The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

91. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, prohibition or permission, purity or impurity, will no longer apply to Yisrael, since our sustenance will be solely from the side of the Tree of Life, where there are no contradictions stemming from the Evil Side, nor any strife nor difference stemming from the unclean spirit, as it is written: "And also I will cause...the unclean spirit to pass out of the land" (Zecharyah 13:2).

92. The Torah scholars will not need to be sustained by the ignorant, just from the good side by eating of the clean, kosher and permissible. They will not need to get it from the mixed multitudes, who eat the unclean, unfit and prohibited, and who are themselves defiled by defiling themselves with a woman during menstruation, a maidservant, a gentile woman or a prostitute. They are the children of Lilit, who is a menstruate woman, a maidservant, a gentile woman and a prostitute, and they return to their roots. About them, it is written: "For out of the serpent's root shall come forth a viper" (Yeshayah 14:29).

93. During the period that the Tree of Good and Evil dominates, that pertains to purity and impurity of worldly things, these sages - who are similar to the Shabbatot and holidays in that they have only what is given to them by the worldly PEOPLE - are like the Shabbat that has nothing except what was prepared for it during the weekdays.

94. During the time that the Tree of Life dominates, the Tree of Good and Evil is subdued. The common people will not have anything except for what the Torah scholars will hand out to them and they, COMMON PEOPLE, will become subdued under them as if they didn't exist.

95. Thus, prohibition and permission, purity and impurity will not pass away from the common people. From their aspect, there will be no apparent difference between the exile and the days of the Messiah, except for the delivery from servitude of Yisrael to the empires alone because they will not taste from the Tree of Life WHEN IT WILL BE REVEALED IN THE DAYS OF THE MESSIAH, and they will need to learn MISHNAH, about what is prohibited and permissible, what is unclean and clean. They will be shamed in front of a Torah scholar like darkness before light, since the mixed multitudes are like beasts, who are ignorant, who are darkness and were not even called Yisrael, just slaves sold to Yisrael, as was already explained.

96. Yisrael are called men. How do we know that YISRAEL are composed of both beast and man? It is written: "But you, my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men" (Yechezkel 34:31). "But you, my flock, the flock of my pasture:" These are those who are ignorant of Torah but are good and stem from the good side. "Are men" refers to the Torah scholars.

97. It is also alluded to in this verse, AS IT IS WRITTEN: "Oh that my people would hearken to me, Yisrael..." (Tehilim 81:14). After mentioning "my people," why say "Yisrael?" Because "my people" refers to common people and Yisrael alludes to the Torah scholars. For them, it is mentioned: "And the children of Yisrael went out with a high hand" (Shemot 14:8).

98. As the Holy One, blessed be He, divided them at Mount Sinai, so He will divide them at the last redemption, because it says about Yisrael: "And the children of Yisrael went up armed (Heb. chamushim) out of the land of Egypt" (Shemot 13:18). CHAMUSHIM MEANING from the side of the Tree of Life, THAT IS ZEIR ANPIN, which are the fifty (Heb. chamishim) years of Jubilee, WHICH IS BINAH, SINCE ZEIR ANPIN RECEIVES THEM FROM BINAH. About them, it says, "They shall come up to the mountain" (Shemot 19:13) and: "And the angel of Elohim, who went before the camp of Yisrael, removed" (Shemot 14:19). And to them, it says: "I bore you on eagles' wings" (Shemot 19:4), which refers to the clouds of glory, "and brought you to myself" (Ibid.) AND ALSO "and the children of Yisrael went out with a high hand." So he will bring out the Torah scholars with all that honor.

99. It is mentioned by those who are ignorant of Torah yet are of the good side: "And they stood at the foot of the mountain" (Ibid. 17). So will they be at the last redemption, under Torah scholars, like a slave that follows along the horse's footsteps of his lord. Just as it was called out to them at the foot of the mountain: 'If you accept the Torah, well, but if not, there will be your burial place,' so he will tell them at the last redemption, 'If you will accept upon yourselves a Torah scholar during the redemption from the exile like a horse rider with his attendant servant, it is best, but if not, there in exile shall be your burial.'