{"id":9972,"date":"2025-11-27T16:54:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=9972"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:54:53","slug":"jacob-lived","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/jacob-lived\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Lived"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>105) \u201cYour people are all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever.\u201d Happy are Israel more than all the idol-worshipping nations because the Creator called them \u201crighteous,\u201d to bequeath them everlasting inheritance in the next world and to delight in that world. It is written about it, \u201cThen shall you delight in the Lord,\u201d since Israel adhere to the body of the King, to the middle line, as it is written, \u201cAnd you who cleave unto the Lord your God are alive everyone of you this day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>106) \u201cYour people are all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever.\u201d This verse has a sublime meaning among the harvesters of the field, those who have been rewarded with receiving fruits from their work in the upper filed, the Nukva. There is no one to inherit the lot of the upper inheritance of that land, the Nukva, other than the one who is called \u201crighteous,\u201d since the Nukva clings to him to be sweetend from the bitter judgments in her. This is why the righteous inherits the Shechina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>107) With the love of the Creator for Israel, He said, \u201cAnd your people are all righteous.\u201d For this reason, \u201cThey shall inherit the land forever,\u201d since they are worthy of inheriting the Shechina because a righteous inherits the Shechina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel are called \u201crighteous\u201d and inherit the Shechina because they were circumcised. This is so because anyone who is circumcised and enters this lot, the Shechina, keeps this covenant, enters, and clings to the body of the king. In other words, he becomes a Merkava for ZA and enters this righteous, who became a Merkava for the Yesod. For this reason, Israel are called \u201crighteous.\u201d Hence, \u201cThey shall inherit the land forever,\u201d the land of the living, the Shechina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>108) \u201cThe branch of My planting, the work of My hands, wherein I am glorified.\u201d \u201cThe branch of My planting\u201d is a branch of those branches that the Creator planted when He created the world. It is written about it, \u201cAnd the Lord God planted a garden in the east.\u201d This land is one of those plantings, the Nukva. This is why it is written, \u201cThe branch of My planting, the work of My hands, wherein I am glorified.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>109) \u201cYour people are all righteous\u201d is Jacob and his sons, who descended to Egypt among a stiff-necked people, and they were all found to be righteous. This is why it is written about them, \u201cThey shall inherit the land forever,\u201d since from there, from Egypt, they rose to inherit the holy land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>110) \u201cAnd Jacob lived in the land of Egypt.\u201d Why is this portion closed, since there is no space at all in the book of Torah between the end of the portion VaYigash [Judah Approached] and the beginning of the portion VaYechi [Jacob Lived]? When Jacob died, the eyes of Israel were closed because then, after Jacob\u2019s death, they descended into exile and the Egyptians enslaved them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>111) \u201cAnd Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they took hold of it, and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly,\u201d since they had kings\u2019 delights there. Afterwards it is written, \u201cAnd Jacob lived,\u201d in one succession, without any space between them, indicating that they were in kings\u2019 delights and received pleasures and delights for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>112) In Egypt, this is called \u201cLived,\u201d since it is considered for him as life. After all, throughout his life he was not called \u201cLived,\u201d since all his life was in sorrow and in affliction, as it is written, \u201cI was not at ease\u201d in the house of Laban, \u201cAnd I was not quiet\u201d from Esau, \u201cAnd I did not rest\u201d from Dinah and Shechem, \u201cAnd vexation came,\u201d the vexation over the selling of Joseph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And after he descended to Egypt, he was called \u201cLived.\u201d He saw his son as king, he saw all his sons pure and righteous, all are delighted and with everlasting dainties, and he is sitting among them as a good wine that is resting on its yeast. And then he is called \u201cAnd Jacob lived.\u201d This is the reason why he does not separate, not leaving a gap between the verse, \u201cWere fruitful and multiplied exceedingly,\u201d and the verse, \u201cJacob Lived,\u201d for so it should be, as they are one succession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>113) What is the reason that it is written, \u201cAnd Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years\u201d? All of Jacob\u2019s days were in grief. When he saw Joseph and stood before him, meaning when Jacob looked at Joseph, his soul was made whole as if he saw Joseph\u2019s mother, since Joseph\u2019s beauty was similar to the beauty of Rachel, and it seemed to him as though he had never known sorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>114) When Joseph parted from him, the words, \u201cI was not at ease, and I was not quiet, and I had no rest; and vexation came,\u201d came true because this trouble was harder for Jacob than anything he had ever experienced. And when Joseph parted from him, it is written, \u201cJoseph was seventeen years old.\u201d And in all of Jacob\u2019s days he had not known such grief, and he was crying each day for those seventeen years of Joseph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>115) He was answered from above, \u201cAnd Joseph shall put his hand on your eyes.\u201d Here you have seventeen other years\u2014in pleasures, dainties, joys, and delights, as it is written, \u201cAnd Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years.\u201d All those years, the Shechina of the glory of the Creator was with Him, and for this reason, those years in Egypt are called \u201clife.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>116) \u201cAnd the spirit of Jacob their father revived.\u201d This means that in the beginning, his spirit was dead. He also did not intend to continue and receive another spirit, since the upper spirit is not present in an empty place. The Shechina is present only in a whole place, and not in a deficient place or a flawed place or a place of sadness, but in a proper place\u2014a place of joy. For this reason, all those years when Joseph was separated from his father and Jacob was sad, the Shechina was not on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>117) It is written, \u201cServe the Lord with gladness; come before Him with singing.\u201d There is no service of the Creator unless out of joy. The Shechina is not present in sadness, as it is written, \u201c\u2018And now bring me a player.\u2019 And it came to pass that when the player played.\u201d It writes \u201cPlay\u201d three times, to awaken the spirit from the source of wholeness, ZA, which includes three lines, which is the complete spirit. The threefold \u201cplay\u201d corresponds to his three lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>118) Everything is present from the four directions, which are the three lines in ZA\u2014south, north, east, and the Shechina, who receives the three lines, which are the West direction. The three worlds BYA and everything in them come out of them, and all the roots in the upper and lower worlds cling to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The right line, south, enters and illuminates. The left line, north, comes out and does not illuminate, for it does not illuminate without the right line. It blocks the middle line, the east, which illuminates only in covered Hassadim prior to its coupling with the Nukva. The west, Nukva, illuminates in disclosed Hassadim during the coupling with ZA. Each of the directions unite with each other, mingle with each other, and then they are the fathers of everything, for the whole of reality, BYA, is extended and is born out of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>119) \u201cOnly your fathers did the Lord desire.\u201d \u201cYour fathers,\u201d actually three\u2014Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It writes, \u201cOnly,\u201d really only, that there are no more than these three, and from them all the others branch out and grip, meaning all the degrees in BYA. 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