424) “And the Lord did to Sarah.” Since he said, “And the Lord visited Sarah,” why, “And the Lord did to Sarah”? The fruit of the actions of the Creator is from that river that stretches out of Eden, meaning ZA and the souls of the righteous. In other words, its deed is the souls of the righteous. And this is the fortune from which all good blessings and timely rains pour out, as it is written, “To water the garden.” It trickles and waters from above downward because sons depend on this fortune and on no other place. Fortune is Dikna of AA. And when ZA receives the Mochin from him, he is called “fortune,” too.
425) This is why it is written, “And the Lord visited Sarah.” It only writes “visited,” which is the Nukva. It is also written, “And the Lord did to Sarah.” Doing is sons, and the souls of the righteous are the fruits of His actions. It is above this degree of visiting, as it depends on luck. This is why it writes “visiting” here, which is extended from the Nukva, and “doing” there, which is extended from ZA. And this is why it is written HaVaYaH and HaVaYaH [Lord and Lord]; it is all one. It is written about visiting, “And the Lord visited,” He and His courthouse, meaning the Nukva, and it is written about doing, “And the Lord did,” which is ZA.
426) “Children are a heritage of the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward.” “Children are a heritage of the Lord” means inheritance in which to unite with the Creator so as to never part from Him. This is so because one who is rewarded with sons in this world is rewarded with them so as to be in the presence of the Creator in the next world. It is because that son that the man left, with whom he was rewarded in this world, will make him worthy of the next world. And through him he will enter the Creator’s inheritance.
427) What is the “lot of the Lord”? It is the land of the living, the Nukva. Also, King David called the land of Israel “the land of the living,” “the lot of the Lord,” as it is written, “For they have driven me out this day that I should not cling unto the lot of the Lord.” This is why it is written, “Children are the lot of the Lord.”
Who awards a person with the lot of the Lord? Sons award him. If he is rewarded with sons in this world, they are the reward for the fruit of the womb, a reward and a good portion in the eternal world, since through that fruit of the womb, man is rewarded with the eternal world.
428) “Children are the lot of the Lord,” meaning the inheritance and lot of the fruits of the deeds of the Creator, the tree of life, since the Creator is called “the tree of life” because it is from there that man is rewarded with sons, as it is written, “From Me is your fruit found.” It is written, “Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them”; happy is he in this world, and happy is he in the next world.
429) It is written, “They will not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.” Who are the enemies at the gate? The litigants. When the soul departs this world, there are several litigants that stumble before him prior to entering his place.
“In the gate” means that they stand in the same gate through which he entered. And he is saved from them because he placed a mortgage in this world—the sons—and for them he will be rewarded with the eternal world. This is why “they will not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.”
430) As long as one engages in Torah, the Shechina comes and joins. It is all the more so when traveling along the way—the Shechina comes and puts herself ahead, walking before the people who have been rewarded with the faith of the Creator.