{"id":7834,"date":"2025-11-11T17:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=7834"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:10:22","slug":"and-the-lord-rained-on-sodom","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/and-the-lord-rained-on-sodom\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Lord Rained on Sodom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>250) It is written, \u201cBehold, the day of the Lord comes cruel.\u201d The day of the Lord is the courthouse below, the judgments that are extended from Malchut when she is in illumination of the left, the point of Shuruk before it is mingled by the middle line. And it is called \u201ca sentence.\u201d \u201cComes\u201d means that it always comes for every beginning of coupling. It comes to me because I do not execute judgment until I enter and receive permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two actions in each coupling: 1. Taking permission, when the Nukva does not consent to a coupling with ZA before he draws to her illumination of the left, illumination of the point of Shuruk. For this reason, extension of illumination of the left is considered taking permission for a coupling. 2. The sentence. When ZA receives permission from the Nukva, when he draws to her illumination of the left, at that moment all the litigants receive permission from ZA and execute the judgments because there is no illumination of the left without disclosure of the judgments. This is why she is called \u201csentence,\u201d and it is written, \u201cThe end of all flesh comes before Me,\u201d coming to take permission, since it comes at the beginning of every coupling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>251) \u201cBehold, the day of the Lord comes cruel.\u201d This is the saboteur below, the angel of death. When he takes the soul, he is called \u201ccruel.\u201d And it is written, \u201cAnd full of wrath \u2026 to make the earth a desolation.\u201d This is Sodom and Gomorrah, who became a desolation. \u201cAnd He will exterminate its sinners from it\u201d are the dwellers of that land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>252) Afterwards it writes, \u201cFor the stars of heaven and their constellations.\u201d This is so because He poured over them fire from the heaven and obliterated them from the world. Afterwards it writes, \u201cI will make man scarcer than pure gold.\u201d This is Abraham, whom the Creator elevated above all the people in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>253) These verses are about the day when the Temple was ruined. On that day, upper and lower were darkened, and the stars and the constellations were darkened. Or, these verses relate to the day when the Creator raises the assembly of Israel from the dust at the time of redemption, and that day will be known above and below, as it is written, \u201cAnd there shall be one day which shall be known as the Lord\u2019s.\u201d And that day will be a day of vengeance when the Creator avenges all the idol worshipers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>254) And when the Creator avenges the rest of the idol worshiping nations, then it is written, \u201cI will make man scarcer than pure gold.\u201d This is the Messiah King, who will rise and be glorified by all the people in the world, and all the people in the world will serve and bow before him, as it is written, \u201cLet the nomads of the desert bow before him \u2026 the kings of Tarshish and of islands will bring tribute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>255) Although it seems as though this prophecy was made about Babel, it was in fact said about everything. This is because it is said in this portion, \u201cFor the Lord will have compassion on Jacob,\u201d and it is written, \u201cAnd the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place,\u201d which means that this prophecy is not specifically about Babylon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>256) \u201cAnd the Lord rained on Sodom.\u201d This is the degree of the courthouse below, which receives permission from above. HaVaYaH means He and His courthouse. He is ZA, and His courthouse is Nukva, the courthouse of below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The degree of the courthouse below is a verdict. This is why it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord,\u201d since ZA is mentioned in this action, as well. This is so because this verdict did not execute the judgment until the permission from above was received, meaning from ZA, implied in the name, \u201cAnd the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judgment was executed with mercy, as it is written, \u201cFrom the Lord [HaVaYaH] out of heaven,\u201d where HaVaYaH is Rachamim [mercy], so the judgment is in mercy. Here the mercy is as it is written, \u201cAnd it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, and God remembered Abraham.\u201d Afterwards, two complete nations came out of Lot, and he was rewarded with David and King Solomon coming out of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>257) \u201cWhen they had brought them outside, one said, \u2018Escape for your life!