Chasidut sobre Oseas 4:2

This hints at what is written in the Midrash Rabbah (Nasso, 9), “Rabbi Abbahu told a parable about a painter who was painting the image of a king.¹⁵⁹When he was at the point of finishing the painting, they told him that the king had died, and another king was ruling in his place. When the painter heard this, he became despondent and said, “What shall I do with these drawings? Should I finish the painting in the form of the first king or of the second? In this way he was he uncertain. Thus it is when a man has marital relations with his wife, the Holy One, blessed be He, fashions the embryo in the visage of his father. But when the adulterer comes upon her, all the fluids are mixed. This is as it is written (Hosea 4:2), ‘There is swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break all bounds, and blood leads to blood.’ What did the Holy One, blessed be He, do? He went back, so to speak, and changed the form of the embryo from the father to the adulterer. This was to fulfill what is written (Iyov 24:15), “(the adulterer) hides his face.” (That is, God “hides” the face of the adulterer in the embryo.) This is as we have said (Devarim 32:18), ‘you were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot God who gave birth to you.’ “ The passage of the Zohar that we are dealing with finishes: If it is because of the Torah (that is, he is giving inauthentic interpretations to the Torah), it is taught that the entire Torah is a name of the Holy One, blessed be He. There is not a word in the Torah that is not included in the Holy Name. For this reason it is imperative to exercise extreme caution so as to not err with regards to the Holy Name … Rabbi Abba said, it is written, “do not make a carved image (pesel - idol).” In another place it is written, “p’sol - carve for yourself two tablets of stone.” “Do not make a carved image” means do not transmit another Torah that you did not know, and that your Rav did not tell you. What is the reason? “I am Hashem your God, a jealous God,” I am the One who will exact punishment from you in the world-to-come, at the time when the soul desires to go up before Me, there are some souls that are destined to deceive, and be cast into hell.”