Sefariah Kedushat Levi, Letters of Approbation - Genesis, Bereshit
Sefariah Kedushat Levi, Letters of Approbation - Genesis, Bereshit
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It is an axiom, general principle, that G’d created the entire universe, and having done so, never withdraws from the universe for even a single moment, [unlike sculptors or painters who, once they have completed a sculpture or painting, move on to something else, having “finished” with their previous “creation.” Ed.] This axiom is true both of what He created in the heavens and what He created in the material, three-dimensional part of the universe. We pay tribute to this in our daily prayers when we say יוצר אור ובורא חושך, “He creates and fashions (present tense) light, and He creates darkness.” When speaking of any accomplishments of G’d’s creatures however, we speak of them in the past tense, i.e.יצר כסא, “he shaped a chair,” or עשה מזרון, “he made a mattress.” G’d’s creative activity is never completed, as the Torah testified in Genesis 2,3 אשר ברא אלוקים לעשות, “which the Lord has created in order to complete it.” This means that G’d is part of every creature He ever created, and once man realizes that he is nothing without G’d Who has created him and Who provides him with all the strength and creative stimuli that he possesses, he will be able to relate to Hashem as an ongoing creative Force in His universe. This is reflected every morning when we get up [after having used the washroom] and we refer to G’d with the words אשר יצר את האדם בחכמה, “Who has fashioned man with חכמה,” the word חכמה meaning the opposite of אין, “nothing.” It is appropriate therefore that in that prayer we refer to the creation of man in the past tense, as opposed to the line we quoted earlier, seeing that we refer to something or somebody who already exists, i.e. יש. This explains why the Ari z’al , Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, said that when we refer to G’d as ה' מלך, usually translated as “Hashem is King,” the reference is to the אין, “nothing,” i.e. G’d at any given moment gives us life, -by not withdrawing it from us.- The implied meaning of the expression is that man is “nothing” unless he continues to exist as part of G’d’s creative activity. The so-called אין, “nothing,” in terms of metaphysical beings, rules supreme in the regions beyond those that are part of the physical universe, the one that we conveniently refer to as “nature.” This so-called אין, is not really a “nothing,” in terms of the universe, its “nothingness” is such only vis a vis the physical part of the universe; in the celestial regions this “אין” rules supreme. [as opposed to the חכמה in our part of the universe. Ed. Although יש and אין are popularly perceived as absolute opposites, not having anything in common, this perception is built on a fallacy; the linkage between יש and אין are the mitzvot, Torah commandments, performed by the Jewish people. The commandments are performed in the section of the universe known as יש, as a result of which close contact is maintained between the aforementioned two domains of the universe. Ezekiel 1:14 refers to the “mitzvot” in their capacity as providing the link between the terrestrial and the celestial part of the universe with the words והחיות רצוא ושוב, “and the chayot ran to and fro”. According to the Zohar II 288, the mitzvot and the Torah respectively, are viewed as related to one another like the “hidden” is related to the “revealed,” both being part of the same whole. Torah and mitzvot provide the link between these two domains, so that each domain is not completely divorced from the other. This concept is contained in the letters of the word מצוה when we divide it up into מצ and וה. The letters מצ when we read the alphabet backwards, starting with the letter ת are equivalent to the letters יה, symbolising the totally abstract Divinity, whereas the letters וה symbolize the hidden parts of the universe, יש. The first half of the word מצוה being read with the two letters used in reverse order of the aleph bet, alludes to the “hidden” part of the universe, the domain exclusive to Divine, abstract forces. Let us explain something about what precisely is “hidden” and what is “revealed,” when it comes to the מצוה, “Torah commandment.” When we perform a מצוה, we cause G’d to become pleased with having created man, the choicest of His creatures. When we comply with requests made to us by a fellow human being, we can immediately gauge whether he is pleased by our actions or not, either by his face indicating this, or by words of approval, something that is not the case when we comply with G’d’s requests from us. Since He is invisible, and does not speak to us as He did to Moses, “mouth to mouth”, we have no way of knowing if our efforts to please Him have been successful. When we try to perform deeds that are for our (immediate) personal benefit, we are able to determine if our efforts have succeeded. This then is the “hidden” element present whenever we perform any of G’d’s commandments, מצות. This is what the Torah had in mind when it wrote (Deuteronomy 29,28) הנסתרות לה' אלוקינו, “the hidden aspects of mitzvah performance are reserved for the Lord our G’d;” on the other hand, והנגלות לנו ולבנינו עד עולם, “the benefits which the performance of the Torah confers upon us will be revealed forever.” This is also the meaning of the words בראשית ברא אלוקים, (addressed to us) “at the beginning of G’d’s creative activity G’d created the יש, a physical domain of the universe.” Through His creating יש, i.e. ראשית, a beginning, the creation of heaven and earth came into being, for prior to that there was only the אין, the abstract universe. This is the meaning of Targum Yerushalmi who renders this verse as 'בראשית בחוכמא ברא ה', “at the beginning G’d created by means of using intelligence found in the domain of the abstract regions.” חכמה, as we pointed out earlier, is a quality inherent in the terrestrial domain.