\u2019\u201d When the judgment is in the world, a person should not be on the street, for because the judgment is present, it does not distinguish between righteous and wicked. Hence, one must not be there. This is the reason why Noah hid in the ark, so he would not look at the world while the judgment was being executed. It is also written, \u201cAnd none of you shall go out the door of his house until the morning,\u201d until the judgment was done. This is why it is written, \u201cEscape for your life! Do not look behind you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>258) The judgment that the Creator executed in the flood and the judgment in Sodom were both judgments of hell, since the wicked in hell are sentenced by water and by fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>259) Sodom was sentenced by the judgment of hell, as it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.\u201d One was sentenced with water; one was sentenced with fire. And both are sentences of hell. And the wicked in hell are sentenced by these two phases, for there is hell of snow, which is water, and there is hell of fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>260) The judgment of the wicked in hell is twelve months, where they are whitened [also white-hot] and purified. Afterwards, the Creator raises them from hell and they sit at its door, seeing the wicked come in and being sentenced, and they ask for mercy for them. Afterwards, the Creator takes pity on them and elevates them from hell\u2019s door, too, and brings them to the place where they are needed. From that day forth, the body is calmed in the dust, and the soul inherits its rightful place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>261) Even the generation of the flood was sentenced only to fire and water: cold water came down from above and boiling water from below, from the abyss. They were sentenced by the two judgments, water and fire, since this is the judgment of above. This is why there were brimstone and fire in Sodom, for brimstone is from water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>262) Are the men of Sodom to rise in the future, on judgment day? Those of Sodom and Gomorrah will not rise in the future during the revival of the dead. It is written, \u201cAnd that the whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste \u2026 which the Lord overturned in His anger and in His wrath.\u201d \u201cWhich the Lord overturned\u201d means in this world. \u201cWith His anger\u201d is in the next world, and \u201cHis wrath\u201d is in the future, when the Creator revives the dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>263) As their land was lost for all eternity, they were lost for all eternity. The Creator\u2019s judgment is judgment for judgment, an eye for an eye. They would not revive the soul of the poor with food and drink, the Creator, too, does not revive their souls in the next world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when&nbsp;<em>The<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Zohar<\/em>&nbsp;says, \u201cTo the next world,\u201d it is precisely because it takes example from their land, and their land was lost only during the six thousand years, at which time it is called \u201cfor all eternity.\u201d But at the end of correction, Sodom will return to the way it was, as it is written, \u201cAnd your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state.\u201d Hence, concerning their souls, too, he does not speak of the time of revival, but speaks only about the next world, which applies only during the six thousand years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>264) As they avoided giving alms\u2014which is called \u201clife\u201d\u2014to the poor, the Creator deprived them of life in this world and in the next world. And as they deprived the people of the world of their caravans and trails, the Creator deprived them of the caravans and trails of mercy from having any pity on them in this world and in the next world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>265) All the people in the world will rise at the revival of the dead and will stand up for judgment. But it is written about the people of Sodom, \u201cand those are to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence.\u201d And since the Creator, the Merciful One, sentenced them in this world and they suffered the judgment, they will not be judged in the future with all the judgments, but only with some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>266) It is written, \u201cAnd sent Lot out of the midst of the upheaval, when He overturned the cities in which Lot lived.\u201d What is, \u201cWhen He overturned the cities in which Lot lived\u201d? Did he not live in only one of them? Indeed, Lot lived in all of them, as it is written, \u201cAnd Lot lived in the cities of the valley, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.\u201d However, he was not accepted except by the King of Sodom who accepted him in Sodom for Abraham, who gave him back the people and the possessions he had lost during the war of the four kings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>267) The white head, AA, corrected the throne, Bina, on pillars of gemstones and jewels, HGT of ZA and the Nukva. These are the four legs of the throne, which is Bina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>268) There is one gem among the stones, the Nukva of ZA. It is comely and shapely. The place of the gathering of the smoke and burning fire is in seventy faces, which is the illumination of the left in the Nukva before she is included in the right. At that time, she is the place of the judgments, burning fire and steaming furnace. On the wardrobe, the place for gathering clothes, there are seventy sweltering faces to the four directions of the world, HB TM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>269) These