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Aaron Cows Elazar Judgment Priests Purification Red Red Cow

21. "And you shall give her to Elazar" (Bemidbar 19:3). THAT IS BECAUSE the prescribed performing of the ritual is through the adjutant to the High Priest AND NOT BY THE HIGH PRIEST HIMSELF, and they established it that way. What is the reason? It is for ELAZAR and not for Aaron. HE RESPONDS: It is only because Aaron is the best man of the Queen. THEREFORE, HE WOULD BE IMPROPER FOR THE RITUAL OF THIS COW, WHICH IS HARSH JUDGMENT, and furthermore, he would be improper because Aaron does not approach this from the pure side but rather from the Holy Side. Since the primary function of the red cow is for purification, it is therefore not given to him.

21. וּנְתַתֶּם אוֹתָהּ אֶל אֶלְעָזָר, מִצְוָותָהּ בַּסְּגַן, וְאוֹקְמוּהָ. מ"ט לֵיהּ וְלָא לְאַהֲרֹן. אֶלָּא אַהֲרֹן שׁוּשְׁבִינָא דְּמַטְרוֹנִיתָא. וְעוֹד דְּאַהֲרֹן לָא אָתֵי מִסִּטְרָא דְּטָהוֹר, אֶלָּא מִסִּטְרָא דְּקָדוֹשׁ, וּבְגִין דְּדָא אַתְיָיא לְטָהֳרָה, לָא אִתְיְיהִיב לֵיהּ.

Aaron Bathsheba Cows Daughter Elazar Grades Judgment Priests Purification Sanctification Seven Soil Year

22. Every item that pertains to this cow, WHICH IS MALCHUT, is in seven, seven washings. And we were already taught that. What is the reason? It is because MALCHUT is the seven years of the Sabbatical year THAT CONTAINS SEVEN SFIROT - CHESED, GVURAH, TIFERET, NETZACH, HOD, YESOD AND MALCHUT, and is called 'Bathsheba' (lit. 'Daughter of Seven'). Therefore, all her rituals are in seven. Come and behold: all that is made from this cow is for the purpose of purification and not for sanctification. Although it was given to an aid OF THE PRIEST, THAT IS, ELAZAR, he does not perform the slaughtering or the burning so that no Harsh Judgment will be at his aspect. Even more so for Aaron, who is in a more perfected level THAN ELAZAR. He need not present himself or be available there.

22. כָּל מִלָּה דְּהַאי פָּרָה, הִיא בִּשְׁבַע, ז' כִּבּוּסִים וְכוּ,' וְהָא אִתְּמַר, מ"ט. בְּגִין דְּהִיא שְׁבַע שְׁנֵי שְׁמִטָּה, וּבַת שֶׁבַע אִתְקְרֵי, וע"ד כָּל עוֹבָדוֹי בְּשֶׁבַע. ת"ח, כָּל מַאי דְּאִתְעָבֵיד מֵהַאי פָּרָה, בְּגִין לְדַכְּאָה, וְלָא לְקַדְּשָׁא, ואע"ג דְּאִתְיְיהִיב לַסְּגָן, הוּא לָא שָׁחִיט וְלָא שָׂרִיף, בְּגִין דְּלָא יִשְׁתְּכַּח דִּינָא בְּסִטְרוֹי, וכ"ש אַהֲרֹן דְּאִיהוּ בְּדַרְגָּא שְׁלִים יַתִּיר, דְּלָא בָּעֵי לְאִשְׁתַּכְּחָא תַּמָּן, וּלְאִזְדַּמְּנָא תַּמָּן.

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23. הַאי פָּרָה, כֵּיוָן דְּאִתְעָבֵיד אֵפֶר, בָּעֵי לְמִשְׁדֵּי בֵּיהּ עֵץ אֶרֶז, וְאֵזוֹב, וּשְׁנִי תּוֹלַעַת, וְהָא אִלֵּין אִתְּמָרוּ. וְאָסַף אִישׁ טָהוֹר, וְלָא קָדוֹשׁ. וְהִנִּיחַ מִחוּץ לַמַּחֲנֶה בְּמָקוֹם טָהוֹר, דְּהָא טָהוֹר לָא אִקְרֵי, אֶלָּא מִן סִטְרָא דִּמְסָאֵב בְּקַדְמֵיתָא.

