Kabbalah su Genesi 36:78

The preceding verse states, Wisdom [cries out] in the streets (Prov. 1:20). This verse refers to the recondite secrets of our holy Torah. [Wisdom] states, How long will you simple ones love simplicity? (Prov. 1:22). In other words, you who follow after the simple meaning³²Peshat. This refers to the simple, literal meaning of a given text. deceive yourselves with your love of simplicity—the part of the Torah you do believe in—which contains nothing beyond the simple meaning. And scoffers [be eager] to scoff. This has reference to [King] Manasseh [son of Hezekiah], who would expound [difficult haggadot and say, “Did Moses have only to write The sister of Lotan was Timna (Gen. 36:22)]?”³³Sanhedrin 99b.

Rabbi Elazar and Rabbi Aba rejoiced. They also wept and said to him, "Come, you shall ride on the donkey and we shall walk along behind you". He said to them, "have I not told you that it is the command of the King, until the donkey driver [the Messiah, cf. Zechariah 9:9] appears!?" They said to him, "Until now you have not given us your name. And where do you live?" He told them, "Where I live is a good place and very precious to me. It is a tower - a very highly exalted tower - that floats on air. And those who live in this tower are the Holy One, blessed be He, and one poor man! But I have been exiled from there, and came to drive the donkeys." Rabbi Aba and Rabbi Elazar looked at him, and his words tasted as sweet as the manna and honey to them. They said to him, "If you tell us the name of your father, we will kiss the earth under your feet!" He responded, "Why? What for? It is not my habit to take pride in the study of the Torah."

He continued, "but the place where my father lives is in the Great Sea. [The Mediterranean] And he was a fish that swam from one end of the Great Sea to the other. And he was mighty and noble, a venerable figure who became wise with his years, and was able to swallow up all the other fish in the sea. Then later, he released them, full of life, and all the good of the world. And with his might, he was able to cross over the entire Sea in an instant. And he released me, like an arrow in the hand of a valiant man, and hid me in that place that I told you about while he returned to his home and disappeared in the Ocean."

Come and behold, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai used to say that 300 legal decisions are derived from the verse, "and his wife's name was Mehetabel, daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezehab" (Beresheet 36:39). This he revealed only to Rabbi Eliezer, who was with him. That shows how many secrets of the Torah are in every deed in the Torah. In each word, there is wisdom and true doctrine. Therefore the words of the Torah are holy words, by which to conceive wondrous things, as it is written, "Open you my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of Your Torah" (Tehilim 119:18).

He opened with the verse, “And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom” (Bereshit 36:31), as said, “For, lo, the kings were assembled, they came on together” (Tehillim 48:5). Where were they assembled – in the land of Edom, where judgments have a hold. “They came on together,” as written, “and… died… reigned in his place” (Bereshit 36:31-39). “As soon as they saw, they were astounded; they were affrighted; they rushed away” (Tehillim 48:6), because they could not continue to exist where they were but were destroyed and died, since the king’s insignia were not yet prepared and the holy city, that is, Malchut, and its walls were not yet ready, (as said above in the Greater Gathering of Naso, section 12; study there).

This is as written, “As we have heard, so have we seen…” (Ibid. 9), none of them endured, but she, Malchut, exists now in the aspect of the male that dwells with her. This is the meaning of, “and Hadar reigned in his place, and the name of his city was Pa’u; and his wife’s name was Mehetavel, daughter of Matred, daughter of Mei-Zahav” (Bereshit 36:39), surely Mei-Zahav, as we explained in the Gathering.