seventy faces are elucidated out of three colors\u2014white, red, and green. The color of Malchut, black, is absent there. These sparks are included in the sparks that sparkle to the four directions of the world, HB TM. This means that even though these seventy faces have only three faces\u2014lion, ox, and eagle, meaning HGT\u2014lacking a man\u2019s face, Nukva, when they are incorporated in one another, the Nukva is incorporated in the HGT, as well, and there are three faces in each one, even in the Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, there are three faces in the lion\u2019s face, three faces in the face of the ox, three faces in the eagle\u2019s face, and three faces in the face of a man. These are twelve faces, where each of the HG TM has three faces, with the face of man\u2014the color Nukva\u2014is missing in each of the HG TM. This is why they are twelve, HB TM, which each one has three colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here there is a very powerful spark from the left side, which grips to the heaven, ZA. By the force of the illumination of that spark, each phase of the twelve phases receives VAK, HGT NHY, from ZA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see three phases in these seventy faces: 1) Who are primarily only three colors HB and Tifferet, with the Nukva absent there. 2) In regards to their incorporation in one another, there are these three phases in the Nukva, too, by which these three colors become twelve phases. 3) Their unification in ZA, where each of the twelve phases receives six Sefirot HGT NHY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how they became seventy phases, since six times twelve is seventy-two. But essentially, they are only seventy\u2014seventy Sanhedrin and two witnesses. And seventy angels stem from those seventy faces, which are Malchut\u2019s courthouse. And the judgment is pacified in those seventy phases, and the books are open. Thus, even though the judgment is open in them, and they are open and seen by all, yet the judgment is quieted and completely inactive. This is Malchut of the quality of judgment that is hidden in them, as it is written, \u201cIf he is rewarded, it is good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>270) From here emerge arrows, swords, spears, and the fire of the tower, since the three colors that are extended from the three points\u2014Holam, Shuruk, Hirik\u2014are included in all four, even in the Nukva. Hence, when she is in judgments of the illumination of the left, arrows are drawn out by the force of Holam in her, which kill from afar. Also, by the Malchut\u2019s ascent to Bina, the Bina was halved and its bottom half fell off it, and the light of GAR departed her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Bina did this deliberately, like the eagle that is merciful to its offspring and says, \u201cIt is better that the arrow will hit me rather than my offspring.\u201d By the force of the point of Shuruk, in which swords are drawn out, which kill from up close, all the judgments in the Shuruk are drawn from the nearness of the light of GAR of Hochma. And by the force of the point of Hirik in her, spears are drawn out, which include both: killing from up close like a sword, and tossing them and striking from afar like an arrow, as it contains both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All those three judgments create a burning fire in the Nukva, which is called \u201cthe fire in the tower,\u201d the Nukva. And strong fire that comes out from the heaven, ZA, grips the Nukva, and when the upper fire\u2014the judgments in ZA\u2014grips those below, in the seventy judgments of the Nukva, no one can break the anger and judgment of the judgments in the Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>271) The eyes blaze like tongues of flame. ZA descends to the world with them with blazing eyes. Woe unto one who meets him when he is girded with swords, meaning with judgments, which are drawn from the point of Shuruk, called \u201cswords.\u201d A sharp sword in his hand, he pities neither the good nor the bad, since the verdict of those seventy colors comes down by the left hand by the permission of the unification, when the side of heaven was united in him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>272) He overturns in several judgments; each day he turns into several colors, which acquire a different shape each time. All the kinds of judgments that are in the tools of anger of the Creator are seen in him, and those judgments sit at the top of the world. And for their foolishness, people do not look at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>273) Brimstone and fire are the waste of water and the waste of fire that were fused from the heaven and united with each other and descend over Sodom. The heaven is fire and water, right and left that were united in ZA, and Shamayim [sky\/heaven] has the letters of Esh [fire] and Mayim [water]. And through the iniquities of the lower ones, they were parted and there was a dispute between fire and water, which are the two lines, right and left. It is considered that they were fused, and that the waste of the right is brimstone and the waste of the left is fire. And these two kinds of judgment that were conjoined are the ones that overturned Sodom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>274) There are ten names of corrections in the King\u2019s authority, ten Sefirot. Ten and not nine, ten and not eleven. And yet, they amount to a great number, the number