{"id":10069,"date":"2025-11-28T14:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=10069"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:37:04","slug":"the-wheels-of-the-holy-merkava-chariot-assembly","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-wheels-of-the-holy-merkava-chariot-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wheels of the Holy\u00a0Merkava\u00a0[Chariot\/Assembly]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>40) We open our eyes and see the wheels of the holy&nbsp;<em>Merkava<\/em>&nbsp;traveling in their journeys, and the sound of singing, sweet to the ears, to&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, and beautiful for the heart,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, rising and falling and walking, and not traveling. A thousand thousands and ten thousand ten thousand are startled. A thousand thousands is the order of extension of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>. And because it is extended through the left line, where there are judgments, it is considered that they startle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;are in thousands. When they are incorporated in one another they become a thousand thousands. And ten thousand ten thousands are&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>, whose origin is&nbsp;<em>Atik<\/em>, whose Sefirot are in ten thousand, and they begin with the song of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;from below upward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;is the&nbsp;<em>Merkava<\/em>. Her wheels are the three lines,&nbsp;<em>HGT<\/em>, and the fourth wheel is&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;up, which receives from them. When the wheels are included in one another, each of them contains three lines, which are twelve. Through these lines, the high king,&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, rides in his&nbsp;<em>Merkava<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>. Also, journeying means illumination of the lines one at a time, in the order of the emergence of&nbsp;<em>Holam<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Shuruk<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Hirik<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was said, \u201cwe open our eyes.\u201d When we obtain illumination of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, called \u201copening of the eyes,\u201d we see the wheels of the holy&nbsp;<em>Merkava<\/em>&nbsp;traveling in their journeys, meaning through the four wheels of&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>HGT<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;is obtained only through their journeys, as they travel from line to line in the three dots\u2014<em>Holam<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Shuruk<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Hirik<\/em>. At that time, the sound of singing is heard, sweet to the ears, we hear the illumination of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;for the ears, which are&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, primarily through the middle line,&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>, called \u201cvoice.\u201d And it is imparted from him, from the heart, to&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when the heart,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, receives illumination of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, imparted only from below upwards, she rises. And she descends when she receives the light of&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;that is imparted from above downwards. The journey is illumination of the three lines one at a time, and so on and so forth. However, there is no journeying in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;because she receives only from the journeying of the three lines, as was said, \u201cwalking, and not traveling,\u201d since she does not partake with the three lines in the act of illumination but only receives from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And singing,&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, does not travel with them. This is why it was said, \u201cbegin with the singing of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>\u201d from below upward because the singing does not shine from above downward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>41) To the sound of that tune from the journeying of the wheels, those who stand, stand and gather into one group on the right side, 450,000 with eyes, who see and who do not see. And they are in all their lines. The two other sides, left and middle, are whitened for them. This means that their judgments, which are red, are removed because they receive&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;from the right line. Also, there are 250,000 to the left side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are five&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;in each line,&nbsp;<em>HGT<\/em>&nbsp;<em>NH<\/em>. Since they are from&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, whose Sefirot [also numerals] are in hundreds, they are five hundred. They divide at the place of the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>: two and a half&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;are 250,&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Gevura<\/em>&nbsp;and half of&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;upwards. And two and a half&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>\u2014half of the bottom&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Netzah<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Hod<\/em>\u2014are 250 from the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;down. And since the illumination of the right line is primarily&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>, she shines from the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;down, as well, through half of the bottom&nbsp;<em>Sefira<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Hod<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is so because being&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, whose&nbsp;<em>HGT<\/em>&nbsp;<em>NH<\/em>&nbsp;are&nbsp;<em>KHB<\/em>&nbsp;<em>TM<\/em>, she shines only from below upwards, from the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;upwards. Hence, the illumination of the right line takes up four and a half&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>HGT<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Netzah<\/em>, and half of&nbsp;<em>Hod<\/em>, which are 450. However, the illumination of the left line does not shine from above downwards whatsoever, but only from below upwards, from the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;and above. It turns out that she shines with only two and a half&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Gevura<\/em>&nbsp;and half of&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>, which are only 250.