1927, London<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the children of Menashe, Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur, Tav<\/em>–Reish<\/em>–Peh<\/em>–Zayin<\/em>, London, May God protect it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To the students, may the Lord be upon them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n … I shall reply to both of you together, as it all stems from the same desire. The holiday is approaching, and as you know, I tend to keep to myself at such times and not waste time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although I do not have many expenses on basic needs for the holiday because I\u2019ve already obtained the Matzot<\/em> and the wine, I am preoccupied with receiving the newborn child from all that has happened to me during the months of conception since Tishrey<\/em> [approx. September]. The child is very dear to me, a child of entertainment, and so my heart goes out to him and to all his needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You must have noted to write in the previous letters to prepare yourselves to long for the Creator and for His goodness in these days, prior to my coming to you, for the time is ripe for this, if you wish, since time and place do not part between us whatsoever concerning the needs of the Creator and the lot of the Creator. As for the box of corporeality? Put it behind you, and we are one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our sages have already wondered, \u201cEster from the Torah, where from?\u201d They said, \u201cI will surely hide.\u201d The thing is that from Lo Lishma<\/em> [not for Her sake] one comes to Lishma<\/em> [for Her sake], that the light in it would reform them. Therefore, they were right to ask, \u201cHow can there be concealment to any person?\u201d Even if you say that he is wicked, that he engages in Torah andMitzvot Lo Lishma<\/em>, still, the light in it has to reform him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They answered that there are two concealments, as in, \u201cI will surely hide\u201d [Heb:Haster Astir<\/em>]. One concealment is due to the diminution of the moon, as it is written, \u201clights,\u201d in deficient writing, since the Vav<\/em> is missing from the Ohr<\/em>[light] in it, Ohr<\/em> without the [letter] Vav<\/em>. The second concealment is due to the sin of Adam HaRishon<\/em>, considered that he cast filth into her, and he was diminished in the first one, too, creating Mar<\/em> [bitter] instead of Maor<\/em>[illumination]. In the work of creation, He brought the medicine before the blow, as it is said in the verse about light, \u201cLet there be light,\u201d and \u201cAnd there was light,\u201d to be sufficient for both concealments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second light was blemished by the inciting serpent, and Vav<\/em>–Reish<\/em>remained of it. The Vav<\/em> was already missing in the first light, living a storm over the head of the serpent and his company, \u201cArur<\/em> [cursed] are you than all the beast,\u201d etc. From the first, Aleph<\/em>–Reish<\/em> remained, and from the second,Vav<\/em>–Reish<\/em> remained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why its legs were cut off and he walks on his belly, and I have no time to elaborate further. This is the meaning of using the seven days of creation, which were concealed for the righteous in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, all the corrections are in the receivers of the light. Since they are unfit to receive the upper light, they are rebellious against the light because the light is bestowal, and when it is received, it is called \u201cillumination,\u201d which is the internality that reforms him, that which clothes in the vessels of reception. The upper light dresses in the letters of all the prayers, and \u201cHe is one and His name, \u2018One.\u2019\u201d This is the meaning of our fathers being immersed in mire and bricks, from the idols of Egypt on the forty-nine gates of impurity. Then the King of all Kings, the Creator, appeared to them and redeemed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The reason is that they had to discover all the letters of the prayer, so the Creator waited for them. However, when the prayers ended, He rushed to them and redeemed them, \u201cAnd His divorce and His hand come as one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n When righteous Mordechai brought Hadassah, he was rewarded with her because she was the daughter of his uncle, Avichayil. And although \u201cThe vision of the glory of the Lord\u2019s fire is as consuming fire at the mountain top,\u201d she had a good pasture and oil with him, as it is written, \u201cOn his right was a fiery law unto them.\u201d He understood by the light of his righteousness and extended on her a thread of grace. By that extension, he extended the quality of \u201cline\u201d into holiness for fourteen days (for the quality of \u201cline\u201d is Hesed<\/em> [mercy\/grace]), due to the two above-mentioned diminutions, as in, \u201cAnd her father indeed spat in her face.