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437) “And Elisha said unto her: ‘What shall I do for you? Tell me; what do you have in the house?” Elisha said to her, “Do you have anything on which the blessing of the Creator will be”? A person must not bless on an empty table because the blessing above does not stay over an empty place.
438) For this reason, one must set upon one’s table one bread or more to bless on. If he cannot set many, he should leave of the food that he has eaten so as to have what to bless on, and he will not be blessing on an empty table.
439) Since she said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil,” he said, “There is indeed a complete blessing in that,” as it is written, “A name is better than good oil,” since the holy name comes out of oil to bless and to light the holy candles. What is this oil? It is as it is written, “As the good oil over the head,” meaning the upper abundance. These are the mountains of pure persimmon, the abundance of upper Bina.
440) “A name is better than good oil.” How good is the upper name of the high and holy lights, when they all shine with the good oil? It is forbidden for a man to mention the name of the Creator in vain, for anyone who mentions the name of the Creator in vain, it is better for him not to be born.
441) The holy name should be mentioned only after a circumcision, since the holy name is not mentioned in the Torah, except after two words, as it is written, “In the beginning God created” [in Hebrew it is Beresheet Barah Elokim].
442) The holy name, HaVaYaH, is mentioned only with regard to a complete world, as it is written, “On the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.” Hence, we must not mention the holy name in vain, as it is written, “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.”
443) A blessing is the holy name because from Him is there blessing throughout the world, and there is no blessing in an empty place and it does not stay over it, as it is written, “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.”
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