Jacob & Rachel
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she tended them.
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10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
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11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
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The meeting of Jacob and Rachel is very intriguing, for it is a rare meeting and embrace of soul mates, and rarer still if the teachings are true that the holy neshamah emanating as these two is a lofty soul that has previously been illumined or enlightened in another world-system before entering into the human life-wave on earth. It is much like a soul encountering the one destined to be their holy tzaddik, in any such moment there is an influx of light-power, shefa and ruchaniyot, and that light-power rays out, extending through the entire world and all directions of endless space.Now, as it turns out, Jacob has two wives, Leah and Rachel. Jacob is Tiferet or Rachamim, Leah is Binah and Rachel is Malchut. In Leah, Rachel and Jacob the embodiment of these emanations reaches into Beriyah.
Tiferet, as the center of the Middle Pillar, unites above and below, heaven and earth, and unites the Pillar of Mercy and Pillar of Severity, and we may say that “three flocks” are the Holy Sefirot of the three pillars; these holy emanations are all unified by Tiferet the Spiritual Sun, the Light of which is transmitted by Yesod to Malchut.
In order to fulfill the Desire to Give there must be a Desire to Receive – when the Desire to Receive is joined to the Desire to Give, both are fulfilled and the Desire to Receive is uplifted and redeemed, so that receiving there is giving and in giving reception is complete.
Rachel, Malchut, comes with her flock, and Malchut is the Community of the Elect, formed by souls of higher grades from among the elder races; and until Rachel comes Jacob has no flock of his own, no vehicle of reception and transmission – there is no one to pray and invoke the influxes of the Holy Sefirot, gathering them in reception and imparting them in transmission. When Rachel comes, however, all of this changes and so the great potential represented by Jacob is activated, actualized and realized, embodied.
Yesod, which unites Tiferet and Malchut, imparting the Holy Light of Tiferet to Malchut and uplifting Malchut into union with Tiferet, is called the Holy Tzaddik, the Righteous One – until a sacred circle or community gathers around a Holy Tzaddik, in effect, the Light-presence and Light-power in them is potential, not actual. Here we may say that the revelation and transmission of the Holy Light in them is dependent upon their retinue, their spiritual companions, and the higher the grade of their circle, the more auspicious their retinue, the greater the Holy Light they embody and that shines from them.
This is the opening of the well for all to drink, for when the Holy Tzaddik has a full and auspicious retinue, the bestial, faithful and spiritual humanity are blessed and sustained, the wicked, admixed and righteous alike – the whole world is blessed and sustained, and so it is said, “The Holy Tzaddik is the Foundation (Yesod) of the World.”
Now, Laban, the father of Rachel, the uncle of Jacob, is a sorcerer according to the Kabbalah, a servant of the sitra achra and the flock of Rachel is his flock, the Continuum of Light Transmission being sorely encumbered and obstructed in the time of Leah, Rachel and Jacob.
This is the plight of a holy tzaddik with an inauspicious retinue, and the premature death of Rachel, and the struggles between the sons of Leah, Rachel and the concubines – the children of Israel, all speaks to the dominion of the sitra achra corrupting the revelation of the Divine.
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