Kabbalah for Bava Batra 156:10
<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> היכי דמי אי דאמר ליה היא ובנה אפילו פרה ובנה נמי אי דלא א"ל היא ובנה אפילו חמור נמי לא
R. Samuel b. Nahman said in the name of R. Johanan:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Some texts read, R. Samuel b. Nahmani in the name of R. Jonathan.] ');"><sup>26</sup></span> What is the meaning of the verse: <i>Wherefore</i> hamoshelim [<i>they that speak in parables</i>] <i>say</i>, etc.?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXI, 27. ');"><sup>27</sup></span> — <i>Hamoshelim</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Heb. root [H] means 'to speak in parables' and also 'to rule', 'to master'. ');"><sup>28</sup></span>
Derech Etz Chayim (Ramchal)
If man was mindful of this knowledge sinners wouldn't exist, temptation wouldn't even wield power, similar to its irrelevance to angels. G-d wanted man to conquer or to be conquered via temptation and his subsequent choices, and therefore gave us this knowledge that remains latent as a flame is within a coal. Our sages of blessed memory have said (Bava Batra 78b): "Wherefore they who speak in similes (Hamoshlim) say, Come to Ḥeshbon..."(Bamidbar 21:27), 'Hamoshlim' (who speak in similies) - refers to those that control their inclination, "Bo'oo Heshbon (Come to Heshbon) - Come and let us calculate the account (heshbono) of the world! Those that do not conrtol their inclination will never prioritize this - However, those that do control their inclination will practice this and teach others to act as well.
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