100) \u201cAnd the eyes of Israel were dimmed with age, so that he could not see.\u201d This is Israel below. And this is the reason why we do not find such as this verse in the whole of the Torah. This is so because when Israel are in exile all the days of this ruin, we have grown old and could not see the face of the Shechina, until another spirit comes within them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
101) Prior to that, they were defiled in the land of the nations, in their exile, and did not follow the laws of the Torah as they should have. They sat among the foreigners for a long time, generation after generation, and learned from their ways, as it is written, \u201cAnd they mingled with the nations and learned their conducts.\u201d When they returned to their land, in the beginning they could not see the face of the Shechina until the Creator placed His spirit within them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
102) It is written, \u201cAnd I will put My spirit within you.\u201d And it is written, \u201cAnd [I will] cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My ordinances, and do them,\u201d since after I place My spirit and holiness within you, you will walk in my statutes and walk in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
103) \u201cIn the light of a king’s face is life, and his favor is like a cloud with the spring rain.\u201d This is so because when they accept the face of the Shechina of the Creator and engage in those Merkavot [chariots\/assemblies] from which the animals of the world come, as it is written about them in Ezekiel, that they are the carriers of the Merkava [singular of Merkavot]. Then it is written about them, \u201cIn the light of a king’s face is life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
104) You will not find in these verses\u2014from the portion, \u201cJacob Lived\u201d and thus far\u2014that they speak of the Creator. Even though they are concerned with redemption, when it writes, \u201cJacob,\u201d it refers to the upper Jacob or the upper Israel, the Creator. Why does the text speak in a language and in names of people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is so because when they return to their land and the Creator gives them the spirit of Hochma [wisdom], their language will always be about the Creator, as it is written, \u201cMy tongue also will utter Your righteousness all day long.\u201d This is so because the verses thus far speak of the coming to the land, before the Creator placed the spirit of Hochma in them. This is why they speak in names of people and the Creator\u2019s name is not mentioned explicitly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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