{"id":7820,"date":"2025-11-11T16:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=7820"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:29:53","slug":"behold-three-men-2","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/behold-three-men-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold, Three Men \u2013 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>93) After Abraham was circumcised, he was sitting and hurting, and the Creator sent him three angels openly to give him regards. How were they revealed? Who can see angels, since it is written, \u201cHe makes winds His messengers\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>94) But of course he saw them, since they came down to earth in the form of people. They were certainly holy spirits, but when they come down to the world, they clothe in air and in elements of cover and wrapping and seem to people precisely in their form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>95) Abraham saw them as in the form of people. And although he was in pain from the circumcision, he went out and ran toward them, since it was his way to welcome guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>96) But he certainly saw them as angels, as is evident from what is written, \u201cAnd the Lord [ADNI] said,\u201d which is the name Aleph-Dalet of the Shechina. Aleph Dalet is an acronym of the name ADNI, since the Shechina was coming and those angels were her supports and her throne, since they are the three colors\u2014white, red, and green\u2014below the Shechina, from her Chazeh down, regarded as being under the degree in each degree. These angels are the externality of the Shechina, from the Chazeh down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>97) And he saw that they were angels because he was circumcised, which he did not see previously, before he was circumcised. In the beginning, he knew that they were men, and afterwards he knew that they were angels who came to him on a mission from the Creator when they told him, \u201cWhere is Sarah, your wife?\u201d and gave him the news of Isaac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>98) The punctuated letters in the word \u201cunto him\u201d [in Hebrew] in the verse, \u201cAnd they said unto him: \u2018Where\u2019\u201d are Aleph-Yod-Vav. The sign Aleph-Yod-Vav implies to what is above; it implies to the Creator. It is about Him that they asked him, \u201cWhere.\u201d And he said, \u201cBehold, in the tent,\u201d meaning he was adhered to the Shechina. This is because here it is written, \u201cBehold, in the tent,\u201d and there, \u201cA tent that shall not be removed.\u201d As there it means the Shechina, here it means the Shechina, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the Aleph-Yod-Vav are already punctuated in the words \u201cunto him,\u201d why does it then say \u201cWhere\u201d? It is because the joining of male and female together is faith. This is why they asked Aleph-Yod-Vav about the Creator, and \u201cWhere\u201d about the Shechina. In other words, they evoked him to unify the Creator and His Shechina. At that time, it is written, \u201cAnd he said, \u2018Behold, in the tent,\u2019\u201d since there he connected everything\u2014the Nukva, called \u201ctent,\u201d and there is the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>99) Did the angels not know that Sarah was in the tent that they asked about her, \u201cWhere\u201d? These angels know in this world only what is permitted for them to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is written, \u201cFor I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt, I am the Lord.\u201d But there are several emissaries and messengers to the Creator; why did He go through the land of Egypt Himself? It is because the angels cannot tell a drop of a firstborn from one that is not of a firstborn. Only the Creator knows that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>100) It is written, \u201cAnd put a mark on the foreheads of the men.\u201d Why do the angels need that sign? It is because the angels know only what is permitted for them to know, meaning all those things that the Creator is destined to bring to the world. And they know it because the Creator makes announcements through all the firmaments and announces the thing that He is destined to bring to the world, and the angels hear the announcements and know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>101) When there is a saboteur in the world, one should hide oneself in one\u2019s home and not be seen on the street, so he will not sabotage, as it is written, \u201cAnd none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.\u201d This is because one should hide from those angels that he can hide. But from the Creator, one does not need to hide, as it is written, \u201cCan a man hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>102) Why did they ask about Sarah? After all, even after they had heard that she was in the tent, they did not go in there to tell her, but told Abraham while he was outside. However, they did not wish to convey the message to her face. Hence, when he said, \u201cBehold, in the tent,\u201d he immediately said, \u201cI will certainly return,\u201d since they did not intend Sarah to hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is good manners that before Abraham invited them to eat, they told him nothing so it would not seem as though he invited them to eat because of the news. Hence, after it is written, \u201cAnd they ate,\u201d they told him the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>103) But do angels from on high eat? Indeed, for Abraham\u2019s honor it seemed as though they were eating, meaning they were pretending to eat. But another said that they actually ate, since they are fire that consumes fire. And it was not that they seemed as though they were eating. Everything that Abraham gave them, they ate, since they ate from Abraham&#8217;s side above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extending Hassadim is eating above. And Abraham is Hesed. Hence, they ate everything that he gave them from his quality, the quality of Hesed, since this is how they eat above, in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>104) Everything that Abraham ate, he ate in purity. For this reason, he sacrificed before the angels and they ate. And Abraham kept purity and impurity in his home. An impure person could not even serve in his home until he gave him a Tevila [purifying bath]\u2014if he were only slightly impure\u2014or made him properly keep seven days in his home if he were in grave impurity, and afterwards he gave him a Tevila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>105) It is written, \u201cIf there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission,\u201d what is his correction? It is written, \u201cWhen evening approaches, he shall bathe himself with water.