January 25, 1926, Warsaw<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To… may his candle burn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
… And scrutinize well in a thousand weekdays, for they are the paths of the river of knowledge. It is as Samuel said, \u201cThe paths of heaven are clear to me,\u201d in the state of Shabbat [Sabbath], as the paths of the river of knowledge, the weekdays. That is, \u201cOne who did not labor on the eve of Shabbat, from where will he eat on Shabbat?\u201d Thus, all the lights of Shabbat are set up in lights that are gained during the weekdays. This is the meaning of \u201ca thousand weekdays.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By this you can understand the verse, \u201cCome to Pharaoh.\u201d It is the Shechina<\/em>[Divinity] in disclosure, from the words, \u201cand let the hair of the woman’s head go loose,\u201d as it is written in The Zohar<\/em>. The thing is that to the extent that the children of Israel thought that Egypt were enslaving them and impeding them from serving the Creator, they truly were in the exile in Egypt. Hence, the Redeemer\u2019s only work was to reveal to them that there is no other force involved here, that \u201cI and not a messenger,\u201d for there is no other force but Him. This was indeed the light of redemption, as explained in the Passover Haggadah<\/em> [story].<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is what the Creator gave to Moses in the verse, \u201cCome to Pharaoh,\u201d meaning unite the truth, for the whole approaching the king of Egypt is only to Pharaoh, to disclose the Shechina<\/em>. This is why He said, \u201cFor I have hardened his heart,\u201d etc., \u201cthat I may place these signs of Mine within him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In spirituality, there are no letters, as I have already elaborated on before. All the multiplication in spirituality relies on the letters derived from the materiality of this world, as in, \u201cAnd creator of darkness.\u201d There are no additions or initiations here, but the creation of darkness, the Merkava<\/em>[chariot\/structure] that is suited to disclose that the light is good. It follows that the Creator Himself hardened his heart. Why? Because it is letters that I need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the meaning of \u201cthat I may place these signs of Mine within him, and that you may tell … that you may know that I am the Lord.\u201d Explanation: Once you receive the letters, meaning when you understand that I gave and toiled for you, as in, do not move from \u201cbehind\u201d Me, for you will thoroughly keep the Achoraim<\/em> [posterior\/back] for Me, for My name, then the abundance will do her thing and fill the letters. The qualities will become Sefirot<\/em>, since before the filling they are called \u201cqualities,\u201d and upon their fulfillment for the best, they are called Sefirot<\/em>, sapphire, illuminating the world from one end to the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the meaning of \u201cthat you may tell.\u201d I need all this for the end of the matter, meaning \u201cAnd you shall know that I am the Lord\u201d \u201cand not a messenger.\u201d This is the meaning of the fiftieth gate, which cannot appear unless the forty-nine faces of pure and impure appear in one opposite the other, in which the righteous falls [forty-nine in Gematria<\/em>] before the wicked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the meaning of the words, \u201cLet not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might … but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me.\u201d That is, as it is written, \u201cThere shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land.\u201d Miscarrying or barren are the same thing, except \u201cbarren\u201d means the deficiency and the letter itself, and \u201cmiscarrying\u201d is the filling that the Sitra<\/em> Achra<\/em> [other side] gives to fill that deficiency, which is unsustainable, short-lived, and full of anger. At the time of correction, it becomes evident that that miscarrying becomes understanding, and the barren becomes \u201cKnow Me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is what the prophet instructs us: \u201cLet not a wise man boast of his wisdom, or the mighty man of his might,\u201d since all the being and presence that a person feels in himself holds no spirit, neither for the upper ones nor for the lower ones. It is so because there are no innovations in any being or lights. This is the meaning of \u201cmaker of light,\u201d meaning that there is no innovation in the light but the making, when one can affect moves over the letters and disclose the shapes of the upper ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, \u201cand creator of darkness,\u201d for created means elicitation existence from absence, as Nachmanides wrote. There is no innovation here but darkness, like the ink for a book of Torah. By the exertion of the servant of the Creator to bring contentment to his Maker and to complement the Creator\u2019s will, the miscarrying and the barren appear. By accepting the burden of the kingdom of heaven to the fullest, which is the meaning of \u201cthis,\u201d he is rewarded with seeing the real forms of \u201cmaker of light,\u201d through questions and troubles. Then he is rewarded with boasting of the knowledge, and it is known that this is a true gain, praised and desirable in the initial thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By this we understand the verse, \u201cAnd he said to them, \u2018May it be so, the Lord is with you\u2019 … and He drove them out from Pharaoh\u2019s presence.\u201d The whole strengthening of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, was only in the \u201clittle ones\u201d who did not know Joseph, who fed them with bread according to the \u201clittle ones.\u201d The \u201clittle ones\u201d means abundance that is restricted at the time of Katnut<\/em>[smallness\/infancy], as our sages said, \u201cWhy do infants come? To give reward to they who bring them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why he demonstrated his strength on the little ones and said, \u201cSee that evil is before your faces. Not so, go now, you who are men,\u201d since one should be thankful for the sparks of Gevurot<\/em> [pl. of Gevura<\/em>] in the work of the Creator, and which come through the Creator. But for the sparks of evil before your faces, it cannot be said that it comes from the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why he said, \u201cFor it is her that you seek,\u201d meaning that your whole intention is to enhance the sparks of Gevura<\/em> and enhance the sparks of evil, and how can you unite the evil sparks with the Creator? By this they were driven out from Pharaoh\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By this we will understand the plague of the locust, as was said, \u201cAnd it covered the eye of the earth, etc., and ate that which remained.\u201d That is, because the Creator saw that all the gripping of the king of Egypt (until he expelled them) was in sorting the men and repelling the infants (as in, \u201cfor that is what you desire\u201d), the plague robbed them of the quality of men, as well, and they lost all the sparks of Gevura<\/em>, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By this you will understand the verse of redemption: \u201cThis month is to you the beginning of the months.\u201d In Egypt, the month was called Sivan<\/em>, as they said about Mount Sinai, that Sinaa<\/em> [hatred] came down from there, like the hard labor in Egypt being called, in general, Sivan<\/em>, like Shanaan<\/em>, meaning Sinaa Shelanu<\/em> [our hate], as in, \u201cfor it is her that you seek,\u201d and all their efforts were only to delete the letters because they hated them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And by the light of redemption, when they were rewarded with Alphey<\/em>[thousands of] Shanaan<\/em>, that Hidush<\/em> [initiation (sounding similar to Hodesh<\/em>\u2014month)] was made the very first. Then, instead of Sivan<\/em>, the letters joined to form Nissan<\/em>, meaning Nissim she Imanu<\/em> [miracles that are with us]. This is what RASHI interpreted about this verse: \u201c\u2018This month\u2019 indicates that the Creator showed Moses the moon in its beginning,\u201d and the words are ancient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yehuda Leib<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 25, 1926, Warsaw To… may his candle burn: … And scrutinize well in a thousand weekdays, for they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6225,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[25],"class_list":["post-9440","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-baal-hasulam"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n