קבלה אויף משלי 30:21

If you are proud of your authority and honor over others, are there not many despicable people who have power over others in this world, as proverbs states,²⁹⁴Proverbs 30:21 “because of a slave who reigns.” Furthermore, wealth and honor are in HaShem’s-יהו"ה control²⁹⁵Proverbs 3:16 and He brings the haughty down to the ground.²⁹⁶Liturgy of the morning blessings of the Shema recital. If you are proud of your intelligence, there were many people who were more intelligent than you, such as Doeg, Achitophel and Yeravam, who lost their lives, both in this world and the coming world. For it is in HaShem’s-יהו"ה power to distort the utterances of the trustworthy and take reason away from the elders.²⁹⁷Job 12:20 Therefore, let not the wise glory in his wisdom,²⁹⁸Jeremiah 9:22 for how can you be haughty if from your very inception you were born of a putrid drop,²⁹⁹Mishnah Avot 3:1 and you entered and exited by way the birth canal.

The punishment of one who has relations with a Cutite is stated in the Zohar in Chayei Sarah: 214. For that reason, he who cleaves to a woman from the heathen nations is defiled, and the child that she bears him receives the spirit of defilement. You may ask, Is it not of Yisrael from the side of its father? If so, why should it receive the spirit of defilement? Come and behold: First its father was besmirched when he united with that tainted woman. All the more so, the child that she bears will receive the spirit of defilement upon it. Furthermore, he also transgressed the Torah, as it is written: “For you shall worship no other El; for Hashem whose name is jealous, is a jealous El” (Shemot 34:14), which means that He is zealous of the covenant, SO THAT IT WILL NOT BE TAINTED BY HEATHEN WOMEN. 216. Come and behold: Whoever puts the holy covenant in a woman of a heathen nation causes another place to be defiled; NAMELY, HE BLEMISHES THE SUPERNAL COVENANT AND CAUSES IT TO GIVE PLENTY TO THE HANDMAID. Thus, it is written: “For three things the earth is disquieted...” (Mishlei 30:21).

Know that the seventy ministers were given four heads by which to afflict the children of Israel. If the Jewish people sin, these four heads enter and separate between HaShem-יהו״ה and Israel. At such a time, the Jewish people are subject to shame, disgrace, mockery and desolation at the hands of the nations. All the conduits that should otherwise come to the Jewish people from the goodness bestowed to them by the Name HaShem-יהו״ה, are then in a state of disrepair, and leak out to the lands of the ministers of the nations. About this King Solomon, peace be upon him, cried out and said,²²⁵Proverbs 30:21-22 “Because of three things the earth trembles, and because of a fourth, she cannot bear it: Because of a slave who reigns.” This refers to the upper ministering angels who derive influence from the conduits that come to the Jewish people, but are broken and leak out to them, so that instead of the Jewish people reigning, they reign.