{"id":14954,"date":"2026-01-13T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14954"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:32:07","slug":"two-altars","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/two-altars\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Altars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>84) Two altars are below and two altars are above. In the two altars above, 1) One is more internal than all, and thin, inner incense is offered in it\u2014the tie of faith. And the highest priest ties this incense with the tie of faith. This is called \u201cthe altar of gold.\u201d From here, the tie of faith is smoked and tied, to tie everything in one connection. 2) And one is another altar, called \u201cthe altar of copper.\u201d It is on the outside. And Michael, the great minister, offers a scent offering to the Creator on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two altars are below in the Temple\u2014the altar of gold and the altar of copper, in one it is incense and in one it is tallow and internal organs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are three&nbsp;<em>Partzufim<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, clothed in one another.&nbsp;<em>Partzuf HBD<\/em>&nbsp;is the most internal,&nbsp;<em>Partzuf HGT<\/em>&nbsp;clothes over it, and&nbsp;<em>Partzuf NHY<\/em>&nbsp;clothes over that. They divide into internal and external, where&nbsp;<em>Partzuf HBD<\/em>&nbsp;is internal and the two&nbsp;<em>Partzufim<\/em>&nbsp;<em>HGT<\/em>&nbsp;<em>NHY<\/em>&nbsp;are external. And the incense is&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One altar is the inner&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>HBD<\/em>, the innermost of all of her three&nbsp;<em>Partzufim<\/em>. In it, the internal and fine incense is offered, implying to&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, which is too fine to attain. This makes the tie of faith,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, in the incense,&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>, called \u201cthe great priest,\u201d ties incense,&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, to the altar, in the inner&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. This is so because&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;is called gold after the incense in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, which is&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;and called \u201cthe altar of gold.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the tie of&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, all the&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;are tied in one connection, meaning they all unite with one another. The altar is in her&nbsp;<em>VAK<\/em>, in the two external&nbsp;<em>Partzufim<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>HGT<\/em>&nbsp;<em>NHY<\/em>, and Michael, the great minister, offers an offering on it, the offering of the souls of the righteous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>85) This is why it is written, \u201cOil and incense rejoice the heart,\u201d and it is not written, \u201cOil and tallow and internal organs rejoice,\u201d although they, too, are a mitigation of the anger and the&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>, like the oil and the incense. However, there is a difference; oil and incense imply the unification of&nbsp;<em>HB<\/em>, since the oil is&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;and the incense is&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>. They are the joy of all, and not from the side of anger and&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>, since in them themselves there is no&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>&nbsp;at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the tallow and the internal organs by which the unification of&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;is made, it is not said about them, \u201cWill rejoice the heart,\u201d since there is a grip to the&nbsp;<em>Dinim<\/em>&nbsp;in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the inner altar, where the finest incense,&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, which cannot be attained due to its fineness, is in a tie of faith, meaning that she ties to&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, who is called \u201cfaith.\u201d It is called \u201cthe voice of thin silence,\u201d since it is the inner altar, tied in the tie of faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>86) The inner one is called \u201cthe altar of God.\u201d And another altar is called \u201cthe outer altar,\u201d \u201cthe alter of copper,\u201d as it is written, \u201cFor the copper altar that was before the Lord was too small to contain.\u201d It is written, \u201cAnd whole burnt offerings on Your altar,\u201d where the letter&nbsp;<em>Het<\/em>&nbsp;[in the words \u201cYour altar\u201d] is&nbsp;<em>Segula<\/em>&nbsp;[special merit], which indicates plural, meaning two. And it is written, \u201cEven Your altars, O Lord of hosts,\u201d which means two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>87) There is only one altar here, which is sometimes called \u201cinternal\u201d and sometimes \u201cexternal.\u201d It is written, \u201cAnd Moses built an altar.\u201d He built it opposite the internal one. This is why it is called \u201cThe Lord is my banner,\u201d since the inner one is called \u201cthe altar of&nbsp;<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>&nbsp;[the Lord].\u201d \u201cMy banner\u201d means he inscribed and corrected the inscription of the token of the holy covenant, since when Amalek came to remove this holy inscription, the circumcision, from Israel, that altar, the&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;stood opposite him to avenge the token of the covenant. This is why&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201cA sword that avenges the vengeance of the covenant,\u201d and&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;corrected the holy inscription for Israel. And corresponding to that, Moses built this altar and called \u201cThe Lord is my banner.\u201d This is the inner altar, called \u201cThe sound of thin silence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>88) It is said about the inner altar, \u201cA perpetual fire shall burn on the altar.\u201d This is Isaac\u2019s fire,&nbsp;<em>Dinim<\/em>&nbsp;of the left line, which are always present. And the name of the altar is&nbsp;<em>ADNI<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>, and then it is called \u201cthe outer altar.\u201d And when the priest arranges the wood over it\u2014<em>Hassadim<\/em>&nbsp;that the left line clothe in them\u2014the name of the altar is perfumed and it is called by the name of&nbsp;<em>Rachamim<\/em>: \u201cthe altar of the Lord [<em>HaVaYaH<\/em>],\u201d which is then the inner altar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they are not two separate altars. Rabbi Shimon said, \u201cThere were two, and the inner one stood over the altar on the outside, clothing one another, since the inner&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;is clothed in the outer&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>, the outer is nourished by the inner one and they are tied to one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>89) \u201cThe Lord is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.\u201d People should regard the glory of their Master and they will not stray from their ways outwards, since each and every day,&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>&nbsp;is hanging in the world, for the world was created in&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>&nbsp;and stands on&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>90) For this reason, one must be careful from one\u2019s iniquities because he does not know when the&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>&nbsp;is on him. When he sits in his home, the&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>&nbsp;is on him. When he leaves his home to go outside, the&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>&nbsp;is on him, and he does not know if he will return to his home or not, for he could die and not return to his home. When he leaves for the road, it is all the more so, he should fear that he will not return to his home, for then the&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>&nbsp;goes out before him, as it is written, \u201cRighteousness will go before Him.\u201d For this reason, one should first ask for mercy before the King, to be saved from the&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>&nbsp;when it is in the world, since the&nbsp;<em>Din<\/em>&nbsp;is in the world each day, as it is written, \u201cAnd God is angry each day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>84) Two altars are below and two altars are above. 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