חלק ב — תורה 32

5. Know, therefore, that this is why the great tzaddikim are obliged to conceal their teachings, to burn and destroy them, as mentioned above. This is in order to dismiss the spirit of jealousy, so that it does not ruin the aforementioned couple’s marital harmony, God forbid.

For their lower unification is very valuable, and if their marital bliss was ruined by the spirit of jealousy, it would be a very great loss. This is why the aforementioned teachings and books have to be destroyed—it is in order to dismiss the spirit of jealousy. For the spirit of jealousy is the spirit of Mashiach that resides upon the faces of Torah—i.e., the books, as explained above. It follows, that when books are burned and destroyed, the spirit of jealousy, the spirit of Mashiach that resides upon the books, is dismissed automatically.

And this is the mystery of “My Name, which was written in holiness, should be erased.” For the book is the concept of God’s Name, the concept of “My Name, which was written in holiness,” as explained above. Yet the Torah states that [the Name] should be erased and destroyed in order to instill marital harmony between a man and his wife—i.e., the aforementioned holy couple, for whose marital bliss the books, which are the concept of “My Name, which was written in holiness,” are erased and destroyed.

Then an a fortiori argument is employed on high: If about “My Name, which was written in holiness,” i.e., the aforementioned holy books, the Torah states “[it] should be erased” in order to induce marital harmony… how much more so should the books of heretics, which instigate enmity and discord between Israel…, be erased, destroyed and uprooted from the world—people’s recollection of them should be erased and uprooted. It follows, that the loss of the holy books results in benefit, for the books of the heretics are destroyed and uprooted and it is then possible to draw closer to God. Amen.