Written
by: Peretz Green
The Five
Books of the Pact
Second Tablet – Yeoshua
(Exod. 17-9) 'And Moses said to Yehoshua (Joshua), "choose men for us, and go make war
against Amalek; tomorrow, and I will stand on the
head of the hill, and the staff of God is in my hand".
Step 1 – The
Sages, of blessed memory, explained that Moshe Rabbeinu
lowered himself in humility when he said to Yehoshua
'choose for us' and did not say 'choose for me' or 'choose for yourself'. In
this way he made his pupil as himself and gave him honor that belonged to him.
Step 2 – Such is the true quality
known to Tzadikim, men of Ha-Shem, that if they do
not lower themselves towards their talmidim, the
pupils will not be able to receive the necessary force for their charge.
Step 3 - On the words 'go make
war' the Sages, of blessed memory said (Mechilta on
Exodus 17) that Moses said to Yehoshua, 'go out of
your cloud and make war against Amalek,
Step 4 – This was the particular
cloud on Yehoshua, aside from the general cloud that
protected the whole camp of Israel. Yehoshua would
afterwards receive the mandate of Moses and certainly the cloud upon him was
very special.
Step 5 – The holy general cloud
became a particular cloud on each person according to the conditions of his
sanctity and pure faith, and the more that one sanctified himself, the more he
drew the cloud upon himself, being covered in that sanctity even more.
Step 6 – It's also true that Yehoshua could have received that force against his enemies
by enforcing himself in that sanctity.
Step 7 – If so, why did Moses say
'go out of your cloud and make war against Amalek'?
He should have said, "Sanctify yourself in your cloud, reinforce your
strength and go make war against Amalek".
Step 8 – Yet the Sages are right;
Moses knew what he was saying 'go out of your holy cloud because it's not
possible for you to make war when the crown of sanctity (Kedusha)
is on your head. If it had been possible I would have said 'choose for me men'
and with the crown of sanctity on me I would have gone out to destroy Amalek. The reason is that it is not desired now because
there's not enough merit in the nation.
Step 9 - And Moses explained to
him the new conditions, that is, 'for me there are new conditions and for you
there are new conditions, therefore 'choose for us' - for both of us, I for my
part and you for your part, men to be soldiers in the new conditions before God.
Step 10 – This is from the tradition
from the Sages, of blessed memory. Let's now look at Yehoshua
in view of the Final Redemption according to the New,,
True Kabbala.
Step 11 - In the true, new Kabbala the name Yehoshua bin Nun
represents a Key of the Final Redemption and spoken of are 3 categories:
salvation (Yeshua), constructions (bin –root of binyan) and 50 Gates of understanding (Nun is 50).
Step 12 – These are the
salvations of God, the House of Prayer, and the Holy Torah in which are all the
Gates of comprehension.
Step 13 – Moses does not
represent the Key of the Redemption although there is no redemption without Moses.
The reason is that Moshe Rabbeinu, peace be upon him,
is the Goel. In relation to salvations his are
redemptions. In relation to the House of Prayer, he is in his Tent and in
relation to the Gates of Understanding he is in higher Godly wisdom.
Step 14 – Moses was bound to the
high faith of the First Commandment which is of 9 words bound to truth
(represented by 9 the number of truth). Such was the level of Moses, magister noster.
Step 15 – This Moses, from the
higher waters have I taken him and I appointed him to be the first Goel of all the generations.
Step 16 – Yehoshua,
on the other hand, was bound to the Second Commandment of 50 words, each word
representing a Complete Gate of Understanding.
Step 17 – The Second Commandment
is called the Key of the Redemption since if there isn't the pure faith in the
Oneness of God Almighty there is no redemption, for only God, Blessed is He is
the Holy One of Israel and its Redeemer.
Step 18 – The First Commandment
is not the Key of the Redemption but rather the Redemption itself in which all
is found: (Exod. 20,2) 'I am the Lord, your God who
brought you out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage'.
