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75) “For unto Me are the children of Israel servants.” It is a Mitzva to serve in all kinds of services in the Temple and outside the Temple and all those actions called “work,” meaning prayer, and to exert in the Mitzvot of the Torah. It is all called “work,” like a slave who exerts after his master with everything he needs.
76) It calls Israel “slaves,” as it is written, “For unto Me are the children of Israel servants; they are My servants.” Servants, because it is written, “That [I] brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,” to serve Him as a servant serves his master, who redeemed him from death and delivered him from all the harms in the world.
A slave corrects the lights of Hochma in the left, since because of the sin of Adam ha Rishon, the lights and Kelim of illumination of Hochma of holiness declined and fell into the Klipa of Egypt. This is the reason why Israel were forced to be slaves in the land of Egypt. Also, three discernments did these scrutinies of the left go through until they were completed in the giving of the Torah, in Neshama, Haya, and Yechida of the illumination of the left, meaning correction of the left.
At that time, they took out with them the sparks and the Kelim of the illumination of Hochma in the left, as it is written, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.” This is the continuation of the disclosure of the corrections of the left, ascribed to the work of the slave. And opposite that is the discernment of “son,” which extends from the middle line.
77) By two ways are Israel called “slaves” in relation to the Creator, as it is written, “They are My servants,” and they are called “sons,” as it is written, “You are the children of the Lord your God.” A man who knows the Creator in a general manner is called a “slave,” for he keeps his master’s commandments. He has no permission to search in the treasures and the secrets of His house. And those who know the Creator in a particular manner are called “His beloved sons,” and they are as sons that search in the secrets and the secrets of His home.
The slave extends only from illumination of the left of holiness, which is corrected to shine only from below upwards, in female light, VAK, without any doing. He knows the Creator in a general way, from below upwards, and has no permission to search in treasures and secrets of His House, since His illumination is in female light, which is prohibited from any action.
But a son clings to the middle line, to His Hassadim, to the male light, which is imparted from above downwards, where there is GAR and action, searching in His treasures. He knows the Creator in a particular manner, which is attached to the middle line, like a son who searches in the secrets, in all the secrets of His home, since he is the male light and GAR, which is imparted from above downwards, where both action and searching in the King’s secrets apply.
78) And even though he is called “a son,” a firstborn son to the Creator, as it is written, “My son, My firstborn, Israel,” He should not exclude himself from being a slave, serving his father in all the works that glorify his Father. Thus, every person should be a son to his father, to search in His secrets and to know the secrets of His home, to exert for them and to be as a slave to his father.
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