484) It is written, \u201cYou are my King, O God.\u201d This is the completeness of all the degrees as one, tied to one another, for in the verse \u201cYou are my King, O God,\u201d there is the totality of all the degrees HGT and Malchut. \u201cYou\u201d means Hesed, \u201cGod\u201d is Gevura, \u201care\u201d is Tifferet, and \u201cmy King\u201d is Malchut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
485) It is also written, \u201cCommand the salvation of Jacob\u201d means that all those messengers who carry out missions in the world will all be from the side of mercy and will not be from the side of judgment. This is because there are emissaries from the side of mercy, and there are those from the side of harsh judgment. And the ones that come from the side of mercy do not perform missions of judgment at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
486) And if you say that the angel that appeared to Balaam was an emissary of mercy, he never changed into executing judgment, but was an emissary of mercy, to protect Israel and be their advocate. And correspondingly, he was judgment for Balaam. So are the ways of the Creator: when He benefits one, this benefit is judgment for another. So was the messenger of mercy for Israel\u2014he turned into judgment for Balaam. This is why David asked, \u201cCommand the salvation of Jacob,\u201d meaning command the world that when they send a messenger, he will be from the side of mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
487) \u201cCommand the salvation of Jacob\u201d means that he prayed for Jacob, who were in exile, that they will have salvation at the time of exile. Tifferet<\/em> of the patriarchs was Jacob. Had it not been for Isaac, Jacob would not have come to the world. For this reason, he said, \u201cCommand the salvation of Jacob,\u201d which is Isaac, who is Jacob\u2019s salvation. Because Isaac was saved at the tying, it was Jacob\u2019s salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 488) It is written, \u201cAnd it came to pass after these things, and the God tested Abraham.\u201d \u201cAnd it came to pass after these things\u201d was said about grief, after the bottom degree of the upper degrees of Atzilut, which is \u201cthings,\u201d Malchut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 489) After this degree, Malchut, \u201cGod tested Abraham.\u201d This means that the evil inclination came from there to slander before the Creator, and this is why He tested Abraham. \u201cAnd it came to pass after these things\u201d is that there was slandering of the evil inclination, whose place is past the Malchut, who is called \u201cthings.\u201d Hence, \u201cAnd God tested Abraham.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is written, \u201cAnd God tested Abraham.\u201d But it should have said Isaac, since Isaac was already thirty-seven years old and his father was no longer punishable for him. Had Isaac said, \u201cI do not want,\u201d his father would not be punished for him. Hence, why does it say, \u201cAnd God tested Abraham\u201d and not \u201ctested Isaac\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 490) It certainly should have said Abraham, for he needed to be included in the judgment because previously, there was no judgment in Abraham and he was all Hesed. But now water became mingled with fire, Hesed with judgment. Thus far, Abraham was incomplete, and he was crowned to pass judgment and correct the judgment in its place, since there is illumination of Hochma only in the left line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hence, before Abraham was included in Isaac, left line, he was incomplete, meaning he lacked illumination of Hochma. And through the tying, Isaac was mingled and was thus crowned with illumination of Hochma and was completed. It is said that he was crowned to pass judgment in the tying, by which the judgment was corrected, meaning the illumination of the left in its place, when he was included in Abraham’s place, in Hesed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 491) All his days he was incomplete, until now when he mingled water with fire, meaning right with left, and fire with water, meaning left with right. For this reason, it is written, \u201cAnd God tested Abraham,\u201d not Isaac, since the Creator invited Abraham to be included in judgment, in left. And when he performed the act of tying, the fire entered the water, meaning the judgment entered Hesed, and one was completed with the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, the judgment of the tying made them mingle with one another. This is the reason why the evil inclination came to accuse Abraham that he was not properly completed before he performed the judgment of the tying on Isaac, since the place of the evil inclination is after the \u201cthings,\u201d the Malchut, as it is written, \u201cSin crouches at the door\u201d and comes to slander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 492) Even though it says Abraham and not Isaac, Isaac is included in the verse \u201cAnd God tested Abraham,\u201d as well. It writes \u201cEt Abraham\u201d [\u201cof Abraham,\u201d appears only in the Hebrew]. Et implies Isaac, since at that time, Isaac was in the lower Gevura, in the Nukva. Since he was tied and was properly set in judgment by Abraham, Isaac was crowned with Abraham in his place, and fire was mingled with water and rose\u2014Abraham to Hesed that rose to Hochma, and Isaac to Gevura that rose to Bina. Then the dispute was properly settled since they had made peace between them because fire and water were included in one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 493) Who saw a merciful father being cruel to his son? But to settle the dispute\u2014mingle water with fire, meaning Abraham’s Hesed with Isaac\u2019s fire\u2014they were crowned in their places. But this was until the arrival of Jacob, the middle line, when everything was erected properly and they became three complete patriarchs, and became a Merkava [structure, vehicle] for the three upper lines, and the upper ones and lower ones were corrected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 494) \u201cAnd He said, \u2018Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah.\u2019\u201d How could Abraham take Isaac his son since he was old? \u201cTake\u201d means to continue with \u201cthings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGo to the land of Moriah,\u201d as it is written, \u201cI will get me to the mountain of myrrh,\u201d to correct in the place that is worthy of correction. Myrrh and Moriah are one\u2014the place of the Temple. This is the place that is worthy of correction. And The<\/em> Zohar<\/em> brings proof of that in the words \u201cI will get me to the mountain of myrrh,\u201d which is said of the Creator, for the Creator Himself goes there, to correct the Nukva. 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