\u201d Finally, he was rewarded with, \u201cAnd Ester found favor in the eyes of all who saw her,\u201d even the actual nations of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, she corrected in the Achoraim<\/em> [back\/posterior], meaning she stands from the bosom of Ahasuerus, dips, and sits in the bosom of righteous Mordechai, which is purity, as in, \u201cinterpreted as pure myrrh\u201d (This is why they explained that Mordechai is the translation of the Torah [into Aramaic]), meaning the \u201cbitter\u201d from the serpent. He cast filth in her (which is the meaning of \u201cTo most of his brothers,\u201d and not \u201cTo all his brothers\u201d), and theAleph<\/em> from \u201cHe and I cannot dwell in the world\u201d fled from the illumination in her, for a man cannot dwell in the same place with a serpent. He was rewarded and purified for her because he extended to her his champion, his acquaintance. And yet, the illumination is still written with a deficiency, meaning the Vav<\/em>, due to the diminution of the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, in return for this, he was later rewarded with \u201croyal apparel\u201d and a great crown of gold, as it is written, \u201cThe two great lights.\u201d Then, \u201cMordechai from the Torah,\u201d as it is written, \u201cfreedom myrrh,\u201d meaning freedom from the angel of death, in the actual holy language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is so because the whole purification is in the Achoraim<\/em>\u2014the translation\u2014and complete freedom is in the holy language. The forty-nine pure faces and the forty-nine impure faces are from the diminution of the moon. This is why the first correction is the emergence of the Kelim<\/em> [vessels] in purity, and the second correction is a new name, which the mouth of HaVaYaH<\/em> [the Lord] will determine, \u201cHaVaYaH<\/em> is Her name,\u201d and \u201cIn every place, offerings are presented unto My name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have elaborated thus far to give you a taste of the bitterness of a Mitzva<\/em>[commandment], should you wish, for the meaning of \u201cAnd made their lives bitter,\u201d without the two Alephs<\/em> of Tohu<\/em>. Although the filth of the serpent was only in the first light, he attributed the corruption to the upper one\u2014that the lack of the Vav<\/em> due to the diminution of the moon proved that the Aleph<\/em> was also missing there, God forbid. He dressed them as light [Ohr<\/em>] and Kli<\/em> [vessel], the oil for the illumination and the light, taking the Aleph<\/em> of \u201cillumination\u201d from the \u201cillumination\u201d and from Ohr<\/em> (for the Vav<\/em> was already missing), and the Aleph<\/em> of Ohr<\/em>, assembling them in one another. Thus, he made Maror<\/em>[bitter], meaning the angel of death, where the two Reish<\/em> became Tav<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When rewarded with \u201cfreedom myrrh,\u201d then the Creator came and slaughtered the angel of death, who becomes a holy angel once again. There aren\u2019t forty-nine and forty-nine here, the side of merit and the side of fault, which are twenty-two letters. Rather, \u201cHe is one and His name, \u2018One,\u2019\u201d for \u201cThe enemy will not deceive him, and the son of wickedness will not afflict him,\u201d \u201cThe wicked are overthrown and are gone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, first, the gods of Egypt must be imprisoned, on the tenth of the month, to be hung in the Torah, \u201cthat he cannot prefer, etc., but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated one, by giving him a double portion.\u201d This is the meaning of the preparation for the plague of the firstborn, the son of the hated one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By chaining the gods of Egypt to the legs of the bed, they drew upon them great lights in the cut off place. Yakir<\/em> [recognize] is like Yakir<\/em> [cherish], and there is no \u201cvisiting,\u201d but there is \u201cpreferring,\u201d since there is no flaw, as was said, \u201cMy darling son, Ephraim, a child of entertainment,\u201d for he \u201cfolded his hands,\u201d and put his right hand on the head of Ephraim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the meaning of \u2026 \u201ca lamb for the fathers\u2019 house,\u201d from \u201cthe hands of the Mighty One of Jacob.\u201d And on the four days of the first-fruit, it was slaughtered on the fourteenth and the mouth that forbade (which is the meaning of twice,Yakir<\/em> [recognize] and Yakir<\/em> [cherish]). It is the mouth that permitted, and in the light of \u201cThe Lord is to me, and the night will be as light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then, \u201ca lamb for a house,\u201d and \u201cIn that very day, all the hosts of the Lord will come forth,\u201d etc., \u201cI and not a messenger,\u201d etc., \u201cAnd you will dip in the blood that is on the doorstep,\u201d at the bottom of the legs of the bed. \u201cAnd you will touch the post, and the two Mezuzot<\/em>,\u201d meaning the Tikkun<\/em> [correction] that fills the above-mentioned two diminutions, which is two Mezuzot<\/em>, from the words, \u201cfrom this\u201d and \u201cthis,\u201d as in \u201cthe faith of the craftsman,\u201d and \u201cthe faith of a faithful one.\u201d The daughter that was trained is really his mother in the faithful one, as I have already interpreted for you. Then, \u201cYou will touch the post,\u201d etc., for it is literally bloods, and I have no time to elaborate, and the enlightened will understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How I long to hear from you the enunciation of redemption and the blessing of redemption, \u201cWho redeemed us,\u201d etc., for \u201cOn Nissan<\/em> [Hebrew month, spring] they were redeemed, and on Nissan<\/em> they will be redeemed.