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41) Oh how should people regard the work of the Creator, how they should regard the words of Torah. Anyone who engages in Torah seemingly sacrifices all the sacrifices before the Creator. Moreover, the Creator atones for all his iniquities and several thrones are established for him in the next world.
55) The Creator praises in the Torah and says, “Go in My way and engage in My work, and I will bring you to good worlds, to upper worlds.”
62) Those who are faithful rejoice in words, and the words are blessed within them. They observe that they are one root and one core, and there is no separation in them. Those who are not faithful and do not study the Torah Lishma [for her sake], make the faith, Malchut, separated from ZA, since they blemish the Zivug of ZA and Malchut, who are the written Torah and the oral Torah because they do not believe that they are one core and one root.
67) “If the Lord desires us ... then He will ... give it to us.” This is what the faithful ones say.
When one exerts for the Creator with the desire of the heart, he will be rewarded with her because all He wants of him is the heart. He will be kept by the holy impression, which is the holy covenant.
We must not rebel against the Torah because the Torah does not require wealth or vessels of silver and gold. If a broken body engages in the Torah, it will find healing for everything, as it is written, “It shall be healing to your navel and marrow to your bones.” It is written, “And health to all their flesh.” All the slanderers over a person turn into his helpers and declare, “Make way for so and so, the King’s servant!” That is, let no one stop him from coming to the King to serve Him.
68) Happy are those who engage in Torah Lishma [for her sake] because they truly connect to the Creator. They are called “brothers and friends,” as it is written, “For the sake of my brothers and friends I will now say, ‘Peace be within you.’”
83) Israel are happier than all the nations in the world for the Creator wanted them, called His name by them, and was glorified in them, for the world was created only for Israel, so they may engage in Torah. It is so because one connects to one, ZA and Malchut, and Israel below, in this world, are His existence, where by their good deeds they raise MAN for their Zivug, and they are the existence of all the other nations, who exist for Israel, who do their Master’s will.
84-85) When the Creator created the man in the world, He established him such as above, and placed his power and might in the midst of his body, where there is the heart, the strength of the whole body and from which the whole body is nourished. The heart grips and strengthens in a high place above, in the brain that is in the head above, and one connects to the other.
In this manner, the Creator established the world. He made it one body, and established the organs of the body around the heart, and the heart is inside of the whole body, and all the organs are nourished by the heart, who is the strength of all and on whom everything depends. And the heart connects and unites with the upper brain that is above.
183) “A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; with her love be you ravished always.”
Torah, Torah, the light of all the worlds, several seas and streams, origins, and springs spread out from you to all sides. From you is everything; on you stand the upper and the lower; the upper light comes forth from you. Torah, Torah, what shall I tell you, a lovely hind you are, and a graceful doe. Above and below are your lovers, who will be rewarded with nursing from you properly? Torah, Torah, the enjoyments of your Master, who can reveal and tell your secrets and concealments?
202-203) If you were not Rabbi Shimon, it would not be conveyed to be revealed.
The Zivug in that world bears fruit more than a Zivug that is done in this world. With their Zivug, the Zivug of that world, with their passion as one, when the souls cling to one another, they bear fruit and lights come out of them and become candles, and these are the souls for the proselytes who convert. All those souls that are born out of these Zivugim [couplings] enter the same hall.
When one proselyte converts, a soul flies out of that palace and enters under the wings of Divinity, and Divinity kisses her because she is an offshoot of the souls of the righteous, and sends her into that proselyte, and she stays within him. From that time, he is called “a proselyte of Tzedek [justice].” That is, the meaning of what is written, “The fruit of a righteous is a tree of life,” who is ZA, elicits souls. This is also the fruit of the righteous—he makes souls.
210) Happy is he who lowers himself in this world, how high he is in that world. One who is small is great, and one who is great is small. The Creator increases only one who lowers himself, and the Creator lowers only one who increases himself. Happy is he who lowers himself in this world, how great he is in ascension in that world.
303) There is no GAR except through illumination of Hochma on the left, and only by inclusion of the right together with the left—when Hochma clothes in Hassadim and illuminate the GAR, and all the reward and all the good in the future is only in the illumination of the GAR. However, through the sins of the lower ones, the left overcomes the right and wishes to govern alone. Then a dispute is made between the right and the left, and the right line removes his Hassadim from the left line. At that time the left is quenched because Hochma cannot illuminate without Hassadim, and the harsh Dinim in it appear. Likewise, the right remains in VAK without GAR for there is GAR only from the illumination of Hochma in the left. This is why the Temple was ruined and Israel were exiled among the nations.
It was said about the verse, “I the Lord, in its time I will hasten it,” if they are rewarded, “I will hasten it”; if they are not rewarded, “In its time.” How can Israel be redeemed if they have not even been rewarded and are still rebellious? The thing is that the exile was because through their sins, they caused the left to overcome the right and rule by itself, for then the right removes the Hassadim from it. Hence, when Israel repent and cling to the Creator, who is the middle line, the middle line returns and unites the right with the left, sustains the lights of both of them, the Hochma clothes in Hassadim, and the GAR appear, meaning that Israel are redeemed with their illumination and receive all of their good reward. It was said, “If they are rewarded, I will hasten it,” and on that there is no set time. Rather, when they repent, they are redeemed.
However, if they do not repent, there is a set time that brings redemption even though they have not made repentance, which is once it is possible to gather all the harsh Dinim that Israel suffered during the exile into a complete measure in a way that they suffice that Israel will fear and never sin again, making the left prevail over the right, as they did at the time of the ruin. At that time they are worthy of redemption even without repentance for even without repentance they are guaranteed, “And let them not return to folly” for the many harsh Dinim that they had suffered.
It was said, “If they are not rewarded, “In its time,” which happened by itself along with the disclosure of the Dinim in the exile for a sufficient amount, and there is no need at all for Israel’s awakening for repentance. It is so because all the exile and the harsh Dinim in the exile come from the domination of the left without the right, the north side. Through the left, the GAR appear, from which there are all the reward and all the good that is destined to come to Israel.
At the time of redemption, the Creator awoke Abraham, the right line, south, and even though they were not rewarded and did not make repentance of clinging to the middle line, it was already time to redeem them even without repentance.