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437) “Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listened and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and esteem His name.” It is written, “Then … spoke,” meaning spoke above. That is, all the holy Merkavot and all the holy armies spoke to one another before the Creator.
438) Because these holy words that they said rise up, and several rush and carry them before the holy King, and become crowned in several crowns in these upper lights, and all spoke before the holy King. Who saw joys and who saw praises that rise in all those firmaments? When these words rise and the holy king looks at them and crowns in them, they rise and sit in His lap, and He plays with them. From there, from His lap, they rise to His head and become a crown. This is why the Torah said, “And I will be delighted each day.” It does not say, “was,” but “will be,” in future tense. That is, each time the upper words rise before Him.
In a previous verse it is written, “You said, ‘It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept His charge?’” The writing ends about it, “Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listened and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and esteem His name. …’And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.’” The words seem perplexing because while saying that they said to one another such words of heresy, as it is written, “It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept His charge.” It is said about them, “Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listened and heard.” Moreover, they are so cared for that “A book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and esteem His name.”
However, the writing speaks of those righteous who were rewarded with repentance from love, when sins become merits. And the greater the transgression, the greater merit it became. It follows that when these righteous were pondering the beginning, saying, “It is vain to serve God,” an iniquity of which there is none worse, then these words of heresy have now become great merits due to the repentance from love that they have made. Now they are considered as though at that time those who fear the Lord spoke to one another these words of heresy, for they have become merits, and by this great inversion, great delight was made before the Creator.
It was said, “Spoke above. That is, all the holy Merkavot and all the holy armies spoke to one another before the Creator.” This is so because the same words that they said while they were wicked, “It is vain to serve God,” have risen up through the angels, the Merkavot, who knew that those righteous would repent from love, and the end of these words will be for merits, for great lights, and for entertainment before the Creator.
It is so because those holy words that they said, “It is vain to serve God,” which have now become holy after they repented from love, rise up through the angels as soon as they said them. Also, several of them rush and carry them to the holy King, and are crowned in several crowns in these upper lights. Even before they repent from love, the angels rush and bring the words to the holy King because it is already known above that they will repent from love for each and every word that they will say.
Each word will become a merit and a great light, and the delights are very great. It was said, “Who saw joys and who saw praises that rise in all those firmaments,” when these words rise. The holy King observes them and crowns Himself in them, and they rise and sit in His lap, since the concealment of the Creator is considered His lap. And since they have not yet repented from love, the words that they said sit in the Creator’s lap, in concealment of the face. However, since it is known to the Creator that they will repent from love, He plays with them in His lap, since after they repent, they ascend to His head and become a crown.
439) It writes, “Those who fear the Lord” twice: “Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another … and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord.” When those who fear the Lord above repent from love, they stand above before the Creator. Those who fear the Lord below means that afterwards they descend to their place, to the earth below. And even those who fear the Lord are already down in their places. These words stand in their form above.
You will find this matter in the book of Enoch, that all the words in which the righteous on the earth crown in, and stand before the King while they repent from love, at that time, they crown in sins that have become merits, and stand in themselves above before the King, and the Creator plays with them. Afterwards the righteous descend and the words remain before Him in the same form of turning from sins to merits that the righteous said, and the Creator plays with that form. Subsequently, they were written in a book of remembrance before Him, so they will always stand before Him in existence.
440) “And to those who esteem His name,” means that all those who esteem words of Torah to cling to their Master in the holy name, to know Him, so He would correct the wisdom of His name in their hearts, it is written about them, “To those who esteem His name,” which is the holy name.
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