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 | | This breached side is none other than the tzafon, the north side of the world, as the verse indicates, "Notei tzafon al tohu -- He stretches forth the north over tohu [emptiness, chaos], and suspends the earth upon bli-mah [no-thing-ness]" (Job 26:7). |
 | | And another verse states, "Omar la'tzafon, teni -- I will say to the north, 'Give forth!'" (Isaiah 43:6), that is, in the Future, G-d will tell the tzafon [Gan Eden] to yield all of its goodness to the righteous. |
 | | Rather, the truth is that tzafon [north] is the side of gevura and Isaac, just as darom [south] is the side of chesed and Abraham. |
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