{"id":14433,"date":"2026-01-09T23:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14433"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:36:48","slug":"four-klipot-surrounding-the-four-animals","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/four-klipot-surrounding-the-four-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Four\u00a0Klipot\u00a0Surrounding the Four Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>263) There are no&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;above, in the tree of life,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, since it is forbidden to approach the king\u2019s gate wearing rags. Below, in Matat, there are&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;since Matat is in the form of the middle pillar,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>. When the Creator is outside of His&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, when&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;is in exile, He covers with the face and wings of His servant, Matat, as it is written, \u201cAnd He rode upon a cherub, and flew.\u201d Matat is called a \u201ccherub\u201d and a \u201cvehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>264) The&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;surround the four animals of Matat: 1)&nbsp;<em>Tohu<\/em>, of which it is written, \u201cAnd behold a great and strong wind taking mountains apart and shattering rocks, but the Lord was not in the wind.\u201d 2)&nbsp;<em>Bohu<\/em>, of which it is written, \u201cAnd after the wind, an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the two&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;[peels\/shells] of the nut: a green&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>Tohu<\/em>, and a white&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>Bohu<\/em>, which is wet stones, a&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;as hard as a wet stone. Opposite those two&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;there are chaff and straw of the wheat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>265) 3) The third&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;surrounding the four animals of Matat is thin. It corresponds to the bran of the wheat, since here it becomes attached to the wheat and cannot be separated from there until it is ground in the mill, which corresponds to the molars in man\u2019s mouth. Words of Torah must be ground in them until they are as flour, as clean semolina. The waste, the bran of the Torah, is sorted in a strainer, which is the lips, until the rule is as clean semolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time the heart, the mind, and all the organs of the body where the soul spreads take that rule that is as clean semolina, and the soul is nourished in it, as the body is nourished by the words of the corporeal world, for God has made them one opposite the other. There is the bread of the body, and there is the bread of the soul, as it is written, \u201cGo, eat of my bread.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>266) This is the&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;that is attached to the marrow of the nut, for when the nut is soft, it parts from the marrow of the nut with ease, but when it is dry, it is hard for a person to remove it from there, for the difficulty remains. This is why the Creator commanded man to repent in his youth, before the evil inclination grows old in him, as it is written, \u201cArise before old age,\u201d meaning arise in repentance before you are old. This&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;is fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4) The fourth&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;that surrounds the four animals of Matat is an abyss, as it is written, \u201cAnd darkness over the face of the abyss,\u201d which is the hollow in the nut, of which it is written, \u201cA silent voice,\u201d where the king comes. It is written about it, \u201cAnd out of the midst of it as the color of electrum [electricity], out of the midst of the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>267) These four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;are inscribed in the four organs of the body: in the lungs, where there is moisture, from which there are the attachments [flaws] of the lung, which glue the lobes of the lungs to one another and weaken it. It is written about it, \u201cHer legs go down to death; her steps take hold on the netherworld.\u201d There, a strong wind takes mountains apart, beating against the lobes of man\u2019s lungs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a wind that makes man\u2019s body storm, the first&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>, called in Ezekiel, \u201cstormy wind,\u201d the wind that Elijah bent under him and by which he went up, as it is written, \u201cAnd Elijah went up to the heaven by a storm.\u201d This wind knocks on the lung, which drinks various drinks, and in them the spirit of God hovers over the face of the water. This is a&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;to the holy spirit. And to the left, it is a stormy wind. It is written about it, \u201cA wisehearted one to his right, and a fool to his left.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is written, \u201cAnd I saw, and behold, a stormy wind came from the north, a great cloud, a blazing fire, and a brightness round about it. And out of the midst of it was a semblance of electrum out of the fire, and the midst of it the likeness of four animals.\u201d The text counts four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>: \u201cstormy wind,\u201d \u201cgreat cloud,\u201d \u201cblazing fire,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Noga<\/em>&nbsp;[brightness]. Afterward it says that within those four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;there are four animals: lion, ox, eagle, man. Why are the four holy animals inside the four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>? Moreover, it was said that above, in the tree of life, in&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;<em>de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>, there are no&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;on its four animals, while below, in Matat, there are&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>, since the four animals of Matat are inside the four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To explain to us the matter of these four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>, he compares them to the four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>\u2014<em>Tohu<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Bohu<\/em>, darkness, and the spirit of God\u2014in the work of creation, and to the four of Elijah, which are \u201cgreat and strong wind that takes apart mountains, a quake, fire, and a silent voice.