A
Voice
Is
Heard
in
Ramah
32.
It
is
written,
“A
voice
was
heard
in
Ramah,
lamentation
and
bitter
weeping.”
When
the
Temple
was
ruined
and
burned,
a
voice
came
and
awakened
over
the
graves
of
the
first
patriarchs,
and
said,
“First
Fathers,
you
are
fallen
asleep
and
do
not
know
the
sorrow
of
the
world.
Your
children,
whom
you
had
raised
in
agony,
and
whom
you
brought
into
the
great
faith
of
the
Creator,
have
died;
they
have
been
killed
and
have
gone
into
exile
by
the
hands
of
their
enemies.
Their
hands
are
tied
behind
them;
they
are
dying
of
hunger;
their
homes
have
been
burned
down.
Where
is
your
mercy?
Where
is
your
faith?
Arise,
wake
up
to
them.”
33.
The
fathers
and
the
mothers
immediately
awakened
and
went
to
Moses.
They
said
to
him,
“Moses,
where
are
the
children?
Why
have
you
left
them?”
Moses
immediately
awakened
and
went
with
them
to
Joshua.
He
said
to
him,
“The
children
of
these
fathers,
the
children
of
Israel,
on
whom
the
Creator
commanded
me,
and
whom
I
have
placed
in
your
hands,
where
are
they?”
34.
Joshua
replied
and
said,
“Moses,
I
left
them
in
the
holy
land
and
divided
them
in
the
land
according
to
the
lot,
as
you
had
commanded
me.
I
left
them
all,
each
in
his
inheritance
and
in
his
lot.”
35.
Promptly,
they
all
went
to
the
holy
land
and
found
it
has
been
ruined;
not
a
sound
was
heard
in
it.
They
went
to
the
Temple
and
saw
that
it
was
burned.
They
made
a
eulogy
in
it
until
the
sound
of
the
bitter
cries
reached
the
top
of
heaven,
and
all
the
high
angels
wept
with
them
above.
36.
The
Creator
awakened
and
came
to
them,
and
found
them
crying
bitterly
in
the
dust
of
the
Temple.
He
said
to
them,
“My
soul’s
beloved,
why
are
you
here?
Why
are
My
friends
in
My
house?”
37.
Old
Abraham
arose
first
and
said
to
the
Master
of
the
world:
“You
know
that
I
went
before
You
on
the
path
of
truth.
Ten
times
You
tried
me,
and
I
succeeded
in
all
of
them;
where
are
my
children?
I
did
not
hear
the
voice
of
their
words
in
the
land
that
You
have
sworn
to
me
to
sustain
them
in.”
38.
The
Creator
said
to
him,
“Oh
Abraham,
My
soul’s
beloved;
they
have
revoked
the
holy
covenant
from
over
them
and
committed
idol-worship,
as
it
is
written,
‘And
the
holy
flesh
has
passed
from
you.’
My
anger
was
kindled
on
them
because
of
it,
and
because
of
you,
I
was
patient
with
them
several
times,
but
they
did
not
repent
before
Me.”
39.
When
Abraham
heard
this,
he
said,
“Let
all
their
iniquities
be
annihilated
among
the
nations
because
of
the
sanctity
of
Your
name
until
You
have
the
desire
to
bring
them
back
to
You.”
Everyone
answered
the
Creator
in
the
way
that
Abraham
answered,
and
they
went
away.
40.
Rachel
stayed
there.
She
raised
her
voice
in
weeping
with
bitter
cries.
The
Creator
said
to
her,
“Rachel,
why
are
you
crying?”
She
said
to
him,
“How
will
I
not
cry?
Where
are
my
children?
What
have
they
sinned
before
You?”
The
Creator
said
to
her,
“They
raised
my
enemy
before
Me,
making
statue
and
admitting
it
into
My
house.”
Promptly,
she
said,
“Did
I
not
do
more,
admitting
my
enemy
into
my
house?”
41.
“And
Jacob
told
Rachel
that
he
was
her
father’s
brother.”
He
said
to
her,
“Will
you
copulate
with
me?”
She
said
to
him,
“Yes,
but
I
have
an
older
sister,
and
I
am
afraid
of
my
father,
who
is
a
liar.”
Promptly,
“And
Jacob
told
Rachel
that
he
was
her
father’s
brother,”
deceitfully.
42.
Immediately,
He
gave
her
signs
that
she
should
tell
him
during
the
copulation
so
he
does
not
swap
her
for
Leah
her
sister.
When
Leah
came
in
that
night,
Rachel
said,
“Now
my
sister
will
be
disgraced,
for
Jacob
will
recognize
her
since
she
will
not
know
the
signs.
She
went
and
gave
her
the
signs.
43.
This
is
why
she
said
to
the
Creator,
“Did
I
not
do
more,
admitting
my
own
enemy
into
my
home
by
myself?
And
You,
of
whom
it
is
written,
‘merciful
and
gracious
and
patient,’
should
have
been
lenient
with
their
iniquities.”
44.
In
all
that
the
Creator
said
to
her,
she
was
not
comforted,
as
it
is
written,
“A
voice
was
heard
in
Ramah,
lamentation
and
bitter
weeping,
Rachel
mourning
her
children.”
She
refused
to
be
comforted
over
her
children,
for
He
is
not.
She
did
not
want
to
receive
comfort
because
He
is
not,
meaning
that
the
Creator
is
not
as
in
the
first
days
of
being
among
them,
since
He
departed
above.
45.
And
because
He
is
not
among
the
children,
she
did
not
accept
consolation
until
the
Creator
swore
to
her,
as
it
is
written,
“Thus
said
the
Lord,
‘Restrain
your
voice
from
weeping
and
your
eyes
from
tears.”
46.