of seventy-two names. Seventy blazing colors emerge to each side from the seventy-two names, seventy colors that were carved and were made into the seventy names of the angels, which are the heavens. They come out of the seventy-two names of the heavens, which is ZA, and there are three phases in them, corresponding to the three lines of ZA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, those that are extended from the right line are arranged as an acronym of the alphabet in direct order. And those that are extended from the left are arranged as an acronym of TASHRAK, TZAPH\u2019AS, which is the alphabet in reversed order, indicating judgment and extending from the middle line, arranged in the acronym of the nine points: Kamatz, Patach, Tzere, Segol, Sheva, Holam, Hirik, Kubutz, and Shuruk, which is also called Melaphom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>275) These are Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Nuriel. Kamatz: Kdumiel, Malkiel, Tzadkiel. Patach: Padael, Tomiel, Hasdiel. Tzere: Tzuriel, Raziel, Yofiel. Segol: Stotria, Gazriel, Vatriel, and Lamael. Hirik: Hazkiel, Rahatiel, Kadshiel. Shva: Shmael, Berahiel, Ahiel. Holam: Haniel, Lahadiel, Mahaniel. Shuruk: Shamshiel, Rahaviel, Kamshiel. Shuruk: Shmarel, Rahatiel, Krashiel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>276) Ahaniel. Barakiel. Gadiel. Domiel. Hadriel. Zahariel. Haniel. Tahariel. Yaazriel. Kariel. Lamadiel. Malkiel. Nahariel. Sania. Anael. Patchiel. Tzuriel. Kanael. Ramiel. Shariel. Tavkiel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>277) Tafuria. Shachniel. Ran\u2019el. Kamaria. Tzuria. Pasisia. Iriel. Samchiel. Nariel. Madonia. Lasania. Kamsaria. Yariel. Tasmasia. Haniel. Zachriel. Vadriel. Hinael. Danbael. Gadiel. Bad\u2019el. Adiriron. ADNI over all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>278) When they all unite as one, by the power of the upper one, ZA, it is then called \u201cAnd the Lord [HaVaYaH],\u201d which means that it is all included\u2014ZA and Nukva and the seventy angels below her. It is written, \u201cFrom the Lord [HaVaYaH] out of heaven\u201d means the Holy Name that is carved in seventy other names. The heavens is ZA, the name AB in Mochin of ZA whose essence is seventy. And those are the seventy of ZA that dominate the seventy judgments of Nukva, \u201cAnd the Lord,\u201d and seventy names in holiness\u2014in Mochin of ZA\u2014are HaVaYaH without Vav, called Shamayim [heaven].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>279) The seventy judgments in Nukva receive from the seventy names of ZA. And HaVaYaH that contains seventy judgments receives from HaVaYaH seventy names of ZA. The lower ones, the seventy judgments, depend on the upper ones, the seventy names of ZA, and all are connected as one. When they connect with one another and shine simultaneously, by that, the Creator Himself is revealed. The heaven is Ayin, HaVaYaH without Vav, and the seventy-two names that emerge from the three verses \u201cand \u2026 went,\u201d \u201cand \u2026 came,\u201d and \u201cand \u2026 stretched.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>280) Vav-Hey-Vav, Yod-Lamed-Yod, Samech-Yod-Tet, Ayin-Lamed-Mem, Mem-Hey-Shin, Lamed-Lamed-Hey, Aleph-Kaf-Aleph, Kaf-Hey-Tav, Hey-Zayin-Yod, Aleph-Lamed-Dalet, Lamed-Aleph-Vav, Hey-Hey-Ayin. Part one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yod-Zayin-Lamed, Mem-Bet-Hey, Hey-Reish-Yod, Hey-Kof-Mem, Lamed-Aleph-Vav, Kaf-Lamed-Yod, Lamed-Vav-Vav, Peh-Hey-Lamed, Nun-Lamed-Kaf, Yod-Yod-Yod, Mem-Lamed-Hey, Het-Hey-Vav. Part two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nun-Tav-Hey, Hey-Aleph-Aleph, Yod-Reish-Tav, Shin-Aleph-Hey, Reish-Yod-Yod, Aleph-Vav-Mem, Lamed-Kaf-Bet, Vav-Kaf-Bet, Vav-Shin-Reish, Yod-Het-Vav, Lamed-Hey-Het, Kaf-Vav-Kof, Mem-Nun-Dalet. Part three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aleph-Nun-Yod Het-Ayin-Mem, Reish-Hey-Ayin, Yod-Yod-Zayin, Hey-Hey-Hey, Mem-Yod-Kaf, Vav-Vav-Lamed, Yod-Lamed-Hey, Samech-Aleph-Lamed, Ayin-Reish-Yod, Ayin-Shin-Lamed, Mem-Yod-Hey. Part four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vav-Hey-Vav, Dalet-Nun-Yod, Hey-Het-Shin, Ayin-Mem-Mem, Nun-Nun-Aleph, Nun-Yod-Tav, Mem-Bet-Hey, Peh-Vav-Yod, Nun-Mem-Mem, Yod-Yod-Lamed, Hey-Reish-Het, Mem-Tzadi-Reish. Part five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vav-Mem-Bet Yod-Hey-Hey, Ayin-Nun-Vav, Mem-Het-Yod, Dalet-Mem-Bet, Mem-Nun-Kof, Aleph-Yod-Ayin, Het-Bet-Vav, Reish-Aleph-Hey, Yod-Bet-Mem, Hey-Yod-Yod, Mem-Vav-Mem. Part six.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blessed Be the Name of the Glory of His Kingship Forever and Ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>281) These are the seventy names that govern the seventy bottom degrees, which are \u201cAnd the Lord,\u201d with a Vav. And these are the seventy names that are HaVaYaH without a Vav, which is called \u201cheaven,\u201d ZA. Seven firmaments, the seven Sefirot of ZA, each of which consists of ten, add up to seventy names of the Holy Name HaVaYaH. It is written, \u201cAnd the Lord rained,\u201d which are seventy judgments of Nukva, and it is written, \u201cFrom the Lord out of heaven\u201d are the seventy names of the Holy Name HaVaYaH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>282) The most hidden of all that is hidden was given to the wise. This name is called \u201cheaven,\u201d and from it, the hidden secret called man was created. The number of organs in his body is 248 organs. Also, man draws from heaven, from ZA in the Mochin of the seventy-two names. This