Kabbalah Library

181. “So they shall put My name” means that they will correct, that through their blessing, the priests will correct the Sefirot of the right to the right, and the Sefirot the left to the left. They must not err in them and correct everything so the upper ones and lower ones are blessed.

182. If they do so, it is written, “And I will bless them,” those priests, as it is written, “And those who bless you are blessed,” and as it is written, “And I will bless those who bless you.” They bless the people, and I will bless those who bless.

183. A priest whom the people does not love will not raise his hands. There is a story about a priest who arose and raised his hands, and before he completed, he became a pile of bones, since he did not bless with love. And another priest arose and raised his hands and blessed, and corrected that day. Any priest who does not love the people, or that the people does not love him, will not raise his hands to bless the people, as it is written, “the good-eyed, he will be blessed.” Do not pronounce it “will be blessed,” but “will bless.”

184. It is said about that wicked one Balaam that when he gave himself up to bless Israel, he was looking with an evil eye so the blessing would not come true. He hung his words on the evil eye, as it is written, “The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor,” for Beor hated them more than all the people in the world.

185. It is written, “Open your eyes,” to bless. The blessing of Rav Hamnuna Saba, he would say it like this: May the Creator open His eyes on you.” It is written about the wicked, “The oracle of the man whose eye is open,” so they would not be blessed by him. For this reason, the priest who blesses with a good eye, his blessing comes true, and one who does not bless with a good eye, it is written, “Do not eat the bread of an evil eyed man, nor desire his delicacies,” meaning do not want any blessing from him at all.

186. “But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam.” Should it not have written “to Balak,” since Balak did everything? However, because he was closing his eyes so that Israel would not be blessed, the Creator said to Balaam, “Wicked! You closed your eyes so that My children would not be blessed, I will open My eyes, and I will turn all the things you say into blessings,” as it is written, “And the Lord your God will turn for you the curse into a blessing, since the Lord your God loves you.”

187. It is written, “The good eyed, he will be blessed, for he has given of his bread to the poor.” “Of his bread,” as it is written, “the bread of his God from the Holy of Holies,” meaning that the bread of his God came out from the Holy of Holies. For this reason, “He has given of his bread to the poor.” How beloved are Israel by the Creator, for the upper ones are not blessed unless for Israel.

The good eyed is Yesod. The poor is Malchut. Bina is the Holy of Holies. This means that the Holy of Holies, Bina, the abundance called “bread of his God,” comes out from her. The good eyed, Yesod, gave of his bread, the abundance of Bina, called the “bread of his God,” to the poor, to Malchut.

188. The Creator swore that He would not enter the Jerusalem of above, the complete coupling of Yod-Hey, until Israel enter the Jerusalem of below, until the complete redemption, as it is written, “A holy one in your midst, and I will not come into a city,” that as long as the Shechina is in exile, the name of above is incomplete, and as long as all the corrections have not been corrected, prior to the end of correction, it is as though the holy name remains deficient.

This is so because there are two couplings in AVI: internal and external. The Creator swore that He would not enter the Jerusalem of above in the inner coupling of Yod-Hey, which are AVI. However, the external coupling of AVI is applied in the 6,000 years. It was said about the internal coupling, as though the holy name remains deficient, but not about the external coupling.

189. Rabbi Zira said to Rabbi Aba, “I saw the face of the Shechina, and one who sees ‎the face of the Shechina should walk and run after her, as it is written, ‘Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord,’ and it is written, ‘Many nations shall come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths. For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.’’ And I want to walk after you and ‎learn from those good things that you taste each day from the holy chamber of Rabbi ‎Shimon.”