KabbalaOnline.org The Good of the Land "Divine Revelation"
KabbalaOnline.org The Good of the Land "Divine Revelation" Divine Revelation Chapter Two, Part 4 By Rabbi Nathan Schapira; translation & commentary by David Slavin « Previous Sanctification of the Mind (2:3) Since Israel was not able to conquer the land of the three nations, the children of Israel are not fulfilled nor is the Shechina complete [in its revelation] until that future time. At the time that all of the Jews shall enter the land, the land will be fulfilled in its true ultimate completion. Then the Shechina will be rectified, for the Shechina stands upon the twelve oxen. [The twelve oxen are part of King Solomon's symbolic "Sea", which stood upon twelve oxen (as in Kings I 7:25) . The Zohar (Volume 1, 241a) says that the Shechina rests upon the twelve "oxen". Those oxen really symbolize much loftier things such as the Chayot HaKodesh etc.] Those twelve symbolize the rectification of the Chayot Ha