{"id":7916,"date":"2025-11-11T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=7916"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:49:07","slug":"and-jacob-awoke-and-said-how-awful-is-this-place","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/and-jacob-awoke-and-said-how-awful-is-this-place\/","title":{"rendered":"And Jacob Awoke and Said, \u201cHow Awful Is This Place\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>64) \u201cAnd Jacob awoke &#8230; and said, \u2018Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know.\u2019\u201d \u201cI did not know\u201d is phrased as a conjunction and adhesion. Jacob said, \u201cHow did all this appear to me and I was not looking to know the Holy Name, \u201cI\u201d, \u201cthe Shechina,\u201d to come under the wings of the Shechina and be a whole man?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>65) Each and every day, Rebecca saw the Shechina, who is called \u201cI.\u201d This was so because the Shechina was in her tent and she prayed there. When she saw this trouble in her intestines, it is written, \u201cAnd she said, \u2018If it is so, why am I for?\u2019 And she went to inquire the Lord,\u201d since she went out from this degree of \u201cI\u201d into a degree which is HaVaYaH. \u201cI\u201d is the name of the Shechina. This is why Jacob said, \u201cBut I saw all that and I did not know,\u201d since he was alone and did not come under the wings of the Shechina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>66) Promptly, \u201cHe was afraid and said, \u2018How awful is this place.\u2019\u201d This was said about the Shechina and about the token of the holy covenant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>67) And even though they are Yesod and Malchut, they are one. He said, \u201cThis is none other than the house of God.\u201d This is the Yesod, which should be cancelled. \u201cThis is none\u201d means it is none other than the house of God, the Nukva, to use her and to bear fruit in her, meaning to bestow blessings upon her from all the organs of the Guf [body] because Yesod is the gate to the entire Guf, which is Tifferet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it is written, \u201cThis is the gate of heaven,\u201d Tifferet, meaning Guf, and it is called \u201cheaven.\u201d \u201cThis\u201d is the gate of the Guf, the gate for imparting blessings below to the Nukva. 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