1) \u201cAnd the wise will glow as the brightness of the firmament.\u201d The wise are those who gaze at the wisdom, who have attained wisdom, since wisdom is called \u201cthe light of the eyes\u201d and attaining it is called \u201clooking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
60) Woe unto people who do not know and are not careful with the work of their Creator.<\/strong> This is so because each day, a voice comes out of Mount Horev and says, \u201cWoe unto people, for they slight the works of their Creator. Woe unto people from desecrating the glory of the Torah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyone who engages in Torah in this world and acquires good deeds inherits a whole world. And anyone who does not engage in Torah in this world and does not do good deeds, inherits neither this world nor the next world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 61) If people knew the love that the Creator loves Israel, they would roar as lions and chase Him in order to adhere to Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 67-68) \u201cHappy are you who sow beside all waters, who send out freely the ox and the donkey<\/strong>.\u201d<\/strong> Happy are Israel, whom the Creator desires more than all the nations and brought them close to Him, as it is written, \u201cThe Lord your God has chosen you.\u201d It is also written, \u201cFor the portion of the Lord is His people, Jacob the lot of His inheritance.\u201d And Israel adhere to the Creator, as it is written, \u201cBut you who cling unto the Lord your God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n They are righteous before Him because they sow beside all waters, they sow for righteousness, meaning they raise MAN<\/em> to extend Mochin <\/em>to Malchut<\/em> so she will be called Tzedakah<\/em> [righteousness], since without the Mochin <\/em>she is called Tzedek<\/em> [justice], without the Hey<\/em> [in Hebrew]. And it is written of one who sows for righteousness, \u201cFor Your mercy is great above the heavens.\u201d \u201cAbove the heavens\u201d is also called \u201cBeside all waters.\u201d \u201cAbove the heavens\u201d is the next world, Bina<\/em>, which is above ZA<\/em>, called \u201cheavens.\u201d And Israel sow a seed and raise MAN <\/em>beside all waters, Bina<\/em>, to extend Mochin <\/em>unto Malchut <\/em>so she will be called Tzedakah<\/em> [righteousness\/almsgiving].<\/p>\n\n\n\n 84) Sages are more important than prophets at any time,<\/strong> since prophets are sometimes imbued with the spirit of holiness and sometimes not. But the spirit of holiness is not removed from sages for even a moment; they know what is above and below, and do not need to reveal\u2026Were it not for sages, people would not know what is Torah and what are the Mitzvot<\/em> [commandments] of the Creator, and there would be no difference between man\u2019s spirit and the spirit of a beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 176) \u201cMy beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices.\u201d \u201cHis garden\u201d is the assembly of Israel, Nukva<\/em>, because she is the bed of spices, for she consists of various spices and scents of the next world, Bina<\/em>. When the Creator descends to that garden, the Nukva<\/em>, meaning all the souls of the righteous are crowned there and receive Mochin <\/em>and illuminations. They all emit scent, as it is written, \u201c[How fair is] the smell of your ointments than all manner of spices,\u201d which are the souls of the righteous, called \u201cspices.\u201d It is after them that the Nukva<\/em> is called \u201cthe bed of spices.\u201d All those souls of the righteous who were in this world, and all those souls that are destined to come down to this world are standing here in this garden, in the Nukva<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 185) Happy are the righteous whose will is to always adhere to the Creator. As they always adhere to Him, He is always adhered to them and never leaves them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 203-204) All things in the world depend on repentance and on the prayer that a man prays to the Creator.<\/strong> It is all the more so with one who sheds tears during his prayer, for there is no gate through which these tears do not come. It is written, \u201cShe opened it and saw the child.\u201d \u201cOpened\u201d is Divinity, who stands over Israel like a mother over her children, opening, always in favor of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When she opened and saw the child, a delightful child, Israel, who always sin before their King and promptly plea before the Creator, repent, and cry before Him as a son who cries before his father. It is written, \u201cAnd behold a boy that wept.\u201d Since he wept, all the harsh decrees in the world were removed from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 235-236) \u201cHurry, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young hart.\u201d<\/strong> Every yearning that Israel yearned for the Creator is the yearning of Israel that the Creator will not go and will not walk away, but run like a gazelle or a young hart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No other animal in the world does what the gazelle or the hart does. When it runs, it turns its head slightly to the place from which it came. It always turns its head back. This is what Israel said, \u201cGod Almighty, if we cause You to depart from among us, may it be that You will run like the gazelle or the young hart.\u201d This is because it runs and turns its head to the place it had left, the place where it was before, which it left and fled from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the meaning of the words, \u201cYet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them.