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was said, 450 of the ones with eyes shine to the right side. Because they are primarily light of&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>, they shine from above downwards through half of the&nbsp;<em>Sefira<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Hod<\/em>, too, which are four&nbsp;<em>Sefirot HGT<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Netzah<\/em>, and half of the&nbsp;<em>Sefira<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Hod<\/em>, through the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>. And since they are from&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, whose&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;are hundreds, they are 450. And since they extend the&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;to the left line, and the&nbsp;<em>Sefira<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;is thousands, they are 450,000. This is also why they are called \u201cthe ones with eyes,\u201d since&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201ceyes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, even though they impart&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;to the left line, the right itself does not receive&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>. This is why it is said, \u201cThey see and they do not see,\u201d since both discernments are observed in them. Because they bestow&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;upon the left, they are called seeing, for seeing is&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>. And because they do not receive&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;for themselves, they are as it is written, because he delights in mercy.\u201d This is why they are regarded as not seeing, not having&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;in them, but&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, it is known that the&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;in the two lines, left and middle, dresses in the&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;of the right. This is why it was said, the two other sides, left and middle, are whitened because of them, since they receive the&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;from this right. Thus, the redness in them, meaning judgments, was removed and they became white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was said that there are 250,000 to the left side, since the left line, which is primarily where&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;shines, illuminates only from below upwards, meaning two and a half&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;up, which are&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Gevura<\/em>&nbsp;and half of the upper&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>. Since they extend from&nbsp;<em>Bina\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;left, whose&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;are hundreds, they are 250. And since they are in the light of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, whose&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;are thousands, they are 250,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42) 250,000 weepers sob and wail from the places where they dwell, from their origins. They begin with judgment and end with judgment. They sob a second time and the judgment appears, and the books are open, to observe the judgments in them. At that time, the litigant rises; he would rise against them and sit at the judgment throne, and the singing would be silenced before the sentence was completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&nbsp;<em>The<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Zohar<\/em>&nbsp;wishes to explain two different states that occur in each of the three lines: 1. At the place where it originally exits, where each line acts according to its degree to extend&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>. 2. Not at the place of its exit, where each line acts to increase the&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;and leaves the act of extension of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>. It begins with the left line because this is the prime operator in extending&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, meaning it acts at the dot of&nbsp;<em>Shuruk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extension of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201csinging.\u201d This applies only in the joining of all three lines. However, extension of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;in the left line only is sometimes called \u201cwailing,\u201d since the&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;is without&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;in it, and&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;is intolerable when it is not clothed in&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>. Because of this judgment, all those who receive from him, meaning 250,000, sob and wail. And there is another judgment\u2014the judgment of the screen of&nbsp;<em>Hirik<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 250,000 weepers are extended from the left line and their illumination of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201csobbing.