341) Woe unto the wicked of the world who do not know and do not look at words of Torah. And when they do look at it, because there is no wisdom in them, the words of Torah seem to them as though they were empty and useless words. It is all because they are devoid of knowledge and wisdom, since all the words in the Torah are sublime and precious words, and everything that is written in it, it is more precious than pearls, and no object can compare to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
342) When all the fools whose heart is blocked see the words of Torah, not only do they not know, but they even say that the words are spoiled, useless words, woe unto them. When the Creator seeks them out for the disgrace of the Torah, they will be punished with a punishment fit for one who rebels against one\u2019s Master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
343) It is written in the Torah, \u201cFor it is no vain thing.\u201d And if it is vain, it is only vain for you, since the Torah is filled with every good stone and precious gem, from all the abundance in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
344) King Solomon said, \u201cIf you are wise, you are wise for yourself.\u201d This is so because when one grows wise in the Torah, it is to his benefit, not for the Torah, since he cannot add even a single letter to the Torah. \u201cAnd if you scorn, you alone shall bear it,\u201d for nothing shall be subtracted from the praise of Torah because of that. His scorn is his alone and he will remain in it, to annihilate him from this world and from the next world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
345) All the upper letters, the degrees of Bina, join in that degree, which is the end of all the upper, holy degrees, the Nukva. She is filled by them and she is blessed by the upper world, Bina. At that time that degree is poised to water all the herds, to each as it should be, and each one is watered with judgment and with mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
346) It is written, \u201cAnd he set the rods.\u201d Jacob came to establish the evening prayer, the Nukva in the discernment of left and darkness, and to shine upon the moon, Nukva, in the government of the night, to water her, and to bless her from all sides, from the right and from the left. It is written, \u201cAnd he set the rods,\u201d which are judgments from the Malchut, the screen in her, and Gevurot that come out of the upper Gevura, from the left line of Bina. Also, the rods include two kinds of judgments\u2014of Malchut and of Bina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
347) When Jacob wished to establish the Nukva, he removed all those judgments and Gevurot from the rods, opposite their judgments, as it is written, \u201cAnd peeled white streaks in them,\u201d meaning drawing Hassadim on the screen and on the Gevurot, \u201cMaking the white appear.\u201d which was in the rods. And placed rods in the tresses, meaning in four tresses, the four vessels HB TM under the well that the princes dug, the Nukva that is corrected in HGT of Bina, who are called \u201cprinces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She consists of four vessels HB TM, which are called \u201ctresses.\u201d She is filled by the upper streams and fountains, from the Sefirot of Bina, since when the water come out of that holy well, those four HB TM take everything. This is why they are called \u201ctresses,\u201d and from there the angels and the souls come to drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
348) All those judgments and Gevurot that he removed from the rods stand in the tresses so that each one will receive what he should from there, as it is written, \u201cAgainst the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink.\u201d \u201cFlock\u201d is written twice, one opposite the other. These are the degrees that should receive Hassadim standing opposite the degrees that should receive judgments and Gevurot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd they were rutting when they came to drink,\u201d when the angels, called \u201cflock,\u201d are crowned in Hassadim and receive the judgment, they warm up in that judgment because the reception of judgment within them is called \u201cheating.\u201d And they wander and roam in the world, to observe the ways of people, to do good, as well as to harm, to reward and to punish, since they are made of Hassadim and of judgments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
349) \u201cAnd the flocks were rutting at the sight of the rods.\u201d Because those rods are judgments and Gevurot, they were heating and watching the judgments in the world. They were appointed over them and people were sentenced in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
350) King David always attached himself to the Creator. He did not worry about anything else in the world except to cling unto Him with his soul and his will, as it is written, \u201cMy soul cleaves unto You.\u201d And since he clung to the Creator, He supported him and He did not leave him, as it is written, \u201cYour right hand holds me fast.\u201d We learn from this that when a person comes to cling to the Creator, the Creator holds him fast and does not leave him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
