Sefer HaCheshek
Translated by Sefaria Community Translation
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Introduction
The threefold wisdom reveals its secrets, moving my mighty circles, they are keen and the desire of the nobles has brought me here to be a counselor, their name is engraved in my heart, pure and complete, with their kindness they fed me the fruit of a tree, its holiness is third in the world, my soul asks for a share of the stone, if God has a mouth then only I have kissed him:...
Introduction: Since (today) the knowledge of mankind is as diverse as the forms of their faces, it was necessary to give them from God, the Blessed One, who gives them their substance and form and who endowed them with science - gifts of leadership in general, gifts of leadership in turn, until there is a fixed order established in a just order in each generation according to a clear reality, and the general provision to give value to a single individual, because a man in our image is found, and that material man will be interpreted in his clarity according to what time will see that man, and sometimes time will be a king and a prophet, and sometimes it will happen that he will be a prophet alone or a king alone, and it is possible that there will be neither one nor the other, but there will be a power in them similar to this or that of both together, where we will see what has passed:
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