Step 19 – This Book The Five
Tablets of the Pact is essentially of the reception which relates to the Kabbala of Yehoshua bin Nun since
he is the first authority of the Mishna of Yehoshua bin Nun, the Oral Tradition that he received from
Moses and from it derived all the Oral Torah of the Sages in the Mishna and Talmud. In the Geula Shleima, the Goel Haim brings with him that original source of Yehoshua bin Nun to make the New Mishnaot[1]
of Sefer Mishnat Haim.
Step 20 – Therefore the Kabbala (reception) of Yehoshua
bin Nun is the Key to all Sefer Mishnat
Haim.
Step 21 – It is also the Key to
the true faith that distinguishes between true Kabbala
and the false Kabbala, unfortunately, of the Zohar and all the writings connected to it.[2]
Therefore there exists a bond with the Second Commandment from which derives
all understanding of the true faith.
Step 22 – It's possible to see
the 50 words of the Second Commandment in Hebrew as 10 words on each of the
first five commandments, as the Five Tablets of this Text, in this way:
First Tablet: 'You shall have no
other gods on My face, you shall not make'
Second Tablet: 'statue and every
image that is in heaven above and that which is on earth below'
Third Tablet: 'in the water below
the earth. Do not bow down to them and do not serve them: for I'
Fourth Tablet: 'am the Lord, your
God, a jealous God, who punishes the sin of fathers on
their children'
Fifth Tablet: 'on the third
generation and the fourth generation to those that hate Me,
and does kindness with the thousands, to those that love Me and who keep My
commandments'.
Step 23 - The First Tablet: the Kabbala of Moses, with the great general rule of 'You shall
not other gods on My face' – the rest is an
explanation, beginning with 'you shall not make' etc.
Step 24 – The Second Tablet: the Kabbala of Yehoshua bin Nun. Here
is the name EL KANA, since in the wars of God against idolatry one calls in the
name EL KANA and to fight on its force. His wars on the sin of fathers on their
sons etc comes to destroy the roots of the sin that clung to the fathers and
from them to their sons.
Step 25 – Third Tablet: the Kabbala of Elijah the Prophet, 'the waters below the earth,
such as the action of Zimri who dared say to Moses,
"Who permitted the daughter of Yithro"? (Bavli, Sanhedrin 82); and it alludes to those who served
Baal and the sacrifice of Elijah on Mount Carmel, and ends 'and I' in the name
of jealousy shown by Pinhhass in the jealousy of his
love for God (Anochi).
Step 26 – The Fourth Tablet: the Kabbala of Aaron the High Priest. The essential service is
not to serve anything else which represents the purification of the Cohanim in their service. Alluded
to here is the Golden Calf whose image derived from the 'bull (shor) in heaven', as known, and became the form of the calf
on earth. The word 'asher' (that which) is mentioned
3 times in the verse alluding to the historical golden calves: the original
golden calf, the golden calf that issued in Christianity and the sin of Atzilut (Emanation) in the Jewish camp.
Step 27 – The Fifth Tablet: this
is the New Kabbala. The third generation was
concluded with the coming of the Double Displaced Fourth Generation. Its
Doubling here is 'the fourth generation to those that hate Me' and immediately
afterwards 'and bestows kindness on thousands to those who love Me and guard My
commandments' these are redemptions and salvations in the same Fourth
Generation for which it is doubled in bad happenings and good happenings.
Step 28 – This furnishes an added
reason for which Moses said to Aaron 'choose for us men' – choose men who
understand us and have no doubts about our actions to say: why shouldn't Moses
go himself to combat so that we be assured of our
victory?
Step 29 - Moses' answer is 'no, I
cannot war with them by myself, since I, Moses, have pronounced the words 'I am
the Lord, your God, EL KANA'. Tomorrow I'll stand on the head of the hill and
I'll be forced to hold down the sanctity of this name by way of the Staff of
God in my hand, while you, Yehoshua, will be able to
combat Amalek and to weaken him.
Step 30 – The war against Amalek is also prophetic to this Fourth Generation in which
the final Goel works and combats from the 'head of
the hill' from the Kingdom of Heaven and his pupils (Donkeys) fight against the
evil roots of Amalek that impede the Final
Redemption.