Acharei Mot: Chapter 54

"He shall mightily roar because of His habitation"

Synopsis

Rabbi Shimon reveals the secret that when the lower Hei is withheld from receiving blessings, the upper Hei withholds blessings from every level. This happens when Zeir Anpin and Nukva are separated, and the source of the spring of blessings stops. Therefore from the day that the Temple was destroyed there has not been a day without curses or a day when blessings are found in the world. When people do not repent, the day eventually comes that the rulers of other nations are given permission to rule over Yisrael, and the upper Hei pours its blessings to the Other Side.

Blessing Chambers Ezekiel Female Male Nukva Tetragrammaton Yud Hei Vav Hei (YHVH) Zeir Anpin

328. Rabbi Shimon clasped his hands and wept. He cried: Woe if I do speak and reveal the secret, woe if I do not and the friends lose THIS matter. Ah Hashem Elohim! Will You make a full end of the remnant of Yisrael?" (Yechezkel 11:13). What is meant by "Ah" and what is meant by "Will You make a full end?" HE ANSWERS: The secret of the matter is, that when the lower Hei OF YUD HEI VAV HEI, WHICH IS MALCHUT, is expelled from the chamber of the King, the other upper Hei OF YUD HEI VAV HEI, DENOTING BINAH, withholds the blessings for its sake. Then is written, "Ah (Aleph Hei Hei)...Will You make a full end," BECAUSE THE IMPAIRMENT REACHES BOTH HEIS OF YUD HEI VAV HEI, BINAH AND MALCHUT, because when THE LOWER HEI IS WITHHELD from receiving blessings, the other UPPER Hei withholds BLESSINGS from all, NOT SPREADING EVEN TO ZEIR ANPIN. What is the reason? It is because blessings are to be found only where there are Male and a Female, AND SINCE MALCHUT IS EXPELLED FROM ZEIR ANPIN, THERE ARE NO BLESSINGS IN ZEIR ANPIN BECAUSE OF HIS BEING WITHOUT THE FEMALE.

328. ר"ש אָקִישׁ יְדוֹי וּבָכָה, וְאָמַר וַוי אִי אֵימָא וְגַלֵינָא רָזָא, וַוי אִי לָא אֵימָא, דְּיֵיבְדוּן חַבְרַיָּיא מִלָּה. אֲהָהּ יְיָ' אֱלֹהִים כָּלָה אַתָּה עוֹשֶׂה אֵת שְׁאֵרִית יִשְׂרָאֵל. מַאי אֲהָהּ. וּמַאי כָּלָה אַתָּה עוֹשֶׂה. אֶלָּא רָזָא דְּמִלָּה, בְּזִמְנָא דְּה' תַּתָּאָה אִתְתְּרָכַת מֵהֵיכָלָא דְּמַלְכָּא, ה' אָחֳרָא עִלָּאָה בְּגִינָהּ מַנְעַת בִּרְכָתָא. וּכְדֵין כְּתִיב, אֲהָהּ כָּלָה אַתָּה עוֹשֶׂה. בְּגִין דְּכַד אִיהִי אִתְמְנָעַת מִבִּרְכָאן, ה' אָחֳרָא מַנְעַת לוֹן מִכֺּלָּא. מַאי טַעֲמָא. בְּגִין דְּבִרְכָּאן לָא מִשְׁתַּכְּחֵי, אֶלָּא בַּאֲתַר דְּשַׁרְיָין דְּכַר וְנוּקְבָּא.

Blessing Directions Flow Heaven Heavens Jeremiah Lights Nakedness Sin Zeir Anpin

329. So it is written, "Hashem shall roar from on high, and utter His voice from His holy habitation; He shall mightily roar because of His habitation" (Yirmeyah 25:30), because of His actual habitation, namely the Queen, WHO IS GONE. It is surely so THAT HE ROARS. What does He say? THUS: woe that I have demolished My house. "My house" MEANS the union with the Queen. This is surely the meaning of, "The nakedness of your father, or the nakedness of your mother, shall you not uncover." From all directions there is nakedness, NAMELY BLEMISH. FOR WHEN MALCHUT, YOUR MOTHER, PARTED DUE TO THE SIN OF THE LOWER BEINGS, THEN THE LIGHTS DEPARTED FROM ZEIR ANPIN AS WELL. THUS, ZEIR ANPIN, YOUR FATHER, WAS DAMAGED. Then "I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering" (Yeshayah 50:3), MEANING ZEIR ANPIN REFERRED TO AS HEAVEN, as the place of the reception of blessings of the springs' sources, WHICH ARE IN BINAH which were flowing and watering ZEIR ANPIN properly, withdrew AND STOPPED.