is why 248 organs were created in man, corresponding to the 216 letters in the seventy-two names and the thirty-two paths of wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>283) The number of letters of the seventy-two names is 216. This is so because each name contains three letters, and three times seventy-two is 216. Seventy-two is the hidden and the concealed, the whole of the Torah. It is included in the twenty-two letters and ten utterances, which are thirty-two in Gematria, being the thirty-two paths of wisdom. A name is 216 letters, and with the thirty-two paths that were included in it, they amount to 248, which are the 248 organs of the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ZON are called twenty-two letters and ten utterances, ten Sefirot of Bina. The Mochin of AB appear through the rising of ZON for MAN to Bina when the twenty-two letters of ZON unite with the ten Sefirot of Bina. Hence, this raising of MAN is called \u201cthirty-two trails of wisdom\u201d or \u201cThe thirty-two ways of wisdom,\u201d indicating that all the Hochma [wisdom] that appears in Atzilut appears only in these paths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And since ZA is the cause of these Mochin, 248 discernments were engraved in it, indicating the thirty-two paths and the 216 letters that appear through thirty-two paths, which are 248 organs in the body. For this reason, ZA himself is called \u201cman,\u201d too, indicating the expansion of these Mochin in him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>284) For this reason, ZA is called \u201cman,\u201d governing the throne, which is seventy judgments and seventy angels that are extended from them, which are called \u201cthe throne.\u201d It is written, \u201cAnd upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it from above.\u201d ZA, \u201cman,\u201d is above the throne, the Nukva and the seventy judgments in her. It is written, \u201cAnd the Lord rained on Sodom,\u201d which is the Nukva and her seventy judgments, meaning a throne, and it is written, \u201cfrom the Lord out of heaven,\u201d ZA above the throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>285) Sodom was sentenced for avoiding giving alms, as it is written, \u201cNeither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.\u201d For this reason, their sentence was from heaven, since alms and heaven are one. It is written, \u201cFor Your mercy [Hesed] is great above the heavens.\u201d Thus, alms and Hesed are extended above the heaven, and because alms depend on heaven, judgments, too, are extended from the heaven, as it is written, \u201cFrom the Lord out of heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are judgments of Nukva, and there are male judgments. Judgments of Sodom are male judgments, from the heaven, ZA, since they were sentenced for depriving alms, and this flaw concerns ZA, who was prevented from bestowing alms and Hesed upon the Nukva; hence, their judgment is male judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>286) The judgment of Israel is from heaven, too, as it is written, \u201cFor the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom.\u201d Also, Jerusalem is regarded as the sister of Sodom, as it is written, \u201cBehold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom.\u201d For this reason, their sentence from heaven is the same sentence as that of Sodom, for avoiding giving alms. The only difference is that Sodom has been overturned and is incorrigible, and Jerusalem is ruined but can be corrected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cities of Sodom drew GAR of illumination of the left. This was their essence. And Jerusalem is only VAK of the illumination of the left. And prior to the sin of Sodom, the Mochin of the illumination of the left were properly arranged above, GAR on top, followed by VAK, followed by judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he sinned and their sentence was determined, he turned the degrees from below upward in the Mochin of illumination of the left, which elevated the verdict above, so only she became fit for a coupling, as it is written, \u201cIn the evening she went.\u201d Following her came the VAK of Mochin, and following them\u2014below all the others\u2014the vessels of GAR of Mochin fell. And since he overturned the five degrees above, the cities of Sodom were overturned below. And since they were GAR that fell below all the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is so because this correction that was done in the illumination of the left remains until the end of correction, as it is written, \u201cAnd your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state,\u201d since then the degrees above will return to their former state: GAR above, followed by ZAT, and finally the sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though it is the same verdict for Jerusalem and Sodom, there is still a big difference. Since Sodom is from the phase of GAR, they were overturned and canceled until the end of correction. Jerusalem, however, is from the phase of VAK, and hence was not overturned, since VAK of Mochin of the left of the illumination of the left remained in place, in the middle, and no change will ever occur in them. However, they were ruined because of their iniquity, since the upper coupling was separated for a time until they repent. This is why it was said that Jerusalem is recoverable if Israel repent, and even before the end of correction. 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