215) We learned that since Abraham knew wisdom, he wished to part from all the other nations and to not cling to them. This is why it is written, \u201cAnd I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.\u201d Of course, as it is written, \u201cAnd has married the daughter of a strange god.\u201d \u201cAmong whom I dwell.\u201d Precisely, \u201cI,\u201d for I am the Shechina, for she was in exile, and he adjured him to not be defiled in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
216) Anyone who enters this holy covenant in a woman from other nations causes another place to be defiled, for he blemishes the high covenant and causes bestowal upon the maidservant. This is why it is written, \u201cFor three things the earth angered.\u201d And even though he adjured him in the covenant, Abraham still did not trust him, but prayed his prayer before the Creator and said, \u201cThe Lord, the God of heaven\u2026 He will send His angel.\u201d His angel certainly means the angel of the covenant. He would send him so as to keep this covenant and to not be defiled among the nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
217) \u201cOnly do not take my son back there,\u201d since Abraham knew that in all his family there was none who knew the Creator, and he did not want Isaac\u2019s abode to be among them, but that his abode would be with him. And Isaac would always learn from him the ways of the Creator, so he will not stray to the right or to the left, but to the middle line. This is why Abraham did not wish for Isaac\u2019s abode to be among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
218) Abraham’s merit was with the servant, who arrived at the fountain on the same day he departed, as it is written, \u201cAnd I came this day unto the fountain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
219) \u201cOpen my eyes, that I may see wonders from Your law.\u201d How foolish are people, for they do not know and do not consider engaging in the Torah. But the Torah is the whole of life, and every freedom and every goodness in this world and in the next world. Life in this world is to be rewarded with all their days in this world, as it is written, \u201cThe number of thy days I will fulfill.\u201d And he will be rewarded with long days in the next world, for it is the perfect life, a life of joy, life without sadness, life that is life\u2014freedom in this world and liberation from everything\u2014for anyone who engages in Torah, all the nations of the world cannot rule over him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
220) What are those who were destroyed, the Ten Martyrs, since they engaged in Torah when the law was to not engage in Torah? This is a verdict from above, like Rabbi Akiva and his friends who were killed because they engaged in Torah. This is what He thought above when the world was created. But as a rule, the Torah is freedom from the angel of death, so he cannot control him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Certainly, if Adam had clung to the tree of life, the Torah, he would not have caused death to himself or to the whole world. But because he left the tree of life, the Torah, and ate from the tree of knowledge, he caused death to himself and to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this reason, when the Creator gave the Torah to Israel, it is written, \u201cHarut [engraved] on the tables; do not pronounce it Harut, but Herut [freedom],\u201d for then they were liberated from the angel of death. Had Israel not sinned with the calf and not departed the tree of life, the Torah, they would not cause death to return to the world to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the Creator said, \u201cI said, \u2018You are gods, and all of you are sons of the upper one.\u2019\u201d \u201cIndeed, you shall die as men,\u201d meaning upon the reception of the Torah. Since you damaged yourselves, meaning sinned, indeed, you shall die as men. Hence, that evil serpent that darkened the world cannot govern anyone who engages in the Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
221) If one who does not sin does not die, why did Moses die? He died, certainly, but the angel of death did not control him. He did not die by him and was not defiled by him. This is why it is considered that Moses did not die but clung to the Shechina and departed to eternal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
222) As such, he is considered alive, and one who approaches the Creator is called \u201calive.\u201d This is why anyone who engages in the Torah has freedom from everything, freedom in this world, from enslavement of the nations of the world, idolaters, and freedom in the next world, since he will not be required to give an account in that world at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
223) There are several higher and hidden meanings to the Torah, several hidden secrets that are in it. Hence, when David regarded the Torah in the spirit of wisdom, and knew how many wonders emerged from the Torah, he started and said, \u201cOpen my eyes, that I may see wonders from Your law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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