‘Blessed are You Y”Y, who spreads the tabernacle of peace.’¹

footnotes: ¹ Liturgical: Sabbath and Festival Evening Service

And when She spreads Her wings over Israel it is stated: (Deut. 32:11) ... He takes them, He lifts them up with His pinion. As they have established: (Ex. 19:4) ... and I lifted you on eagles’ wings... etc.

And because of this: (Jon. 1:6) Get up! Call to your God! which is the Higher Shekhinah, which is your repentance, and return through it to your Master, who is the blessed Holy One.

See that the evil maidservant is ruling over you, who is ‘the putrid drop’, And upon her it is stated: (Job 1:7) And Y”Y said to the Satan: ‘From whence do you come?’ For all sins are from the limbs of the ‘putrid drop’, for whose sake it is stated in relation to the wicked:¹ ‘From whence did you come? From a putrid drop.’

footnotes: ¹ Mishnah Avot 3:1

(Jon. 1:13) *And the men strove to return to the dry land... *– with repentance, *... and they could not, for the sea... *– which is the decree of judgement – was becoming stormier upon them.

At that time, (Jon. 2:1) *And Y”Y appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah *– this is the first exile, of which it is stated: (Jon. 1:5) *... and Jonah descended to the lower parts of the ship... *and this is: (Gen. 46:4) *I shall go down with you to Egypt... *As they the sages have established:¹ ‘In every place that Israel are exiled, the Shekhinah is with them.’

footnotes: ¹ BT Megilah 29a

When Israel’s deeds became corrupted, at that very time, it is stated of them: (Ex. 1:8) *And there arose a new king over Egypt *– and this was Pharaoh. About him it is stated: And Y”Y appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah (Jon. 2:1) * *– for he wanted to annul Israel from the world. It is this that is written: (Ex. 1:22) ... every born son you shall throw into the river...

Corresponding to that: And Y’Y’ appointed a great fish, to swallow Jonah (Jon. 2:1) * *– to kill him. It is not written “to swallow Jonah”, but rather, to swallow‘ET’ Jonah. The ET comes to include the Faithful Shepherd, by whose hand the Torah is destined to be given, which is ‘from Aleph¹ to Tav¹ first and last of the alphabet’.

footnotes: ¹ א ¹ ת

All these cycles of decrees were by his hand, and this is... *the great fish... *of which it is stated: (see Ez. 29:3) ... the great crocodile *... *This is the ‘fish’¹ of Egypt, and its female partner is ‘the female fish’¹. (Jon. 2:2) And Jonah prayed to Y”Y his God from the bowels of the fish. Who are the ‘bowels of the fish’? They are the Egyptians.

footnotes: ¹ dag ¹ dagah

And furthermore: And Y”Y appointed a great fish... (Jon. 2:1) – this is the spleen, Lylyt, which is the mixed multitude¹, from that captain¹, [Var. this is Samael, dagah¹ this is the snake – Lylyt, his coupling partner, from that ‘captain,’ the spleen, which is ‘the mixed multitude’] of whom it is stated: (Ex. 12:38) And also a mixed multitude... etc. And the spleen is: (Ecc. 7:6) the mirth of the fool. Of it is stated: (Ecc. 7:9) For anger lies in the lap of fools...

footnotes: ¹ ’eirev rav ¹ rav ha-ḥovel ¹ female fish

... to swallow Jonah– this is the soul¹. (Jon. 2:1) From its the spleen’s aspect: (Ex. 6:9) And they did not listen to Moses, from shortness of spirit ... and from hard servitude – from the aspect of the liver¹, of which it is stated: (Ex. 7:14) The heart of Pharaoh is heavy¹, (Ex. 5:9) Let the work become ‘heavy’, from the aspect of the gall bladder¹: (Ex. 1:14) And they embittered¹ their lives...

footnotes: ¹ naphsha ¹ kaved ¹ kaved ¹ marah ¹ mare-ru

... a great fish (Jon. 2:1) is the ‘mixed multitude’¹, who are [Var. who is] the ‘captain’¹. Who is a destroyer¹, if not the ‘leader’¹ of all the angels of destruction? He is ḥovel¹, and she is femaleḥabalah¹. The mixed multitude are the children of Lylyt the wicked, through whom Israel sinned, and ‘destroyed’ their flesh with the sign of covenant. They are ‘*rav’*¹¹ upon them in exile, and they are the female fish¹ for Israel, and because of this they said: (Num. 11:5) ... we remember the fish¹ ... etc.

footnotes: ¹ ’erev rav ¹ rav ḥovel ¹ ḥovel ¹ rav ¹ destroyer ¹ destruction ¹ multitudinous ¹ argumentative ¹ dagah ¹ dagah

And when Israel went out of Egypt, He killed many of them,¹ and in the final exile, the blessed Holy One is destined, to kill them, and this is: (Ex. 7:18) And the fish² that was in the river died, and the river² became putrid...– this is the Torah², of which it is stated: (Prov. 6:23) ... and Torah is light² *... *– which became putrid for them.

footnotes: ¹ See Shemot Rabbah 14:3 ² dagah ² ye-aur ² auraiyta ² aur

And it is stated of Israel: (Ex. 1:22) ... every son born you shall throw to the river¹ *... *Light¹ is the numeric equivalent of ‘mystery’¹², *‘to the river’*¹ **is the female partner, of that light of which it is stated: (Ex. 10:23) *... and for all the Children of Israel, ‘there was light’*¹ in their habitation.

footnotes: ¹ ye-aur ¹ aur ¹ raz ² 207 ¹ ha-ye-aurah ¹ hayah aur

In like manner, in the final exile [to the river], the word ha-zohar¹, in which are the words hayah raz¹, which is the light of the final redemption, to fulfil: (Mic. 7:15) Like the days of your exodus from the land of Egypt, I shall show him wonders, and this is:... every son born you shall throw to the river¹ , (Ex. 1:22) * and every daughter you shall let live *– those who strive in the Oral Torah.

footnotes: ¹ the-radiance ¹ there be mystery ¹ ha-ye-aurah

Another word: (Jon. 2:1) And Y”Y appointed¹ *a great fish to swallow Jonah *– this is poverty, which is sadness¹, and its female is depression¹. The masculine is dag¹, female is dagah. This is: (Jon. 2:2) And Jonah prayed to Y”Y his God, from the bowels of the fish¹, from the hunger of poverty, which reaches to ‘the bowels’ of Israel.

footnotes: ¹ va-ye-man ¹ ’etzev ¹ ’itzavon ¹ fish ¹ dagah

At that time: (Jon. 2:11) And Y”Y spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah... etc. Through the oppression of their worry¹, for they worry because of poverty, from oppression they will go out of exile. It is this that is written: (2 Sam. 22:28) And a poor people you will save... This is the prophecy of Jonah that was prophesied: that Israel will emerge from exile, through the worry¹ [Var. through the oppression] of poverty.

footnotes: ¹ de-agah ¹ de-agah

And with the right-hand¹, they will go out,

footnotes: ¹ Ḥesed