Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Academy

153) “And I will establish My covenant with you.” This seems to mean that the keeping of the covenant of above is as the keeping of the covenant of below. A covenant is Yesod. Keeping the covenant is coupling of ZON. “And I will establish My covenant” applies to coupling of ZON. “With you” means by your connecting in the ark, since Noah and the ark are Yesod and Malchut of below, and the coupling of Yesod and Malchut of above, ZON, depends on them.

When there are righteous in the world, the world exists above and below. The Nukva is called “the world above,” and keeping means coupling. When there are righteous in the lower world that cause the coupling of ZON above, the Nukva exists through them, as it is written, “And I will establish My covenant with you.”

154) The awakening of the male to the female is when he is jealous for her. When there is a righteous in the world, the Shechina does not depart from him, and her passion is for him. Then the upper passion for her awakens with love, as the passion of a male for a female when he is jealous for her, as it is written, “And I will establish My covenant with you,” that the passion has awakened in me because of you, as it is written, “And I will establish My covenant, Isaac,” which is because of Isaac, as with Noah.

Everything, whether corrections or corruptions, is extended to the world through the Nukva, as it is written, “And His kingship rules over all.” When her bestowal is corrected, she draws from the coupling of ZON. When her bestowal is corrupted, she draws from the coupling of impurity, called “another god,” which clings to the Nukva of ZA and draws to it the abundance of Kedusha, turning her into impurity and corruption. This is the envy that ZA is jealous for the Nukva, that another god might cling to her.

When there is a righteous in the world, because of the great desire of the Nukva to bestow upon the righteous, she moves away from the other god, and the love of ZA intensifies tremendously to make a coupling with the Shechina, to bestow upon the righteous, as the love of a man for his wife intensifies when he is jealous for her and is afraid she will hide with another. Similarly, ZA feared that she would cling to bestow upon another god.

155) It is written, “And I will establish My covenant with you,” that You will be My covenant in the world. Subsequently, it is written, “And you will come into the ark,” for were he not righteous, he would not have entered the ark because only a righteous man can connect to the ark. This is why it is written, “And you will come into the ark,” after it is written, “And I will establish My covenant with you.”

156) As long as people keep to this covenant, there is not a people or a language in the world that can harm them. Noah kept this covenant and guarded it; this is why the Creator guarded him. But all of his contemporaries did not keep the covenant, which is why the Creator removed them from the world. They were eradicated from the world in the very same manner in which they sinned that sin.