\u201d He also compares them to the four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;of wheat\u2014chaff, straw, bran, and coarse bran\u2014and to the four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;of the nut, within which are the four&nbsp;<em>Mochin<\/em>&nbsp;of the nut, since the marrow of the nut is split to four parts. He brings all these comparisons so as to draw from one in regard to the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those four in the work of creation, the four of Ezekiel, and the four of Elijah are as the ones in the beginning of the emanation of the worlds, when four&nbsp;<em>Behinot<\/em>&nbsp;emerged:&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Bet<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Bet<\/em>. Thus, in each element that is sorted out of the seven kings of&nbsp;<em>Nekudim<\/em>, these four&nbsp;<em>Behinot<\/em>&nbsp;emerge in them. These are the four of the work of creation, the four of Ezekiel, and the four of Elijah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the work of creation,&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em>&nbsp;is called&nbsp;<em>Tohu<\/em>. In Ezekiel, it is called \u201cstormy wind.\u201d In Elijah it is \u201cgreat and strong wind that takes mountains apart,\u201d in the wheat it is the chaff, and in the nut it is green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the work of creation, the&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em>&nbsp;is called&nbsp;<em>Bohu<\/em>. In Ezekiel it is a great cloud, in Elijah it is a quake, in the wheat it is the straw, and in the nut it is a white&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;[shell].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the work of creation,&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Bet<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201cdarkness,\u201d in Ezekiel it is a blazing fire, in Elijah it is fire, in the wheat it is bran, and in the nut it is a peel that sticks to the marrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the work of creation, the&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Bet<\/em>&nbsp;is called an \u201cabyss,\u201d \u201cAnd the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the water.\u201d In Ezekiel it is&nbsp;<em>Noga<\/em>&nbsp;and electrum, in Elijah, a silent sound, where the king comes, in the wheat it is coarse bran, the very fine waste of the flour, and in the nut it is the hollow of the nut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;of the nut\u2014a green&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Tohu<\/em>, and a white&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Bohu<\/em>, which is wet stones, a&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;as hard as a wet stone. Opposite those two&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;are the chaff and straw of the wheat. These are the&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Aleph<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Aleph<\/em>, which have no contact with the upper nine. For this reason, chaff and straw have no contact with the bran, which is the wheat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A third&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;is from&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Bet<\/em>, when&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;has already risen to&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;and has been mitigated in&nbsp;<em>Midat ha Rachamim<\/em>. For this reason, it is fine, as it is mitigated. It corresponds to the bran, since here it becomes attached to the wheat, since here&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;rose to&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, and was therefore engraved in all upper nine, which are the bran of the wheat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is considered that her&nbsp;<em>Dinim<\/em>&nbsp;have clung to the actual wheat. She cannot be separated from there until she is ground with mills and the waste, the bran of the Torah, is sorted in the strainer until the rule becomes clean semolina. We must raise&nbsp;<em>MAN<\/em>&nbsp;to extend the illumination of&nbsp;<em>AB<\/em>&nbsp;<em>SAG<\/em>&nbsp;<em>de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>AK<\/em>, to bring down&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;to her place, for then the&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>&nbsp;<em>de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;appear, and they are the clean semolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the nut is soft, when the light of&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>, called \u201cwater,\u201d illuminates in her, she parts from the marrow of the nut with ease. However, if she has no&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>, when the nut is dry, it is hard to bring down&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>. However, extending&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;is done only in&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Bet<\/em>, which is the fourth&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;is an abyss, the hollow in the nut. It is written about it, \u201ca silent voice,\u201d from which the king comes. She is the&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Bet<\/em>, where the&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;are drawn, and then it is possible to bring&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;down from&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, so the&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>, the king, will appear, meaning the four holy animals, called \u201cfour&nbsp;<em>Mochin<\/em>&nbsp;of the nut.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;are four degrees, called \u201cdisclosure of the&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>.\u201d It is so because in&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em>, all the lights disappeared and the&nbsp;<em>Masach<\/em>, called&nbsp;<em>Bohu<\/em>, extended&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em>. There it is still not the beginning of the existence of the worlds until the third&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;comes from the ascent of&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, a beginning is made, and a possibility for elicitation of&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterward, when the&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Bet<\/em>&nbsp;emerged in&nbsp;<em>Hassadim<\/em>, called \u201ca silent voice,\u201d it is possible to bring down the&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;and disclose the&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>&nbsp;in the three lines, and the&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;that receives them, called \u201cfour animals.