Blood Cows Judgment Offering Other Side Purification Strength Water

24. The secret of all this is written: "for the water of sprinkling, it is a purification offering" (Ibid.). That is because all the lower Judgments and all that come from the aspect of Defilement RECEIVE THEIR STRENGTH FROM MALCHUT AT THE TIME when she sucks from the Other Side and dwells in Judgment, as it says: "filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness" (Yeshayah 34:6). At that moment, all THE SENTENCES FROM THE ASPECT OF DEFILEMENT are stirred up to rise and dwell in the world. As soon as they perform that ritual OF BURNING THE COW down below and the sentence is carried out in this place, in this cow, they throw on her the cedar wood. Then their energy is weakened, OF THE UNCLEAN ASPECT, and wherever they prevail, they break down and become weak and escape from there, since they see their might BROKEN AND SUPRESSED, AS IT WAS PERFORMED IN THE RITUAL OF BURNING THE COW. Then, they do not prevail on man and he becomes cleansed.

24. רָזָא דְּכֹלָּא, הַאי דִּכְתִּיב לְמֵי נִדָּה חַטָּאת הִיא, בְּגִין דְּכָל דִּינִין תַּתָּאִין, וְכָל אִינּוּן דְּאָתוּ מִסִּטְרָא דִּמְסָאֲבָא, כַּד אִיהוּ יַנְקָא מִסִּטְרָא אַחֲרָא, וְיָתִיבַת בְּדִינָא, כד"א מָלְאָה דָם הוּדַּשְׁנָה מֵחֶלֶב. כְּדֵין כֻּלְּהוּ מִתְעָרֵי וּמִסְתַּלְקֵי וְשָׁרָאן בְּעָלְמָא. כֵּיוָן דְּעַבְדֵי הַאי עוֹבָדָא דִּלְתַּתָּא, וְכָל הַאי דִּינָא בַּאֲתַר דָּא דְּהַאי פָּרָה, וְרָמָאן עָלָהּ עֵץ אֶרֶז וְגוֹ.' כְּדֵין אִתְחֲלָשׁ חֵילָא דִּלְהוֹן, וּבְכָל אֲתָר דְּשָׁרָאן אִתְּבָּרוּ וְאִתְחֲלָשׁוּ וְעַרְקִין מִנֵּיהּ, דְּהַאי חֵילָא דִּלְהוֹן אִתְחֲזֵי כְּגַוְונָא דָּא לְגַבַּיְיהוּ, כְּדֵין לָא שָׁרָאן בְּבַר נָשׁ, וְאִתְדַכֵּי.

Judgment Purification Shepherd Torah Water Wisdom Women

25. Therefore, it is called "water of sprinkling (Heb. nidah)." THAT MEANS water for purification when the world dwells in Judgment and the defiled aspect expands in the world, AS BY THE UNCLEANNESS OF A MENSTRUATING WOMAN (HEB. NIDAH). Here are gathered together a variety of unclean things and a variety of methods of purification. Consequently, defilement and purification are the most important rules of the Torah, and the friends have already explained this. Rabbi Shimon said: Elazar, you have accomplished so much that your friends will not be speaking of anything following you, SINCE FROM THE GREAT WISDOM AND WHOLESOMENESS OF YOUR SPEECH THEY WILL BE SHY TO GIVE THEIRS.

25. וע"ד אִתְקְרֵי מֵי נִדָּה, מַיָּיא לְדַכְּאָה. כַּד עָלְמָא שָׁארִי בְּדִינָא, וְסִטְרָא מִסְאֲבָא אִתְפְּשָׁט בְּעָלְמָא, הָכָא אִתְכְּלִילָן כָּל זִינִין מְסָאֲבָא, וְכָל זִינֵי דַּכְיוּ, וּבְגִין כַּךְ טוּמְאָה וְטָהֳרָה, כְּלָלָא עִלָּאָה דְּאוֹרַיְיתָא, וְאוֹקְמוּהָ חַבְרַיָּיא. אר"ש, אֶלְעָזָר, עַבְדַּת דְּלָא יֵימְרוּן חַבְרַיָּיא מִלָּה אֲבַּתְרָךְ.

