Quotation sobre Jó 11:25

Why does the Torah begin with the letter Bet? In order that it begin with a berachah (blessing). How do we know that the Torah is called a blessing? Because it is written (Deut. 33:23), "And full of the LORD’s blessing, Take possession on the west and south." The Sea is nothing other than the Torah, as it is written (Job 11:9), "Its measure is longer than the earth And broader than the sea." What is the meaning of the verse, "full of the LORD’s blessing"? This means that wherever we find the letter bet it indicates a blessing. It is thus written (Gen. 1:1), "Bereshit..." ("In the beginning") The word reshit ("beginning") is nothing other than Wisdom. It is thus written (Ps. 111:10), "The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the LORD;" Wisdom is a blessing. It is thus written, that, the LORD blessed Solomon. It is furthermore written (I Kings 5:26), "The LORD had given Solomon wisdom". This resembles a king who marries his daughter to his son. He gives her to him at the wedding and says to him, "Do with her as you desire."

However, without his [first reaching a spiritual level at which] the Commandments are nullified and no longer need apply to him, it is impossible for [the great man] to upturn the Decrees into Commandments. For example, all the negative Commandments like do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal - warnings which are not applicable to [the great man] in relation to the breaking of his lustful pursuit of all the physical attributes [since] he'd never use them for his personal needs whatsoever, but [rather] only for God. All actions for his personal needs are abhorrent to him as mud and feces, from which we need not warn any man to distance himself as he would in any case do so out of disgust. In this vein, King David, peace be upon him, said "and my heart is void within me". For a person of this ilk, for whom the Commandments need not apply, to him is revealed the reasoning of the Decrees, and the Decrees thus become as though Commandments. And this is what they of blessed memory meant that in the days of the Messiah the Commandments will be nullified "for the Land will be filled with Understanding of God", and they will possess a different Torah from the Decrees which will become as Commandments. And when a person goes from strength to strength, higher and higher, until he reaches and stands before the root of the whole Torah and Commandments which is "I am HaShem your God...", simple unity and infinite, he then crimps the wings of all the Commandments and Decrees, and they are all nullified. And this is the nullification of the Evil Inclination and elevation of it [back] to prior to the beginning of creation. For from where [else] does the Evil Inclination come? In truth, in the beginning and prior to the creation is the positive [Commandment(s)] "I am HaShem your God..." and [only] afterward the negative [Commandments]. But in [human] perception of the Commandments [the order] must be reversed - in the beginning to 'abandon evil' (negative commandments) and then 'do good' (positive commandments). For a man in his beginning is [in the aspect of] "a wild ass is born a man" - his [spiritual] level is very low and he needs to add from the mundane onto his holiness, higher and higher, until [he reaches] "I am HaShem your God..." And this is [the meaning] of the convert who came to be converted and wanted to learn the whole Torah [standing] on one leg. Meaning, [the whole Torah] in one self-sustaining construct. And in truth his lesson [should have been] that indeed the source of all is "I am HaShem your God" (as above). But the convert could not have understood the apprehension of [the positive] "I am..." if not by way of the negation prior ("And you shall not have"), in order that it be on his level, which begins very low. And this is why he said "The rest is commentary. Go study"; for the [actual] Commandment is [the positive form] "Love thy neighbor..." and the negated [form] "that which is hateful to you, do not do to another" - they are the Commandments "I am..." and "You shall not...", [respectively]. And in accordance with Rashi's understanding, this is "And these are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham" for it is the order of creation and the meaning is that Isaac, who is the constriction (TzimTzum) and the boundaries (Gevurot), is the son of Abraham who is loving-kindess (Chesed) and simple unity. And from these, they propagated to the entire world. And this is what Rashi of blessed memory explained in that 'the generations are Jacob and Esav who are spoken about in the Section'. For as Rashi explained about Esav "he was made and fully developed with hair" on the day he was born. And as the Zohar states on the verse "When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born", immediately upon the day it is born it is called an Ox, in contrast to a Man. Although in reality [only] a man's materialistic attributes are [in fact] fully developed on the day he's born, as is said 'Sin couches at the door...of the elderly king and the fool'. And so on the day of his birth he was called Esav. Afterward Jacob's hand held onto Esav's heel, the meaning of which is that 'his hand' is [Jacob's] perception which is Lower Wisdom [represented by the letter] YuD - and this is YaDo/Hand. And afterward, from [the Lower Wisdom] he reaches Upper Wisdom and the Commandment "I am..." which is the simple unity. He who is of understanding will understand.

Rabbi Amorai sat and expounded: What is the meaning of the verse (Deut. 33:23), "And full of the LORD’s blessing, Take possession on the west and south." Moses was saying, "If you follow my decrees, you will inherit both this world and the next." The World to Come is likened to the sea, as it is written (Job 11:9), "And broader than the sea." The present world is referred to as the South. It is thus written (Josh. 15:19), "...for you have given me away as Negeb-land..." The Targum translates this, "behold the earth is the south."