It follows that before G’d could undertake the creation of a physical universe He had to surround His essence with “garments” shielding His creatures from this overwhelming spiritual radiance emanating from Him. In order to achieve this, G’d “clothed” Himself in garments radiating light. If I understand this correctly, the closer G’d came to the eventual physical world, the more subdued was the brilliance exuded from His “garments,” which He changed from stage to stage so as to enable the creatures in each world to tolerate it without coming to harm through being blinded.
All of these “worlds” (regions inhabited by spiritual beings of varying degrees of holiness) are extremely bright, Isaiah 58,11 referring to them as והשביע בצחצחות נפשך “He will satiate your soul with brightness.”
In order to comprehend the meaning of the Midrash we need to remember that lying, the opposite of truth- is a sin which is in a category by itself, as people known to be liars will find it difficult if not impossible to be accepted in society even in this imperfect world where most people indulge in one sin or another. If someone desecrates the Sabbath, this will not be held against him by most of his peers who feel that it is a matter between him and G’d. If someone deliberately hurts others bodily, or even commits murder, the courts will punish him accordingly. In other words, there is a built in incentive on this earth for people not to commit murder, etc., as they know they will pay a heavy price when found out. Lying, because it is difficult for the courts to deal with, is dealt with by consensus of one’s peers who will shun the company of known liars. Sending “truth” to earth was G’d’s way of providing incentives for potential liars to be truthful, as otherwise they would be ostracised by their peers.
[In other words, rather than seeing in the Midrash above a “punishment” for truth having opposed the Creator, our author sees in it an acknowledgment by G’d that “Truth” in opposing the creation of the human species had a valid point, and He appointed “Truth” to be active on earth in order to minimize the potential danger to the whole species if too many people were to make lies their way of life. Ed.] The message of the Midrash is that without “Truth” the human species would not survive for long.
Once we reflect on this concept we will realize what a tremendous responsibility each one of us has in becoming a willing servant of the Lord, helping Him realize His fondest hopes for mankind. Even the angels were created only in order to facilitate G’d’s fondest hopes for the holy Jewish nation to be realized. Failure of any Jew to live up to the precepts of the Torah puts the entire universe at risk. Our verse takes us back to the time when the physical universe as we know it had existed in G’d’s mind only as a project. Whatever follows in the report of creation reflects only the stages by which G’d went about in carrying out this gigantic and mind-boggling project. Without the existence of the “higher” world, it would have been impossible to proceed with the creation of the “lower,” physical universe. The words תוהו ובהו are meant to make us reflect on this.
While the description of the state of the universe before man, i.e. Jews, had been charged with the task of being a nation of priests and a holy nation, is meant to make us aware of our duty to live as servants of our Creator and to ensure that His handiwork will prove to be worthwhile, we face a dilemma, portrayed in the following parable.
Our author sees in the word והארץ in our verse a veiled hint at the various temptations that human beings are constantly exposed to by living in a physical world, temptations that are apt to interfere with his desire to serve G’d as a loyal servant.
Expressed differently, since in the words of the introduction to the Zohar, page 5, (based on Proverbs 8,30 (Torah speaking) “then I was with Him (G’d) as an artisan,” i.e. G’d used the Torah and its letters as the tool with which to create the universe; it follows that every part of the universe is imbued with some letter of the Torah.