Abraham Angel of Death Angels Death Death and the Afterlife Gehenom (Hell) Grades Heifer Hell (Gehenom) Other Side Ox Red Red Cow Satan, The Shabbat Shechinah Zeir Anpin

26. Ra'aya Meheimna (the Faithful Shepherd). "A red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish..." It is forbidden to plow during the Shabbat with an ox and plow, as it says, "the plowers plowed upon my back" (Tehilim 129:3), and the lower Shechinah, WHICH IS MALCHUT, is a red cow from the aspect of Gvurah. She is without defect from the aspect of Chesed, which is a level of Abraham, of whom it says, "walk before Me, and be perfect (Heb. tamim)" (Beresheet 17:1). "...In which there is no blemish..." She is from the aspect of the Central Column, WHICH IS ZEIR ANPIN THAT UNITES HER LEFT AND RIGHT. The verse continues, "and upon which never came a yoke," which is from the aspect of the higher Shechinah, which is liberty, MEANING BINAH at the location where she dominates, WHICH IS MALCHUT THAT IS COMPRISED OF EVERYTHING MENTIONED ABOVE. "And the stranger that comes near SHALL BE PUT TO DEATH." There is no authority for the Other Side to rule, not for Satan, not for the Destroyer, and not for the Angel of Death, all of which are from the side of Gehenom. End of Ra'aya Meheimna (the Faithful Shepherd).

26. (רעיא מהימנא) פָּרָה אֲדוּמָּה תְּמִימָה אֲשֶׁר אֵין בָּהּ מוּם וְגוֹ,' אָסוּר לַחֲרוֹשׁ בְּשַׁבָּת חֲרִישָׁה דְּשׁוֹר, דְּאִתְּמַר עַל גַּבִּי חָרְשׁוּ חוֹרְשִׁים. וּשְׁכִינְתָּא תַּתָּאָה, אִיהִי פָּרָה אֲדוּמָּה, מִסִּטְרָא דִּגְבוּרָה. תְּמִימָה מִסִּטְרָא דְּחֶסֶד, דְּאִיהוּ דַּרְגָּא דְּאַבְרָהָם, דְּאִתְּמַר בֵּיהּ הִתְהַלֵּךְ לְפָנַי וֶהְיֵה תָּמִים. אֲשֶׁר אֵין בָּהּ מוּם, מִסִּטְרָא דְּעַמּוּדָא דְּאֶמְצָעִיתָא. אֲשֶׁר לֹא עָלָה עָלֶיהָ עוֹל, מִסִּטְרָא דִּשְׁכִינְתָּא עִלָּאָה, דְּאִיהִי חֵירוּ. בַּאֲתָר דְּאִיהִי שַׁלְטָא, וְהַזָּר הַקָּרֵב לֵית רְשׁוּ לְסִטְרָא אַחֲרָא לְשַׁלְּטָאָה. לָא שָׂטָן, וְלָא מַשְׁחִית, וְלָא מַלְאָךְ הַמָּוֶת, דְּאִינּוּן מִסִּטְרָא דְּגֵיהִנָם. (ע"כ רעיא מהימנא)

Aba and Ima Air Beasts Chassadim David Flow Gates Rivers Wisdom Yisrael Saba

27. Rabbi Shimon opened the discussion with the verse: "He sends the springs into the valleys...they give drink to every wild beast..." (Tehilim 104:10-11). These verses were uttered by King David in the Holy Spirit, and they require studying. Come and behold: there was a time when the higher wisdom imprinted its engravings, MEANING AT THE MOMENT WHEN THE HIGHER CHOCHMAH AND BINAH UNITED TOGETHER, even though THE HIGHER CHOCHMAH is the most hidden of all the hidden, SINCE IN HIGHER CHOCHMAH AND BINAH, WHICH ARE ABA AND IMA ABOVE, THE YUD DOES NOT EMERGE FROM THE AIR. It is an opening from which flows a river full of higher gates, THAT IS BINAH.

27. פָּתַח ר"ש וְאָמַר, הַמְשַׁלֵּחַ מַעְיָנִים בַּנְּחָלִים וְגוֹ.' יַשְׁקוּ כָּל חַיְתוֹ שָׂדָי וְגוֹ.' הָנֵי קְרָאֵי דָּוִד מַלְכָּא בְּרוּחָא קַדִּישָׁא אַמָרָן, וְאִית לְאִסְתַּכְּלָא בְּהוּ. ת"ח, בְּשַׁעֲתָא דְּחָכְמְתָא עִלָּאָה בָּטַשׁ בִּגְלִיפוֹי, אע"ג דְּהִיא טְמִירָא בְּכָל סִטְרִין, פָּתַח וְאִתְנְגִיד מִנֵּיהּ חַד נַהֲרָא, מַלְיָא בְּתַרְעִין עִלָּאִין.

