u201cthe Creator.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
821) Therefore, it is written, \u201cAnd Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from before the Lord,\u201d for the people knew that he was running from the Lord. What is the reason that Jonah ran, and who can run from the Creator? He was going and running to exit the land of Kedusha [holiness] because the Shechina is absent outside the land of Israel. To not have the Shechina over him, he was running from the land of Kedusha, where the Shechina is present, as it is written, \u201cYour wife is as a fruitful vine, I have blessed your house.\u201d A fruitful vine is the Shechina. As the Shechina was hidden before, in the house of the holy of holies, a humble woman does not walk outside her house. This is why he compares the wife to the Shechina. And this is why Jonah was running outside the land of Kedusha. He asks, \u201cBut here it is written, \u2018From before,\u2019 and does not write \u2018Before,\u2019 so how does it still mean the Shechina and not Bina?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
822) Indeed it is from before, prior to the Shechina, since the spirit of prophecy does not come from the Shechina but prior to the Shechina. These are two degrees of the prophets, NH, which are over the Shechina. He feared being in the place of NH in the holy land, lest the prophecy would be applied to him. This is why it is written \u201cFrom before,\u201d since he is running from before the Lord, and not before the Lord, which would mean from the Shechina, for he knew that prophecy comes only from before, which is NH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
823) For this reason, man\u2019s couplings and nourishments are hard before the Creator, the Shechina. And this is why King David conditioned his nourishments on above, from the Shechina, when he said, \u201cThe Lord [HaVaYaH] is my shepherd,\u201d ZA, since the abundance never stops above. But it does stop in the Shechina, since the nourishments are not dependent on her, for they are above in ZA. This is why it is written, \u201cThe Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want,\u201d meaning that the nourishments will never cease from me, for the abundance of that river that stretches out of Eden\u2014ZA, who receives from AVI\u2014never stops. And therefore, the Shechina preceded it and was on him, and then he said the praise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
824) When the Shechina receives nourishments above from ZA for the worlds, all the angels who sanctify their Master are refined and awaken, raising their wings up to cover their faces when the Shechina comes with those nourishments to them, so as to not look at the Shechina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
825) These are three camps of angels in one ascent, reading and saying \u201choly.\u201d They call the second camp and raise their first wings with the second ones, and the second ones say \u201choly.\u201d Those call upon the third camp, and the three camps raise their wings together, all saying \u201cHoly is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.\u201d Hence, all of them, all three camps are entwined, those going into these, and these entering those, entwined, as written about the boards, \u201cJoined one to another; so shall you do for all the boards of the tabernacle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
826) Boards always maintain their sustenance and do not bend, like those standing seraphim that do not bend, for they have no legs to bend on, and they always stand without sitting. This is why it is written \u201cstanding\u201d in regard to the boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
827) It is written, \u201cTwo handles shall there be in each board, joined one to another.\u201d Here, too, like the seraphim, each of which is included in two phases, which are two handles, for in each there is its own phase and that of the other, and in the other there is the same. This is why they are entwined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
828) It is written similarly in the Torah, \u201cFor her profit is better than the profit of silver and her gain better than fine gold.\u201d One teaches the other, and the other teaches the one, and they become entwined\u2014one taking his own and that of his friend, and his friend taking his own and that of his friend, meaning his reward and the reward of the friend studying with him, and they are entwined. Hence, \u201cHer profit is better than the profit of silver,\u201d for there, one takes the merchandise and the other takes the pay for the merchandise, but here, each is entwined in his friend so each has both the merchandise and the pay that he receives from his friend with whom he studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
829) \u201cHe makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.\u201d Green pastures are the upper sources, Sefirot of ZA, from whom all food and provisions come. They are handsome because those Sefirot of ZA are called \u201cHabitations of Jacob\u201d [in the Bible, Naot is used for both \u201chabitations,\u201d \u201cpastures,\u201d and \u201coasis\u201d]. Green pastures, since there are greens in externality, oases, which is why he calls those of Kedusha \u201cGreen pastures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is also written, \u201cLet the land put forth grass.\u201d Thus, is grass below, in the earth, Malchut? Rather, grass comes from these Naot, from which it was born and grew. They come to Malchut, which is why it is written, \u201cHe makes me lie down in green pastures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
830) \u201cHe leads me beside quiet waters.\u201d This is waters of rest, extended from the places that stretch out of Eden, Bina. These waters are called \u201cstill waters.\u201d \u201cHe restores my soul\u201d is the soul of David, Malchut. By that, David only wanted to properly correct his degree. In these still waters, the righteous are destined to rest in the next world, as it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord will guide you always.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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