Just as man is charged to perform the Torah’s commandments with the various limbs of his body, (248), so earth is also charged with the task of performing “commandments” appropriate to its composition. The expressions פי הארץ, ”the earth’s mouth,” or עין הארץ, “the earth’s eye,” are more than just figures of speech. Each of our limbs exudes the living essence of the letter of the Torah that corresponds to a specific commandment that limb is supposed to perform. Joshua was able to conquer seven lands (of the Canaanites) because he understood what it was that enabled each specific land to remain “alive.” Similarly, every city in those countries had been charged since creation with performing certain duties vis a vis its Creator. Joshua’s knowledge of these duties enabled him to “conquer” these towns and countries with a minimum of Jewish blood being shed in the process.
According to the introduction of the Zohar page 5, there is no part of the physical universe that does not in some way reflect the meaning of one of the letters in the Torah. If any of these cities were to confront the invading Jewish armies by calling them “robbers,” Joshua was able to remind them that the previous residents in these towns had only leased the land, but had never owned it, as it is G’d’s property. What could be more natural than that the Jewish people, who by definition serve their Creator by observing the commandments of the Torah, should now make their home on this part of the earth. This is what the psalmist meant when he quoted G’d as having revealed to His people the inherent strength of all His works, כח מעשיו הגיד לעמו. Wish that G’d were to grant each one of us the wisdom and the purity of heart to be conversant with the specific commandment that is incumbent upon each limb in our body to perform.
The average reader of this Midrash surely is puzzled by the fact that there was any doubt as to whose deeds the Creator would prefer so that the Torah had to indicate that G’d preferred the deeds of the righteous! Rabbeinu Yonah, in his commentary on the last Mishnah in B’rachot chapter 9, explains that the Mishnah, when referring to the need to serve the Lord with both parts of our hearts, the urge to do good as well as the urge to do evil, speaks of people who do serve the Lord. The Midrash quoted, was careful to refer to the deeds of the wicked as opposed to the wicked themselves, also does so. We may therefore understand the Midrash as also referring to good deeds, the origin of which, however, differs. The difference between the two “urges” is that the urge to do evil is by definition the result of anger and hatred, whereas the deeds that are prompted by the urge to do good, are by definition prompted by feelings of goodwill and love. No wonder that G’d prefers the positive deeds that are also the result of constructive attitudes, to the good deeds that are the result of the urge to do evil, even when both deeds may be identical. This idea has been portrayed by Proverbs 3,17 where Solomon has described the ways of Torah as being דרכיה דרכי נועם, “her ways are ways of pleasantness;” in other words, it is not only what you do that counts but how you go about doing it.”
Rabbi Levi Yitzchok understands the words השמים והארץ as referring to the sum total of the tangible universe, reminding us that our sacred texts teach us that prior to the creation of the universe there was only what is known in kabbalistic parlance as אין סוף, G’d as an “infinite,” a concept that is beyond our capacity to understand. The story of creation conveys how through the creation of the universe as we know it, this “infinite” became transformed into something finite both in space and in time.
It is the function of the Sabbath to help man to similarly emulate G’d by using the Sabbath to retrace the physical material concerns that preoccupied him during the preceding six days, and to return to the spiritual origin of his soul and be inspired to the extent that he sees in the actions he performed during the weekdays something that has been suffused with the loftiest spiritual values.
[In this respect the Sabbath is a day that completes a cycle and prevents us from losing contact with our origins. Ed.]
Nachmanides, in his commentary on the Torah, writes concerning this occurrence, quoting Rabbi Nechunya ben hakaneh, that the name פרץ is a euphemism for the moon, whereas the name זרח is a euphemism for the sun.
[Rabbi Nechunyah ben hakaneh was a scholar of the second generation of the authors of the Mishnah and the famous kabbalistic text known as sefer habahir, has been attributed to him. Ed.]