Aba and Ima Air Balsam Chassadim Directions Eden Flow Head Mountains Purification Rivers Streams Water Yisrael Saba Zeir Anpin

28. HE COMPARES THIS SUBJECT MATTER OF ABA AND IMA ABOVE AND YISRAEL-SABA AND TEVUNAH to a spring and source of water that fills up a huge lake. From there, FROM THE LAKE, flow springs, streams and rivers in every direction, TO THE RIGHT AND TO THE LEFT. Similarly, this ABA AND IMA AND YISRAEL-SABA AND TEVUNAH flows through a certain narrow path that is not known, MEANING AT THE UNION OF YESOD'S ABA AND IMA ABOVE, WHO ARE NOT REVEALED, IN WHOM THE YUD DOES NOT EMANATE FROM THE AIR. That river emerges continuously and emanates FROM EDEN. THROUGH THIS EXITING AND ENTERING, it fills that deep stream - MEANING YISRAEL-SABA AND TEVUNAH, SIMILAR TO THE HUGE LAKE OF WATER THAT IS FILLED UP FROM THE SPRING AND SOURCE THAT ARE ABA AND IMA ABOVE. From there, springs and streams continue TO ZEIR ANPIN AND MALCHUT, and from it they are filled up WITH CHOCHMAH AND CHASSADIM. This is what it is written: "He sends the springs into the valleys" (Ibid.). These are the higher sanctified rivers OF ZEIR ANPIN of pure balsam, SINCE IT IS THE SECRET OF THE PURE AIR THAT CHESED, GVURAH AND TIFERET OF ZEIR ANPIN RECEIVE FROM ABA AND IMA ABOVE. THAT IS THE SECRET OF THE PURE BALSAM AND THAT IS WHAT IS MEANT BY: "THEY FLOW BETWEEN THE HILLS," WHICH ARE CHESED, GVURAH AND TIFERET OF ZEIR ANPIN, CALLED 'MOUNTAINS.' AND FROM IT MALCHUT RECEIVES. And all, ZEIR ANPIN AND MALCHUT, drink together from that spring of the higher sanctified stream that continues to flow, WHICH IS YISRAEL-SABA AND TEVUNAH.

28. כְּמַבּוּעָא וּמְקוֹרָא דְּמַיָא דְּמָלֵּי קוּזְפָא רַבָּא מִנֵּיהּ, וּמִתַּמָּן אִתְמַשְּׁכָן מַבּוּעִין דְּנַחֲלִין וְנַהֲרִין בְּכָל סְטָר, כַּךְ הַאי, בְּחַד שְׁבִיל דָּקִיק דְּלָא אִתְיְידַע, מָשִׁיךְ וְנָגִיד הַהוּא נָהָר דְּנָגִיד וְנָפִיק, וּמְמַלֵּי לְהַהוּא נַחֲלָא עֲמִיקָא, וּמִתַּמָּן אִתְמַשְּׁכָאן מַבּוּעִין וּנְחָלִין, וְאִתְמַלְּיָין מִנֵּיהּ. הה"ד, הַמְשַׁלֵּחַ מַעְיָנִים בַּנְּחָלִים וְגוֹ.' אִלֵּין נַהֲרֵי עִלָּאֵי קַדִּישָׁא דְּאֲפַרְסְמוֹנָא דַּכְיָיא, וְכֻלְּהוּ אִתְשַׁקְיָין כְּחַד מֵהַהוּא נְבִיעָא דְּנַחֲלָא עִלָּאָה קַדִּישָׁא דְּנָפִיק וְנָגִיד.