351) \u201cMy soul cleaves unto You,\u201d so that his degree would be crowned above. This is so because when his degree clings to the upper degrees, to rise after them, the right side, Hassadim, holds him so as to elevate him and connect him with the right in one bonding, as it should be. It is written about it, \u201cYour right hand would hold me,\u201d and it is written, \u201cAnd his right hand embrace me.\u201d This is why \u201cYour right hand holds me fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
352) When he grips to the Creator, it is written, \u201cLet his left hand be under my head, and his right hand embrace me.\u201d This is one unification and one bonding with the Creator. And when it is one bonding with Him, his degree is filled and blessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
353) When all those tresses are filled, they are filled to the four winds of the world, HB TM, and all the herds are watered by those four phases HB TM, each according to its own phase. When Jacob came to correct the Nukva, he chose for himself the right side, which befits him, and the other side, which does not befit him, parted him, as it is written, \u201cAnd put his own droves apart, and did not put them unto Lavan’s flock.\u201d \u201cHis own\u201d means he was on his own, not using the other gods that are on the other sides. Happy are Israel, of whom it is written, \u201cFor you are a holy people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
354) Jacob is the senior patriarch, the inclusion of everyone, since the middle line, Jacob, contains the two lines\u2014right and left\u2014within it, meaning Abraham and Isaac. And because it is the inclusion of everyone, it is poised to shine for the moon, the Nukva, since Jacob is poised to correct the evening prayer, the Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
355) He made that whole correction as he should. He set up all those holy phases in the correction in his own phase, in the middle line, and separated his own share from the share of the rest of the peoples, which are in the left. Those were high, holy discernments, in upper Kedusha [holiness], and those were discernments that were defiled by the filth of impurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
356) It is written, \u201cAnd put his own droves apart.\u201d \u201cAnd put\u201d means he set up corrections for faith, the Nukva, alone, as it is written, \u201cThe Lord your God has chosen you out of all the nations to be a people of Segula [virtue\/merit] for Him.\u201d \u201cAnd did not put them unto Lavan’s flock\u201d means that he did not place his share and lot with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
357) This is why Jacob, the senior patriarch, established the faith and separated his own share and lot from the share and lot of the rest of the peoples, as it is written, \u201cAnd you who cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
358) Happy are Israel for they are superior to the idol worshipping nations because their degree is above, meaning they receive illumination of the left from below upwards. The degrees of the idol worshipping nations are below because they draw the light of the left from above downwards. These are on the side of Kedusha [holiness] and those are on the side of impurity; these are to the right, and those are to the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
359) It is written that when the Temple was ruined, \u201cHe has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy.\u201d This is why it is written, \u201cSave with Your right hand, and answer me,\u201d meaning that then the left prevailed and impurity increased, until the Creator builds the Temple, sets the world straight, things return to their perfection as it should be, and the side of impurity vanishes from the world. It is written about it, \u201cAnd I will cause the … unclean spirit to pass out of the land,\u201d and it is written, \u201cDeath shall be swallowed up forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
360) Then the Creator will remain alone, as it is written, \u201cAnd the idols shall utterly pass away,\u201d and as it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.\u201d It is also written, \u201cAnd there was no strange god with Him\u201d because the force of impurity will pass away from the world and only the Creator will remain above and below, and Israel will be a holy nation to His work, and they will be called \u201choly.\u201d It is written about it, \u201cAnd it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called \u2018holy,\u2019 even every one that is written unto life in Jerusalem.\u201d Then there will be one King above and below and one nation to serve Him, as it is written, \u201cAnd what one nation in the earth is like Your people Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
361) The Shechina connects with those who walk on ways, to keep them. Anyone who engages in words of Torah and exerts in it is rewarded with drawing it, meaning ZA, who is the Torah. Then ZA and Nukva, meaning the Shechina, will be connected in them in one unification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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