Our author (as distinct from Nachmanides) understands the description of the Torah of this unusual birth as illustrating how the various universes at any given moment receive positive input from the Creator, and that when a human being wishes to secure additional שפע, Divine beneficial outpouring, or input, for the world in which he lives, he must attach himself to the domain we described as אין, i.e. the disembodied spiritual domains of the universe, i.e. to the domains in which G’d did not have to surround Himself with screens in order to avoid blinding His creatures with His brightness. When he has done so, G’d, in turn will respond by showering more of His goodness upon His creatures in the various domains of the universe. In the verse under discussion, the Torah describes a period when this interaction between man and G’d had not yet taken place, i.e. nothing had grown forth as yet from earth that would have such a positive influence triggering further beneficial input originating from the heavenly spheres. This state of the universe, prior to such interaction is what our verse speaks about when writing טרם יצמח, “had not yet sprouted,” and similar expressions. The words יצמח and המטיר, “sprouting and raining”, respectively, are similes for the reciprocal positive input from the heavens to the earth and from the earth in the direction of the celestial regions. The period under discussion in our verse precedes the time when the Creator garbed Himself in shells that reduced the brightness of His emanations, so that His creatures instead of being burnt up, could “warm” themselves, spiritually.
The opportunities, i.e. precise moments in time, when G’d responds to man attempting to cleave to Him with his soul, are fleeting moments during which people doing this must perform a מצוה, such as giving charity or studying Torah, as a result of which G’d will provide additional שפע, divine bounty from above to below. If that moment has passed and not been taken advantage of, G’d withdraws to the region of סוד, “hidden” domains where He is only partially within reach of the creatures who wish to establish intimate contact with Him. The words: ואדם אין לעבוד, may be understood allegorically as: “there being as yet no human being who would yearn for a close relationship with His Creator.”
We have a statement in Chagigah 15, according to which there is a heavenly voice calling out once on each day emanating from Mount Sinai calling on sinners to do penitence, excluding only Elisha ben Avuya. The Talmud there illustrates that there exists an opportunity for each one of us to cement our relations with our Creator. All that is needed is to demonstrate one’s sincerity through performance of one of the mitzvot that are basic to Judaism, such as giving charity or Torah study. The reference to שיח, a word having several meanings, may be to warn us that we are not to waste our time on earth in idle conversation, if we aspire to establish a firm bond with our Creator. There is no need to add that if one employs the gift of speech to indulge in defamation of others, etc., that this instead of strengthening the bond with our Creator, drives a wedge between Him and us.
Such abuse of the power of speech is forbidden even when we find ourselves in the part of the universe that has either not yet emerged from the primeval state of חושך, darkness, or is on the verge of descending back into that sorry condition. Our author refers to the mental state of a person yearning for the closeness with the Creator that he describes as a state of התעוררות היראה, “an awakening to a feeling of awe of the Creator.” He has explained this phenomenon in connection with a statement in B’rachot 64 according to which the very existence of Torah scholars contributes to harmony, peace in the lower universe. [As I have not found where the author’s explanation on that statement in the Talmud has appeared in print, I will try and explain how I understand his thoughts. Ed.]
Performance of the commandments is perceived as “irrigating” the brain (cranium) that consists of 4 cavities, one of them being a cavity divided into two parts. This “stream” channels this inspiration directly from G’d, and branches out into 4 “rivers,” each channeling inspiration to the four lobes of the brain that fill these cavities. Each branch feeds the appropriate lobe, according to its function. The word עדן describes the region from which תענוג, pleasurable experiences emanate. The word גן in this allegory includes the various disciplines comprising Torah study, commonly known as peshat, plain meaning of the text, drush, allegorical meaning, homily, remez, allusion, hint, and sod, mystical aspects. Keeping this in mind, we can understand why the mishnah quoted began with a warning, i.e. הוי זהיר, “be careful to discern,” seeing that the same mishnah told us that we do not know how the various commandments rate in terms of the reward for those who perform them. Since we do not know, how are we to distinguish between what is weighty, and what is relatively less weighty in the eyes of G’d? Most likely the answer is that the commandments described as קלה are the ones that we can find opportunities to perform, such as studying Torah, whereas the ones described as חמורה, are those that a person may have few opportunities to perform in a lifetime, or no opportunity at all.
[Since mitzvah performance is incumbent both on the individual and the entire nation, we each share in the performance of those who do have an opportunity to perform those, such as the levirate marriage, to name just one. Ed.]
The author of the mishnah warns not to use the fact that some mitzvot can be fulfilled all the time as an excuse to postpone fulfilling same, as we do not know how even these mitzvot rate in terms of the reward in store for us.
