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245. “Thus says the Lord, ‘Keep justice and do righteousness, for My salvation will soon come.’” How beloved are Israel by the Creator; although they have sinned against Him, and they sin against Him all the time, He makes Israel’s sins as mistakes.

246. Three gates of judgments were established in the books of the Mishnah: 1) In the four basic kinds of damages, Baba Kama, 2) a Talit [prayer shawl] that was found, Baba Metzia, 3) Partners and the matter of the loss, Baba Batra.

The reason is that the Creator always makes Israel’s sins as mistakes, and those who compiled the Mishnah, compiled it so in three gates: Baba Kama, Baba Metzia, Baba Batra. They took the way of the text, as it is written, “For any crime, for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, for any loss,” it is a none-malevolent crime, since the Creator makes the sins as mistakes.

The crime is as it is written, “for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep.” This is Baba Kama, which speaks of these things. “For a cloak” is Baba Metzia, which speaks of a Talit that was found. “For any loss” is Baba Batra.

247. For they took the way of the text. When Rav Hamnuna Saba arrived at Baba Metzia, he would say, “the beginning,” which they made with a Talit, since Baba Metzia begins with “Two Holding a Talit.” Once the text about the cloak was found, he said, “This order is indeed a rule for Moses from Sinai, which all the words of the sages explained.”

248. “Thus says the Lord.” It is written everywhere in Prophets, “Thus says the Lord,” and in Moses, it is written, “This is the matter.” Moses, whose prophecy was from a mirror that shines above, ZA, “Thus,” is not written about it that it is Malchut. But the rest of the prophets, who were prophesying from a mirror that does not shine, Malchut, who is called Yod-hey, they prophesied from within the “Thus.”

249. “And now come and curse this people for me.” “And now,” that wicked one said, “The time is ripe for me to do everything I want.” He saw, but he saw incompletely. He saw that several thousand from Israel fell by him in a short time. He said, “Now must be the right time for me,” and this is why he said, “And now,” and not in another time.

250. “Come.” Should it not have said “go”? However, he said, “Let us hurry ourselves to fight against the one who hovers over them with his wings,” the one whose name is Yod-Hey, Malchut. And now let us come and make war with that Yod-Hey.

251. He said, “Until now, there was no one in the world who could defeat them because of that protector who stands over them. Now the time is ripe for us; let us make war on Yod-Hey. Every advice of that wicked one was for Yod-Hey, as it is written, “while I meet the Lord [Yod-Hey] over there.” That is, I will uproot that Yod-Hey from its place. Both conspired against that Yod-Hey, as it is written, “against the Lord and against his anointed one.” However, they did not know that afterwards, that Yod-Hey would uproot them from the world.