\u201d They sob and howl from the places where they dwell, from their origin, they begin with judgment and they conclude with judgment, since in the first act in the place from which they exit, they begin with extension of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;in judgment, for lack of clothing of&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>. And until they complete wanting to extend&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;they are in that judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They sob again, in the second act, to draw&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>. Then the judgment appears and the books open since the other judgment, of screen of&nbsp;<em>Hirik<\/em>, appears. Also, it is the carrier of the quality of judgment in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, for which the&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;departs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, the litigant who stands over them rises, meaning&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, who carries the screen of&nbsp;<em>Hirik<\/em>, sits on the throne, meaning&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;of the quality of judgment that removes the light of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, and hence the singing ceases. This is because the light of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, called \u201csinging,\u201d stops shining before the judgment ends, since they could not conclude the act of drawing&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, which is extended in the first judgment, called \u201csobbing,\u201d since the&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;had already departed because of the second judgment, which appeared in the screen of&nbsp;<em>Hirik<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And because of the screen of&nbsp;<em>Hirik<\/em>, which&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, the middle line, reveals, it is called by three appellations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Before the upper light made a coupling on the screen of&nbsp;<em>Hirik<\/em>, it was called \u201clitigant,\u201d for then it only increases judgments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. After the upper light made a coupling on the screen of&nbsp;<em>Hirik<\/em>, at his&nbsp;<em>Yesod<\/em>, which is called \u201cHe that lives forever.\u201d At that time, it draws the light of&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;from the right line and clothes the&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;in the left line with them, and then illumination of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;is extended once more. And since it was clothed in&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>, it shines in completeness without judgments, and then&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201cPatron,\u201d protecting the&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;so it can shine without judgments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. After it intensifies to draw the thirteen qualities of mercy from&nbsp;<em>Dikna<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>AA<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;is called&nbsp;<em>Saba<\/em>, the protector of everything.&nbsp;<em>Saba<\/em>&nbsp;is named after&nbsp;<em>AA<\/em>. He is called \u201cthe protector of everything\u201d because he is all mercy without any judgment. This is so because then he draws plentiful&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;from Holy&nbsp;<em>Atik<\/em>, who is all mercy, and since these&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;are preferable to&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, since&nbsp;<em>Atik<\/em>&nbsp;is above&nbsp;<em>AA<\/em>, from whom comes&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, too, is extended to them by itself. It turns out that he is the protector of everything because he protects both the proliferation of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;and the proliferation of&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>43)&nbsp;<em>The Zohar<\/em>&nbsp;explains the two operations on the right line. It says, \u201cThey surround those with eyes from the right side,\u201d with whom there are eighteen thousand other ones who blow, meaning the screen of&nbsp;<em>Hirik<\/em>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<em>Yesod<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, called \u201clives,\u201d which is eighteen in&nbsp;<em>Gematria<\/em>. And since it causes the extension of&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>, within which shines&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, it is called \u201cthousands.\u201d Extension of&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201cblowing,\u201d a simple voice. Then those who receive&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;from the right line neither sob nor wail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They begin with singing, meaning drawing out of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, and 250,000 startle, referring to the weepers. The 250,000 on the left line, too, are called \u201cthose who sob,\u201d and now they, too, receive illumination of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>. Although the sobbing and wailing has already stopped, they are still startled by the dread of the judgment that happened to them before they received the&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;from the right line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>44) He blew and extended&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;a second time, in the second act in the right line, where there is no sobbing. The patron,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, journeys from throne of judgment during the disclosure of&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;in the screen and sits at the throne of mercy to extend abundant&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>. At that time,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;mentions the great, sublime, Holy Name, which is&nbsp;<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>&nbsp;with the filling of&nbsp;<em>MA<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>He<\/em>&#8211;<em>Vav<\/em>&#8211;<em>He<\/em>, for life for all is extended through that name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>45) There are two operations in the middle line. He opened and said, \u201c<em>ZA<\/em>, the middle line, once,&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>He<\/em>&#8211;<em>Vav<\/em>&#8211;<em>He<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>He<\/em>&#8211;<em>Vav<\/em>&nbsp;are the three lines\u2014right, left, and middle\u2014that are included in&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>. The bottom&nbsp;<em>Hey<\/em>&nbsp;is the&nbsp;<em>Nukva<\/em>, which receives from them, as it is written, \u201cAnd called upon the name of the Lord.