59) \u201cAnd behold, the Lord stood above it.\u201d Here in the ladder, Jacob saw the connection of faith, the Nukva, tying all the Sefirot as one. \u201cStood above it\u201d is as it is written, \u201cA pillar of salt,\u201d a mound, since all the degrees as one are on that same ladder, the Nukva, connecting everything in one knot because that ladder was given between the two sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is written, \u201cI am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac.\u201d Those are the two sides, right and left\u2014Abraham is right and Isaac is left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this reason, we should not say that the word \u201cStood\u201d was redundant, that it was enough to say \u201cAnd the Lord was above it,\u201d since \u201cstood\u201d means a mound, from the words, \u201cA pillar of salt,\u201d and the text tells us that all the degrees appeared to him on that ladder in one knot, like a mound. This is why it is written, \u201cAnd behold, the Lord stood above it,\u201d since all the degrees are implied in this verse. HaVaYaH, Tifferet, consists of the six degrees HGT NHY. Abraham is Hochma; Isaac is Bina; the land is Malchut; and those four Sefirot HB TM comprise all ten Sefirot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ladder, Nukva, is primarily from the left. But the left does not exist without the right. Hence, the Nukva was given in the middle line, which comprises the right and the left. She receives Hassadim from the right and Hochma from the left, hence all the Sefirot are already in this connection\u2014right and left, which are Abraham and Isaac, and the middle line, which is HaVaYaH, and the ladder itself, which is the Malchut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
60) Another interpretation: He stood not on the ladder, but on Jacob, so they would all become a holy Merkava [chariot\/structure]: right and left, and in between them Jacob\u2014HGT, the assembly of Israel, the Nukva\u2014connecting them. It is written, \u201cI am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac.\u201d Yet, how do we know that Jacob was in the middle? This is the meaning of the words, \u201cThe God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac,\u201d and it does not say, \u201cThe God of Isaac your father,\u201d for then he would be regarded as the third among the patriarchs. The son of Isaac teaches us that since he was connected with Abraham, he was treated as his son. It follows that he precedes Isaac and he is in the middle between Abraham and Isaac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indeed, so it is in the Merkava\u2014Abraham and Isaac are right and left, and Jacob is in the middle. It is written, \u201cThe land,\u201d Nukva, \u201cOn which you lie.\u201d Thus, together, they are all one holy Merkava, the three lines with the Nukva. And here Jacob saw that he would be the senior among the patriarchs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
61) Because he said, \u201cAbraham your father,\u201d he is certainly in the middle. \u201cAnd the God of Isaac\u201d implies that Jacob is tied to the two sides, right and left, and includes them. It is written, \u201cAnd the God of Isaac,\u201d since there is a Vav [\u201cand\u201d] in Isaac, and Vav implies to Tifferet, Jacob, which is connected with the God of Isaac, the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
62) As long as Jacob was not married to a woman, nothing was said about him more openly than was said here. It does not explicitly say \u201cThe God of Jacob\u201d in regards to him, as with Abraham and Isaac. It is said openly only to one who knows the ways of Torah, who will be a Merkava in the two ways, the right and the left. But as long as he has not married a woman, he can be a Merkava only for ZA, right, but not for the Nukva, who is left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After he marries a woman and bears children, he is told openly, as it is written, \u201cAnd he erected there an altar, and called it \u2018God, the God of Israel,\u2019\u201d openly, since his name was united with Him. From here we learn that anyone who is not completed with male and female below, who did not marry a woman, is not completed above. And Jacob is not like that because he was completed above and below even before he married a woman. But not openly, since he did not unite his name with Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
63) Was he fully perfected even though he did not marry a woman? Indeed not; he only saw that he would be perfected in time. But it is written, \u201cBehold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go,\u201d which means he was fully perfected. However, the Creator\u2019s safekeeping and His guard will never leave Jacob with anything he needs in this world. But in the upper world he will not be able to obtain before he is completed, when he has married a woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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