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Baal HaSulam. Shamati, 76. On All Your Offerings You Shall Offer Salt

LESSON MATERIAL

76. On All Your Offerings You Shall Offer Salt

I heard on Shevat 30, January-February, celebrating the completion of Part Six, Tiberias

“On all your offerings you shall offer salt,” meaning the covenant of the salt. The covenant corresponds to the mind. Normally, when two people do good to one another, when there is love between them, they certainly do not need to make a covenant. But at the same time, we can see that precisely when there is love, this is the usual time for making covenants. Then he said that the making of the covenant is for later.

This means that the agreement is made now so that later, if there comes a state where each of them thinks that the other’s heart is not whole with one’s friend, they will have an agreement. This agreement will obligate them to remember the covenant that they had made between them, in order to continue the old love in this state, too.

This is the meaning of “On all your offerings you shall offer salt,” meaning that all of the Krevut¹ in the work of the Creator should be about the covenant of the King.²

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1. In Hebrew Krevut means “nearing” but also “battles.”↩
2. In Hebrew, the words Melach (salt) and Melech are spelt the same and pronounced very similarly.↩