Kabbalah sa Mga Awit 91:15: Ohr Ne'erav, The Wars & Sha'arei Orah

Tomorrow God will perform righteous acts for His nobles (Judg. 5:11). Those who serve Him, who do His will (Ps. 103:21), over all the glory is a canopy (Isa. 4:5). He will spread a cloth for the feast of the Leviathan in the courtyard of the garden of the palace (Esther 1:5). All will bend from reciting and bowing a psalm of thanksgiving (Ps. 100:1), for the merit of his fellow when he shined his lamp (Job 29:3) his inside is like his outside as he is there. Eternal joy is upon their heads (Isa. 35:10), each sharpening the countenance of his fellow (Prov. 27:17). All this has God wrought for His own sake. He will rescue him and honor him (Ps. 91:15). He will spread the cloud of His lightning (Job 37:11) upon the head of the Eternal Righteous One, and upon him he will place His crown (Ps. 132:18).

The refutation of these ideas held by later Kabbalists, who were influenced by the ideas of the author of the Zohar, can be clarified by what our Sages (Razal) said (Shabbat 88a): Rabbi Akiva said, "When Moses ascended to receive the Torah, the ministering angels said before the Holy One, blessed be He, 'What is a human being doing among us?'" He replied to them, "To receive the Torah, come and see," until the Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moses, "Reply to them." Moses feared and said, "What if they burn me with the breath of their mouths?" He said to him, "Grasp onto the throne of My glory and respond to them." And the Holy One, blessed be He, revealed the radiance of His Divine Presence upon him and said before Him, "Master of the Universe, what is written in the Torah that You are giving to them?" He said to them, "I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt." He said to them, "Did you descend to Egypt? Were you enslaved to Pharaoh? Why do you need the Torah?" According to the teachings of the new Kabbalists, if even the Father, Mother, Ze'ir Anpin, and Nukva were enslaved to Pharaoh (who is the Other Side), how much more so the angels? It is also clarified there in the teachings of the Chassidim that Ze'ir Anpin suffered greatly in a great exile, like a fetus in its mother's womb! And their words contradict each other. For they said that Ze'ir Anpin gives the Torah, and it is he who said, "I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt." And here it is saying that the Holy One, blessed be He, who is Ze'ir Anpin, brought our ancestors, who are the Father, Mother, and Ze'ir Anpin, out of Egypt in distress and exile? And do not be puzzled by what the Sages said that the Divine Presence was with them in their exile in Egypt. They were exiled to Babylon, and the Divine Presence was with them, as it is stated, "I am with him in distress" (Psalms 91:15). All of this is in accordance with the statement in Exodus 18:23: "For I do not desire the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live." Furthermore, it can be said that it is seemingly necessary to fulfill His promise to us even in exile. Moreover, even when they are in the land of their enemies, they are not despised or completely destroyed, and so forth. The divine providence has clung to us in exile, so that our enemies do not annihilate us completely. And furthermore, it is known from the words of our Sages that there is no existence of any other deity in the world whatsoever. And the Torah only speaks according to the mindset of the people.

When our teacher Moshe, ascended to the heights, he learned the secret of the mention of the Name HaShem-יהו"ה, blessed is He, from the attendant angels. He warned Israel about this when he said,⁹Deuteronomy 32:3 “When I call in the name of HaShem-יהו"ה, give glory to our God.” Now, if the supernal angels are warned thus about mentioning HaShem’s-יהו"ה name, how much more so are we, who are maggots and worms; certainly, someone foolish enough to make use of his Master’s Crown; how much more so, in our times, when none are proficient in mentioning HaShem’s-יהו"ה Name or its usages in a practical way. This being so, all that will come up in the hand of he who utters it, is the loss of his world and he brings up broken shards in his palms. About such a one the rabbis said,¹⁰Talmud Bavli, Chagigah 11b “Whosoever does not consider the honor of his Master is better off never having come into the world.”