{"id":9960,"date":"2025-11-27T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=9960"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:30:44","slug":"behold-your-father-is-ill","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/behold-your-father-is-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold, Your Father Is Ill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>36) \u201cAnd it came to pass after these things, that Joseph was told, \u2018Behold, your father is ill.\u2019\u201d The text does not come to tell us what Joseph did, but what was to happen at the end of the exile, that all those will be at the end of the count that was counted, the end of the six thousand years. The words, \u201cJoseph was told, \u2018Behold, your father is ill,\u2019\u201d wish to say that a Messiah, Joseph, will come and he will be told, \u201cYour father in heaven is rushing to see your face, who is overlooking the end of the Messiah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYour father is ill\u201d means that he is concerned and in a hurry.\u201d And the words, \u201cAnd he took with him his two sons, Menasheh and Ephraim,\u201d wish to say, \u201cMay it please God in heaven to welcome His sons, who have been fruitful and multiplied in the exile,\u201d hence the name Ephraim [Ephraim contains the word Parim (multiplying)], \u201cAnd whose iniquities have been forgotten by the exile,\u201d which is why they are called Menasheh, which means forgetting [Menasheh comes from Neshia (oblivion)], since the Creator forgot their iniquities against the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>37) As the verse \u201cThe Lord will add to me another son\u201d interprets the Holy Name in Joseph, the three letter name YaHU [Yod-Hey-Vav]. In the same way, it is written, \u201cJoseph was told, \u2018Behold, your father,\u2019\u201d belonging to the next world, ZA in Mochin of upper Bina, who is called \u201cthe next world,\u201d wanting to do good to His sons so they will come out from their exile. And if, in Your truthfulness, you will not want, meaning you will not find them worthy of it, then the Name with four, \u201cHaVaYaH is one\u201d [\u201cThe Lord is one\u201d] will correct you and the Shechina will return to her place. This is so because if the sons are not worthy of redemption of their own, ZA will correct them for elevating them to the next world, which is Bina, and by that, the unification of One HaVaYaH will be established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>38) The patriarchs are the upper Merkava [chariot\/structure] of the Holy Name, as it is written, \u201cAnd God went up from Abraham,\u201d meaning He was riding it. It is also written, \u201cYou will give truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham.\u201d This means that Jacob is a Merkava for Tifferet, who is called \u201ctruth,\u201d and Abraham is a Merkava for Hesed [mercy]. 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