Worthy is he who encounters Her, like Jacob, of whom it is stated: (Gen. 28:11) And he encountered the place, and he sojourned there because the sun had set... until Her Master came and watched over Her, and he was there, with Her, from there onwards they established it night-prayer as an obligation.

But on the Sabbath, She is ‘a private domain’, for She is in the domain of Her Husband, and not like the night, when She is alone, in Her own domain. It is this that is written: (Lam. 1:1) How alone She sits...