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408. Malchut said, “I am black, and lovely.” “I am black” from the side that is below, posterior Mochin. And I am lovely from the side of the incorporation of above, anterior Mochin.

409. “I am black” when I see how many wicked ones annoying the Master of the world, and I feed them from the side of the incorporation of below in him. And I am love, from the side of above.

410. “Daughters of Jerusalem.” Although Jerusalem and the Temple are all one, they both imply Malchut. Nevertheless, the Temple is more important. Three degrees: the Temple, Jerusalem, and the house of Holy of Holies inside of them, the internality of all of them.

Jerusalem is the externality of all of them. This is why “daughters of Jerusalem” means angels, the degrees extended from Malchut when she is in externality, in the first state, when she is in posterior Mochin. The Temple is anterior Mochin, and the Holy of Holies is GAR of the anterior Mochin.

411. When Malchut decorates herself and wants to approach her husband, she decorates herself with anterior Mochin. She says to her camps, “I am black,” below, from posterior Mochin, “and very lovely,” by the incorporation with the side of above, anterior Mochin, as it is written, “And you who adhere to the Lord your God.” Israel adhere to the Creator, the middle line, in that correction of his, anterior Mochin, more than everyone.