109) It is written, \u201cHappy are they that keep justice, that do righteousness at all times.\u201d Happy are they that keep justice\u201d means happy are Israel that the Creator gave them a true law [Torah] to engage in day and night, for anyone who engages in the Torah is liberated from everything. He is freed from death for it cannot govern him. This is so because anyone who engages in Torah and clings to it, clings to the tree of life. And if he lets himself go of the tree of life, the tree of death will be on him and will cling to him, as it is written, \u201cIf you are slack in the day of adversity, your strength is small indeed.\u201d \u201cIf you are slack\u201d means if you let go of the Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
110) \u201cIn the day of adversity, your strength is small indeed.\u201d This is so because when one is negligent in the Torah the strength of the Shechina\u2014who is called \u201cstrength\u201d\u2014is lessened, and she does not protect him. The Shechina is always on the right, always guarding a man when he walks in the ways of Torah. At that time, she repels the evil outside so it will not come near the man and so that it will not be able to slander him. But when a person strays from the ways of Torah and becomes slack in it, the strength of Koh, which is the Shechina, lessens because that evil, the left, dominates the man and repels the Koh, the Shechina, outside until the place becomes narrow for him, \u201cIn siege and in distress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
111) When a person clings to the ways of Torah, he is loved above and loved below, and he becomes the Creator\u2019s loved one. He is loved by the Creator and the Creator loves him. But when a person strays from the ways of Torah, the power of Koh, the Shechina, lessens and she becomes his foe and enemy, and he becomes her enemy. Then, that evil, the evil inclination, governs him until it slanders him in this world and in the next world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
112) That wicked one, the evil inclination, governs the world in many ways and has much governance in the world. It is the tyrant serpent in which there is the sin of Adam haRishon, and the people of the world fail in him, throwing it at them until he takes their souls from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
113) When the evil inclination governs the body, and since it governs the body, its soul departs it, since because the body is defiled, the soul departs it. It does not rule, taking out man\u2019s soul, until it receives permission. Also, many are those who come from the side of the evil inclination and govern the world. And they govern all the deeds that were made in the world, which are made by seductions. And he has appointees and servants, all of them serving in the actions of the world, meaning seducing people to do evil deeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
114) This is why it is the end of the left, as it is written, \u201cThe end of all flesh.\u201d But it is not called \u201cThe end of all spirit.\u201d There are two ends: 1. The end of flesh, which is appointed over the body. This is external and impure. 2. And the end of spirit, appointed over man\u2019s spirit, is therefore internal, holy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
115) On the right side, south, it is the high and holy secret of faith, the male world, ZA, and the female world, the Nukva of ZA, as well as the whole of the Holy of Holies and all the secrets of faith, which is the Nukva. They emerge from here, and all of life, freedom, all the good, and all the lights are from here. All the blessings, the dew of benevolence, and all the love that is in the loves are from that side, the right, the south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
116) From the north side, the degrees spread until the waste of gold reaches down to BYA. On the impure side, the filth of impurity, she grips the one above, which is the male, and grips the one below, which is the female, and here male and female mate. They are the rider of the serpent and the serpent\u2014male and female\u2014and this is Azazel, which includes male and female of impurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
117) From here, the degrees split and several discernments come out to the world, expanding from here and governing the world. They are all impurity and ministers appointed over the world. It is explained that when Esau came out to the world, he was as red as a rose. This implies to the left, to the Se\u2019arot [hair], like Se\u2019ir [\u201chairy,\u201d but also \u201che-goat\u201d], which is from impurity. And from there are the appointed fierce rulers that govern the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
118) \u201cHappy are they that keep justice,\u201d who keep the faith of the Creator. The Creator is called \u201cJustice,\u201d and man must keep himself from straying to another way, but keep the justice, since the Creator is justice, for all His ways are just.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The name, \u201cJustice,\u201d indicates to deciding about matters. This comes after hearing two opposite sides. It is like a judge: once he has thoroughly listened to the arguments of the two sides in dispute, he gives his sentence and says, \u201cSo and so, you are innocent. And so and so, you are guilty.\u201d This sentence is called \u201cjustice,\u201d and this is the middle line, which decides between the two lines\u2014right and left\u2014which are opposite from one another in a way that both shine to the side of holiness. Because of this sentencing of His, He is called \u201cJustice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To explain the words, \u201cHappy are they that keep justice,\u201d The<\/em> Zohar<\/em> brings the ways and results of the two opposite sides\u2014the right side and the left side\u2014and the merit of one who engages in Torah with respect to the tree of life in it, which is all right, opposite one who is negligent in Torah and falls to the tree of death, which is all left. And there is also the matter of the end to the right and opposite that, the end to the left, and the results from the south side compared to the north side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHappy are they that keep justice,\u201d who keep the faith of the Creator. The Nukva is called \u201cfaith.