Translation:Likutei Moharan/39
“V’natati Aisev (And I Will Provide Forage) in your sadeh (field) for your animals, [and you will eat and be satiated].” (Deuteronomy 11:15)
AiSeV — An acrostic for Oseh Shalom Bimeromav (“He creates peace in His heights”) (Job 25:2).
in your SaDeh — This connotes SiDud and breaking.
When a person experiences a hunger, being overcome by the desire for food, he should know that he has enemies. As our Sages taught (Bava Metziah 59a): “He endows your borders with peace, [and satisfies you with choice wheat]” (Psalms 147:14). And, whoever has enemies below certainly has enemies Above (Sanhedrin 103b).
Therefore, he has to turn over and break his animalistic quality which desires food. This is because hunger belongs mainly to the animalistic quality. The Midrash also states: “When wickedness appears, disgrace follows” (Proverbs 11:2) — this is the disgrace of hunger, as is written (Ezekiel 36:30), “so that you will never again be humiliated before the nations because of famine.”
We see, therefore, that conflict — i.e., when a man is disgraced by others — <is> an aspect of hunger. And this hunger — i.e., the aspect of conflict/disgrace — corresponds to the foreskin, as is written (Genesis 34:14), “<We cannot… give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised,> for that is a disgrace to us.” For the foreskin comprises three evil forces surrounding the covenant of peace, <as is brought elsewhere>. And when the foreskin is broken, <the> covenant of peace is revealed. For when there is peace below, he has peace Above, “in <His heights>.” And when there is peace Above, then the world has a revelation and a great increase of satiation. As it is written concerning Yosef (Genesis 47:19), “Give us seed grain, that we may live!”
Another explanation:
And I will provide forage — An allusion to children, as is written (Job 5:25), “your descendants like the forage of the earth.”
in your sadeh for your animals — In other words, when will you have living and viable children? When your marital relations are in holiness and you break your desirous soul — i.e., the animal soul — so that it will seem as if you were possessed by a demon (Nedarim 20b). This is “in your SaDeh,” similar to ShaiD (demon). As a result, you will have viable children.
For the reason children die has to do with the souls which are oppressed within the scale, as is known. Because the scale — i.e., the evil force of nogah — is close to the animal soul, as is brought in Mishnat Chassidim, Mesekhta HaHarkavah.
It is also necessary for your marital relations to be mainly on Shabbat evening, for then <the evil force of nogah> is encompassed in holiness and “all the evildoers will be scattered” (Psalms 92:10) away from her. This is:
and you will eat and be satiated — This alludes to Shabbat, for then there is satiation from which <all the weekdays> are blessed.