58) Pharaoh wished to try Joseph; he misplaced the words of the dream and since Joseph knew the degrees that were implied in his dream, he looked at each thing and said, \u201cThus you saw,\u201d and arranged every thing in its proper place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
59) \u201cAnd Pharaoh said to Joseph, \u2018Since God has informed you all of this,\u201d meaning after you were, while I was dreaming the dream, you were there. This is why he said all that. You knew how the dream was and you knew its solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
60) In that case, Joseph said everything\u2014the dream and the solution\u2014like Daniel, who said the dream and its solution. But this is not so. Joseph looked from within Pharaoh\u2019s words, who was saying the words of the dream in certain degrees, and he saw that he was wrong, since his words were not in the order applied in those degrees of the dream. And he told him, you did not see this but that, for the degrees come in their proper order. But Daniel did not observe at all from within the words of Nebuchadnezzar; he told him everything\u2014the dream and its solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
61) \u201cThen the secret was revealed to Daniel in the vision of the night.\u201d The vision of the night is Gabriel, who is a sight from a mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Nukva is called, \u201cnight,\u201d and she is a mirror, which means illumination of Hochma. And since there is no illumination of Hochma in any Partzuf besides her, the Nukva is called, \u201cmirror.\u201d Accordingly, the name \u201cnight\u201d is a mirror, and the vision of the night is a sight from the mirror, Angel Gabriel, whose discernment of sight in him is extended from the mirror, which is the Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
62) \u201cAnd the vision I saw was just as the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and just as the vision that I had seen by the Chebar river. And I fell on my face.\u201d All these visions in this verse are six degrees. \u201cAnd the vision I saw was just as the vision\u201d are two, and \u201cvisions\u201d in plural form is also two, which makes four, and \u201cLike the vision that I saw\u201d is two, which makes six visions\u2014six Sefirot HGT NHY of the Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gabriel has a mirror. In it, the colors above\u2014the six visions in the Nukva\u2014are seen. And they are seen in this vision, which is Gabriel, who is called \u201ca vision from a mirror.\u201d And there is a vision for a mirror and a vision for a vision, one atop the other. This means that in the vision for a mirror, which is Gabriel, there are many degrees, each of which is considered a vision from a vision, meaning a vision from the upper mirror, the Nukva. There are six discernments of vision from a vision one atop the other, extended from the six visions in the Nukva. All of them are in the degrees HGT NHY. They govern, and they are called \u201cthe vision of the night,\u201d and all the dreams in the world are resolved in them. They are like that which is above them, like the six visions in the Nukva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
63) This is why it is written, \u201cThe secret was revealed to Daniel in the vision of the night,\u201d since one of these degrees of the vision of the night revealed to him the dream and its solution. But through Pharaoh\u2019s words, Joseph looked at the high degrees that the dream was pointing to and said its solution to Pharaoh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
64) \u201cAnd he set him over all the land of Egypt,\u201d since the Creator\u2014of His\u2014gave him of Joseph\u2019s: The lips that did not touch a transgression, as it is written, \u201cAnd according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled,\u201d the hand that did not come near a transgression, as it is written, \u201cAnd put it upon Joseph’s hand,\u201d a neck that did not come near a transgression, as it is written, \u201cAnd put a gold chain about his neck,\u201d the body that did not come near a transgression, as it is written, \u201cAnd clothed him in garments of fine linen,\u201d a foot that did not ride on a transgression, as it is written, \u201cHe had him ride in his second chariot,\u201d the thought, for he did not think of transgression, and he is called, \u201cwise and understanding,\u201d the heart that did not contemplate a transgression, as it is written, \u201cAnd they proclaimed before him, \u2018Bow the knee!\u2019\u201d And he received everything from his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
65) \u201cAnd Joseph went out from before Pharaoh and went throughout all the land of Egypt.\u201d What is the reason that he \u201cwent throughout all the land of Egypt\u201d? To rule over them, for they were declaring before him, \u201cAnd they proclaimed before him, \u2018Bow the knee!\u2019\u201d Moreover, it was to collect grain in every place, as it is written, \u201cHe placed in every city the food from its own surrounding fields,\u201d and did not place the grain of this place in another place, so it would not rot. This is because it is the nature of every place to preserve the fruits that grow in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
66) All that the Creator had done is to cause evolution, meaning to develop and provide good causes for Israel because He wanted to keep His promise. When the Creator created the world, he first brought everything that the world needed, and then brought man into the world and found nourishments for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
67) The Creator said to Abraham, \u201cKnow for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs \u2026 and afterward they will come out with great possessions.\u201d When Joseph came to Egypt, there weren\u2019t many possessions in it. The Creator caused development and brought famine upon the world, and the whole world brought silver and gold to Egypt. Thus, the whole of the land of Egypt was filled with silver and gold. And after the possessions were established in the full measure, He brought Jacob to Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
68) Such are the ways of the Creator: First, He chooses the remedy, then He strikes. First, He established the great possessions in Egypt, then He brought them into exile. This is why He caused development and brought hunger upon the whole world, so they would bring the silver and gold of the whole world into Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
69) Thanks to Joseph, who was righteous, it caused Israel to receive wealth, silver and gold, as it is written, \u201cAnd He brought them out with silver and gold.\u201d This came to Israel by the hand of the righteous, all in order to reward them with the next world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
70) It is written, \u201cEnjoy life with the woman you love, all the days of your vain life that He has given you under the sun.\u201d This verse is a sublime secret. \u201cEnjoy life\u201d is life of the next world, for happy is the man who is rewarded with it, as it should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