\u201d The faith of the Creator means the unification of the Creator and His Shechina. During the unification, the Creator is called \u201cJustice\u201d because the Creator is right, the Shechina is left, and their coupling is the sentence. Without the unification, He is not sufficiently complete, even though He is the tree of life, and then He is not called \u201cJustice\u201d because He leans to the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the reason why Adam was expelled from the Garden of Eden, as it is written, \u201cLest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.\u201d The idea was for him to raise MAN to unite the Creator and His Shechina like a keeper of sentence, which is a sentence, the result of the two lines together, leaning neither to the right nor to the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, the Creator, in a coupling with the Shechina, is called \u201cJustice,\u201d since then all His ways are just, in the middle line, containing both right and left together and leaning neither to the right nor to the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 119) It is written, \u201cThat do righteousness at all times.\u201d But can man do righteousness at all times? One who walks in the ways of Torah and does righteousness with those who need righteousness is regarded as one who does righteousness at all times, since anyone who does righteousness with the poor increases righteousness, the Nukva, above and below, meaning causes a coupling of ZON above, and plentiful blessings below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 120) One who exerts in righteousness, the righteousness that he does rises and reaches the place where Jacob dwells, the upper Merkava [chariot\/assembly], the Nukva. He draws blessings to that place from the fountain of all fountains, from Bina, from which all the Mochin come. And from the righteousness, from the Nukva, after she received blessings from Bina, he draws plenty of blessings to all the lower ones and all the Merkavot [plural of Merkava] of angels and all the upper armies. Then they are all blessed and the lights increase. And because all the lower ones and the angels are called \u201ctime,\u201d since they are extended from the Nukva, who is called \u201ctime,\u201d it is written, \u201cThat do righteousness at all times,\u201d increasing the bounty in all the dwellers of the worlds BYA, who expand from the Nukva and who are called \u201ctime,\u201d like the Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 121) While Israel were in the holy land, they were drawing blessings from above downwards. When Israel departed from the holy land, they came under another authority and the world was denied the blessings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 122) Jacob was under the authority of holiness, in the land of Israel. When he departed the land, he came into another authority, which is unholy. And before he came under another authority, the Creator appeared to him in a dream. He saw all that he saw and the holy angels went with him until he sat by the well. When he sat by the well, the waters rose toward him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was the same with Moses, since there he met his wife. The well rises only when she sees her connection, a mate to bond with. The well indicates to the Nukva of ZA, and Moses and Jacob were a Merkava for ZA, hence the waters rose toward them like a Nukva toward her mate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 123) In the beginning, it is written, \u201cAnd Jacob went out from Beer-Sheba, and went toward Haran,\u201d and Lavan was dwelling in Haran. And how do we know that Lavan\u2019s dwelling place was in Haran? It is because it is written, \u201cAnd Jacob said unto them, \u2018My brothers, where are you from?\u2019 And they said, \u2018We are from Haran.\u2019 And he said to them, \u2018Do you know Lavan the son of Nahor?\u2019 And they said, \u2018We know him.\u2019\u201d This means that Lavan\u2019s dwelling place was in Haran. Hence, why did he go from there, as it is written, \u201cThus, why did he go from there, as it is written, \u201cThen Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 124) Jacob said, \u201cI want to bond with the Shechina, the well, since I want to marry a woman. When my father was about to marry a woman and sent the servant, the servant found the fountain of water and then a woman was found for my father. But in this place, in Haran, I did not find a fountain or a pit or water.\u201d Promptly, \u201cJacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east,\u201d where he came across the well and met his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 125) Haran is the land of the east, and the well in the field was of Haran. If this is not so, why does it say, \u201cAnd she ran and told her father\u201d? It is because he was near the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 126) Why did Leah not meet him at the well? After all, she is the one who bore all those tribes for Jacob? However, the Creator did not wish to make a coupling her with Jacob openly, as it is written, \u201cAnd it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah.\u201d But this was not revealed earlier, and this was the will of the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 127) For this reason, Leah did not appear but Rachel, to attract Jacob\u2019s eye and heart with Rachel\u2019s beauty, so he would set up his dwelling there. And thanks to her, Leah, too, was coupled with him and bore all these tribes. How did Jacob know who Rachel was? After all, he did not know her? 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