The Lord Has Done What He Devised

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46) “The Lord has done what He devised; He has performed His word that He commanded in the days of old.”

47) “He has performed His word” means He tore His garment of glory, called a “garment of kingship.” “That He commanded in the days of old.” He commanded that garment of kingship from those upper days of old, the Sefirot of Partzuf Atik, called “days of old.” He tore it on the day when the Temple was ruined, for that garment of kingship is His glory and his correction.

Malchut is called the “glory of the Creator.” She is His correction because He is corrected by her with Mochin of illumination of Hochma. He tore it means that the upper nine have departed from her and a tenth of her remains.

48) “The Lord has done what He devised.” Is it the king’s way to contemplate harming his sons even before they come to sin? It is like a king who had a precious vessel. Each day he feared that it would break, so he would look at it and it was straight in his eyes. In time, the son came and angered the king. The king took the precious vessel and broke it, as it is written, “The Lord has done what He devised.”

49) Since the day when the Temple was built, the Creator was looking in it and He was very fond of it. He feared that Israel would sin and the Temple would be ruined. And so, each time He would come to the Temple, He would wear that garment of kingship, meaning He would mate with Malchut. After they caused the sins and angered the king, the Temple was ruined and He tore that garment of kingship, as it is written, “The Lord has done what He devised; He has performed His word.”

50) “His word” is Malchut. At first she would sit at the topmost branch, and the king would be crowned with her as a crown on his head, with the tree of the souls in front of him before they come into the world. Now that the Temple has been ruined, He tore it, meaning that the upper nine have departed from her and she remained with only the light of Nefesh. And then, when the Temple was ruined, sadness has formed before Him, but only in the outer buildings, not in the inner ones, as it is written, “But their valiant ones cry without,” meaning only on the outside.

51) “And in that day did the Lord, God of hosts, call to weeping and to lamentation.” Only when the Temple was ruined did He call to weeping and to lamentation. But on other times there is no joy before the Creator as when the wicked of the world and they who anger Him are lost from the world, as it is written, “When the wicked perish there is singing.” It is likewise in each generation: when He executes Din against the wicked of the world, there is joy and singing before the Creator.

52) But there is no joy before the Creator when He executes Din against the wicked. Rather, when the Din is done against the wicked, there is joy and singing before Him for their perishing from the world. When it was time, He waited for them to repent and they did not return to Him from their sin. But if the Din is done with them before their time, and their iniquity has not been completed, as it is written, “for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full,” and it is still possible that they will repent, then there is no joy before Him, and it is bad in His eyes that they have been lost.

53) If it is before their time, why does He execute Din against them? Indeed, they inflicted the harm on themselves. The Creator would not execute Din on them before their time, but because they connected to Israel in order to harm them He executed the Din in them and eradicated them from the world prematurely. This is why it is bad in His eyes to destroy them before their time, and this is why He drowned the Egyptians in the sea and destroyed Israel’s enemies in the days of Jehoshaphat, and likewise all of them. Because they harmed Israel, they were lost prematurely.

54) But when the time was ripe and He waited for them but they did not return in repentance, then there are joy and singing before Him for their removal from the world. The exception is when the Temple was ruined, for although their time has already been completed and they angered Him, there was still no joy before Him. And since that time onward there is no joy above or below.

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