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And therefore the Torah commanded: "When you build a new house" — that is, when you wish to engage in the building of the house — then you must draw the aspect of sukkah, the aspect of the wholeness of da'as, in the aspect of: "By wisdom a house is built," as stated above. And therefore: "and you shall make a railing for your roof" — in order to guard the souls of Israel. And through this the aspect of "the mother who spreads her shelter over the children" — the aspect of sukkah — is drawn. And through this the essential building, as stated above.

And this is the aspect of chachirus v'kablanus [tenant farming and contract work] — that all the damages of the field fall upon the tenant farmer, as is explained in the Shulchan Aruch: "One who leases a field and it was blighted," etc. For the essential blessing in every thing, and particularly in the work of the field, is according to the sh'miras hazikaron [guarding of memory]. For through this one draws and reveals His Elokus there, through which blessing is drawn, in the aspect of: "In every place where I cause My Name to be mentioned, I will come to you and bless you" (Shemos 20:21).

And conversely, all the damages of the field are according to the blemish of the memory, which is the blemish of the sin of Adam HaRishon, through which was decreed: "Cursed is the ground," etc.; "By the sweat of your brow," etc. (Beraishis 3:17-19). For through this are drawn all the damages and losses of the field, when one does not merit to subdue and nullify the contamination of the Serpent [zuhamas hanachash] from the field through sh'miras hazikaron, which is the essential tikun of the sin of Adam HaRishon, as above.

And therefore the tenant farmer, who takes upon himself the work of the field and has fallen into the aspect of servitude — for he must do the work of his fellow like a slave — therefore he must guard himself even more from the blemish of the memory. For the more that the servitude and the doing is drawn out, the more forgetfulness is drawn there. For the essential forgetfulness is in a place that is more distant from spirituality, as Rabbainu of blessed memory wrote on the verse: "This book of the Torah shall not depart from your mouth" (Yehoshua 1:8) — that in a place where there is more materiality and physicality, there is more forgetfulness — see there. And particularly in the aspect of servitude, which is the aspect of sleep, the aspect of forgetfulness — for "ten measures of sleep descended to the world; nine were taken by the slaves." And therefore the ruin of the field is attributed to the tenant farmer, who is in the aspect of doing and servitude. For the essential ruin of the field is through the blemish of the memory, which takes hold more in the aspect of doing and servitude, as above.

And this is the aspect of: "Do not let the wages of a hired worker remain with you until morning" (Vayikra 19:13). For this hired worker who hires himself to his fellow to do his work — he casts himself into the aspect of servitude, which is the aspect of forgetfulness, as above. And this is the aspect of the exile of Mitzrayim, in the aspect of: "We were slaves to Pharaoh in Mitzrayim" (Devarim 6:21). For Pharaoh is the aspect of the koach ham'dameh [power of imagination], the aspect of the blemish of the memory, the aspect of forgetfulness, as is explained there. And therefore he wanted to increase the aspect of servitude upon Yisra'ail, in order to cast forgetfulness upon them, so that they would not be able to cleave their thought to the World to Come. As it is written: "For they are idle; therefore they cry out saying: Let us go, let us sacrifice to our G-d. Let the work be heavier," etc., "and let them do it, and let them not regard," etc. (Shemos 5:8-9).

It emerges that this one who hires himself to his fellow for the sake of his livelihood — he lowers himself into the aspect of servitude, which is the aspect of forgetfulness. But his intention is for the sake of his livelihood, for one must necessarily sift his sustenance through the thirty-nine m'lachos [categories of work]. For due to the sin of Adam HaRishon, the memory was blemished and fell into the aspect of forgetfulness. And through this he was cursed with: "In sorrow shall you eat of it"; "By the sweat of your brow shall you eat bread" (Beraishis 3:17-19). For through the blemish of the memory, the shefa [abundance] and the blessing were blemished. For the essential blessing and abundance is from the aspect of zikaron, in the aspect of: "In every place where I cause My Name to be mentioned," etc., as above.

And therefore it is called zikaron [memory], the aspect of zachor [remember], the aspect of Yosef HaTzaddik, who is the aspect of the nahar hayotzai mai'Eiden [the river that goes out of Eden], which is the channel of all the abundances, as is known. And therefore, in truth, each and every person — the more he cleaves his thought to the World to Come and guards the memory more — his sustenance comes more easily. For the essential shefa [abundance] is from the aspect of zikaron, which is the aspect of Yosef, as above. And this is: "Whoever accepts upon himself the yoke of Torah, they remove from him the yoke of the government and the yoke of worldly occupation" (Avos 3:5). For the yoke of Torah is the aspect of the zikaron mentioned above, for through the Torah one cleaves to the World to Come. Therefore his sustenance comes more easily, for they remove from him the yoke, etc. For all the shefa and sustenance is from the aspect of sh'miras hazikaron mentioned above.

And this is what is brought in the holy Zohar: "The people went about and gathered" (Bamidbar 11:8) — b'shtusa [in foolishness]. For the essential toil of sustenance is because of foolishness and deficiency of da'as — because one does not enlarge his da'as to cleave his thought to the World to Come, which is the essential enlargement of da'as, as is explained in the Torah teaching mentioned above. And through this his sustenance comes with great toil, in the aspect of "the people went about and gathered" — b'shtusa, as above.

And all the money and sustenance that a person earns through the toil of his hands — this money is the aspect of the sifting of the sparks [bairur hanitzotzos], that he sifted from the Sitra Achra. And this is the aspect of the sifting of the memory, as is explained there in the Torah teaching mentioned above, on the verse: "He stretches out the heavens like a curtain" (Tehillim 104:2) — which is the aspect of the unification of the Tzaddik and K'neses Yisra'ail, which is made through business dealings. For through all the possessions that a person merits in holiness, through this the sparks ascend and are included in the stature of Adam [komas Adam], and the unification of the Tzaddik and K'neses Yisra'ail mentioned above is made — which is the aspect of the completion of the tikun of the completeness of the memory. And because the essential money and sustenance is through the sifting of the memory, therefore whoever is distant from this memory — that is, one who does not cleave his thought to the World to Come so much — then his sustenance comes with more toil, as above. For the sustenance and the shefa is the aspect of the sifting of the sparks, which is the aspect of the sifting of the memory, as above. And therefore this day-laborer [s'chir yom] who hires himself to his fellow and has fallen into the aspect of servitude, the aspect of forgetfulness, for the sake of sustenance — even though he endangers his soul through the aspect of servitude, for he can fall into the aspect of forgetfulness, G-d forbid, which is the sitra d'mosa [side of death], as above — but afterward, when he merits to complete his labor and to receive his wages that he earned, through this he returns and completes his soul through the holy sparks that he sifted, which are the aspect of the tikun of the completeness of the memory, as above — the aspect of the unification of "He stretches out the heavens like a curtain," which is made through all the business dealings and commercial activities, as above. And this is the aspect of what Hashem, blessed be He, promised to Avraham Avinu: "And afterward they shall come out with great wealth" (Beraishis 15:14). That is, He promised him that even though they would be in exile in the aspect of servitude under Pharaoh — all of which is the aspect of forgetfulness — but afterward they would come out with great wealth. For this great wealth of holiness that they merited at the Exodus from Mitzrayim is the aspect of the sifting of the holy sparks from the k'lipos, which is the aspect of the tikun of the memory. And therefore through this the blemish of the servitude and the exile, which is the aspect of forgetfulness, was rectified, as above. נְנַח נַחְמָא נַחְמָן מֵאומָן