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146) \u201cAnd God said, \u2018Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.\u2019\u201d If not for the firmament, which separates between the upper water and the lower water, meaning right and left in the dispute, there would be division in the world. But this firmament, the middle line, made peace between them. Also, the world exists only on peace. The Creator is called, \u201cpeace,\u201d He is peace and His name is \u201cPeace,\u201d and all is tied in peace. He is peace means ZA<\/em>. His name is peace refers to the Malchut<\/em>, who is called \u201cname.\u201d And all is tied in peace refers to Yesod<\/em>, which connects everything. This high, Holy Name is all peace, all His degrees, and He is all one. Also, His ways divide into this side and that side, to the right and to the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

147) The Yod<\/em> of the Holy Name connects in three ties. For this reason, there is one tip in it above, one tip below, and one tip in the middle, since three ties hang down in her. The tip above is the upper Keter<\/em>, above all the upper ones, the head of all the heads and stands atop all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

148) The tip in the middle of the Yod<\/em> is another head, since there are three heads in the Yod<\/em>, each with its own head. This is why the tip in the middle is a different head, which comes out of the tip above, and it is the head of all the heads, to build the Holy Name from it. This head is concealed from everything and is called Hochma<\/em>, which emanates from the first Rosh<\/em> [head], the upper Keter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

149) The bottom tip is the other, bottom tip of the Yod<\/em>. It is Bina<\/em>, the head to water the garden, Malchut<\/em>. This is the fountain of water from which all the plantings are watered, since all the Mochin<\/em> of ZON<\/em> and BYA<\/em> extend from the Bina<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the meaning of the Yod<\/em> that has three ties in her, KHB<\/em>. This is also why she is called \u201ca chain,\u201d since she is like a three-ring chain that are tied to one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

150) It is written in the book of Enoch that when he was shown the wisdom of the high secrets and he saw the tree of the Garden of Eden, ZA<\/em>, the tree of life within the garden, he was shown the bottom Hochma<\/em>, Malchut<\/em>, as an upper one, in the unification of ZA<\/em>, to which he is superior. He saw that all the worlds were connected to each and all stood on the Yod<\/em>, Hochma<\/em>, and were built from it and hung down, as it is written, \u201cIn wisdom have You made them all,\u201d and he saw that they were all shaken by the fear of their master and were all named after him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

151) In King Solomon\u2019s book, he said that the expansion of the Yod<\/em> is in a chain of three rings, included in the ties of her body: 1) the fear of everything, Keter<\/em>, that everyone is shaken by the fear of him; 2) the concealment of paths, the concealed Hochma<\/em>; 3) one deep river\u2014Bina<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

152) Afterwards, he explained in detail about the letters of the name HaVaYaH<\/em>. The house in its completeness is the first Yod<\/em>, as it is written, \u201cThrough wisdom is a house built.\u201d This is the construction of everything. The perfection of the Holy Name is Yod<\/em>, the head of everything, the father of everything, Hochma<\/em>. The Vav<\/em> of the filling of Yod<\/em> is a son that he bore and that came out of him, ZA<\/em>, from whom comes the Dalet<\/em> of the filling of Yod<\/em>, the daughter and the queen, Malchut<\/em>, in whose hands are all the Dinim<\/em>. These are the ZON<\/em> in Hochma<\/em>, which are hidden in all the worlds, from which the upper ones, ZON<\/em> de<\/em> Atzilut<\/em>, emerge, and upper and lower together are nourished by them. This is so because ZON<\/em> de<\/em> Hochma<\/em> are YESHSUT<\/em>, Bina<\/em>, from which all the worlds emerge and nourish\u2014the upper ones, ZON<\/em> de<\/em> Atzilut<\/em>, and the lower ones, BYA<\/em>. Thus, the Yod<\/em> is the wholeness of everything, and the Holy Name HaVaYaH<\/em> is completed in her and concealed within her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

153) The Yod<\/em> brought everything out and tied everything in a single tie in one another. The Yod<\/em>, Hochma<\/em>, brought that river out of her, meaning Bina<\/em>, since ZON<\/em> de<\/em> Hochma<\/em> became Bina<\/em>, as it is written, \u201cAnd a river went out of Eden to water the garden,\u201d meaning the first Hey<\/em> of HaVaYaH<\/em>. This is so because the Vav<\/em>–Dalet<\/em> of the filling of Yod<\/em>, meaning ZON<\/em> de<\/em> Hochma<\/em>, were formed into a Hey<\/em>\u2014the shape of Dalet<\/em> over a Vav<\/em>, Bina<\/em>. This is the upper Ima<\/em>, YESHSUT<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