As
Rachel
did,
so
did
the
upper
Shechina,
as
it
is
translated,
“A
voice
is
heard
in
the
High
Heavens,
the
Shechina
is
weeping
for
her
children.”
At
the
same
time
when
the
Shechina
was
weeping,
sixty
myriad
[10,000]
camps
of
high
angels
awakened
to
her,
and
they
all
awakened
in
crying
to
her.
47.
At
that
time,
the
voice
was
heard
in
the
firmament
Aravot,
and
200,000
worlds
were
rattled,
which
had
been
concealed
since
the
day
when
the
world
was
created.
Until
that
voice
was
heard
at
the
height
of
heaven,
which
is
the
firmament
like
the
terrible
ice
that
is
on
the
animals.
48.
Finally,
the
mother,
Bina,
was
revealed
to
the
daughter,
Malchut,
and
said
to
her,
“Keep
your
voice.”
Then,
she
parted
from
there
and
went,
she
and
all
her
battalions,
into
exile.
And
they
had
to
spread
to
several
sides
so
the
exile
would
be
in
all
the
place,
and
the
Shechina
sat
alone.
49.
Who
said,
“How”?
It
is
a
high
and
pleasant
spirit,
the
next
world,
Bina,
lamenting
Malchut
and
saying
about
her,
“How.”
Hence,
that
word,
“how,”
is
spiritual,
since
it
is
not
yet
embodiment,
for
the
embodiment
of
the
letters
begins
from
ZA
and
not
from
Bina,
and
there
is
nothing
shared
in
her
from
all
the
other
outlets
of
the
mouth,
not
from
the
tongue,
or
the
teeth,
or
the
lips.
The
five
outlets
of
the
mouth
correspond
to
HBD
TM:
The
letters
Gimel-Yod-Kaf-Kof
are
from
the
palate;
Aleph-Het-Hey-Ayin
are
from
the
throat;
Dalet-Tet-Lamed-Nun-Tav
are
from
the
tongue;
Zayin-Samech-Shin-Reish-Tzadi
are
from
the
teeth;
and
Bet-Vav-Mem-Peh
are
from
the
lips.
Since
Bina
said
“how”
regarding
Malchut,
she
did
not
participate
with
Tifferet
and
Malchut
in
saying
“how.”
For
this
reason,
there
are
only
two
outlets
in
her,
from
the
palate
and
from
the
throat,
which
are
HB,
and
she
lacks
the
three
bottom
outlets
from
the
tongue,
from
the
teeth,
and
from
the
lips,
corresponding
to
Daat
and
TM.
50.
The
mother
asked
about
the
daughter.
This
is
the
crowing
of
the
wall,
where
“wall”
means
a
great
and
ruling
lord,
master.
It
is
written,
“How
lonely
sits,”
and
not
“stands,”
since
in
the
beginning,
Malchut
stood,
and
all
her
battalions
stood.
Now
she
sits
in
desolation.
“Alone”
means
as
it
is
written,
“He
shall
dwell
alone,”
as
one
who
was
defiled
in
impurity.
The
handmaid,
the
Sitra
Achra,
succeeds
her
mistress,
and
the
one
who
was
impure
sits
in
the
place
of
Malchut.
51.
The
people
of
Babylon
sent
to
the
people
of
the
holy
land:
“It
is
true
that
you
should
cry,
and
you
deserve
to
lament
and
mourn
when
you
see
the
mother’s
halls
in
ruins
and
the
place
of
her
bed
overturned
because
of
the
mourning,
and
Malchut,
the
mother,
is
not
there
and
she
has
fled
from
you,
and
you
do
not
know
of
her.
52.
“Say
that
she
is
with
us
in
the
exile,
and
her
tabernacle
has
descended
within
us.
Thus,
we
should
be
glad
because
Prophet
Ezekiel
saw
her
here,
and
all
of
her
battalions.”
53.
Indeed,
we
should
cry
and
lament
like
a
crocodile
and
like
the
ostriches
of
the
desert,
since
she
has
been
banished
outside
her
hall,
and
we
are
in
exile,
and
she
comes
upon
us
with
bitterness
and
sees
us
each
day
in
several
troubles,
in
several
laws
that
are
decreed
upon
us
at
each
time,
and
she
cannot
remove
the
troubles
from
us,
and
all
those
shortages
that
we
are
suffering.
54.
The
people
of
the
holy
land
sent
to
them:
“Our
mother
has
fled
and
been
deported
from
within
her
halls,
and
has
descended
to
you
with
bitterness
and
a
sad
voice
like
a
woman
who
sits
without
cognizance,
and
like
a
man
who
cannot
save.
And
you
deserve
to
lament.
55.
“But
we
deserve
to
weep
and
lament
with
wailing
and
with
bitterness,
for
we
see
the
ruined
hall
each
day,
and
desert
foxes
going
in
and
going
out,
and
ostriches
whistling
within
it.
We
see
and
cry.
56.
“While
we
sit
in
bewilderment
with
our
mouths
lying
in
the
dust,
we
hear
a
pleasant
sound,
the
feet
of
the
Shechina
in
the
three
watches
of
the
night,
coming
down
and
seeing
her
halls,
how
they
are
destroyed
and
burned.
She
goes
from
hall
to
hall,
from
place
to
place,
and
she
howls
and
wails
over
us
and
over
our
souls.
57.
And
we
wake
up
to
the
sound
of
our
cries
and
wails,
and
our
spirit
follows
her
and
flees
with
her.
And
for
the
time
being,
it
suddenly
blossoms
and
goes,
and
we
did
not
hear
and
did
not
know
at
all
that
she
went,
and
we
are
left
bewildered,
falling
asleep,
without
spirit,
without
knowledge,
crying
out
and
saying
“How.”