71) \u201cWith the woman you love\u201d is the assembly of Israel, the Nukva, since it is about her that love is written, as it is written, \u201cI have loved you an everlasting love.\u201d When? When the right side clings to her, as it is written, \u201cTherefore with mercy have I drawn you,\u201d and mercy [Hesed] is the right side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
72) \u201cAll the days of your vain life.\u201d Because the Nukva in Gadlut is called, \u201cthe assembly of Israel,\u201d she is tied to life, to Bina, a world where there is life. This is so because this world, which is Nukva, has no life in and of itself. Hence, it is called \u201ca life of vanity,\u201d since it is under the sun, ZA, and must receive from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lights of the sun do not reach here in this world and have departed from the world on the day the Temple was ruined, as it is written, \u201cThe sun will be dark when it rises,\u201d for its light rises up and does not shine below, as it is written, \u201cThe righteous, Yesod of ZA that gives to this world, which is Nukva, is lost.\u201d Hence, she should be extended life from Bina, as it is written, \u201cEnjoy life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
73) \u201cFor that is your portion in life.\u201d This is the coupling of the sun, ZA, with the moon, Nukva, since the Nukva is called \u201cportion,\u201d and the light of the sun, \u201clife.\u201d And the sun must come into the moon, and the moon into the sun, so they are not separated. This is man\u2019s share: to cause the upper coupling by his deeds, to achieve the next world through them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
74) Afterwards, it is written, \u201cWhatever your hand finds to do with your strength, do it, for there is no work or calculation or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.\u201d Has the ban been lifted and is there no longer fear of the punishing whip, that man can do all that he can? It is written, \u201cto do with your strength.\u201d \u201cYour strength\u201d is man\u2019s soul. This is man\u2019s strength, by which to be rewarded with this world and with the next world. Whatever your hand finds to do with the strength of your soul, to do good deeds, \u201cDo it,\u201d and do not be lazy, for then you will be rewarded with both worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
75) Also, \u201cwith your strength\u201d is the woman, the assembly of Israel, which is the power to overcome in her, in this world and in the next world. And man should be rewarded with this strength in this world, so as to strengthen in her in the next world, and it is written, \u201cWhatever your hand finds to do with your strength,\u201d the Nukva, to do good deeds in this world. \u201cDo it,\u201d and you will be rewarded with the next world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
76) One must enhance good deeds in this world because once a person departs this world, he has no strength to do anything, to say, \u201cFrom here on I will do good deeds,\u201d \u201cfor there is no work or calculation or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And if one is not rewarded in this world, he will not be rewarded later, in the next world. And one who did not prepare provisions for the journey out of this world will not eat in the next world. There are good deeds that a person does in this world, from which he eats here in this world, but the rest remains for the next world, to be nourished by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
77) Joseph was rewarded in this world and rewarded in the next world because he wanted to unite with a God-fearing woman, which is the Nukva\u2014this world\u2014as it is written, \u201cand sin against God,\u201d which is the Nukva, called \u201cGod.\u201d And for this reason, he was rewarded with ruling in this world, and he credited Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
78) \u201cAnd Joseph gathered all the money.\u201d That river, which stretches out of Eden, Yesod, is called Joseph, and it gathers everything, for it includes and receives all the Sefirot, and all the wealth is in it, as it is written, \u201cAnd God set them in the firmament of the heaven to shine on the earth,\u201d since Yesod is called, \u201cfirmament,\u201d which shines to the earth, the Nukva. And all is as it should be, since it is certain that Joseph, Yesod, had to govern Malchut, the Nukva, and bestow upon her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
79) \u201cHe had him ride in his second chariot.\u201d What is the second chariot? The Creator made the righteous governor, since the world\u2014which is Nukva\u2014is nourished by him, and from him it should be nourished. The Creator has an upper chariot, HGTM from Chazeh of ZA upwards, and He has a lower chariot\u2014Nukva. The lower chariot is called the \u201csecond chariot,\u201d and Joseph is called \u201crighteous,\u201d Yesod, and he is worthy of riding the second chariot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
80) \u201cAnd they proclaimed before him, \u2018Bow the knee!\u2019 and he set him over all the land of Egypt.\u201d \u201cBow the knee\u201d is the connection by which the sun is tied to the moon, Yesod, which unites ZON. And all kneel opposite this place, since the intention of kneeling in a prayer is in the Yesod, called Baruch [blessed, as well as Berech\u2014knee]. And they called before him, \u201cBow the knee\u201d after the kneeling. This comes from the words, \u201cHe made the camels kneel down.\u201d And he is placed over the whole world, which is the Nukva, and all the people in the world thank him for the abundance he imparts over them. Hence, all is by the counsel of the Upper One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
81) The Creator made the kingdom of earth such as the kingdom of heaven. He had made everything one opposite the other, so all that there is on earth has its corresponding root in the firmament. Also, all that is done on earth was initially before the Creator, above in the firmament. The sacred Malchut did not receive a complete Malchut until she connected to the patriarchs because the Creator made the upper Malchut shine from the patriarchs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
82) And when the righteous Joseph first descended to Egypt, he later drew the Shechina with him, since the Shechina follows only the righteous. Hence, Joseph was first drawn into Egypt, received all the wealth in the world, as it should be, and then the Shechina came down to Egypt and all the tribes with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
83) For this reason, Joseph, who kept the holy covenant, was rewarded with being crowned in his place, became a chariot for Yesod of ZA, and was rewarded with the Malchut [also kingdom] above and the Malchut below. Hence, anyone who keeps the holy covenant is as though one keeps the whole of the holy Torah, since the covenant is tantamount to the whole of the Torah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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