חלק ב — תורה 83

6. And then his mazal—which is flesh-of-his-flesh—ascends, and he merits wealth, as in “God’s blessing enriches” (Proverbs 10:22). Thus, his good inclination—i.e., “a heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26)—gains power. A good inclination is “one who has found a wife has found good” (Proverbs 18:22).

And this is the meaning of “the sound of the shofar growing more powerful” (Exodus 19:19)—“the sound of the ShoFaR” which emerges from the aforementioned body of ShaPiRa (beauty). This sound is also the aforementioned concept of prayer. “Growing more powerful” refers to money (Berakhot 54a). His mazal and good inclination grow stronger, as mentioned above, and so depression and sarcasm, which stem from black bile, are eliminated. This is because depression is the result of stress and poverty, while sarcasm is “the levity of the fool” (Ecclesiastes 7:6), the concept of “the spleen laughs” (Berakhot 61a). They are eliminated by the mazal of wealth and the good inclination, which are the concept of “A wise man’s heart is at his right” (Ecclesiastes 10:2).