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BUT THE LEVITES SHALL DO THE SERVICE OF THE TENT OF MEETING. At the time of the Creation the world was not completed and established until man emerged in his complete form as the consummation of all and the (seventh) day was sanctified and the holy throne was set for the King.
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At the moment when the day was about to be sanctified the spirits of the demons issued forth, but the day was sanctified before their bodies were created, and so the world was left deficient. When Israel were sanctified and all their grades completed with the Levites on the left side, then this deficiency of the world on the left side was made good, and all was then subordinated to the right and the world was freed from defect.
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Hence it says “the Levite shall do”, i.e. “make” or “complete”.
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We may also translate, “And the Levite shall serve hu (him)”, the reference being to the Ancient One, and the Levite typifying Judgement, but for which men would not rise to the higher faith, nor study the Torah, nor carry out the precepts of the Torah for the service of the Holy King.’1The last 12 lines of the Hebrew text do not appear in our translation.