\u201d As in the beginning, they start with those with the holy wheels in the&nbsp;<em>Merkava<\/em>&nbsp;[chariot\/assembly]. Also, a thousand thousands, which is&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, and ten thousand ten thousands, which are&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>, clothe them and sing, praising the angels and saying, \u201cBlessed be the glory of the Lord from the place of His dwelling,\u201d meaning that the Shechina will be blessed by&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and receive&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;clothed in&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>46) Then comes that garden, the Shechina, which is hidden in the 250 worlds above the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, where there are two&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Gevura<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, and half of the&nbsp;<em>Sefira<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, which are hundreds since they extend from&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, and they are 250. Also, they are called \u201cworlds\u201d because the&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;in them is clothed and concealed in&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>. This is the precious the Shechina in the brightness of her&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, which emerges from the brightness of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;and clothes and conceals in the brightness of&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the brightness is extended from her to the four directions,&nbsp;<em>HG TM<\/em>, which are the four heads, to keep them with the&nbsp;<em>Mochin<\/em>, as it was written that from there he would separate and become four heads. And the brightness extended from her to all the lower ones, and she is the one called \u201cGarden of Eden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is hidden in 250 worlds, meaning above&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, it is because this is not her real place, for she begins only from&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;downwards. However, to be able to receive&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, she rose above the&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;and should therefore be hidden there so that the outer ones will not slander her, since it was impossible for her to receive&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;at that time. This explains the first operation in the middle line, which is to extend&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>47)&nbsp;<em>Saba<\/em>&nbsp;starting again means that after&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;rose to&nbsp;<em>AA<\/em>, he is called&nbsp;<em>Saba<\/em>, like him. This is the second act of the middle line,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, both for extending&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, and for extending&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>. He mentions his name,&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>He<\/em>&#8211;<em>Vav<\/em>&#8211;<em>He<\/em>, and everyone start by extending&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;from the thirteen qualities of mercy, which extend at that time from the thirteen corrections in&nbsp;<em>Dikna<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>AA<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who saw all those lights, the highest of high, the fiercest of fierce, from among the holy&nbsp;<em>Merkavot<\/em>&nbsp;[plural of&nbsp;<em>Merkava<\/em>]? The heavens and all their hosts are startled and shake in great dread, and they praise the Holy Name and say songs. Happy are the souls of the righteous, for they are in that subtleness and they know it, as it is written, \u201cWho would not fear You, O king of the nations? For it befits You.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>48) When the Shechina came down to Egypt, another animal from the four animals of the&nbsp;<em>Merkava<\/em>&nbsp;came down, and its name was Israel, in the shape of that&nbsp;<em>Saba<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>. And forty-two holy angles were with it, forty-two angels. Each of them had a holy sign with him, from the Holy Name&nbsp;<em>Mem<\/em>&#8211;<em>Bet<\/em>&nbsp;[forty-two]. These angels that serve the animal, whose name is \u201cIsrael,\u201d are called, \u201cthe sons of Israel,\u201d they extend from the name&nbsp;<em>Mem<\/em>&#8211;<em>Bet<\/em>, and they are the&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>&nbsp;in that animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And all of them came down to Egypt with Jacob, as it is written, \u201cThese are the names of the sons of Israel who come to Egypt with Jacob.\u201d It is written, \u201cThe sons of Israel\u201d and then it is written, \u201cWith Jacob.\u201d It does not say, \u201cWith him.\u201d Rather, the name \u201cIsrael\u201d is not the name of Jacob but of the upper animal in the screen, whose name is \u201cIsrael,\u201d and the sons of Israel are its forty-two servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>49) The sons of Israel are the forty-two holy angels. Thus, why is it written, \u201cThey came each man with his household\u201d? After all, there is no household in angels. However, the high angels are higher than the lower ones among them, as it is written, \u201cThey came each man with his household,\u201d where the upper angel is called \u201cman\u201d and the one below it is called \u201chis household.\u201d And all those angels in the upper degree are called \u201cmale men,\u201d and those in the degree below them are called \u201cfemales\u201d and \u201chome,\u201d since a woman, female, receives from the male and she is like a house to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40) We open our eyes and see the wheels of the holy&nbsp;Merkava&nbsp;traveling in their journeys, and the sound of singing, 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