329. וְעַל דָּא כְּתִיב, יְיָ' מִמָּרוֹם יִשְׁאָג וּמִמְּעוֹן קָדְשׁוֹ יִתֵּן קוֹלוֹ שָׁאֺג יִשְׁאַג עַל נָוֵהוּ עַל נָוֵהוּ מַמָּשׁ. דָּא מַטְרוֹנִיתָא, וְדָא הוּא וַדַּאי. וּמַאי אוֹמֵר. אוֹי שֶׁהֱחֶרַבְתִּי אֶת בֵּיתִי וְכוּ.' בֵּיתִי זִוּוּגָא דְּמַטְרוֹנִיתָא. וְדָא הוּא וַדַּאי, עֶרְוַת אָבִיךָ וְעֶרְוַת אִמְּךָ לֹא תְגַלֵּה. דְּהָא מִכָּל סִטְרִין עֶרְיָיתָא הוּא. וּכְדֵין, לָבְשׁוּ שָׁמַיִם קַדְרוּת וְשַׂק הוּשַׂם כְּסוּתָם דְּהָא אֲתַר אַחֲסָנַת בִּרְכָאן דְּמַבּוּעִין דְּנַחֲלִין דַּהֲווֹ נְגִּידִין וְשַׁקְיָין כַּדְקָא חֲזוּ, אִתְמְנָעוּ.

Blessing Head Zeir Anpin

330. We have learned that when the King parted from the Queen and there were no blessings, ZEIR ANPIN is called 'woe (Vav Yud),' MEANING WOE IS TO ME. Why IS IT CALLED "woe?" IT IS as we learned that the head of Yesod is the Yud, as Yesod ITSELF is a small Vav, and the Holy one blessed be He, MEANING ZEIR ANPIN, is a large higher Vav. Therefore, Vav is fully spelled with two Vav's together, POINTING TO ZEIR ANPIN AND YESOD. The top of this Yesod is Yud. When the Queen is separated from the King and the blessings are withheld from the King, DENOTING ZEIR ANPIN, and there is no coupling at the head of Yesod, THEN the upper Vav, NAMELY ZEIR ANPIN, takes the head of Yesod, namely Yud, and draws it to itself. Then THE COMBINATION becomes Vai (woe), MEANING "woe" to all, the upper and the lower; SINCE THE LOWER BEINGS DO NOT RECEIVE, THE UPPER DO NOT RECEIVE SO AS TO POUR UPON THEM, AS MENTIONED.

330. תָּנֵינָן, כַּד אִתְפְּרַשׁ מַלְכָּא מִמַּטְרוֹנִיתָא, וּבִרְכָּאן לָא מִשְׁתַּכְּחָן, כְּדֵין אִקְרֵי ו"י. מ"ט ו"י. דְּתַנְיָא, רֵישָׁא דִּיְּסוֹד י,' דְּהָא יְסוֹד ו' זְעֵירָא הוּא, וְקוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא ו' רַבְרְבָא עִלָּאָה. וְעַ"ד כְּתִיב וָ"ו תְּרֵין וָוִין כַּחֲדָא, וְרֵישָׁא דְּהַאי יְסוֹד י' הוּא. וְכַד אִתְרַחֲקַת מַטְרוֹנִיתָא מִמַּלְכָּא, וּבִרְכָּאן אִתְמְנָעוּ מִמַּלְכָּא, וְזִוּוּגָא לָא אִשְׁתְּכַח בְּרֵישָׁא דִּיְּסוֹד, נָטִיל ו' עִלָּאָה לְהַאי רֵישָׁא דִּיְּסוֹד דְּהוּא י,' וְנָגִיד לֵיהּ לְגַבֵּיהּ, כְּדֵין הוּא ו"י, ו"י לְכֺלָּא, לְעִלָּאִין וְתַתָּאִין.

Blessing Curse Temple, The

331. Therefore, we learned that, from the day that the Temple was destroyed, blessings are not to be found in the world, and there is not a day in which there are no curses, as the blessings THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO COME daily are withheld, AND INSTEAD BECOME CURSES. He replied, if so, If it was it is written: Oy or Hoy, AND NOT VAI what is THEIR EXPLANATION?

331. וְעַ"ד תָּנֵינָן, מִיּוֹמָא דְּאִתְחֲרִיב יְרוּשָׁלַםִ, בִּרְכָאן לָא אִשְׁתְּכָחוּ בְּעָלְמָא, וְלֵית לָךְ יוֹם דְּלָא אִשְׁתְּכַח בֵּיהּ לְוָוטִין, דְּהָא בִּרְכָאן אִתְמְנָעוּ בְּכָל יוֹם. אָמַר לֵיהּ, אוֹ הָכִי, אוֹ"י אוֹ הוֹ"י, מַהוּ.

