If there is a virgin maiden engaged to a man, and a man finds her in town and lies with her.”
We can interpret that the holy Shechina [Divinity] is called “maiden.” There are three states: available, engaged, and married.
In the state of “still of Kedusha [holiness],” she is called “available,” since everything he does for her is only in order to receive reward—either this world or the next world. However, he knows that the holy Shechina is enslaved to him, meaning to self-reception. Hence, she is called “available,” since she has no one to need.
At that time, he wants her to need him. Therefore, then, in the state of “still,” he can continue his work without blemishing anything.
But when he begins the work of the “vegetative,” when he already knows that one must engage in Torah and Mitzvot [commandments] in order to bestow, the holy Shechina is considered “engaged to a man,” meaning to the Creator, and one should work to make the unification of the Creator and the Shechina.
Therefore, one who lies with her, meaning who wants to take pleasure in her, who begins to work in reception while knowing that reception is already forbidden, since to him, she is already regarded as “engaged to the Creator,” then “you shall stone them both.”
The holy Shechina herself is regarded as “there is no thought or perception of Him at all.” Rather, it is all with respect to the attaining individual. For this reason, man is sentenced to stoning, meaning that foreign thoughts shatter his brain and he dies. That is, he loses all the vitality of Kedusha, and the Shechina, too, falls within him to a state of “dust.” In other words, he sees that there is no life in her, meaning no one for whom to work.
This is the meaning of the verse, “the maiden, because she did not cry out in the city” (this is the meaning of “Wicked! Do not touch me!”). “In the city” means when he had a great awakening and worked with a huge flame. At that time, “the maiden did not cry out,” meaning that no sin was sensed in this work. Rather, he wanted to continue this work in self-reception forever. This is why he blemished her, herself.
Hence, now he sees that there is no vitality in her and it is not worth working for her. Our sages said, “The serpent came over Eve and cast filth within her.” Baal HaSulam explained that Zuhama [filth] comes from Zu-Ma [what is this?], meaning he said, “What is this work for you?” This is called “and they both died.”
“And if the man finds her in the field…” Work in the field means that during the work he lied with her. That is, he engaged in Torah and Mitzvot in order to receive and knew it was forbidden since she was engaged to a man. In that case, “And to the maiden you shall do nothing… since he found her in the field, the maiden cried out… and there was no one to save her.” That is, he feels that she is crying out, “Wicked! Do not touch me!” meaning that it is forbidden to work in a manner of reception.
“And there was no one to save her,” meaning that a person cannot overcome his manner of reception, which is called “a field.” That is, during the work, when he wants to overcome reception, the holy Shechina remains alive, meaning he sees her greatness and importance.
Anyone who clings to this work to bestow, she has life but he dies because he received for himself the vitality that he extended from her, so he dies and claims that he cannot continue the work.
Only one who was born with a keen mind and virtues, and upright qualities, but one who is born with ignoble qualities cannot continue this work. This is considered that he died, that he no longer has fuel to continue his work and have life.
But the Creator, with His great mercies, revives the dead with great mercy and a person is resurrected until he undergoes several reincarnations, whether in one body or in several bodies, as in “No outcast shall be cast out from Him,” and he is rewarded with adhering to the level for eternity.