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686) “A Song of ascents for Solomon: Unless the Lord builds a house, they who built it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman watches in vain.” Did Solomon say this praise while he was building the Temple? It is not so. Rather, King David said it for his son, King Solomon, when Prophet Nathan came to him and told him about Solomon that he would build the Temple. Afterwards, King David showed Solomon the shape of the Temple. When David saw the shape of the Temple and all its corrections, he said a psalm about Solomon and said, “Unless the Lord builds a house.”
687) “A Song of ascents for Solomon,” to the king that peace is his, to him who is ZA. This singing is a song and praise more than all other songs. This singing exceeds them all. “Unless the Lord builds a house,” since King David saw all those seven pillars, HGT NHYM de ZA, on which the house, Malchut, stands. They stand row by row to build this house, and atop them all stands the landlord, Bina, walking over them and giving each of them strength and courage.
688) David said about that, “Unless the King that peace is all His, Bina, the landlord, does not build this house, they who built it labor in vain, meaning the pillars, HGT NHYM de ZA, which are poised to build that house.” If Bina did not mitigate the Malchut, who is called “house,” Malchut would be unfit to receive any light. “Unless the Lord guards the city” is the King that peace is all His, Bina, “The watchman watches in vain, which is one pillar on which the world, Malchut, was established.” This is the righteous, Yesod de ZA, who keeps this city, Malchut. Bina is called “The King that peace is all His,” from which all the Mochin extend. And ZA is called “The king that peace is His,” Yesod, who is called “peace.” For this reason, “A Song of ascents for Solomon,” ZA, “Unless the Lord,” Bina, “Builds a house.”
689) The tabernacle that Moses did, which is Malchut in Mochin de VAK, Joshua always stood and guarded it. There is no guarding except in him, who is called “a youth,” Matat, as it is written, “His servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not move from the tent.” This tabernacle was not guarded by another youth, as it is written, “And the boy Samuel was ministering,” since there is no guarding of the tabernacle but in a youth, and that guard is the same one who guards the upper tabernacle, Malchut in Mochin de VAK, and he is called “a youth,” Matat.
690) But you high and holy ones, your guarding is not as the guarding of the tabernacle. Rather, your guarding is as the guarding of the Temple, the Malchut in Mochin of PBP [face-to-face] with ZA, which only the Creator guards, as it is written, “Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman watches in vain.” It is so because whenever the righteous are walking on the road, the Creator always guards them, as it is written, “The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in.”
691) “For He will give His angels charge concerning you, to guard you in all your ways. They will carry you in their hands.” First it writes, “For He will give His angels charge concerning you, to guard you,” which is the angel Matat. Then it is written, “They will carry you in their hands,” which is the Creator Himself, Bina, who carries Malchut and the righteous in His hands, for her diminution that she received through the Malchut. By that, she can later bestow her Gadlut, as well, upon the righteous and upon Malchut. It is written, “They will carry you in their hands,” meaning on her diminution and Katnut, which is called “hands,” since “That you do not strike your foot against a stone,” which is Midat ha Din [quality of judgment] of Malchut de Tzimtzum Aleph. It is called “a stone,” for wherever it appears, all the Mochin promptly part.
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