\u201d If some other grave impurity occurs to him, such as gonorrhea or leprosy or menstruation, meaning he has two impurities, the Tevila that he took for his emission that day before evening is insufficient. Instead, he must keep seven days and then perform Tevila again. And it makes no difference if the emission occurred to him before he received the other impurity or afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>106) Abraham and Sarah were setting up Tevila for every person\u2014he for the men and she for the women. The reason why Abraham engaged in purifying people is that he was pure and he was called \u201cpure,\u201d as it is written, \u201cWho can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one,\u201d and Abraham is pure who came out of Terah, who was unclean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>107) This is why Abraham engaged in Tevila, to correct the degree of Abraham. And his degree is water, Hassadim, for which he was made to purify all the people in the world with water. Similarly, when he invited the angels, in the beginning of his words, it is written, \u201cLet him take some water,\u201d to grow stronger in the degree of Hesed, where there is water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>108) For this reason, he was purifying people from everything, purifying them from any idolatry and purifying them from the side of impurity. And as he was purifying the men, she was purifying the women. Thus, all those who came to him were purified from everything, from idolatry and from impurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>109) Wherever Abraham lived, he planted a tree. But it did not grow properly in any place except when he lived in the land of Canaan. And by that tree, he would know who was united with the Creator and who was united with idolatry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>110) When one was united with the Creator, the tree would spread its branches over him and cover his head and give him a nice shade. When one united with idolatry, the tree would lift itself from him, and its branches would rise up. Then Abraham knew that he was an idolater and warned him and did not let go until he united with faith in the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>111) One who is pure, that tree receives him. And one who is not pure, that tree does not receive him, and then Abraham knew that he was impure and would purify him with water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>112) There was a spring under the tree. When anyone needed Tevila, the waters would immediately rise toward him, and the branches of the tree would rise. Then Abraham knew that he was impure and needed immediate Tevila, meaning that he was only slightly impure and did not need to wait seven days. And if he did not need Tevila at once, the water would dry out. Then Abraham would know that he still needs to be impure and wait for seven days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree is the tree of life, ZA, the middle line. The spring beneath it is the screen of Hirik, which became a perpetual spring, emitting the level of Hassadim by which he subdues the left line and mingles with the right. And all the prohibitions and the Sitra Achra, such as idolatry and impurity, come from the left line because they wish to give the left dominance over the right and to draw the abundance of the left from above downward, which is the source of all the prohibitions in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out that within the impure who clings to the left, there is that same correction that was during the elicitation of the left line, when it was in dispute and shutting of lights until the level of Hassadim was extended over the screen of Hirik in the middle line. At that time, the Hassadim overcame the left line, and it surrendered and was included in the right line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the same with one who fails by the Sitra Achra and clings to the left line to draw from it from above downward. He cannot be corrected unless by receiving the level of Hassadim from the middle line. At that time, he is incorporated in the right and is pure. And what is its correction? It is written, \u201cWhat is his correction? But it shall be when evening approaches, he shall bathe himself in water.