\u201d Thus, the four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;are four degrees until the animals appear, hence they are clothed in one another until they are revealed in their internality and four animals stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;are inscribed in the four organs of the body: lung, heart, liver, and spleen. The lung is the upper&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Bet<\/em>, the attachments in the lung. The moisture in the lung, which drinks various drinks, is&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, on which the stormy wind of&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em>&nbsp;knocks,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;of the stormy wind mingles with&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, and attachments are made in&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Masachim<\/em>&nbsp;[pl. of&nbsp;<em>Masach<\/em>]&nbsp;<em>de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Bet<\/em>, as it is written, \u201cHer legs go down to death.\u201d At her end there is&nbsp;<em>Malchut de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Man\u2019ula<\/em>, from which comes death. But the attachments themselves are mitigated in&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He interprets how the attachments were made and says, \u201cAnd there, a strong wind taking mountains apart,\u201d knocking on the lobes of man\u2019s lungs. This is the spirit that storms man\u2019s body. It is a stormy wind,&nbsp;<em>Malchut de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Aleph<\/em>. That wind knocks on the lung, which drinks various drinks, and mingles with the water of&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, and they become attachments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In them, \u201cThe spirit of God hovers over the face of the water,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Bet<\/em>, which is a&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;for the holy spirit. And once that&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;has been removed, the spirit of holiness appears, the&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The place of the&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Malchut de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em>, called \u201cstormy wind,\u201d is in the heart. The heart, which is to the left of the lung, is where the stormy wind of&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em>&nbsp;lies. It is written about them, \u201cA wisehearted one to his right,\u201d receiving the&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Bet<\/em>, which is \u201cand the spirit of God hovers,\u201d from the lung to the right of the heart, \u201cAnd a fool to his left,\u201d having a stormy wind in him, who is unfit to receive light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>268) David removed the stormy wind from his heart and killed it, as it is written, \u201cMy heart is hollow within me,\u201d since he removed the stormy wind and in its stead, a hollow remained in the heart. This is why he was rewarded with the blowing of the north wind\u2014the illumination of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;from the left\u2014in his violin,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. It is written about it, \u201cThus said the lord, \u2018Come from the four winds, O wind.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He would play four types of tunes with his violin: a simple song,&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>, a double song,&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>, a triple song,&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>&#8211;<em>Vav<\/em>, and a quadruple song,&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Vav<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>. Together, they are ten letters. Opposite them, David made ten kinds of psalms. They amount to&nbsp;<em>AB<\/em>&nbsp;(seventy-two) faces, seventy-two lights, as the count of these ten letters of the quadruple&nbsp;<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>269) And when does one rise to the seventy-two kinds of tunes, which are&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>&nbsp;from the name&nbsp;<em>AB<\/em>? Upon the removal of the dominance of iniquity, destructor, anger, and fury, in whom the stormy wind knocks, meaning&nbsp;<em>Malchut de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em>, in four sides that amount to ten&nbsp;<em>Ketarim<\/em>, in the four letters&nbsp;<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>. In the double, triple, and quadruple song they are ten letters, which add up to seventy-two, and then they subdue the seventy-two nations, which are seventy nations, and Edom and Ishmael, as it is written, \u201cWhen wicked are lost there is joy.\u201d It is so because when the four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>\u2014iniquity, destructor, anger, and wrath\u2014are lost, the&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>&nbsp;appear, singing, which are seventy-two kinds of tunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>270) Michael, Gabriel, Nuriel, and Raphael, the four animals of the&nbsp;<em>Merkava<\/em>, govern over four good foundations of man: water, fire, wind, and dust,&nbsp;<em>HG<\/em>&nbsp;<em>TM<\/em>. Each of them has four faces: lion, ox, eagle, and man. Iniquity, destructor, anger, and wrath hang on a white gall, which is the lung in which an attachment is made, on a red gall, which is in the liver, and is made red in Mars, and on a green gall, which grips to the liver. This is the sword of the angel of death, of which it is written, \u201cHer end is as bitter as wormwood, as sharp as a double-edge sword.