Asiyah Beasts Briyah Camp Chariot Eagle Head Metatron Ox Shadai Streams Worlds Yetzirah Zeir Anpin

29. AFTER ZEIR ANPIN AND MALCHUT DRINK, "they give to drink to every wild beast" that which is written: "and from thence it was parted, and branched into four streams (lit. 'heads')" (Beresheet 2:10). These four heads are "every wild (lit. 'field,' Heb. sadai) beast," WHICH ARE FOUR CREATURES, LION, OX, EAGLE AND MAN, WHICH ARE THE CHARIOT OF MALCHUT. They are the inclusion of all the camps and legions THAT ARE IN BRIYAH, YETZIRAH AND ASIYAH to which Shadai, THAT IS METATRON THAT IS CALLED 'SHADAI,' is attached, WHO IS ABOVE ALL OF THEM. Do not pronounce it Sadai WITH SIN, but rather Shadai, WITH SHIN, which is METATRON that receives and perfects IN HIMSELF the Name from Yesod, the Foundation of the world. This is SINCE THE NAME SHADAI IS IN YESOD OF ZEIR ANPIN, AND METATRON, BEING A CHARIOT TO YESOD OF ZEIR ANPIN, RECEIVES THIS NAME.

29. לְבָתַר, יַשְׁקוּ כָּל חַיְתוֹ שָׂדָי, הַיְינוּ דִּכְתִּיב וּמִשָּׁם יִפָּרֵד וְהָיָה לְאַרְבָּעָה רָאשִׁים. הָנֵי ד' רָאשִׁין, אִלֵּין אִינּוּן חַיְתוֹ שָׂדָי, כְּלָלָא דְּכָל אִינּוּן מַשִׁרְיָין, וְכָל אִינּוּן חַיָּילִין, דַּאֲחִידָן בְּהוּ שָׂדַי, אַל תִּקְרֵי שָׂדָי, אֶלָּא שַׁדָּי. דְּהוּא נָטִיל, וְאַשְׁלִים שְׁמָא מִיְּסוֹדָא דְּעָלְמָא.

Beasts Birds Chambers Directions Ezekiel Grades Living Creatures Waters Wheel

30. "The wild asses quench their thirst" (Tehilim 104:11). These are the ones about whom it is written: "and the wheels were lifted up along with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels" (Yechezkel 1:20). What is "the living creature?'' These are the wild beasts, which are four, and each one of them is in one direction OF THE FOUR DIRECTIONS of the world, and is called a 'living creature.' There are FOUR wheels to each one OF THE FOUR CREATURES, and none OF THE WHEELS move except from the spirit of the living creature that goes over it, MEANING EACH ONE OF THE WHEELS FROM THE CORRESPONDING SPIRIT IN THE CREATURES. When these LIVING CREATURES AND WHEELS are imbued with that higher drinking liquid, all the rest of the legions are fed and saturated and are rooted in their sources, and they unite with each other at certain levels. This is what is written: "beside them dwell the birds of the sky...He waters the hills from His upper chambers..." (Tehilim 104:12-13). These are the rest of the higher levels.

30. יְשְׁבְּרוּ פְרָאִים צְמָאָם, אִלֵּין אִינּוּן דִּכְתִּיב בְּהוּ, וְהָאוֹפַנִּים יִנָּשְׂאוּ לְעוּמָּתָם כִּי רוּחַ הַחַיָּה בָּאוֹפַנִּים, מַאן חַיָּה. אֶלָּא אִלֵּין חַיְתוֹ שָׂדָי, אַרְבַּע אִינּוּן, וְכָל חַד וְחַד לְחַד סִטְרָא דְּעָלְמָא. וְהַהוּא אִקְרֵי חַיָּה, וְאוֹפַנִּים לָקֳבֵיל כָּל חַד וְחַד. וְלָא אַזְלִין אֶלָּא מֵרוּחַ דְּהַהִיא חַיָּה דְּאָזִיל עָלַיְיהוּ וְכַד אִלֵּין מִתְשַׁקְיָין מֵהַהוּא שַׁקְיוּ עִלָּאָה, כָּל שְׁאַר חַיָּילִין אַחֲרָנִין אִשְׁתַּקְיָין, וְאִתְרַוָון, וּמִשְׁתָּרְשָׁן בְּשָׁרְשַׁיְיהוּ, וְאִתְאַחֲדָן אִלֵּין בְּאִלֵּין, בְּדַרְגִּין יְדִיעָן. הה"ד, עֲלֵיהֶם עוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם יִשְׁכּוֹן וְגוֹ.' מַשְׁקֶה הָרִים מֵעֲלִיּוֹתָיו וְגוֹ.' אִלֵּין שְׁאַר דַּרְגִּין עִלָּאִין.