"And if a woman has an issue of her blood"

28. "And if a woman has an issue of her blood for many days not in the time of her menstruation..." (Vayikra 15:25). Rabbi Chiya opened the discourse on the verse: "Behold, the day of Hashem comes when Your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you" (Zecharyah 14:1). This verse should have been written, 'Behold the day...will come.' Why is it written: "the day comes (also: 'came')?" HE ANSWERS: This day has come before the creation of the world, MEANING MALCHUT OUT OF WHICH ALL JUDGMENTS COME. On this day, the Holy One, blessed be He, will punish the wicked and take vengeance on those that afflict Yisrael. That day comes and stands before the Holy One, blessed be He, and calls upon Him to execute judgment and to destroy the heathens. It receives permission, as it is written: "For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle" (Ibid. 2).

29. Rabbi Yitzchak said: The Holy One, blessed be He, has two days, one that stays with Him, NAMELY GVURAH, and one that comes before Him, NAMELY MALCHUT. And with these, He makes war on all. When that day, MALCHUT, comes to make war, it unites with the other day, WHICH IS GVURAH OF ZEIR ANPIN. It takes the arms OF GVURAH OF ZEIR ANPIN and supplements ITS OWN arms, "for the day of Hashem, Tzva'ot shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up that he shall be brought low" (Yeshayah 2:12).

30. Rabbi Shimon cited the verse: "And if a woman has an issue of her blood." This verse has the same meaning as the following: "The sword of Hashem is filled with blood" (Yeshayah 34:6). MALCHUT IS CALLED 'A SWORD' AND ALSO 'A WOMAN,' for assuredly she "is filled with blood," THAT IS, JUDGMENTS, as it is written: "an issue of her blood many days not in the time of her menstruation." This has the same meaning as the verse: "Therefore, Hashem has watched over the evil and brought it upon us," (Daniel 9:14) for we have learned that by their sins, the wicked cause the Holy One, blessed be He, to bring punishments to the world BEFORE THEIR TIME, AND THAT IS THE SECRET OF "NOT IN THE TIME OF HER MENSTRUATION." "Or if it run beyond the time of her menstruation" (Vayikra 15:25), NAMELY, "then I will punish you...more" (Vayikra 26:18). What is the meaning of "punish you...more?" THIS MEANS I will increase more and more Judgments and add blood to blood, more than there is in "the sword of Hashem is filled with blood." THAT IS, THERE ARE MORE JUDGMENTS THAN THERE ALREADY ARE IN MALCHUT HERSELF, FOR THIS IS THE SECRET OF: "IF IT RUN BEYOND THE TIME OF HER MENSTRUATION." THAT IS, MORE JUDGMENTS WILL RUN BEYOND THOSE OF HER MENSTRUATION; WHICH ARE, HER OWN JUDGMENTS.

31. It is written: "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake" (Beresheet 8:21), MEANING I will not again add JUDGMENTS to this sword, WHICH IS MALCHUT, but only to the extent that the world is able to sustain. HE ASKS: It is written "more," MEANING THAT HE WILL SUPPLEMENT JUDGMENTS TO MALCHUT. HE ANSWERS: Yet it is written, "I will punish you MORE," not 'destroy,' WHICH MEANS HE GIVES MORE ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT THE WORLD WILL BE ABLE TO SUFFER. Therefore, it is written: "If it run beyond the time of her menstruation," SHE WILL HAVE MORE JUDGMENTS THAN SHE HAS OF HER OWN.

32. "All the days of the issue of her uncleanness" (Vayikra 15:25). What are "the days of the issue of her uncleanness?" HE ANSWERS: The wicked pollute BOTH themselves and another place with their sins, as it is written: "Because he has defiled the sanctuary of Hashem" (Bemidbar 19:20). An Unclean Spirit is awakened against them. In the time to come, the Holy One, blessed be He, will purify Yisrael and remove that Unclean Spirit from the world, as it is written: "For henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and unclean" (Yeshayah 52:1), and: "And also I will cause the Unclean Spirit to pass out of the land" (Zecharyah 13:2); out of the land indeed.