Eheyeh Head Hebrew Letters Keter Prayer Repentance Tetragrammaton Yud Hei Vav Hei (YHVH) Zeir Anpin

332. He said to him: When things depend upon repentance and people do not repent, the sublime Hei OF YUD HEI VAV HEI, BEING BINAH, takes and attracts the Vav and the Yud to itself, as they are not repenting. It then BECOMES A COMBINATION OF HEI-VAV-YUD called Hoy, MEANING Hoy (lit. 'ah'), when the King, ZEIR ANPIN, departs higher and higher TO BINAH. People cry but no one pays attention. SOMETIMES, that supernal concealed NAME, EHEYEH, DENOTING KETER, raises the Vav, ZEIR ANPIN, and the Yud, BEING THE HEAD OF YESOD, to itself, because one's prayer is not accepted, AND IT BECOMES THE COMBINATION OY (ALEPH VAV YUD). Then it is called Oy, as the Aleph THAT IS EHEYEH brings up to it the Vav and the Yud. Then repentance is not available, so the Hei departs from these letters, as it is no longer dependent on repentance, WHICH IS THE SECRET OF BINAH CALLED HEI.

332. אָמַר לֵיהּ, כַּד מִלָּה תַּלְיָא בִּתְשׁוּבָה, וְלָא תַּיְיבִין, כְּדֵין ה' עִלָּאָה נָטִיל לוֹן, וְאַנְגִיד לְוָאו וְי,' לְגַבָּהּ, בְּגִין דְּלָא תַּיְיבִין, כְּדֵין אִקְרֵי הוֹי. הוֹי כַּד אִסְתַּלָּק מַלְכָּא לְעֵילָּא לְעֵילָּא, וְצַוְוחִין בְּנֵי נָשָׁא וְלָא אַשְׁגַּח בְּהוּ. וְהַהוּא עִלָּאָה אֶהְיֶה טְמִירָא, סָלִיק לְו,' וְי' לְגַבֵּיהּ, בְּגִין דְּלָא אִתְקְבִּיל צְלוֹתֵיהּ, כְּדֵין אִקְרֵי אוֹי, דְּהָא א' סָלִיק לְגַבֵּיהּ דְּו' וְי.' וּכְדֵין תְּשׁוּבָה לָא אִשְׁתְּכַח. וְעַ"ד אִסְתַּלָּק מֵאִלֵּין אַתְוָון ה,' דְּהָא בִּתְשׁוּבָה לָא תַּלְיָיא.

Jeremiah Keter Repentance Sin Temple, The

333. Surely this is when sins in the world multiply excessively. At first, repentance was available but they did not want TO REPENT, then the Hei takes off, BEING BINAH, THE SECRET OF REPENTANCE and the Aleph, BEING KETER, raises the Vav Yud to it, so it is now called Oy. When the Temple was destroyed and repentance was gone, then they cried and said, "Woe (Oy) to us! For the day declines" (Yirmeyah 6:4). What is meant by "For the day declines?" It refers to the supernal day, MEANING BINAH called repentance, which departed and is not available. This is that specific day that extends its right hand to welcome evildoers. It has departed from all and is not available. Therefore, they say Oy instead of Hoy "for the shadows of the evening are lengthened" (Ibid.), MEANING PERMISSION has been granted to the rulers over other nations to rule over YISRAEL.

333. וַדַּאי כַּד אַסְגִּיאוּ חוֹבֵי עָלְמָא טְפֵי, וּתְשׁוּבָה הֲוָה תַּלְיָא בְּקַדְמֵיתָא, וְלָא בָּעוּ, כְּדֵין אִסְתַּלָּק ה,' וא' סָלִיק לְו' יוֹ"ד לְגַבֵּיהּ, וְאִקְרֵי אוֹי. וְכַד חָרִיב בֵּי מַקְדְּשָׁא, וּתְשׁוּבָה אִסְתָּלָקַת, כְּדֵין צָוְוחוּ וְאָמְרוּ, אוֹי לָנוּ כִּי פָנָה הַיּוֹם. מַאי כִּי פָנָה הַיּוֹם. דָּא הוּא יוֹמָא עִלָּאָה, דְּאִקְרֵי תְּשׁוּבָה, דְּאִסְתַּלָּק וְאִתְעֲבָר, וְלָא שְׁכִיחַ. הַהוּא יוֹמָא דְּאִשְׁתְּמוֹדַע, לְפַשְׁטָא יְמִינָא לְקַבְּלָא חַיָּיבִין, וְהָא אִתְפְּנֵי מִכֺּלָּא, וְלָא אִשְׁתְּכַח, וְעַל דָּא אָמְרוּ אוֹי, וְלָא הוֹי. כִּי יִנָּטוּ צִלְלֵי עָרֶב, דְּהָא אִתְיְיהִיב רְשׁוּ לְרַבְרְבֵי מְמָנָן דִּשְׁאָר עַמִּין, לְמִשְׁלַט עָלַיְיהוּ.