\u201d And also to a black gall, who is Lilit, Planet Saturn, the governance of the spleen, which is sadness, the netherworld, poverty, and darkness, weeping, mourning, and hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Man\u2019s four good foundations are water, fire, wind, and dust. These are the four animals Michael, Gabriel, Nuriel, and Raphael, inside the four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>, stormy wind, great cloud, blazing fire, and&nbsp;<em>Noga<\/em>. As the four animals are clothed inside these four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>, so are the four foundations in man clothed in four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>: iniquity, destructor, anger, and wrath. Iniquity corresponds to&nbsp;<em>Noga<\/em>; destructor corresponds to blazing fire; anger corresponds to stormy wind; and wrath corresponds to great cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael, Gabriel, Nuriel, and Raphael control the four good foundations of man, water, fire, wind, and dust, where the four foundations are the four animals in man, like the four angels. Each of them has four faces, like the four animals of above, to each of which four faces. And as the animals of above are clothed in four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>, stormy wind, great cloud, blazing fire, and&nbsp;<em>Noga<\/em>, the four animals in man, fire, wind, water, and dust are clothed in four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>, iniquity, destructor, anger, and wrath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iniquity, destructor, anger, and wrath hang on a white gall, the lung in which an attachment [sore\/blemish] is made, since in the lung there is&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Noga<\/em>, the&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Bet<\/em>, which is called \u201ciniquity\u201d in man, and from whom come the attachments in the lung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also on the red gall in the liver, which is made red in Mars. It corresponds to the&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;of blazing fire from&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Bet<\/em>, in which the&nbsp;<em>Dinim<\/em>&nbsp;are not from herself, but due to her mingling in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. This is why she is called \u201cblazing fire,\u201d for she is lit by a different fire, and the redness comes to her due to a different redness. In man, this&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201cdestructor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The green gall that grips to the liver is the sword of the angel of death, who corresponds to the&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;of stormy wind, which extends from&nbsp;<em>Malchut de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em>, from which comes death. In man, this&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201canger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the black gall there is the domination of the spleen, which is sadness, the netherworld, poverty, darkness, weeping, mourning, and hunger. It is the&nbsp;<em>Klipa<\/em>&nbsp;of great cloud, extending from the&nbsp;<em>Masach de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em>, which in man is called \u201cwrath.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four foundations, fire, wind, water, and dust, the four animals in man, are clothed inside these four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>\u2014iniquity, destructor, anger, and wrath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>271) When the four&nbsp;<em>Klipot<\/em>&nbsp;are removed from man, the tree of life governs him in seventy-two faces from the illumination of&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, which are quadruple&nbsp;<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>&nbsp;in this manner:&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>&#8211;<em>Vav<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Vav<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>, which in&nbsp;<em>Gematria<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>AB<\/em>&nbsp;[seventy-two]. There are ten letters, hanging down from four winds, the four letters&nbsp;<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>, in which it is written, \u201cThus said the Lord, \u2018Come from the four winds, O wind.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the spirit of the Messiah, of whom it is written, \u201cAnd the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of kingship,\u201d when&nbsp;<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, blows in the right ear of the heart, where the&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;is from the side of&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>, in which one who wishes to grow wise will go south in wisdom. And&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>&nbsp;blows in&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, then in&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, and then in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it blows in&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;it is&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>, in&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;it is&nbsp;<em>Hey<\/em>, in&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>&nbsp;it is&nbsp;<em>Vav<\/em>, and in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;it is&nbsp;<em>Hey<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, knocks in all of these four&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;and becomes four combinations. When he knocks in&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;he is&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>. When he knocks in&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, he is&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>. When he knocks in&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>&nbsp;he is&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>&#8211;<em>Vav<\/em>, and when he knocks in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;he is&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Vav<\/em>&#8211;<em>Hey<\/em>, which amount to ten letters opposite ten&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>. Their sum is&nbsp;<em>AB<\/em>&nbsp;[seventy-two], which is&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, the thought of the heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>272)&nbsp;<em>Yod<\/em>&#8211;<em>Vav<\/em>&#8211;<em>Dalet<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Hey<\/em>&#8211;<em>Aleph<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Vav<\/em>&#8211;<em>Aleph<\/em>&#8211;<em>Vav<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Hey<\/em>&#8211;<em>Aleph<\/em>, which is&nbsp;<em>MA<\/em>&nbsp;(45) in&nbsp;<em>Gematria<\/em>, is&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>. Its right is water, and the big hand,&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>, and right line. Its left is fire and a strong hand,&nbsp;<em>Gevura<\/em>, and left line. In the middle pillar between them is a high hand,&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>, the middle line, the holy spirit. 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