And therefore: (Ex. 23:19) The first of the fruits of your land, you shall bring to the house of Y”Y ELoQeYKha... is followed by... you shall not cook a kid in its mother’s milk, because that resulting child is a mixture, which emerges in a state of forbidden-mixing¹ – from a woman that is not of his type. For she is described as (Gen. 2:18) against him¹.

footnotes: ¹ kilayim ¹ kenegdo

And thus, if he merits, she is his help¹,² his partner, she who is his help in Torah, in precept, in fear, and in love, a ‘help’ for him in this world, and in the world to come.

footnotes: ¹ ’ezer ² BT Yevamot 63a

And if not, but rather another, who is not of his type, then she is against him, to make him lose both worlds. And all of this happened to him because he did not preserve ‘the first drop’, for his true female partner.

And nevertheless, if he returned in repentance, then about him it is stated: (Is. 6:10) ... and he returns and is healed. And his true female partner is given to him, of whom it is stated: (Prov. 3:8) It shall be a healing for your navel. And she is the image of the Torah, for she is the cure, and she is life.

It is this that is written: (Prov. 3:18) *It is a tree of life to those who take hold of it... *And his wife is in its the Torah’s image. It is this that is written: (Ecc. 9:9) *See life with the woman you love... *The Torah – it is ‘good’¹. It is this that is written: (Prov. 4:2) For a good¹ *lesson have I given you... *His wife is in its image. It is this that is written: (Prov. 18:22) He who has found a wife has found good¹ ...

footnotes: ¹ tov ¹ tov ¹ tov

Ultimately, ten things are said of one, and ten of the other. And behold, the companions have established it.¹

footnotes: ¹ Zohar 2:169b

Tiqun Fifteen For Day 8¹

footnotes: ¹ Zohar 2:169b

(Gen. 1:1) In the beginning¹ – this is Israel, as is written: (Jer. 2:3) *Holy is Israel to Y”Y, the ‘reishyt’*¹ of His produce... – ‘first’ without any other admixture. And because he is holy, he has no grafting of any other type.

footnotes: ¹ Be-REiShYT ¹ first

And because he Israel is holy, the fruit the drop requires preservation for his true female partner, which is the letter Hei¹. And because of this, the ‘first’ tevu-at² and the letter ה¹, it Israel has no defect. It is this that is written: (Gen. 25:27) And Jacob was a perfect² *man... *– meaning he had no refuse. [It is required to be preserved for:] This ‘fruit’ is fit for a King, and therefore: (Jer. 2:3) ... all who eat of it will be rendered guilty, evil shall come upon them, says Y”Y.

footnotes: ¹ ה ² produce-of ¹ Hei ² tam

For this is the Tree of Life, Whose fruit is the ‘elixir of life’, his coupling partner, preserved for him in this world, and in the world to come. About her it is stated: (Gen. 3:22) ... and he shall also take from the tree of life, and shall eat and live forever. The word “also” comes to include his coupling partner, his elixir of life – which is preserved for him in this world, and in the world to come. And any other one who wishes to take his partner, Like Uriah who preceded David, it is stated of him: (Jer. 2:3) ... all who eat of it will be rendered guilty, evil shall come upon them, says Y”Y.

For the female partner of the righteous man, is a ‘guarded¹, unleavened-bread’, in relation to a ‘complete¹, rich, unleavened-bread’.

footnotes: ¹ shmurah ¹ shleimah

And what caused this, that his female partner became his ‘guarded’ unleavened-bread¹ ? It is because he guarded his drop. And of one who defiles his drop, his female partner is called a ‘broken¹ unleavened-bread’, ‘the bread of poverty’.

footnotes: ¹ matzah ¹ perusah

And the mystery of the matter: anyone who belittles ‘the bread’, or the breadcrumbs, which are as the drops of an olive,¹ [Var. in which there is like the measure of an olive] then poverty pursues him.² Rather, one needs to preserve his drops, so as not to throw them in an unnecessary place.

footnotes: ¹ See BT Berakhot 52b ² BT Ḥullin 105b

And thus did the Masters of the Mishnah establish:¹ ‘Respect your wives that you may become wealthy’, and respecting them is preserving the first drop – so that refuse is not made of it.

footnotes: ¹ BT Baba Metzi’a 59a

For the ‘refuse’ of Abraham and Isaac, caused the nations of Esau and Ishmael, who enslaved their children in exile, – though their Abraham and Isaac’s trial through fire and knife, saved them their descendants from their burning and killing.

And of Jacob, because there was no ‘refuse’ in him, it is said of his seed in exile: (Deut. 33:28) And Israel shall dwell securely alone, the abode *of Jacob... *It is stated here: securely alone¹ ... and it is stated there, of the redemption from exile: (Deut. 32:12) Y”Y alone¹ will lead him, and there is no foreign god with Him.

footnotes: ¹ badad ¹ badad

There will be no mingling in his children, of the mixture of conversions, and thus: ‘there is no receiving of proselytes in the messianic age’.¹ For upon the seed of Jacob it is stated: (Ps. 80:9) *You brought out a vine from Egypt... *Just as the vine does not accept grafting from any other species, so have his seed been guarding the sign of the covenant, and they do not accept grafting from any other species.

footnotes: ¹ BT’Avodah Zarah 3b, Yevamot 24b.

And all who guard the sign of the covenant are worthy of royalty,