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402) It is written, “Do not rejoice over me, my enemy. Though I have fallen, I shall rise.” “My enemy” is the wicked Malchut, the enemy of the holy Malchut. This verse was said by the Assembly of Israel, the holy Malchut. “Do not rejoice over me, my enemy. Though I have fallen, I shall rise.” But when the other, wicked Malchut, falls, she will never rise again. But as for the Assembly of Israel, even if she falls, she will rise, and she has risen many times, as it is written, “Though I have fallen, I shall rise.”
403) Several times did the Assembly of Israel fall in exile, dwelling among those enemies, and the rest of the idol-worshipping nations rose up against Israel to obliterate them from the world, as it is written, “They devise a cunning secret against Your people.” It is also written, “For they have conspired together with one heart.” “They said, ‘Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation.’” And yet, even though the rest of the nations rose up against them, the Creator did not leave them in their hands, and if they fell, they rose, as it is written, “Though I have fallen, I shall rise,” since the Creator always raises her.
404) When the Creator raises the Assembly of Israel, Malchut, from the dust of exile, and she departs from it, she will say, “Do not rejoice over me, my enemy. Though I have fallen, I shall rise.” Though I have fallen in exile and my children were enslaved, I have risen at this time. For this reason, when Moses brought Israel out of Egypt, when the Creator worked all those miracles and mighty deeds for them, then, “And Moses established the tabernacle,” since by Moses, ZA, the tabernacle—Malchut—was erected every time.
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