And the Lord Appeared to Him

1) It is written, “The buds appear on the earth, the time of pruning has arrived, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.” When the Creator created the world, He placed in the earth all the power it deserves, but it did not bear fruit until man was created. When man was created, everything appeared in the world, and the land revealed its fruits and forces that were deposited in it. And then the buds appear on the earth.

2) Similarly, the heavens did not endow the earth with force until man came, as it is written, “No shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth.” Thus, all these offshoots were concealed in it and not revealed, and the heavens halted and did not pour rain upon the earth since there was no man to till the ground, for he had not yet been found and was not created. Thus, everything was delayed from appearing because of him. When man appeared, the buds immediately appeared in the land, and the hidden forces appeared and were placed in it.

3) “The time for singing [in Hebrew it also means pruning] has arrived,” for the midnight correction has been corrected, of song and praises, to sing before the Creator. This did not exist prior to man’s creation. “And the voice of the turtledove was heard in our land.” This is the speaking of the Creator, who was not present in the world prior to man’s creation. When man was present, everything was present.

4) After he sinned, everything departed from the world and the land was cursed, as it is written, “Cursed is the ground because of you.” It is also written, “When you till the land,” and also, “Thorns and thistles it shall grow for you.”

5) Noah came to the world and established axes and files in the world, meaning built tools for tilling the land. This is why it is written about him, “This one shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, from the ground that the Lord has cursed,” for he will give us tools and will rid us of the toil of our hands, which was our share thus far.

Afterwards, it is written, “And he drank from the wine and was drunken; and he was uncovered in his tent.” And then the people of the world came, sinned before the Creator, and the forces of the earth withdrew as in the beginning. This means that all of Noah’s corrections were canceled until the arrival of Abraham.

6) When Abraham came, the buds promptly appeared in the land, for all the forces of the earth were corrected and appeared. “The time of pruning has arrived,” when the Creator told him to circumcise himself. Pruning means cutting off, cutting off the foreskin. Since it was time for that covenant to be in Abraham, who was circumcised, the verse “The buds appeared on the earth” came true in him and the world existed. Then the Creator’s speech revealed before him, as it is written, “And the Lord appeared to him,” after he was circumcised.

7) Before Abraham was circumcised, the Creator did not speak to him, except from an inferior degree called from the Chazeh, the Nukva while she is still in illumination of the left. It is written, “The Lord spoke unto Abram in a vision” [“vision” contains the word Chazeh in Hebrew]. And the upper degrees of ZA did not connect to the degree of Nukva. Since he was circumcised, the buds, the lower degrees, immediately appeared in the land, meaning the bottom degree, from the Chazeh, elicited and corrected them so that all the upper degrees would bond in her.

Like the two lines—right and left—in YESHSUT, they do not make a coupling and become incorporated in one another unless through the level of Hassadim that emerges on the MAN of ZA, which determines between them and incorporates them in one another. Once ZON rise to YESHSUT to receive Mochin from them, ZA becomes the right line there, and the Nukva becomes the left line. Then they separate from one another as do the two lines—right and left—until MAN rises to them through the souls of the righteous, and the level of Hassadim emerges on these MAN of the righteous and makes ZON make a coupling.

When ZON separate from one another, the Nukva is called “vision” because the translation of seeing is vision, and a translated word in the verse indicates posterior Mochin, and these Mochin of the left line in the Nukva prior to the coupling with ZA are posterior Mochin.

And before Abraham raised MAN to ZON in the Mitzva [commandment] of the circumcision, ZA was not in a coupling with the Nukva, and they were separated from each other because ZA is in the right line and Nukva is in the left line, and they are disputed with each other. Since he raised MAN through the Mitzva of the circumcision, the buds immediately appeared in the earth, meaning the screen on which the coupling by striking was made, which elicits the level of Hassadim in the middle line, which decides and unites the two lines—right and left—with one another.

These phases of the screen are called “buds” because they appeared in the earth, in Nukva, by the force of the MAN, the commandment of circumcision. These forces emerged and appeared in the Nukva, and she corrected herself through them with a screen that is ready for a coupling, to elicit the level of Hassadim that copulates her with the ZON.

8) “The time of pruning has arrived,” the time of cutting off the bad branches has come, the branches of the foreskin, since this shell governed before he was circumcised. It was as it is written, “A quarrelsome man spreads strife.” “And the voice of the turtledove was heard in our land” is the voice that comes out of the one that is the most internal, the voice, ZA. The most internal of all is Ima, from whom ZA was emanated and emerged. And that voice, ZA, is heard in our land, which is the Nukva. Thus, ZA made a coupling with the Nukva through the MAN from the Mitzva of circumcision, and this is the voice that cuts the word into speech, that has “a cutting of speech” [accent] and makes her perfection. ZA is called “voice” and Nukva is called “speech,” for ZA corrects the Nukva and makes her utterly perfect.