\u201d That is, the past and the present join as one because he sees his back like his face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This should not surprise you. After all, a box of pests [bad reputation] is hanging behind each one, and how can you equalize with the one before you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, this is only in the present, for eternity is present, making the future equal to the present and the past, meaning to the ones rewarded with the light of truth, clothed in only one and unified desire. Anything more than one desire, it was said about it, \u201cAny excess is deemed gone.\u201d It is in the unification of the true Dvekut<\/em> [adhesion] from the recognition of his heart that is full of the light of HaVaYaH<\/em> to the brim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even when he directs his heart to heaven, one should be very careful with the unity of the desire, to be unified in true unity, internal recognition to the extent of the Dvekut<\/em> on the height of the Lord\u2019s palace … for His hand will not be short, as it is written, \u201cIndeed, I live, and the glory of the Lord shall fill the whole earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the meaning of Israel\u2019s redemption, as in \u201cI am the Lord, I and not a messenger, nor an angel or a seraph.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n One who has many desires, the Creator has many messengers and many degrees. The Kabbalists write that there are 125 degrees even in Nefesh de<\/em>Assiya<\/em>. But one who has only one heart and one desire does not have all the calculations, all the degrees that are made by seraphim [angels] and animals, and holy ofanim [another type of angel]. Rather, \u201cAnd I was trusted by him,\u201d a child of entertainment, for a servant of the Creator who has contentment with his servitude, it is a clear sign that the Creator has contentment with his faithful servant. And conversely, it is, God forbid, to the contrary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, all we need is to aim the heart to entertain with Him, for the entertainment is for Him alone, and not to cause sadness whatsoever. Also, a wise son always looks at his father\u2019s face, whether he is happy with him, as he has one intention\u2014to delight the father, and nothing else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the meaning of \u201cNow it shall be said to Jacob and to Israel, \u2018What has God wrought?\u2019\u201d Our sages interpreted that angels and seraphim learn the knowledge of the Creator from Israel. This is the meaning of \u201c\u2018And it was very good,\u2019 this is SAM<\/em>,\u201d as he blossoms in one, but when that power for holiness is taken from him, then \u201cAnd in all your might\u201d comes true in us. This is the meaning of being rewarded with revealing Elijah from the time of the revival of the dead. He flees in four, and then that force to work and to be encouraged is established in us in one, meaning very good, which we hope for soon in our days, Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have been brief in this letter due to lack of time. But God willing, it will suffice for you to prepare yourselves and be rewarded with all the above-mentioned prior to my coming to you. Then, where there are vegetables on the table, there will be meat and fish, for after all the above-mentioned meriting you will begin to be ready to receive His light through me, as is the Creator\u2019s will in advance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although it may be a wonder in your eyes, in your minds, you should still believe me that I do not mean to boast, God forbid, for the Creator\u2019s benefit is your benefit. If you are small in your own eyes, look at your Maker, the One who made you, for a wonderful craftsman does not do low and lowly things. This false idea is the flaw from the serpent, who casts filth in her, to consider himself low and lowly and not feel that the Creator is by his side, even, and only at the bottom of his lowliness. And what I see, I shall say, perhaps the Creator will be to your liking soon in our days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yehuda Leib<\/p>\n\n\n\n I did find one correction on the first page of the preface, second column, where instead of \u201cexcept,\u201d which I wrote, it was written, \u201cbut\u201d or \u201conly.\u201d It must be from … may his candle burn, who already argued with me about this word, and then I kept silent about his argument. But now I noticed and found it interpreted in Kings 12, \u201cThere was none that followed the house of David, except for the tribe of Judah,\u201d as well as in Kings 2:24, \u201cNone remained, except for the poorest among the people.\u201d And he interpreted the Metzudat Zion<\/em> and replied to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And concerning remission of the many debts that some of you ask in letters, I ask, \u201cWhy should you not pay me my debt to write me a letter each week as I have asked you?\u201d Indeed, all debts stem from the same Mitzva<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1927, London Leader of the children of Menashe, Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur, Tav–Reish–Peh–Zayin, London, May God protect it. 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