{"id":14440,"date":"2026-01-10T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&p=14440"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:48:02","slug":"the-shema-reading-the-tzitzit-tefillin-and-the-straps","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-shema-reading-the-tzitzit-tefillin-and-the-straps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shema Reading, the\u00a0Tzitzit,\u00a0Tefillin, and the Straps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

285) One who reads the Shema reading morning and evening, it is as though he keeps the verse, \u201cAnd you shall contemplate it day and night,\u201d because the Shema reading includes within it right and left, day and night. A white Talit [prayer shawl]\u2014 the Talit in the Tzitzit<\/em> with respect to the white in it, and not with the respect to the azure in it\u2014is to the right, on the part of Hesed<\/em>. It was said about it, \u201cTo a king sitting on the throne of mercy [Rachamim<\/em>] and conducting himself in piousness.\u201d It is also written, \u201cAnd in mercy shall the throne be established.\u201d Hesed<\/em> amounts to AB<\/em> (72), implying the seventy-two rings and knots in the Talit, which are four times eighteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

286) There is a Talit on the part of Matat\u2014the letters Tet<\/em> of Matat, which include eighteen that exist among the knots and the rings on each side of the Talit. There are five knots corresponding to the five books of Moses [the Pentateuch]. The thirteen rings are thirteen bindings that are bounded on the Tzitzit<\/em>, corresponding to the thirteen qualities of Rachamim<\/em> in the Torah. The Torah is interpreted in thirteen qualities, which are the thirteen qualities of Rachamim<\/em>, extended from the thirteen corrections of Dikna<\/em> de<\/em> AA<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

287) It is written about Malchut<\/em>, \u201cas the appearance of a man upon it from above.\u201d Malchut<\/em> in the form of Tifferet<\/em> is the glory of man upon it from above, and it is called by the name of Tifferet<\/em>, Yod<\/em>–Vav<\/em>–Dalet<\/em> Hey<\/em>–Aleph<\/em> Vav<\/em>–Aleph<\/em>–Vav<\/em> Hey<\/em>–Aleph<\/em>. It is also written \u201cAll who are called by My name, and whom I have created, formed, and made for My glory.\u201d Therefore, \u201cas the appearance of a man upon it from above\u201d is the Shechina<\/em>, who is as the form of the middle pillar, Tifferet<\/em> in four faces and in ten Sefirot<\/em>, which are Adam, ten letters Yod<\/em>–Vav<\/em>–Dalet<\/em> Hey<\/em>–Aleph<\/em> Vav<\/em>–Aleph<\/em>–Vav<\/em> Hey<\/em>–Aleph<\/em>, which is Adam in Gematria<\/em> (45). The four faces of Adam, the four simple letters, HaVaYaH<\/em>, which together are fourteen letters, it is written about them, \u201cAnd through the prophets I gave parables.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

288) Also, the Tzitzit<\/em> is called Hay<\/em> [Het<\/em>–Yod<\/em>, \u201calive,\u201d eighteen (in Gematria<\/em>)], which are thirteen rings and five knots on the part of the righteous, Yesod<\/em>. Through his unification the Creator and His Shechina<\/em> are called Adam, in HaVaYaH<\/em> filled with the letters Aleph<\/em>, which is Adam in Gematria<\/em>. The middle pillar, ZA<\/em>, is Yod<\/em>–Vav<\/em>–Dalet<\/em> Hey<\/em>–Aleph<\/em> Vav<\/em>–Aleph<\/em>–Vav<\/em>, which is thirty-nine in Gematria<\/em>. His Shechina<\/em> is Hey<\/em>–Aleph<\/em>, and in Hey<\/em>–Aleph<\/em> the name Adam was completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thirty-nine amount to Yod<\/em>–Vav<\/em>–Dalet<\/em> Hey<\/em>–Aleph<\/em> Vav<\/em>–Aleph<\/em>–Vav<\/em>, and the righteous, who is called Hay<\/em>, brings down the dew, Yod<\/em>–Vav<\/em>–Dalet<\/em> Hey<\/em>–Aleph<\/em> Vav<\/em>–Aleph<\/em>–Vav<\/em>, to the Hey<\/em>–Aleph<\/em>, the Shechina<\/em>. Yesod<\/em> is the connection of the Talit, eighteen worlds on each side\u2014five knots and thirteen rings, connecting and unifying the Creator with His Shechina<\/em> on all sides, in the four ends of the Talit, HG<\/em> TM<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

289) Tefillin<\/em> are the left line, as it is written, \u201cThe Lord has sworn by His right, and by the arm of His strength.\u201d \u201cBy His right\u201d is the Torah, and \u201cBy the arm of His strength\u201d is Tefillin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The four portions in the Tefillin<\/em> are the four letters HaVaYaH<\/em>. ADNI<\/em> is a palace for four letters, four portions, in the four boxes of the Tefillin<\/em>. The knot of the hand Tefillin<\/em> is \u201cthe righteous one who lives forever,\u201d Yesod<\/em>, the connection of HaVaYaH ADNI<\/em>, on the left arm. The knot of the head Tefillin<\/em> is the middle pillar, Tifferet<\/em> in which HaVaYaH EKYEH<\/em> connect above, HB<\/em>, since ZA<\/em> rises and unites HB<\/em>, HaVaYaH EKYEH<\/em>, and becomes Daat<\/em> there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

290) The Shema reading is the unification in the middle, in HGT<\/em>, and is gripped between the Tzitzit<\/em> and the Tefillin<\/em>. The Tzitzit<\/em> is from the white, to his right, and the Tefillin<\/em> is to his left. All the portions of Tzitzit<\/em> and Tefillin<\/em> are included in the unification of the Shema reading. With respect to the middle pillar, Talit and Tefillin<\/em>, as it is written, \u201cAnd it shall be a sign on your hand and frontals [Totafot<\/em>] between your eyes.\u201d And it is also written, \u201cAnd they shall make for themselves tassels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are three unifications:<\/p>\n\n\n\n