{"id":9513,"date":"2025-11-23T20:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=9513"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:29:14","slug":"and-joseph-was-the-governor","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/and-joseph-was-the-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"And Joseph Was the Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>106) \u201cAnd Joseph was the governor over the land.\u201d When the Creator desires a person, he elevates him above all the people in the world and makes him head over all, and all his enemies surrender under him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>107) King David, his brothers hated him and rejected him from among them. The Creator lifted him above all the people in the world. His father-in-law, Saul, came and he fled from him. The Creator lifted him above all the kingdoms, and they all kneeled and bowed before him. And Joseph\u2014his brothers rejected him. Afterwards, they all kneeled and bowed before him, as it is written, \u201cAnd Joseph&#8217;s brothers came, and bowed down to him with their faces to the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>108) \u201cAnd now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies around me, and I will offer sacrifices in His tabernacle with trumpet sound I will sing praises to the Lord.\u201d Now means \u201cyou,\u201d the name of the Shechina [in Hebrew \u201cnow\u201d and \u201cyou\u201d sound the same], for he prayed that the Shechina would raise his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time is a high degree, the letter Hey of HaVaYaH, the Shechina, and it is called, \u201cnow.\u201d But \u201cAnd now,\u201d with a Vav is ZA and its court, the Nukva, since Vav from the \u201cAnd now\u201d implies ZA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>109) \u201cMy head be lifted up,\u201d raising the head in honor and kingship. \u201cAbove my enemies around me\u201d are the rest of the kings of the land. \u201cAnd I will offer sacrifices in His tabernacle\u201d is Jerusalem. \u201cIn His tabernacle\u201d with a Vav implies the Tent of Congregation. \u201cWith trumpet sound\u201d is to sound it to the whole world. \u201cI will sing praises\u201d because of the trumpet call, since the song and the praise come because of the trumpet call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>110) \u201cAnd now shall my head be lifted up.\u201d This is the assembly of Israel, the Nukva, which is called, \u201cnow.\u201d \u201cAbove my enemies around me\u201d is Esau and all his ministers. \u201cAnd I will offer sacrifices in His tabernacle,\u201d inside Israel, \u201cWith trumpet sound,\u201d as it is written, \u201cThe sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,\u201d to remove the judgment from the world. \u201cI will sing praises,\u201d to thank and to praise the Creator ceaselessly, forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>111) \u201cAnd now shall my head be lifted up.\u201d \u201cMy head\u201d is the good inclination, which prayed in every thing, meaning raising the good inclination over the evil inclination. \u201cAbove my enemies around me\u201d refers to the evil inclination that surrounds man and hates him in everything. \u201cAnd I will offer sacrifices in His tabernacle\u201d is the study of Torah, which was given from the side of the fire, as it is written, \u201cAt His right hand was a fiery law,\u201d for he raises his head for the Torah and all his enemies will break before him, as it is written, \u201cYou have subdued under me those who rose up against me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>112) \u201cAnd now shall my head be lifted up,\u201d to be included in the patriarchs, HGT of ZA, since King David must cling to the patriarchs, for he unites with them as a fourth leg, and then he will rise and soar from Chazeh of ZA upwards, in one connection with them. \u201cOver my enemies around me\u201d are the litigants on the left side, who aim to destroy. 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