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35) When the Creator wished to create the world, a desire came before Him and He created it in the Torah. And in it, it was improved, as it is written, “When He established the heavens, I was there.” It is also written, “Then I was with Him, as a nursling.” Do not read it as Amon [nursling], but as Oman [a master craftsman] that the master craftsman of the world was with him.

36) When He came to create man, the Torah said, “Is it without cause that you are called ‘Patient and Graceful’? If there is no one to sin, to whom will You be patient?” At the time when man came out to the world, his face was shining from above and from below and all the people feared him. The world was not completed and was not sustained before that time when man came out in the perfection of everything, the day was sanctified, and a Holy throne for the king was established, meaning Malchut. Then the upper ones and lower ones were completed and there was joy in all the worlds.

37) At the time when he wishes to sanctify the day, spirits and demons come out to create a body for themselves. And the day was sanctified and they were not created. The world remained as though its crafting was flawed and deficient due to the existence of spirits and demons. When Israel were sanctified and were completed in their degree, and the Levites were on the left, that flaw of the world was complemented, for it was made on the left side because of the existence of the spirits and demons, since through the Levites, the left was included in the right, and thus was the left corrected.

38) This is why the Levites must be purified, and then everything is included in the right and the world is not blemished. This is also why it is written, “And that Levite, he…” He completed the left side, complemented the flaw of the world. Moreover, when that north side was missing in the world, when the Creator created the world, the Levites complemented that, as well. This is so because the Levites complemented everything in the ark, in that burden that they were carrying in the tabernacle. When the tabernacle would travel, the whole of that flaw was complemented by them.

39) “And that Levite, he did the service.” “He” indicates above, on the left, when he corrects the left, above. “He” indicates being included in the right. “He” is Atik, Keter, since his work and correction reaches all the way to Keter. “He” indicates the hidden. Had there not been Din in the world, meaning the correction of the Levites, people would not have known the high faith, people would not have engaged in Torah, and the commandments of the Torah would not have existed. And who does for the Holy King the complete work in the world? It is the Levites.

40) “And that Levite, he…” “He,” as it is written, “For the Lord He is God,” by which this unification was made. “He” complements the perfection, so all will be one, so all the degrees will unite into one. “He” indicates expansion of the left to receive the assembly of Israel, Malchut, as it is written, “His left hand is under my head,” to later unite the Zivug together, “And his right hand will embrace me.” Who evoked the love of “His left hand is under my head,” which is the love of lovers? It is he, the Levite.

It is written, “It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people,” relating to the Creator. “He” means downwards, to correct the flaw in the world. “He” indicates upwards, to correct the left above. He is revealed to reveal the faith and the work in the world. He is concealed, which indicates Atik. He is God, which indicates the unification of “The Lord He is God.”

41) The Creator is destined to illuminate the moon as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be “Seven times more,” as it is written, “And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun.” It is also written, “Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself,” and it is written, “The sun shall be no more.”

42) “Every thing that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer unto the Lord, both of man and beast, shall be yours … and the firstling of unclean beasts shall you redeem.” This Mitzva [commandment] is to redeem the firstborn of a beast, to redeem himself for the next world. And if he does not redeem his Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama in the Torah before he goes to that world, he will reincarnate into this world as before, as it is written, “He returns to the days of his youth,” receiving Nefesh, and Ruach, and Neshama.

43) It is written, “Lo, all these things does God work, twice, thrice, with a man.” Because Israel’s redemption was without Torah—which is silver, meaning longing, coveting of the next world—they returned three more times to exile. But in the last exile, when their redemption is in the Torah, they will never return to exile. Our sages came and blessed him and said, “Loyal Shepherd, the Creator will redeem you and all of Israel will be redeemed through you, and you will be renewed with them, and they with you.”