431) “Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine within your house.” As long as the woman is inside the house and does not come out, she is chaste and fit for delivering proper sons. As a vine is planted only in its kind and not in another kind, a proper woman would not plant, meaning bear sons from another man. As there is no grafting from another tree in a vine, a proper woman would not even receive coupling from another.
432) See her reward: It is written, “Your sons are as olive plants around your table.” As the leaves of olives do not fall throughout the year, and they are always tied to the tree, “Your sons are as olive plants around your table,” always tied to you.
433) Afterwards, it is written, “Behold, for thus shall the man who fears the Lord be blessed.” As long as the Shechina was chaste in her proper place, “Your sons are as olive plants.” Those are Israel when they are in the land of Israel. “Around your table” means when they eat and drink, offer sacrifices and rejoice before the Creator, and are blessed in upper and lower paths.
434) Once the Shechina departed her place, Israel were exiled from their Father’s table and came among the nations. They cry out all day, and there is no one to watch over them but the Creator, as it is written, “And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them.” Yet, we see how many great sages died by harsh verdicts. And all that was because of the punishment of the Torah, for Israel did not keep while they were in the land of holiness.
435) “Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart for the abundance of everything.” When the priests would offer sacrifices and offerings, this is “with joy.” “With gladness of heart” are the Levites, and “for the abundance of everything” are Israel, who were in the middle, between the priests and the Levites and received blessings from both sides, from the right and from the left.
436) It is written, “You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before You as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.” “You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy” are the priests. “They will be glad in Your presence as with the gladness of harvest” are Israel, whom the Creator blesses with the crop of the field, and they give tithing from everything. “As they rejoice when they divide the spoil” are the Levites, who receive a tithing from the barn.
437) “You have multiplied the nation” are Israel, upon whom is the faith of the Creator as it should be. This is the middle line that contains the two lines—right and left. “You shall increase their gladness” is the degree of the upper Rosh [head], Hesed that has become Hochma, to which Abraham adhered when he is considered great and there is joy in him, meaning right line, Hesed.
438) “They rejoice before You” when they rise to adhere to You in the two phases: 1. “As with joy at the harvest” is the assembly of Israel, Nukva, who was happy with his harvest, meaning the left line, since the harvesting of the field is from the illumination of the left. Also, harvest means the desired goal from the work of the field. His harvest means that her husband crowns in her, and she does not crown with her husband. 2. “As they are glad when they divide the spoil.” When they rejoice, the rest of the armies and Merkavot [assemblies] below the Nukva rejoice, when they divide the spoil and devour prey before everything else, the upper Rosh of Abraham adheres to it, the right line, Hesed.
This is why it is written, “You shall multiply the nation”; he multiplied and enhanced Israel. To Him is the increase of the joy, the right line in the upper Rosh.
And Israel rejoice before You in two phases, in the right and in the left, since they are the middle line, which consists of both lines: 1) “As with the gladness of harvest,” the left line, and 2) When Israel are glad, as the armies of angels in BYA rejoice when the upper Rosh divides the spoil and prey, at which time all the lower ones in BYA receive.