Adonai Blessing Chambers Darkness Fire Flow Heavens Keter Sanctuary Streams Temple, The Zeir Anpin

334. We have learned that the Vav, DENOTING ZEIR ANPIN, ascended high up TO KETER, BEING THE SECRET OF ALEPH, AS MENTIONED. The sanctuary was consumed, the people exiled, the Queen expelled, and the Temple was in ruins. Later, as the Vav returned to its position, it took notice of the Temple and found it in ruins. It sought the Queen , but she moved far away. It saw its sanctuary, but it was consumed by fire, and it looked for the people but they were exiled. It saw the blessings of the deep streams FROM BINAH that were flowing, but now ceased. Then it is written, "And on that day did Adonai Elohim Tzevaot call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth" (Yeshayah 22:12). Then, "I clothe the heavens, ZEIR ANPIN, with blackness."

334. תָּאנָא, סָלִיק ו' לְעֵילָּא לְעֵילָּא, וְהֵיכָלָא אִתּוֹקַד, וְעַמָּא אִתְגְּלֵי, וּמַטְרוֹנִיתָא אִתְתְּרָכַת, וּבֵיתָא אִתְחֲרָבַת. לְבָתַר כַּד נָחִית וו' לְאַתְרֵיהּ, אַשְׁגַּח בְּבֵיתֵיהּ וְהָא אִתְחֲרִיב, בָּעֵי לְמַטְרוֹנִיתָא, וְהָא אִתְרַחֲקַת וְאַזְלַת. חָמָא לְהֵיכָלֵיהּ, וְהָא אִתּוֹקַד. בָּעָא לְעַמָּא, וְהָא אִתְגְּלֵי. חָמָא לְבִרְכָּאן דְּנַחֲלִין עֲמִיקִין דַּהֲווֹ נַגְדִּין, וְהָא אִתְמְנָעוּ. כְּדֵין כְּתִיב, וַיִּקְרָא יְיָ' אֱלֹהִים צְבָאוֹת בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא לִבְכִי וּלְמִסְפֵּד וּלְקָרְחָה וְלַחֲגוֹר שָׂק. וּכְדֵין לָבְשׁוּ שָׁמַיִם קַדְרוּת.

Blessing Head Jeremiah Other Side Tetragrammaton Yud Hei Vav Hei (YHVH) Zeir Anpin

335. Then the Vav and Yud draw one towards the other. THE YUD, BEING THE HEAD OF YESOD, IS DRAWN TO THE VAV, ZEIR ANPIN, AND SEPARATES FROM MALCHUT. The upper Hei OF YUD HEI VAV HEI, BEING BINAH, pours its sources to the Other Side, and no blessings abound, because no Male and Female are present, ZEIR ANPIN AND MALCHUT, and they do not dwell together. Then "He shall mightily roar because of His habitation" (Yirmeyah 25:30), MALCHUT. Rabbi Shimon wept and Rabbi Elazar wept. Rabbi Elazar said: There is a lament placed in my heart on one side and a joy in my heart on the other, as I have heard words that I never heard until now. How blessed is my lot.

335. כְּדֵין ו' י' אִתְנְגִיד חַד לָקֳבֵיל חַד. וְה' עִלָּאָה, נָגִיד מַבּוּעֵי לְסִטְרָא אָחֳרָא, וּבִרְכָּאן לָא מִשְׁתַּכְּחָן. דְּהָא דְּכַר וְנוּקְבָּא לָא אִשְׁתְּכָחוּ, וְלָא שַׁרְיָין כַּחֲדָא. כְּדֵין שָׁאֺג יִשְׁאַג עַל נָוֵהוּ. בָּכָה ר"ש, וּבָכָה ר' אֶלְעָזָר, אָמַר ר' אֶלְעָזָר, בְּכִיָיה תְּקִיעָא בְּלִבָּאִי מִסִּטְרָא חֲדָא, וְחֶדְוָותָא בְּלִבָּאִי מִסִּטְרָא אָחֳרָא. דְּהָא שְׁמַעְנָא מִלִּין, דְּלָא שְׁמַעְנָא עַד הַשְׁתָּא, זַכָּאָה חוּלָקִי.

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