154) And that river, Bina<\/em>, brought out two children, ZA<\/em> and Malchut<\/em>, who are nourished by her. Afterwards, two children come out, ZA<\/em> and Malchut<\/em>, and the daughter is nourished by the son, which is Vav<\/em>. This son is the king that peace is his, Tifferet<\/em>, ZA<\/em>. Afterwards, the Hey<\/em>, the daughter, Malchut<\/em>, is nourished by the Vav<\/em>. It turns out that the Yod<\/em> is the essence, the root, and the perfection of everything, as it is written, \u201cThrough wisdom is a house built.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two states to Malchut<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. When she was emanated from\u00a0Bina<\/em>\u00a0in the two great lights, when she was as big as\u00a0ZA<\/em>, that is, when\u00a0ZA<\/em>\u00a0clothed the right line of\u00a0Bina<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Malchut<\/em>, the left line of\u00a0Bina<\/em>. At that time,\u00a0Malchut<\/em>\u00a0was nourished by\u00a0Bina<\/em>, like\u00a0ZA<\/em>, and did not need to receive from\u00a0ZA<\/em>. He says about that state that that river produced two children who are nourished by her, meaning both are nourished by\u00a0Bina<\/em>. Afterwards,\u00a0Malchut<\/em>\u00a0was diminished into a point under the\u00a0Yesod<\/em>\u00a0and rose to\u00a0Bina<\/em>\u00a0once more, where she was rebuilt, as it is written, \u201cAnd the Lord God built the rib,\u201d and she came to the second state.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. She becomes a degree below\u00a0ZA<\/em>\u00a0and is no longer nourished by\u00a0Bina<\/em>, but by\u00a0ZA<\/em>. He says about that that afterwards two children come out, and the daughter is nourished by the son, meaning that she is no longer nourished by\u00a0Bina<\/em>, but by the son,\u00a0ZA<\/em>, since she has been diminished and came under the degree of\u00a0ZA<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    155) Ten names were completed and came out of the Yod<\/em>, the tenth letter in the letters of the alphabet. When the Yod<\/em> was impregnated with them, she brought them all into the holy river, Bina<\/em>, and all ten names are concealed in the one, High Name. They are all concealed in the Yod<\/em>; the Yod<\/em> contains them; and the Yod<\/em> elicits them. She is the father of all of them, the father of the patriarchs, HGT<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    156) From the Yod<\/em> emerge Vav<\/em>–Dalet<\/em>, her filling, which implies that they are ten, like the Yod<\/em>. The letters Yod<\/em> contain within them Vav<\/em>–Dalet<\/em>, which are the perfection of everything. Vav<\/em>–Dalet<\/em> are male and female where ZA<\/em> is Vav<\/em> and Malchut<\/em> is Dalet<\/em>, and they are ZON<\/em> de<\/em> Hochma<\/em>. They are called Du<\/em> [bi], which means two. Hence, Adam was created bi-faced, and those Partzufim<\/em> [faces] were male and female, such as above. From above downwards, they are called Vad<\/em> [Vav<\/em>–Dalet<\/em>], beginning with Vav<\/em>, ZA<\/em>, followed by Dalet<\/em>, Malchut<\/em>. From below upwards they are called Du<\/em> [\u201cbi\u201d Dalet<\/em>–Vav<\/em>], beginning with Malchut<\/em> and followed by ZA<\/em>, and it is all one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The thirteen qualities of Rachamim<\/em> depend on the Yod<\/em>, on the upper tip of the Yod<\/em>, Keter<\/em>, in which there are the thirteen corrections of Dikna<\/em>. Hence, the Yod<\/em> consists of Vav<\/em>–Dalet<\/em>, to indicate the ZON<\/em> within her, from which they become YESHSUT<\/em>, which is Bina<\/em> that returned to being Hochma<\/em>. This is where all the Mochin<\/em> emerge, and they are the perfection of everything because the filling of Vav<\/em>–Dalet<\/em> in Gematria<\/em> is ten, meaning that they are as important as she.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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