Furthermore, it is clear from what follows that Adam and his wife did not die on the day they ate from the tree of knowledge. In fact Adam lived for close to 1000 years! (Genesis 5,5). Our sages have already had difficulty in reconciling these two verses.
In order to understand the whole episode, we must first of all understand what wiles the serpent used in order to seduce the woman. How could the serpent, a mere creature, persuade a human being to defy the law of its Creator? We must understand the serpent’s argument as follows: the serpent made it clear that it was aware that everything in this universe was created by G’d through a directive issued by word of mouth as when He said: “let there be light.” The continued existence of the universe is dependent every second since it began, and continues to depend on this original light created by G’d through His first directive. It follows that the tree of knowledge which also came into being by Divine command could not possibly be a source of harm and even death, seeing it too had been created subsequent to the original life-giving force in the universe, the light created on the first day. The serpent therefore argued that it follows that when G’d issued instructions not to eat from the trees in the garden, the reason for this command could not have been that it was a source of death for anyone eating from its fruit. Since this was so, why should man listen to a latter command, instead of to His initial command, as a result of which they had become living human beings!
This, however, was part of the perverted logic employed by the serpent. The truth of the matter is that the “root” of the tree of knowledge in the garden of Eden goes back to a period preceding creation of the physical universe and the “falling off” of 288 “sparks” from the Shechinah into the world of the קליפות, regions polluted by impurity, i.e. our physical universe.
Our author quotes Sanhedrin 99 on B’rachot 34 where the Talmud describes the “place” on which repentant sinners stand in the scheme of things as superior to the “place” assigned to the righteous who never knew the taste of sin. If man has sinned, and in spite of this, found his way back to G’d, this is a greater moral ethical achievement than never to have been exposed to the allure of sin in the first place, so that one’s steadfastness in the path of temptation had never been tested.
The author illustrates all this by means of a parable. A son had become estranged to his father, thereby losing the path he had walked and getting lost in all kinds of dead end alleys which he found difficult to get out of. When, in spite of these detours, he eventually found his way back to his father’s home, the joy of his having returned pleased the father immeasurably more than the satisfaction an obedient son who had never left the parental home in the first place could have afforded him.
When considering the relationship between the tree of knowledge and its roots in the celestial spheres, the words of warning issued by G’d, i.e. “on the day when you will eat from it you will die,” will become clearer. The tree of knowledge will remain alluring to its beholders as long as what they see reflects the thinly veiled brilliance of its celestial origin. Only after man violated G’d’s commandment did it cease to be such and assume more earthly proportions so that being exposed to it any further will spell eventual death as man had contaminated it. [“Death” may be perceived as the ultimate contraction of Divine glory on earth, G’d having veiled His spiritually illuminating light with so many veils that none of them reach man, and therefore cannot “revive” his spiritual resources. Ed.]
The good deeds performed by the righteous reverse this entire process and, ultimately, when brought to its successful conclusion, will enable a different world from the one we are familiar with to be revealed even on earth.
In the dialogue just described by the Torah, the first difficulty is the meaning of the word אף with which the serpent commences. Normally, we understand this word to mean: “although, in spite of,” or something to that effect. Why would the serpent begin the conversation by using this as an introductory word? Furthermore, why did the serpent “quote” G’d as having said פן תמותון, “lest you will die,” when in fact G’d had said [concerning a single tree Ed.] כי ביום אכלך ממנו תמות “for on the day you eat from it you will die.”(Genesis 2,17) G’d had made an absolute statement “you will die,” whereas the serpent changed the statement to a warning rather than a threat, i.e. “lest you may die,” describing death as a possible rather than as a definite result of eating from the tree.'
Prior to the sin, both Adam and Chavah did not appreciate the concepts of ascent and descent of “sparks” of the Shechinah, so that when they heard G’d mention the word “death,” they had understood it as a merely temporary condition, such as unconsciousness. They had not understood it as referring to the “death” of worlds, and that is why the serpent’s argument made sense to them, as they felt that the Creator would be contradicting all that He had created if He were to allow it to disintegrate so easily by a relatively insignificant action such as eating from the fruit of the tree.
