Kabbalah Library

290. Every eve of the Sabbath, when Israel sanctify the day below, the herald goes out to the four directions of the world: “Gather, holy camps, set up thrones.” Who has seen the joy of several appointees, several rulers gathering into their places in 390 firmaments? When Israel below sanctify the day, the tree of life, ZA, awakens and a wind blows from the next world, from Bina, strikes its leaves, and those branches in the tree move and lift up the smells of the next world.

The tree is ZA; its branches are its Sefirot; and the leaves are the souls he engenders. The 390 firmaments are HB TM, where each consists of one hundred. Only Malchut lacks the final ten, for because they are from Malchut of Malchut, the quality of judgment, they are concealed. Hence, they are 400 minus ten.

291. The tree of life awakens and elicits holy souls, and spreads them over the world. Yet, souls go out and souls come in; souls go out to clothe in Israel in this world, and the souls of the righteous rise from the bottom Garden of Eden and enter upward into the upper Garden of Eden. Those that come out awaken those that will come in, and therefore, some go out and some come in, and the tree of life, ZA, is in joy.

292. At that time, all of Israel crown themselves with the crowns of those holy souls, added souls, and everyone is in joy and contentment, and throughout the Sabbath, they have joy and contentment, and all the righteous in the garden rise and take pleasure in the high delight of the next world in the upper Garden of Eden. When the Sabbath ends, all the souls fly out from Israel and rise up.

293. When the Sabbath begins, the added souls come down to be upon the holy nation, and the souls of the righteous from the bottom Garden of Eden rise up to the upper Garden of Eden. When the Sabbath ends, those souls that were on Israel go up, the added souls, and those souls of the righteous that went up to the upper Garden of Eden descend and return to the bottom Garden of Eden.

294. When all the souls that were on Israel have ascended, they rise and stand in form before the holy king, and the Creator asks all of them, “What innovation in the Torah did you have in that world?” Happy is one who says before Him innovations in the Torah. The Creator makes such joy, gathers His entourage, the upper souls and the angels, and says, “Listen to the innovations in the Torah that this soul of so and so says in the Torah.” Then everyone places that thing in the two seminaries, in the seminary of the Creator and in the seminary of Matat. They are below, and the Creator above signs on that matter.

295. When something is innovated in the Torah, and the added soul that descended on the Sabbath engaged in those innovations in matters of the Torah, and ascends after the Sabbath, the whole entourage of above listens to that thing. The holy animals grow in their wings and dress in their wings, and when He asks the souls about innovations in the Torah and they do not reply and keep silent, the holy animals, it is written about them, “While they stand, their wings become loose.” “While they stand,” meaning in their silence.

296. Why does he call being silent standing? Seven organs move with him when he speaks. These are the heart, lungs, trachea, tongue, teeth, and flesh. In silence, they stand still without moving. This is why he calls silence “standing.”