Rock creatures of the wild

There is a parallel between the verse in Shir Hashirim, 
"I've made you swear by the deer and rams of the field" 
with the verse in Iyov, 
"for you have made a covenant with the 'stones' of the field and and made peace with the beasts of the field."

As is known that the אבני השדה - the 'stones' of the field are the animal known as the ידעוני -  Yidoni.

The concept is that there is the feminine aspect in holiness מלכות is compared to a precious precious gemstone אבן טובה while the feminine of klipa is a 'tripping' stone (or stone plague or punishment) אבן נגף or a stone of darkness אבן אפל.

Now just as underneath the feminine concept מלכות in holiness, the one 'precious gemstone', there are twelve 'stones' underneath it, the 12 gemstones of the breastplate (corresponding with the 12 cattle under the ים של שלמה - sea of Shlomo), so too there are the "stones of the field" underneath the feminine stone of klipa.

The ט״ז - Turei Zahav asks what help it was to Yakov surrounding his head, since the rest of him was exposed to the wild animals? But, according to this we can say that, spirituality, Yakov specifically chose the אבני המקום - the "stones of the omnipresent" as opposed to the stone of darkness that the אבני השדה - the wild animals, the "stones of the field" come from. (It also makes sense why the stones he took were really one stone, their source).

Ohr Hatorah Vayetze, Vayifga Bamakom


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