When our sages in Chagigah 14 relate that four people “descended” into the pardess, (acronym for “peshat, drush, remez, sod) the four disciplines used to explore the depths of the Torah, and that only Rabbi Akiva, returned unscathed, they meant to warn us not to embark on such excursions as they might result in our death. Adam and Chavah entertained doubts about the exact meaning of the result of disobeying G’d’s prohibition and its consequences for anyone disregarding this command. These doubts made them potential victims of the serpent, who phrased the ”threat” in such a manner that Chavah thought there was logic to the serpent’s words, especially when by repeating: לא מות תמותון, the serpent claimed that no manner of “death” would result from her eating from the fruit of the tree. The serpent implied that creatures who are ranking as high in G’d’s hierarchy as Chavah and her husband, did not have any reason to fear “death.” The serpent implied that the unscreened “light” emanating from the Shechinah was not beyond their ability to digest without harm, on the contrary, they would gain additional wisdom, and become able to tolerate even more intense rays of Divine “light.”
This idea is reflected in the Midrash on Genesis 2,2 ויכל אלוקים ביום השביעי, “on the seventh day G’d concluded His work.“ He did so because the Sabbath symbolizes Royalty as is evident from the writings of the Ari’zal.
[According to Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer, chapter 18, the fact that G’d is not described as either “creating” the seventh day, or “performing any work” on the seventh day, and we do not find the phrase: ויהי ערב ויהי בוקר יום שביעי, “it was evening, it was morning, the seventh day,” in connection with this day, this is significant. G’d used the seventh day to survey earth and especially the crown of creation, man, whom He had made on the sixth day. He entertained great hopes for man, and indirectly for Himself, when man would choose to serve Him. He used the Sabbath as a King reviews his army, man being equivalent to G’d’s “army” on earth, He being the Commander-in-Chief. Ed.]
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Five possessions did the Holy Blessed One, set aside as his own in this world, and these are they: The Torah, one possession; Heaven and earth, another possession; Abraham, another possession; Israel, another possession; The Temple, another possession. 1a) The Torah is one possession. From where do we know this? Since it is written, “The Lord possessed (usually translated as ‘created’) me at the beginning of his course, at the first of His works of old” (Proverbs 8:22). 2a) Heaven and earth, another possession. From where do we know this? Since it is said: “Thus said the Lord: The heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool; Where could you build a house for Me, What place could serve as My abode? (Isaiah 66:1) And it says: “How many are the things You have made, O Lord; You have made them all with wisdom; the earth is full of Your possessions” (Psalms 104:24). 3a) Abraham is another possession. From where do we know this? Since it is written: “He blessed him, saying, “Blessed by Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth” (Genesis 15:19). 4a) Israel is another possession. From where do we know this? Since it is written: “Till Your people cross over, O Lord, Till Your people whom You have possessed” (Exodus 15:16). And it says: “As to the holy and mighty ones that are in the land, my whole desire (possession) is in them” (Psalms 16:3). 5a) The Temple is another possession. From where do we know this? Since it is said: “The sanctuary, O lord, which your hands have established” (Exodus 15:17”, And it says: “And He brought them to His holy realm, to the mountain, which His right hand had possessed” (Psalms 78:54).
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23So said the Lord of Hosts: In those days, when ten men of all the languages of the nations shall take hold of the skirt of a Jewish man, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you." | | כגכֹּֽה־אָמַר֘ יְהֹוָ֣ה צְבָאוֹת֒ בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔מָּה אֲשֶׁ֚ר יַֽחֲזִ֙יקוּ֙ עֲשָׂרָ֣ה אֲנָשִׁ֔ים מִכֹּ֖ל לְשֹׁנ֣וֹת הַגּוֹיִ֑ם וְֽהֶחֱזִ֡יקוּ בִּכְנַף֩ אִ֨ישׁ יְהוּדִ֜י לֵאמֹ֗ר נֵֽלְכָה֙ עִמָּכֶ֔ם כִּ֥י שָׁמַ֖עְנוּ אֱלֹהִ֥ים עִמָּכֶֽם: |
ten men: from the seventy nations. This equals seven hundred for each corner. For the four corners of the tallith there will be two thousand and eight hundred. | | עשרה אנשים: משבעים לשון הרי שבע מאות לכל כנף וכנף הרי לד' כנפי הטלית אלפים ושמונ' מאו': |
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