Kabbalah sa Genesis 29:10: Sha'arei Orah

In response to this, King David, peace be upon him, composed his songs-zemirot-זמירות, in order to clear the path for the prayers to pass. This is because all those camps are like a cloud that obstructs the prayers from ascending. About this it states,¹¹Lamentations 3:44 “You have covered Yourself in a cloud that prayer cannot penetrate.” However, now that David came and composed songs-zemirot-זמירות, when a person recites these songs-zemirot-זמירות, then these destroyers, spoilers and obstructers withdraw and go away. They are called songs-zemirot-זמירות from the term “machete-mazmer-מזמר,” as in the verse,¹²Isaiah 18:5 “He will cut down the young branches with machetes-mazmerot-מזמרות.” About this scripture states,¹³Psalms 119:54. This verse is usually translated, “Your statutes were music to me in my house of residence.” “Your statutes were like machetes-zemirot-זמירות for me in the house of my fears-megurai-מגורי.” This is to say that in those places on the way that I was in fear and terror-magor-מגור, I scattered and cut through them with those machetes-zemirot-זמירות (songs).

Opposed to this stone-Even-אבן is another stone called, “a large stone-Even Gedolah-אבן גדולה,”⁶⁹Genesis 29:2 and when it covers the mouth of the well-Be’er-באר, Israel is subjugated beneath it,⁷⁰Also see Zohar I 151b that this is a reference to the evil inclination which is called (Isaiah 8:14), “a stumbling stone-Even Negef-אבן נגף.” (See also Psalms 91:12.) “until the coming of the executor of judgment, when I will deliver him [into his hands].”⁷¹Ezekiel 21:32 This is indicated by the verse,⁷²Genesis 29:10 “Yaakov came forward and rolled the stone-Even-אבן off the mouth of the well-Be’er-באר,” and is the meaning of the mystery of the Torah portion,⁷³Genesis 33:17 “Yaakov journeyed to Sukkot,” and the section in Prophets that states,⁷⁴Zachariah 14:1 – That is, the era of the true and complete redemption upon which (14:9), “HaShem-יהו״ה will be King over all the land; on that day HaShem-יהו״ה will be one and His Name one.” “Behold, a day is coming for HaShem-יהו״ה.”