9) As long as Abraham was not circumcised, the degree of the Nukva was upon him. When he was circumcised, it is written, “The Lord appeared to him.”

10) “And the Lord appeared to him,” meaning he appeared to that degree that was speaking to him. In other words, ZA, HaVaYaH, appeared to him, to the Nukva. This did not happen before he was circumcised because then she was separated from ZA. And now the voice, ZA, appeared and joined with the speech, the Nukva, when he spoke unto Abraham. Now Abraham receives from the coupling of ZON and has become a Merkava [assembly] for both of them. This is why it writes here, “And the Lord appeared to him,” indicating the coupling of ZON together.

11) “While he was sitting at the tent door.” He means Nukva. Sitting at the tent door means becoming an opening for all the degrees. “And the Lord appeared to him” means that the voice, ZA, was heard and connected with speech, which is Malchut, and appeared in it.

12) “While he was sitting at the tent door.” He means the upper world, Ima, which is poised to shine over him, on the Nukva, called “the tent door,” meaning she has become an opening for the lights. “In the heat of the day” means that the right, Hesed—the degree to which Abraham connected—illuminated. “In the heat of the day” means that when one degree comes near another degree with desire, ZA to Nukva, it is said about them, “In the heat of the day.”

13) Until Abraham was circumcised, he was blocked. He could not receive the upper lights. When he was circumcised, everything appeared, meaning all the lights appeared to him, since his blockade was opened and the Shechina was upon him in whole.

“While he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.” This is the upper world, Bina, which lies on the lower world, the Nukva. “In the heat of the day,” when the desire of one righteous, Yesod of ZA, is to be in the lower world, Nukva. This means that when there is coupling of ZON, the Mochin of Bina are in the Nukva.

14) Immediately after the coupling of ZON took place, it is written, “He lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, three men were standing opposite him,” Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—HGT of ZA, standing on the same degree, the Nukva, from whom she suckles and feeds.

15) Then, “When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them,” since the desire of the lower degree, Nukva, is to bond with the HGT, and her joy is to follow them. Hence, “he saw” and “he ran” refers to the Nukva, who wished to bond with them. “And bowed himself to the earth,” to be corrected and become a throne for them, for the Nukva to be a throne for HGT of ZA, so they will be over her like a man sitting on a chair.

16) The Creator made King David, the Nukva, into one of the legs of the upper throne, like the patriarchs. The upper throne is Bina; the patriarchs, HGT, are the three legs of the throne. ZA established the Nukva, King David, to be as the fourth leg of the throne. Thus, the Nukva is at the same degree as the patriarchs, HGT, since she has been established as a leg of the throne, like them.

And although she is a throne to the patriarchs, how was she established at the same degree with the patriarchs, to complete the four legs of the throne? This was only while she connected with them into being one leg, established in the upper throne. From there, King David received kingship over Israel in Hebron for seven years, to bond with HGT.

First, the Nukva is built in the two great lights, at the same level with ZA and behind him. At that time, both use the same crown, Bina—ZA receiving the right, and Nukva, the left side of Bina. At this time, ZON are considered her four legs, and she is called the “upper throne.” HGT of ZA are the three legs of the throne, and the Nukva is the fourth leg. Thus, they are both equal.

However, these Mochin are considered only posterior Mochin for the Nukva. To be built in anterior Mochin, she diminishes into the small light and can then receive anterior Mochin from ZA. In that respect, she becomes a throne to ZA, below it, in a way that there are two times for the Nukva: first at the same level with ZA, and then she wanes and becomes smaller than him.

During the time of anterior Mochin, she is smaller than him and is regarded as a throne to HGT of ZA. But at the time of posterior Mochin, when she connects with HGT of ZA at the same level, she is then one leg, equally established in the upper throne with HGT of ZA. This is so because then they are both equal in the upper throne, Bina. Had Nukva not received the posterior Mochin in the form of the two great lights to begin with, she would not have been able to receive the anterior Mochin afterwards. Malchut of Hebron is posterior Mochin, and Malchut of the whole of Israel is anterior Mochin. Had King David not received the Malchut of Hebron first, posterior Mochin, he would not have been worthy of receiving the Malchut of the whole of Israel at all, the anterior Mochin. This is because first, she needs to connect at an equal level with the HGT from the posterior. Without that, Malchut would not be able to receive completion, which is anterior Mochin.

17) “And the Lord appeared to him by the Oaks of Mamre,” and not in some other place because Mamre gave him advice about the circumcision. When the Creator told Abraham to circumcise himself, Abraham went to consult his friends. Aner told him, “You are over ninety years old; you will torment yourself.”

18) Mamre told him, “Remember the day when the Chaldees threw you in the furnace, and that famine that the world endured, as it is written, ‘And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt,’ and those kings that your men chased and which you struck. The Creator saved you from all of them and none could harm you. Rise up and do as your Master commands.” The Creator said to Mamre, “You advised him in favor of the circumcision; thus, I will appear only in your abode, in Oaks of Mamre.”

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