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.Because of His love for us, He gave us [the commandments] in order that they should makeus holy and allow us to be worthy.Why? Because when we are in this world, we canbecome worthy of the World to Come, which is great.In its hand is the treasury of souls.When Israel is good, these souls are worthy of emergingand coming to this world.But if they are not good, the [these souls] do not emerge.We therefore say, The Son of David will not come until all the souls in the Body arecompleted. What is the meaning of all the souls in the Body ? We say that this refers to all the souls inman s body.[When these are completed] new ones will be worthy of emerging.The Son of David (the Messiah) will then come.He will be able to be born, since his soulwill emerge among the other new souls.What is this like? A king had an army, and he sent them much bread to eat.They were solazy that they did not take care of [the bread] which they did not eat [immediately].Thebread therefore became mouldy and went to waste.The king investigated to find out if they had what to eat, and to see if they had eaten what hehad sent them.He found that the bread had become mouldy and they were ashamed to askfor new bread.How could they tell the king, We did not take care of [what you sent us,] butnow we are asking for more ?The king also became angry.He took the mouldy bread and ordered that it be dried andrectified as much as possible.He swore to the men, I will not give you any more bread untilyou eat all this mouldy bread. He then returned the bread to them.What did they do? They agreed to divide it up, and each one took his portion.The diligentone took his portion and placed it in the air, taking care of it and keeping it in good conditionto eat.The other one took it and ate it lustfully.He ate what he could and laid the rest aside,not taking care of it since he had given up on it.It spoiled even more and became so mouldythat he could not eat it at all.He therefore starved to death.He was then blamed for the sin of his body: Why did you kill yourself? Is it not enough thatyou ruined the bread the first time? But I returned it to you and you ruined it [again].Youruined your portion because you were too lazy to take care of it.And not only that, but youalso killed yourself. [The solder] replied, My lord, what could I have done? He answered, You should have taken care of it.And if you claim that you were not able to,you should have watched your friends and neighbours with whom you shared the bread.Youshould have seen what they did and how they took care of it, and you should have kept itlike they did. They also interrogated him: Why did you kill yourself? Is it not enough that you ruined thebread? But you also went ahead and killed the matter of your body.You shortened the daysof your life, or [at least] caused it.It may have been possible that you would have had agood son.He could have saved you, and [rectified] the damage that you and others did.Your48 The Bahirsuffering will therefore be increased on all sides.He became confused and replied, What could I have done when I did not have any bread?With what could I have sustained myself? They answered: If you would have strived and worked in Torah, you would not replyfoolishly and brazenly like this.Because of your reply, it is obvious that you have notworked or strived in Torah.It is thus written (Deuteronomy 8:3), For not by bread alondoes man live, but form all that emanates from God s mouth does man live. You shouldhave searched and probed and asked, what is it through which man lives? What is this which emanates from God s mouth From here they said, An ignoramus cannot be pious. If a person does not act with kindness (Chesed) toward himself, he cannot be called pious(Chasid).185.How can one do kindness to his Master?By studying the Torah.All study of Torah is a deed of kindness toward one s Master.It isthus written (Deuteronomy 33:26), He rides the heavens with your help, [His pride is in theskies]. God says, When you study Torah for its own sake, then you help Me and I can ridethe heavens. Then, His pride is in the skies (Shechakim). What is Shechakim? We say that it is in the innermost chamber.The Targum thus renders it, His word is in the Heaven of Heaven. Therefore, not by bread alone does man live, but from all that emanates from God s mouthdoes man live. However, the fool answers brazenly. Abandon this brazenness, and do not reply in this manner! He is therefore punished.What is his punishment? We have already discussed it.186.What is the meaning of the verse (Job 15:2), Should a wise man answer knowledge ofspirit? What is knowledge of spirit ?This is the Knowledge that is close to the spirit [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Because of His love for us, He gave us [the commandments] in order that they should makeus holy and allow us to be worthy.Why? Because when we are in this world, we canbecome worthy of the World to Come, which is great.In its hand is the treasury of souls.When Israel is good, these souls are worthy of emergingand coming to this world.But if they are not good, the [these souls] do not emerge.We therefore say, The Son of David will not come until all the souls in the Body arecompleted. What is the meaning of all the souls in the Body ? We say that this refers to all the souls inman s body.[When these are completed] new ones will be worthy of emerging.The Son of David (the Messiah) will then come.He will be able to be born, since his soulwill emerge among the other new souls.What is this like? A king had an army, and he sent them much bread to eat.They were solazy that they did not take care of [the bread] which they did not eat [immediately].Thebread therefore became mouldy and went to waste.The king investigated to find out if they had what to eat, and to see if they had eaten what hehad sent them.He found that the bread had become mouldy and they were ashamed to askfor new bread.How could they tell the king, We did not take care of [what you sent us,] butnow we are asking for more ?The king also became angry.He took the mouldy bread and ordered that it be dried andrectified as much as possible.He swore to the men, I will not give you any more bread untilyou eat all this mouldy bread. He then returned the bread to them.What did they do? They agreed to divide it up, and each one took his portion.The diligentone took his portion and placed it in the air, taking care of it and keeping it in good conditionto eat.The other one took it and ate it lustfully.He ate what he could and laid the rest aside,not taking care of it since he had given up on it.It spoiled even more and became so mouldythat he could not eat it at all.He therefore starved to death.He was then blamed for the sin of his body: Why did you kill yourself? Is it not enough thatyou ruined the bread the first time? But I returned it to you and you ruined it [again].Youruined your portion because you were too lazy to take care of it.And not only that, but youalso killed yourself. [The solder] replied, My lord, what could I have done? He answered, You should have taken care of it.And if you claim that you were not able to,you should have watched your friends and neighbours with whom you shared the bread.Youshould have seen what they did and how they took care of it, and you should have kept itlike they did. They also interrogated him: Why did you kill yourself? Is it not enough that you ruined thebread? But you also went ahead and killed the matter of your body.You shortened the daysof your life, or [at least] caused it.It may have been possible that you would have had agood son.He could have saved you, and [rectified] the damage that you and others did.Your48 The Bahirsuffering will therefore be increased on all sides.He became confused and replied, What could I have done when I did not have any bread?With what could I have sustained myself? They answered: If you would have strived and worked in Torah, you would not replyfoolishly and brazenly like this.Because of your reply, it is obvious that you have notworked or strived in Torah.It is thus written (Deuteronomy 8:3), For not by bread alondoes man live, but form all that emanates from God s mouth does man live. You shouldhave searched and probed and asked, what is it through which man lives? What is this which emanates from God s mouth From here they said, An ignoramus cannot be pious. If a person does not act with kindness (Chesed) toward himself, he cannot be called pious(Chasid).185.How can one do kindness to his Master?By studying the Torah.All study of Torah is a deed of kindness toward one s Master.It isthus written (Deuteronomy 33:26), He rides the heavens with your help, [His pride is in theskies]. God says, When you study Torah for its own sake, then you help Me and I can ridethe heavens. Then, His pride is in the skies (Shechakim). What is Shechakim? We say that it is in the innermost chamber.The Targum thus renders it, His word is in the Heaven of Heaven. Therefore, not by bread alone does man live, but from all that emanates from God s mouthdoes man live. However, the fool answers brazenly. Abandon this brazenness, and do not reply in this manner! He is therefore punished.What is his punishment? We have already discussed it.186.What is the meaning of the verse (Job 15:2), Should a wise man answer knowledge ofspirit? What is knowledge of spirit ?This is the Knowledge that is close to the spirit [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]