Yoleida: Fierce Feminine Divine Energy of Pain and Destruction

(14) “I have kept silent far too long, kept still and restrained Myself; Now I will scream like a woman in labor, I will pant and I will gasp. (15) Hills and heights will I scorch, cause all their green to wither; I will turn rivers into isles, nd dry the marshes up. (16) I will lead the blind By a road they did not know, and I will make them walk by paths they never knew. I will turn darkness before them to light, rough places into level ground.These are the promises— I will keep them without fail.

(17) Sisera, meanwhile, had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was friendship between King Jabin of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite. (18) Jael came out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my lord, come in here, do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket. (19) He said to her, “Please let me have some water; I am thirsty.” She opened a skin of milk and gave him some to drink; and she covered him again. (20) He said to her, “Stand at the entrance of the tent. If anybody comes and asks you if there is anybody here, say ‘No.’” (21) Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent pin and grasped the mallet. When he was fast asleep from exhaustion, she approached him stealthily and drove the pin through his temple till it went down to the ground. Thus he died. (22) Now Barak appeared in pursuit of Sisera. Jael went out to greet him and said, “Come, I will show you the man you are looking for.” He went inside with her, and there Sisera was lying dead, with the pin in his temple. (23) On that day God subdued King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites. (24) The hand of the Israelites bore harder and harder on King Jabin of Canaan, until they destroyed King Jabin of Canaan. (1) On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang: (2) Where locks go untrimmed in Israel, when people dedicate themselves—
Bless GOD! (3) Hear, O kings! Give ear, O potentates! I will sing, will sing to GOD,
Will hymn the ETERNAL, the God of Israel. (4) O GOD, when You came forth from Seir, advanced from the country of Edom, the earth trembled; The heavens dripped, yea, the clouds dripped water, (5) The mountains quaked because of GOD,
Yon Sinai, because of GOD—the God of Israel. (6) In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, caravans ceased, and wayfarers went by roundabout paths.

So too, the Shechinah. Even though it is written, "She has fallen, she will not rise again—Maiden Israel" (Amos 5:2), she is mighty like a lion and a young lion in this falling.

Just as a lion and a young lion do not fall except in order to seize their prey and dominate, for when a lion stalks its prey, it moves stealthily, and the moment it leaps upon it, it falls, and it does not rise again until it has pounced upon its prey and devoured it. So too, the Shechinah does not fall except like a lion and a young lion—
in order to take vengeance upon the nations who serve idolatry, and to leap upon them, as it is said: Striding forth in the greatness of His strength" (Isaiah 63:1).

(7) She for her own bodyguard has armed hosts of sixty different degrees. Holding their swords, they stand around Her. They come and go, entering and departing again on the errands of their Master. Each with his six wings outspread they circle the world in swift and silent flight. Before each of them coals of fire burn. Their garments are woven of flames from a bright and burning fire. A sharp flaming sword also is at the shoulder of each to guard Her. Concerning these swords it is written: “The flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life” (Gen. 3, 23).

(8) Now, what is “the way of the Tree of Life”? This is the great Matrona who is the way to the great and mighty Tree of Life...

(6) Rabbi Abba said: It is written:

"And Solomon's wisdom increased beyond the wisdom of all the children of the East and beyond all the wisdom of Egypt." (1 Kings 5:10) What is Solomon’s wisdom? What is the wisdom of Egypt? And what is the wisdom of all the children of the East?

He (a sage) said to him:
Come and see— in many places, it has been established under that name, for when the moon (Shechinah) is blessed from all,
it is written: "And it increased (וַתֵּרֶב)." In the days of Solomon, She (the moon/Shechinah) was full, blessed, and stood in completion.

(7) And we have learned: A thousand mountains rise before Her, and all of them become one breath before Her. A thousand mighty rivers belong to Her,
and in a single gulp, She swallows them all.

(8) Her claw (or nail) grips a thousand and seventy sides. Her hand grasps twenty-four (or twenty-five) thousand sides, and none depart from Her to one side or to another.

Many thousands of shields are bound in Her hair.

(9) One youth emerges from between Her legs, whose length stretches from the beginning of the world to its end. He is clothed in sixty flames of fire, and in these colors, he is appointed over the lower worlds,
spreading out in four directions. This is the youth (Na’ar) who holds 613 supernal keys from the side of Imma (the Mother/Binah),
and all these keys are bound to the blade of the sword girded at his loins.

(10) That youth is called 'Enoch son of Jared' among creatures, as it is written:

"Train (Chanoch) a youth (Na’ar) according to his way." (Proverbs 22:6) And if you say it is a teaching and not a Beraita, in our teaching, we have established these words, and it has already been said— "All things are unified as one." Under him, the creatures of Behemoth (Beasts of the Earth) take shelter, as it was taught: Just as the supernal Israel is called a son to his Mother, as it is written:

"For I was a son to my father, tender and an only one before my mother." (Proverbs 4:3)
And it is written: "My firstborn son is Israel." (Exodus 4:22)

So too, below, this one is called ‘youth’ to his Mother, as it is written:

"For Israel is a youth, and I have loved him." (Hosea 11:1)

And in many aspects, he is called Ben Yered,
and this has already been explained.

But come and see— Ben Yered literally.

For we have learned: Ten descents the Shechinah made into the world, and all were established by the companions (the sages), and it has been said. And beneath this, many beasts stand, which are called Beasts of the Earth.

(11) Under these beasts,
the hairs of the Moon are bound together,
and they are called the stars of the scepter.

This is truly the scepter (Sharvit), masters of dominion, masters of severity, masters of harshness, masters of brazenness.

And all are called lords of the colors,
and Her hands and feet grasp them,
like a mighty lion gripping its prey.

And concerning this, it is written:

"He will tear apart, and none shall save." (Micah 5:7)

(12) Her claws record the misdeeds of human beings, writing and engraving their transgressions with the force of severe judgment. And about this, it is written:

"The sin of Judah is inscribed with an iron pen, with a diamond point." (Jeremiah 17:1)

What is shamir (diamond)? It is that which engraves and pierces stone, and cuts through all sides.

(13) The filth (pollution) of Her claws is upon all those who do not cleave to the body of the King, and who draw sustenance from the side of impurity, when the moon (Shechinah) is diminished.

(14) And since King Solomon inherited the moon (Shechinah) in completeness, he also sought to inherit Her in Her diminished state, and for this reason, he labored to understand the knowledge of spirits and demons, in order to govern the Moon in all aspects.

(15) And in the days of King Solomon, the Moon shone fully in all things.

This is what is written:

"And Solomon's wisdom increased greatly." (1 Kings 5:10)

(4) Further it says that ‘[Jacob] took of the stones of the place and put it under his head’ (Gen 28:11). From this we learn that even a king who has a bed of gold with precious coverings, if Matronit prepares for him a bed of stones, must leave his own bed and sleep on the one which she prepares, as it is written, ‘and he lay down in that place’ (Gen 28:11).