Learn what is written... Learn what is written: "But do not touch his soul." For he was given permission to rule over his flesh. For this is the secret of what is written: "The end of all flesh has come before me." And they explained: Before me indeed, that is, the end of all flesh, which is the destructive Satan, came before me to receive permission (as explained in the Parashah of Noah, note 78). And this is what is called "the end of all flesh" and not "the end of all spirit." (As explained in the Parashah of Noah, 130, and see there in the Sulam). And they explained: It is the end that comes from the side of darkness, that is, from the part of judgments of the masculine side, as it is written: "He set an end to darkness, and he examines every limit." And "every limit" is like "all flesh." For there is another end, which is the end on the right, which is holiness, and this that is here is another end on the left, which is darkness. And for this reason he was given permission to harm himself and his flesh.