LETTER FROM YA'AKOV TO THE KEHILLAH 3

9 With this we say a bracha to Hashem, Adoneinu and Avoteinu, and with this we put a kelalah (curse) on Bnei Adam, who have been created according to the demut Elohim.*3:9 Gn 1:26,27f 10 Out of the same PEH comes forth bracha and also kelalah. My Achim b’Moshiach, these things ought not to be. 11 Surely not out of the same makor (fountain) pours forth mayim both sweet and bitter? 12 Surely an etz te’enah (fig tree) cannot yield olives, my Achim b’Moshiach, or a grape vine figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet water.