\u201d This is because he needs to return and draw the left line, and draw the sentencing of the middle line through coming in water, which is the level of Hassadim that comes out on the screen of Hirik under the tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen evening approaches\u201d he returns and draws the illumination of the left because there is no illumination of the left in the daylight. \u201cHe shall bathe himself in water\u201d means that he returns and draws the level Hassadim in the middle line that subdues the illumination of the left and incorporates it in the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is known that there are two points in the Nukva: one is sweetened in Bina and is called a key, and one is of the quality of judgment, from the first restriction. This one is unsweetened in Bina and is called a lock. One who is rewarded with adhering to the middle line, the point of the quality of judgment is concealed for him, and the point of the quality of mercy is revealed for him in the high governance. If he is rewarded, good. If he is not rewarded but clings to the domination of the left, the point of the quality of judgment appears\u2014in Nukva of the first restriction that was on the Malchut that is unfit for reception of direct light. And at that time, all the lights depart her. Thus, if he is not rewarded, it is bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this reason, there are two kinds of impurities. One is slight impurity, such as night emission, when one clings to the left line, but not enough to reveal the point of the lock, as in, if he is not rewarded, it is bad. Thus, he lacks only the subjugation of the middle line through the level of Hassadim, and he goes in water and he is purified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second is grave impurity where by adhering to the left, the point of the lock has already appeared and removed all the lights from the Nukva, as in, if he is not rewarded, it is bad. At that time, he must first sweeten the Malchut in Bina in the two phases, in Katnut and in Gadlut, which are the count of seven days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, with light impurity, the tree raises its branches and does not shade him, since he is still attached to the left line, which is his impurity. This is so because while the middle line mingles the two lines\u2014left and right\u2014in one another, it makes a shade that covers the GAR of GAR. Therefore, when he clings to the left line, he has no shade at all, and the tree removes its branches from him. But the spring under the tree, the middle line, raises its level of Hassadim to him, which stretches over him so he would immediately come inside the water, the lines will be incorporated in one another, and he will be purified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in the acute impurity, when the lock appears on him, the waters in the spring dry out, which means that there is no coupling on the screen in the middle line to elicit the level of Hassadim. This is so because due to the disclosure of the lock, the coupling ceases, for as long as the lock is revealed in ZON, they are unfit to receive the upper light. Hence, the spring dries up until he counts the seven days and returns and sweetens the Malchut in Bina, as in third and seventh for Katnut and for Gadlut. At that time, the coupling on the screen in the middle line and the spring regain their strength, and he goes in the water and purifies, for he lacks only the reception of the determining of the middle line, which comes with the Tevila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this pertains only to the screen of Hirik in the middle line of ZON. But the screen is not obligated to sweeten in the key in the screen of Hirik of the middle line in Bina, but the coupling for the level of Hassadim emerges on the lock, since the screen of the lock does not act in any way to blemish above its own source, above ZON, since the first restriction occurred only on the Malchut herself, as well as on ZA who serves her, but not at all in Bina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>113) Even when Abraham invited the angels, he told them, \u201cLean under the tree,\u201d to see and to examine them. He examined all the people in the world in that tree, since the Creator said that it is the tree of life for all. This is why he told them, \u201cLean under the tree,\u201d which is the Creator, and not under idolatry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>114) When Adam ha Rishon sinned, he sinned with the tree of knowledge of good and evil, as it is written, \u201cbut of the tree of the knowledge.\u201d And he sinned in it and caused death to the whole world. It is written, \u201cAnd now, he might reach out his hand and take from the tree of life, as well, and eat, and live forever.\u201d And when Abraham came, he corrected the world with the other tree, the tree of life, and announced the faith to all the people in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>115) If we examine the portion, we must examine wisely. If we interpret it concerning the soul, the beginning is not as the end, and the end is not as the beginning, since it is hard to explain the end of the portion in regard to the soul, as well. It follows that its end is not as its beginning, and its beginning not as its end. And if we interpret it in regard to man\u2019s passing from the world, we will continue in this way throughout the portion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether we interpret this portion this way or that, we must continue. What is the meaning of the words \u201cLet him take some water, and wash your feet\u201d? What is, \u201cAnd I will fetch a piece of bread\u201d? What is, \u201cAnd Abraham rushed into the tent to Sarah\u201d? What is, \u201cAnd Abraham ran to the herd\u201d? And what is, \u201cAnd he took butter and milk\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>116) The soul found no use for the body except what he implies here of the offerings in these verses, where it is written, \u201cLet him take some water and wash your feet.\u201d And although they canceled the offerings because the Temple was ruined, the Torah was not canceled, and he can engage in Torah, which will do him even more good than the offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>117) When the Creator interpreted the offerings, Moses said, \u201cLord of the world, this is possible while Israel are on their land. When they are exiled from their land, what should they do?\u201d He said to him, \u201cMoses, they will engage in Torah, and I will forgive them because of it more than because of all the offerings in the world, as it is written, \u2018This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering.\u2019 In other words, this is the law, for a burnt offering, for a grain offering, for a sin offering, and for the guilt offering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>118) Anyone who utters the matter of offerings and sacrifices in synagogues and seminaries and intends it, a covenant is made that those angels that mention his iniquities to harm him can only do him good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>119) And who proves it? This portion proves it to us. He said, \u201cThree men stood opposite him.\u201d What is \u201copposite\u201d? It is to consider his judgment. Since the soul of the righteous saw it, it is written, \u201cAnd Abraham hastened into the tent.\u201d The tent is the seminary. And what did he say to Sarah? \u201cHurry, prepare three measures,\u201d which are the sacrifices, and the soul intends in them. And it is written, \u201cAnd Abraham ran to the herd,\u201d and then they are content and cannot harm him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>120) It is written, \u201cAnd, behold, the plague was begun among the people.\u201d And it is written, \u201cAnd Moses said unto Aaron, \u2018Take thy fire-pan,\u2019\u201d and it is written, \u201cAnd the plague was stopped.\u201d In the same manner, here it writes, \u201cquickly,\u201d when it says that he rushes to the congregation, and there it writes, \u201cHurry, prepare three measures.\u201d As it is a sacrifice to be saved there, it is a sacrifice to be saved here, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>121) Rabbi Pinhas said, \u201cI once met Elijah. I said, \u2018Let my lord say a word that is good for people.\u2019 He told me, \u2018The Creator made a covenant. When all those appointed angels come before him to mention a person\u2019s iniquities, when people mention the sacrifices that Moses commanded and set their hearts and desire on them, all the angels mention them favorably.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>122) Elijah also told me that when there is a plague among people, a covenant is made, and an announcer declares to all the hosts of heaven that if his sons enter synagogues and seminaries in the land and wholeheartedly say the matter of the incense that was for Israel, the plague will be removed from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>123) It is written, \u201cAnd Moses said unto Aaron, \u2018Take thy fire-pan.\u2019\u201d Aaron told him, \u201cWhat for?\u201d Moses said, \u201cFor there is wrath gone out from the Lord.\u201d It is written, \u201cAnd ran into the midst of the assembly \u2026 and the plague was stopped.\u201d The damaging angel could not rule, and the plague was revoked. Thus, it explains that the incense cancels the plague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>124) Rabbi Aha went to the village of Tarsha and went into a hotel there. All the townspeople talked about him and said, \u201cA great man has come, let us go to him.\u201d They went to him and told him, \u201cHave you no mercy for the plague?\u201d He said, \u201cWhat is that?\u201d They told him that for seven days now there has been a plague in the city, which is getting stronger every day without letting up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>125) He told them, \u201cLet us go to the synagogue and ask for the Creator\u2019s mercy.\u201d While they were walking, people came and told them that so and so have died, and that so and so are about to die. Rabbi Aha told them, \u201cIt is not the time to stand idle, time is of the essence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>126) \u201cTake forty of your purest men and divide them into four parts of ten, and I am with you. Ten to this corner of the city, ten to that corner of the city, and ten to the four corners of the city. And say with your soul\u2019s desire the matter of the incense that the Creator gave to Moses. And also, say the matter of the sacrifices with it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is Dever [Bubonic plague], and there is a plague. Dever is if three people die within three days in a city, one after the other. This is Dever. A plague, however, is mass mortality, as was written in the portion about Korah, \u201cNow they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two phases in the judgments in general: judgments of Nukva, called \u201cthe tent door,\u201d and male judgments, called \u201cin the heat of the day.\u201d Dever is extended from the judgments of Nukva, as in, if he is not rewarded, it is bad, when the quality of judgment in it appears. It requires prayer and repentance to sweeten it once more with the quality of mercy, as it was prior to the sin. And a plague is extended from the male judgments, from the overcoming of the left line over the right. These judgments are extended from Bina, the male world, the quality of mercy. Hence, no prayer is required here, whose purpose is to sweeten the Nukva with the quality of mercy, Bina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the contrary, these judgments from the quality of mercy come from Bina, the place of these three lines. Instead, what is needed is to raise MAN in the screen of Hirik and to draw the middle line and include the right and left lines in each other, in Bina itself, and from there to ZON. This is done by offering the incense or by saying it with intention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the beginning, Rabbi Aha thought that there was Dever in the city for which a prayer is required to bring the Nukva back to the quality of mercy. This is why he told them to pray. But when he heard that there were multiple deaths, when he was told that so and so have died and so and so were about to die, he saw that it was a plague, and a prayer does not help with a plague. This is because this does not require the mitigation in the quality of mercy. Rather, the incense is required to reveal the middle line in it and to incorporate the lines in one another. And all this is done by the incense or by saying the portion of the incense with intention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four times ten men that he took with him and arranged for them to say the portion of the incense in the four corners of the city, and who did this three times, is to draw the thirteen holy attributes from Dikna of AA. This is why he circled the city three times, since three times four in the forty men is twelve, which was corresponding to the one that contains all twelve, and together they were thirteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>127) And so they did. Afterwards, he told them, \u201cLet us go to those who are about to die and say these verses: \u2018And Moses said unto Aaron, \u2018Take thy fire-pan\u2026\u2019 And Aaron \u2026 And he stood between the dead.