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60) “Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon.” Woe unto people who do not know and are not careful with the work of their Creator. This is so because each day, a voice comes out of Mount Horeb and says, “Woe unto people, for they slight the works of their Creator. Woe unto people from desecrating the glory of the Torah.”
Anyone who engages in Torah in this world and acquires good deeds inherits a whole world. And anyone who does not engage in Torah in this world and does not do good deeds, inherits neither this world nor the next world. He asks, “Either one inherits a whole world or loses both worlds? But there is he who inherits his world according to his place and according to what he deserves. Thus, there is a middle way.” Only one who does not have any good deeds is devoid of both worlds. But if he has good deeds, even if they are incomplete, he inherits his world according to what he deserves, both in this world and in the next world.
61) If people knew the Creator’s love for Israel they would roar as lions and chase Him in order to adhere to Him. When Jacob went down to Egypt, the Creator called upon His company of angels and told them, “Go down to Egypt all of you, and I will go down with you.” Divinity said, “O Lord almighty, is there an army without the King?” Divinity is considered the king of all the angels, since they are all drawn out of her. He told her, “Come with Me from Lebanon, My bride,” you, too, will come with Me. “From Lebanon” means from the place of Eden, Hochma, which is whitened in all its actions.
“Bride” is Divinity, which is a bride in the Huppah [wedding canopy], as it is written, “And it came to pass on the day that Moses had made an end.” It writes “End” without a Vav [in Hebrew], which means on the day when the bride enters the Huppah. And this bride is Divinity, which is in the Temple, a bride in the Huppah.
62) “[Come] with me from Lebanon,” from the place of the Temple above. “Look from the top of Amana,” from the top of those who have Emuna [faith], who are Jacob and his sons. “From the top of Senir and Hermon,” which are destined to receive My law. “From mount Hermon” means Mount Sinai, which is called “Hermon,” to protect them in their exile, which is called “Hermon,” from the word Herem [excommunication]. “From the lions’ dens” refers to the idol worshipping nations, which are similar to lions and leopards that torture Israel with every hard labor.
63) “Come with me from Lebanon, my bride.” But does she come from Lebanon? She rises to Lebanon. Divinity is below Chazeh de ZA and she rises to Lebanon to receive Hochma. It should have said, “Will rise with me to Lebanon.” However, when Divinity went down to Egypt, the 600,000 serving angels went down with her with the Creator in the lead, as it is written, “And their king is passed on before them, and the Lord at the head of them.”
64) “Come with me from Lebanon, my bride” is Divinity. “With me from Lebanon” means from the place of the Temple above, from Bina. “Look from the top of Amana,” from the place of the Temple above and from the place of the Temple below. Never had Divinity moved from the Western wall of the Temple, as it is written, “Behold, he stands behind our wall.” He is the head of Amana to the whole world. “From the top of Senir and Hermon,” the place from which the Torah came out to the world, Mount Sinai, called “Hermon.” To protect Israel from the lions’ dens—the idol worshipping nations. “From the lions’ dens” are the disciples of the wise who engage in the Torah in the abodes of the seminaries and in synagogues, who are lions and leopards in the Torah.
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