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57) This is why it is written, “And if you say, ‘What shall we eat on the seventh year,’” it is written, “Then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall yield the crop for three years.” It should have said, “Yield,” with a Hey [in Hebrew]; what is “Yield” without a Hey? The Hey, Malchut, is removed from yielding, since Shmita and rest apply in her and she does not do work, as it is written, “See that the Lord has given you … on the sixth day,” Yesod, “The bread of two days.” Similarly, it is written, “Then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year,” Yesod, “And it shall yield the crop for three years.”
62) “Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faith.” Happy is a man who does good of his own, since he awakens, good, meaning Yesod, in the assembly of Israel, Malchut. And he awakens with Tzedakah [righteousness/almsgiving], since when Tzedakah is evoked, good is evoked toward the assembly of Israel. This is why it is written, “But righteousness [Tzedakah] delivers from death,” since Tzedakah is the tree of life, ZA, and it awakens over the tree of death and takes those who cling to it and delivers them from death. Who caused the tree of life to awaken to that? It is the Tzedakah that a man has done; it made Malchut mate in the tree of life.
63) “You may use them as slaves forever.” It is a Mitzva [commandment] to enslave a Canaanite slave. They are from the side of Ham, who performed incest, as it is written, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brothers.” “A servant of servants” means that he is a servant of a servant of that world, which is the world of Jubilee. This means that he is a slave to a pierced slave from Israel, who goes out free in the world on the Jubilee, but he does not go out free even on the Jubilee.
64) This must be in the form of incarnation, moving the light from before the darkness. This means that Abraham’s slave, who came out of darkness, who is the seed of Ham, suffices for being as his master, who is Abraham, who came out of Terah, an idol worshipper. This is why he came out of being cursed and out of darkness and became blessed by the Creator, like Abraham, who came out of Terah, which was light out of darkness, too. And darkness from before the light is Ishmael, who came out of Abraham, and Esau from Isaac.
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