\u2019\u201d So they did, and the plague was removed from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>128) They heard a voice saying, \u201cConcealment, the first concealment was sweetened above, for the judgment of heaven does not abide here, since they know how to cancel it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two things were meant to be corrected by saying the incense: 1) To raise MAN to the screen of Hirik on which the level of Hassadim\u2014the middle line\u2014extends. 2) To draw the coupling on the screen of Hirik and to include the right and left lines in one another and draw GAR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, because of the sins of the townspeople, they raised only the screen of Hirik, which weakens the strength of the left line by which the male judgments, the plague, were canceled. But because of it, they came into a second concealment when they fell into a state of VAK without Rosh, since they did not reveal the coupling on the screen to draw the GAR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That voice awakened them saying \u201cOnly the first concealment, the plague, was sweetened above, meaning male judgments, called \u2018heaven,\u2019 are no longer here.\u201d This is so because through the incense, they raised the screen of Hirik that cancels out the male judgments. However, for this reason, they came into the second concealment, VAK without a Rosh, and it is to that that the voice evoked them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rabbi Aha\u2019s heart was weakened. He drowsed. He heard himself being told, \u201cAs you did this, do that. Go and tell them to repent, for they are sinners before Me.\u201d He rose and reformed them in complete repentance, and they took it upon themselves to never abandon the Torah. They changed the name of the city and called it \u201cShelter Town,\u201d for the Creator sheltered [in Hebrew: also spared] them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Rabbi Aha heard the voice, his heart was weakened and he drowsed. He, too, felt the departure of the Mochin. By that, he was told that he must reform them in complete repentance so they will draw the GAR by drawing the coupling on the screen and include the lines in one another, at which time a coupling of face-to-face was extended to ZON. This is called Teshuva [repentance or returning]\u2014when the letter Hey Tashuv [will return] to the letter Vav. Since you brought them to VAK without a Rosh, you must instruct them to draw the GAR, as well, so they will forever cling to the middle line, called Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is so because previously it was called \u201cThe Village of Rocks,\u201d from the term \u201ca field of rocks,\u201d meaning a field that is filled with rocks and is unsuitable for sowing because its dwellers follow the left line. But now that they have clung to the middle line and drew GAR, the place has been changed and has become a shelter city, a place that the Creator shelters and imparts them with abundance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>129) It is not enough for the righteous that they revoke the decree, but afterwards, they are blessed. So it is, since the soul says to the body, \u201cHurry, prepare three measures,\u201d and that whole matter, and it cancels the judgment, as it is written, \u201cAnd he said, \u2018I will surely return to you,\u2019\u201d thus, a blessing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>130) When the angels see her, that he had made a decision, what do they do? They go to the wicked to examine their judgment and to execute their sentence, as it is written, \u201cThen the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom,\u201d the place of the wicked, to execute the sentence against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>131) Such is the way of the righteous: When he sees that his judgment is being scrutinized, he does not delay to return and pray, and offer his fat and his blood to his rock until the accusers move away from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>132) When it is written, \u201cHe lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, three men were standing opposite him,\u201d what is written about the soul? \u201cAnd Abraham rushed into the tent to Sarah and said,\u201d quickly and in haste, without any detainment, the soul rushes to the body to reform it and ask with what it can be atoned, until the accusers move away from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>133) It is written, \u201cAbraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years; the way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.\u201d However, since the soul retains its merit and the body remains in the earth several years, many days and years pass, and the manner of the rest of the people stops, it becomes flesh, to revive the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>134) And he says, \u201cAfter I have been worn out, I shall have youth?\u201d After I have been worn in the dust for several years, I shall have youth and regeneration, \u201cAnd my lord is old,\u201d for it has been several years since you went out from me and did not visit me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>135) The Creator said, \u201cIs anything too difficult for the Lord? 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