Katnut d'Katnut

Matthew 5:25-26 [RSV] "Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison; truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny."

Rebbe Nachman taught: "This is the meaning of what our sages taught: the Mashiach son of David will not come until the last penny is gone from the pocket (Sanhedrin 97a)- that is, gone are the atheists who have no faith in miracles and explain away all miracles as natural phenomena."

There is a mystical connection here. When we hate and accuse our brother Jews then we create a dark spiritual prison which led to the destruction of the Temple and Israel. We then went in to the long prison-like Exile of Edom.

The following passage from the Zohar reveals the mystery of the Incarnation. The Matronita (Maiden/Virgin) who is also called the Female (Nukvah) brings the male Divine Soul who is the Splendour of Carmel and the Divine Man of the Sefirot to earth as the male Tzadik (righteous One). This is the son of the Matronita. All righteous souls are made in the likeness of these two Tzaddikim of the male and female (Yeshua and Miriam).