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100) David is the king of Israel and should judge the people and lead Israel as a shepherd leading his flock so they will not stray from the path of truth. It is written, “At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You because of Your righteous ordinances.” He engaged in Torah and in praises to the Creator until morning.

101) And he awakened the dawn. When the day came he said, “How I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.” Anyone who engages in Torah to complement the judgment and scrutinize it to the fullest, it is as though he kept the whole Torah. This is why it is written, “It is my meditation all the day,” since he engaged in scrutiny of the judgment.

102) In the day, he engaged in Torah to complete the judgments, and at night he engaged in singing and praising until the day came because all through the day he was engaged in complementing and sorting the judgments, left, to include the left in the right, since day is right, Hesed. At night, he engaged in praises, Hassadim, to include the degree of night, judgment, in the day, Hesed.

103) In the days of King David he would bring “Every beast of the field,” dwellers of the three worlds BYA, to the sea, Malchut. When Solomon came and the Nukva was in her fullness, the sea, Nukva, came out and was filled, meaning she rose to upper AVI—which is her complete fulfillment—and watered them. This is so because then all the dwellers of BYA rose to Atzilut and received their abundance from the sea. First are the great, upper sea monsters, of which it is written, “And fill the waters in the seas,” which are Matat and Sandalphon of Beria, which are higher than the rest of the dwellers of BYA.