563. Definitions – 2
Fire as a lion, fire as a dog: Fire is the foundation of the KLA, as it is in falling. It is Hesed, as strong as a lion. It is also the sense of sight, under which the act becomes established, whether good or bad.
This is a memory in the book: Sefer [book] comes from the word Sof-Ohr [end of light], as in gatekeepers. It is as the Creator said to Moses, “Write this,” etc., for the written word is not always remembered, and the solution is, “And he found it written,” since in time, it is forgotten, and through the Sof-Ohr, he remembered.
Amalek and the tearing of the Red Sea: These are two opposites. The tearing of the Red Sea is the departure and concealment of fire of a layperson, the last discernment, called “dog.” This is the meaning of “But against any of the sons of Israel a dog will not bark.” For this reason, “Judah became His holy place,” the quality of AVI, the sanctity in the fire of the High One, and their leader jumped into the sea and walked as though on land. And the Egyptians, who followed them like a dog from their beginning, since the last discernment has been torn and vanished.
At that time, “Six hundred choice men” were delighted. This is VAK de Gadlut, “with officers in all of them,” meaning that their GAR also appeared to them. This is the meaning of “Egypt was chasing them,” in singular form [in Hebrew].
At that time, “The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea,” “like a stone into raging waters,” since these waters, in which there was the quality of dog, water of MIKVEHON when Israel already stood as a wall, in regard to the tearing. “Did not bark,” etc., they were reawakened over the Egyptians and fell into the waves of the sea.
Rephidim: Since they came to Rephidim, that dog, who drowned the officers of Pharaoh, returned. This is the meaning of “And you are tired and weary and not fearing God,” for because the last discernment has been torn from them, they were resurrected as OMETZ, which is the plundering of the sea. Naturally, they did not have any fear because there was no barking dog. Thus, they tried the Creator again, “Is the Lord among us, or not?” as did the officers of Egypt.
And then they did not have water to drink, like a blocking under the OMETZ, called “dry without water” (and although even inside the sea they came in dryness and were not tired, and a handmaid by the sea saw, etc., and babies in their mothers’ wombs sang, it was for that time the reason for the miracle of the salvation from Egypt, and there was no time to be thirsty for water).
Then he struck the rock and water poured out. That is, Moses let down his hand. It is known that when he let it down, Amalek prevailed. Hence, “And Amalek came.”
The words of RASHI: There is an allegory about a father, etc., you saw the father: The Creator has already carried him on His shoulders, as in “Like an eagle that stirs up its nest … will carry him on His wing,” as in, a lion. He gave them an object: the plundering of Egypt, and he gave them the plundering of the sea, since they were granted with great possessions from Egypt, as in the woman lending from her neighbor, since when the evil Klipa [shell/peel] hangs her stench on the upper one, and they sat on the meat-pots that the Lord had killed, meaning carcasses killed by prey, and not slaughtered by man (from the MIKVEHON) although the matter is known to begin with (that it is a land that is not theirs), that there is nothing wrong here.
And no iron tool was heard, God forbid, for by this disclosure they went out from there, as in “I and not a messenger.” And yet, the thieves already had a great many vessels of silver and vessels of gold. This is the meaning of “And every woman shall borrow from her neighbor.” It follows that a seed of holiness, who do not possess and who are powerless to understand anything about the work of the Kelim [vessels], through the enslavement by the Klipa of Egypt against their will, had the right to also borrow into their own possession for some time.
Afterward, “The man Moses was great in the eyes of Pharaoh.” They recognized the children of Israel, that they were descendants of holiness, and the matter became known. Nevertheless, they had favor for them and they gave them the Kelim.
The plundering of Egypt: This is the disclosure of Hassadim, since from the time when they were enslaved by the strewn upper light.
The plundering of the sea: This is the rising, since they came into a dry land. This is the meaning of “The Lord will be king,” since “They saw Egypt dead upon the seashore.” That is, HaVaYaH fought, since the water stood like a wall, from KLA, a lion, to their right, and from MIKVEHON, a dog, to their left. And they came in the dry land (as in, Har Horev [mountain of dryness]) inside the sea. And there they had all the abundance of Egypt in their possession, which they had lent them.
Afterward, when the Egyptians followed them, the upper water from the right returned and covered the chariots, and then the children of Israel were saved and said, “This is my God and I will praise Him,” and they did not want to return to the door of the abyss in MIKVEHON in the work of the officers. Afterward, they saw them dead by the seashore, meaning that part that was torn off from the sea as that wall to their left; this is what put them to death.