591. Renewed Work

“Rather, he will take a virgin of his own people.” He asks, Why should it be only a virgin, without a flaw? He replies, “A woman is a cup of blessing. If its taste has been flawed, meaning that it implies Malchut, called ‘a cup of blessing’ … and the offering priest should be unblemished” (The Zohar, Emor, Item 38).

We should ask what this implies to us in the work. The ARI says about Malchut that she returns to her virginity each day. That is, the root of Malchut is a dot, and all nine Sefirot in her are regarded as an addition. Hence, each day she is built anew, meaning that each day begins a new work to build the Malchut up to her state of Gadlut [greatness/adulthood].

However, each day is a new discernment that we raise from BYA to Atzilut and take them out from the place where they fell into the Klipa [shell/peel], and raise them to Kedusha [holiness].

In the work, it becomes clear that each day, one should take upon oneself the burden of the kingdom of heaven anew, and not use what he had from yesterday, meaning to say that he divorced her and takes back that same kingdom of heaven, or that she has become a widow, meaning that the person died in the spiritual sense, as in “The wicked in their lives are called ‘dead,’” or that he desecrated her.

Rather, each day, one should accept the kingdom of heaven as something new. He does not use the kingdom of heaven he had yesterday. Rather, now he takes a new discernment, meaning that he still did not blemish this Malchut because she is a new discernment.

All the teachings that he learns today concerning the work of the Creator should be with new interpretations, not those of yesterday, since he has already flawed yesterday’s teachings. Rather, it must be a virgin.