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73. “Turn to me and pardon me … give Your strength to Your servant.” “Turn to me and pardon me.” Did the Creator have no person in the world as beautiful as David, who said, “Turn to me and pardon me”? The Creator has another David, Malchut, who is called David. He is appointed over several upper battalions and camps, and when the Creator wants to pardon the world, He looks at this David and brightens His face to him, and he shines to the world and pardon the world.

74. The beauty of this David shines to all the worlds. His head is a skull of gold, woven with seven ornaments from seven kinds of gold. The love of the Creator is before him, and because of all his love for Him, he says to the Creator to turn His eyes toward him and look at him. He said, “Turn to me and pardon me,” because they are beautiful in everything, as it is written, “Turn your eyes away from me, for they enflame me.”

When these eyes of Malchut look at the Creator, arrows of love from slings awaken in His heart with upper love, and because of the great flame of the upper love for him, he says, “Turn your eyes away from me,” move your eyes from me to another side for they are burning me with the flame of love. This is why it is written about David, “And he was red, with pretty eyes and handsome.” And because of the upper beautiful, loved one, for the love and passion of the Creator to adhere to him, David said, “Turn to me and pardon me.”

The light of Bina from the left line is called “gold.” A golden skull is GAR in Malchut, head [Rosh] and skull [Galgalta] that shine in an illumination of Hochma from the left line in Bina, which are called gold. There are seven Sefirot HGT NHYM in this illumination, seven ornaments from seven kinds of gold. The beauty is from the illumination of Hochma.

75. It is written, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed.” This means that along with Jacob, the Garden of Eden entered, which is a field of holy apples. How could the Garden of Eden enter with him? After all, the Garden of Eden is so big in length and width, with several upper, holy houses, degrees upon degrees and sections upon sections that are there.

76. However, the Creator has a different upper, holy garden, Malchut. In that garden is His love, He is adhered to it, and it is kept for the Creator alone, who enters it. The Creator inherits it, so he will always be with the righteous, and especially, that he will be with Jacob. This is what the Creator summoned, that you would enter with Him to help Him.

77. “I am the Lord, God of Abraham your father, and God of Isaac; the earth on which you lie.” The whole of the land of Israel folded under him, which is why He told him “The earth on which you lie, to you I will give it and to your descendants.” The land of Israel, which is 400 parasangs over 400 parasangs, how was it uprooted and came under him? Rather, the Creator has a different upper earth, and it is called “the land of Israel,” Malchut, and it is under the degree of Jacob, who stands on it. Jacob is a Merkava [chariot/structure] to ZA, and Malchut is under ZA. The Creator bequeathed it to Israel for their love, so she would dwell with them and lead them, to protect them from everything, and it is called “the land of the living.”