Shmini Atzeret

Synopsis

Rabbi Shimon explains about the small banquet on the eighth day that he says is from the aspect of Malchut. He answers his son's query as to why the banquet for Yisrael was from the lower Shechinah but the banquet for all seventy nations was from the upper Mother, Binah.

Bullocks Crowns Mishnah Samuel Shechinah Shmini Atzeret Torah

832. "On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly...one bullock, one ram" (Bemidbar 29:35-36). The sages of the Mishnah have already taught that the matter is to be likened to the case of a king who invites guests to his house, and after he has sent them on their way, says to the members of his household: Let us, you and I, make a small banquet. And what is the meaning of "solemn assembly" (Heb. atzeret)? It is as is written: "this one shall reign (Heb. ya'atzor) over My people" (I Shmuel 9:17). And there is no reign apart from Malchut. FOR from the aspect of upper Shechinah, WHICH IS BINAH, he made the large banquet, but he made the small banquet from the aspect of Malchut. And Yisrael make joy with her, and she is called 'Simchat Torah', (lit. 'the Rejoicing of the Torah') (holiday on which we dance with the Torah). And the scrolls of the Torah have their crowns placed on them, alluding to the fact that the scroll of the Torah is Tiferet, while the Shechinah is ITS CROWN, NAMELY, the crown of Tiferet.

832. וּבַיּוֹם הַשְּׁמִינִי עֲצֶרֶת פַּר אֶחָד אַיִל אֶחָד, הָא אוּקְמוּהָ מָארֵי מַתְנִיתִין, לְמַלְכָּא דְּזַמִּין אוּשְׁפִּיזִין, לְבָתַר דְּשָׁלַח לוֹן, אָמַר לְאִלֵּין בְּנֵי בֵּיתָא דִּילֵיהּ, אֲנָא וְאַתּוּן נַּעְבִיד סְעוּדָה קְטַנָּה. וּמַאי עֲצֶרֶת. כמד"א, זֶה יַעְצוֹר בְּעַמִּי, וְלֵית עֶצֶר אֶלָּא מַלְכוּת. מִסִּטְרָא דִּשְׁכִינְתָּא עִלָּאָה, עָבֵיד סְעוּדָתָא רַבְרְבָא, וּמִסִּטְרָא דְּמַלְכוּתָא, סְעוּדָתָא זְעֵירָא. וְנוֹהֲגִין לְמֶעְבַּד יִשְׂרָאֵל עִמָּהּ חֶדְוָה, וְאִתְקְרִיאַת שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה. וּמְעַטְּרָן לס"ת בְּכֶתֶר דִּילֵיהּ, רֶמֶז ס"ת לְתִפְאֶרֶת, שְׁכִינְתָּא עֲטֶרֶת תִּפְאֶרֶת.

Aba and Ima Bullocks Seventy Shechinah

Daughter Seventy Table

834. He replied: My son, that is a good question that you have asked, and the answer is: Because Malchut alludes to a daughter who is modest in the house of her father and mother, and she is engaged but not married, THEREFORE, it is not customarily considered proper that she should eat with the guests. But as for the mother, who is married, HERE it is the customary way that when her husband invites guests, she should eat WITH THE GUESTS, at the table with her husband. And if they are foreign guests, then no one eats with them, neither father nor mother, and certainly not the daughter, WHO IS MALCHUT. And this is the reason why at the banquet for the seventy ministers not one of the members of the King's household joins in to eat with them, because they are foreigners. He said: Surely the matter has now been settled in my thoughts correctly.

834. אָמַר לֵיהּ בְּרִי, שַׁפִּיר שְׁאִילַת. בְּגִין דְּמַלְכוּת אִיהִי רְמִיזָא לִבְרַתָּא, דְּאִיהִי צְנוּעָה בְּבֵית אָבִיהָ וְאִמָּהּ. וְאִיהִי אֲרוּסָה וְלָא נְשׂוּאָה. לָאו אוֹרַח אַרְעָא, לְמֵיכַל עִם אוֹשְׁפִּיזִין. אֲבָל אִימָּא דְּהִיא נְשׂוּאָה, אוֹרַח אַרְעָא אִיהוּ בָּתַר דִּמְזַמִּין בַּעְלָהּ אוֹשְׁפִּיזֵי, לְמֵיכַל עַל פָּתוֹרָא עִם בַּעְלָהּ. וְאִי אִינּוּן אוּשְׁפִּיזִין נֻכְרָאִין, לָא אַכְלֵי עִמְּהוֹן, לָא אַבָּא, וְלָא אִמָּא, וְכָל שֶׁכֵּן בְּרַתָּא. וּבְגִין כַּךְ בִּסְעוּדָתָא דְּשַׁבְעִין מְמָנָן, לָא אִשְׁתְּתַּף לְמֵיכַל עִמְּהוֹן, חַד מִן מָארֵי מַלְכָּא, בְּגִין דְּאִינּוּן נוּכְרָאִין. אָמַר לֵיהּ וַדַּאי כְּעַן אִתְיַישְּׁבַת מִלָּה בְּלִבָּאִי, עַל בּוּרְיֵיהּ.