\u201d Another thing: The gazelle sleeps with one eye and is awake with the other eye. This is what Israel said to the Creator, \u201cDo as the gazelle does, for \u201cHe who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 241-242) This is Rabbi Shimon. When he opens his mouth to begin to engage in Torah<\/strong>, all the thrones, all the firmaments, all the Merkavot<\/em>, and all those who praise their Master listen to his voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is none to begin and say songs, and there is none to complete his singing. In other words, those who stand in the middle of the singing do not complete their song because they all become attentive to the voice of Rabbi Shimon, until an utterance of a mouth is heard through all the firmaments above and below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When Rabbi Shimon concludes engaging in the Torah, who saw songs? Who saw joy of those who praise their Master? Who saw the voices that walk in all the firmaments? It is for Rabbi Shimon that all the souls and angels come and kneel and bow before their Master, and raise the fragrances of the perfumes in Eden\u2014illumination of Hochma<\/em>\u2014all the way to Atik <\/em>Yomin<\/em>. All this is for Rabbi Shimon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 251-252) Rabbi Shimon sat, and Rabbi Elazar, his son, stood and interpreted the words of the secrets of the wisdom. His face was shining like the sun and the words were spreading and flying in the firmament.<\/strong> They sat for two days; they neither ate nor drank, and they did not know if it was day or night. When they came out, they knew that two days had passed without them eating a thing. Rabbi Shimon called out about it, \u201cAnd he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread.\u201d And what if we, who were rewarded with adhesion with the Creator, were so for one hour, having been in the light of the Creator for two days, not knowing where we are? Moses, the text testifies that he was there with the Creator forty days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When Rabbi Hiya told the story to his father, Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel, he was bewildered and said, \u201cRabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai is a lion, and Rabbi Elazar, his son, is a lion. And Rabbi Shimon is not like all other lions. It is written about him, \u2018When a lion roars, who will not fear?\u2019 And if the worlds above shiver from him, we do even more. He is a man who never declared a fast for what he asked and prayed. Rather, he decides and the Creator keeps. The Creator decides and he revokes, as it is written, \u2018Ruler over men shall be the righteous, even he that rules in the fear of God,\u2019 meaning the Creator rules over man, and the righteous rules over the Creator; He sentences a decree, and the righteous revokes it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 288) Israel were enslaved by all the nations so that the world would rise through them,<\/strong> since they are opposite the whole world. It is written, \u201cIn that day shall the Lord be One, and His name one.\u201d And as the Creator is one, Israel are one, as it is written, \u201cOne nation in the land.\u201d As the name of the Creator is \u201cOne,\u201d and spreads in seventy names, Israel are one and spread into seventy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 354) The cry is greater than all of them<\/strong>, for the cry is in the heart. It is closer to the Creator than a prayer or a sigh, as it is written, \u201cFor if they cry unto Me, I will surely hear their cry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 356-357) One who prays and cries and cries out<\/strong> until he can no longer move his lips, this is a complete prayer that is in the heart. It is never returned empty, but is accepted. Great is the cry for it tears a man\u2019s sentence from all his days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Great is the cry that governs the quality of Din<\/em> above. Great is the cry that governs this world and the next world. For a cry, man inherits this world and the next world, as it is written, \u201cThen they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 358-359) When a thought came before the Creator to create His world,<\/strong> all the worlds rose in one thought, and in that thought they were all created, as it is written, \u201cIn wisdom have You made them all.\u201d And in that thought, which is wisdom [Hochma<\/em>], this world and the world above were created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His right [side] leaned and He created the world above, ZA<\/em>. His left [side] leaned and He created this world, Malchut<\/em>, as it is written, \u201cMy hand has laid the foundation of the earth,\u201d Malchut<\/em>, \u201cAnd My right hand has spread out the heavens,\u201d ZA<\/em>. \u201cWhen I call unto them, they stand up together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n All were created in a single moment, and He made this world corresponding the world above, and all that there is above, its likeness appeared below. Thus, there is nothing below without a root in the upper worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 360) It is written of man that He made man in the image of God. It is also written, \u201cYou have made him a little lower than God.\u201d<\/strong> If people so cherish their deeds and they are lower than the dust of the well, for they are lowered by the Klipot<\/em> that cling to the dust of Malchut<\/em>, called \u201cwell,\u201d how will they come to pump out abundance from the well? He chose the upper ones, the angels, and He chose Israel. He did not call the upper ones, \u201csons,\u201d but called the lower ones, \u201csons,\u201d as it is written, \u201cYou are the children of the Lord your God.\u201d He called them \u201cchildren,\u201d and they called Him \u201cFather,\u201d as it is written, \u201cFor you are our father,\u201d and it is written, \u201cMy Beloved is mine and I am His,\u201d meaning He chose me and I chose Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 371) \u201cA Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.\u201d \u201cThe Lord is my shepherd,\u201d my shepherd. 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