לְ֭הַצִּ֣ילְךָ מִדֶּ֣רֶךְ רָ֑ע מֵ֝אִ֗ישׁ מְדַבֵּ֥ר תַּהְפֻּכֽוֹת׃
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Sha'ar HaEmunah VeYesod HaChasidut
It is written in the Zohar (Introduction to Bereshit, 5a): Come and see! For one whose way is not in the mysteries of the Torah, and innovates words whose true true meaning he does not fully understand, the word ascends, and the “man of reversals, the tongue of lies”160Mishle 2:12. goes out to meet it from the nukva d’tehoma rabba (chasm of the great abyss), leaping five hundred miles to receive the word. It takes itI to its mate, and makes him into a false firmament … and once this false firmament exists, the wife of whoredom161cf. Hoshea 1:2 immediately comes and joins it. From there she goes forth and kills several thousands and myriads.162Simply put, when a person reveals secrets of Torah that he himself does not fully understand, the forces of evil attach themselves to his words, which can then be misunderstood by many others, causing them to die spiritual deaths. From this we see clearly that one who does not believe in the words of the sages, and them makes original interpretations of their words, owing to his difficulty in believing them or because he thinks that their words are far-fetched, or because the words of the sages do not please him as they are written, of him it is written, “If you have scoffed, you alone will bear the sin.” This is as we find in the Zohar (Vayeitse, 163a), “All the closed-hearted fools, when they see the words of the Torah, it is not enough that they do not know, but they go on to say that the words are blemished!”