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157) The name Elokim<\/em> is Din<\/em> everywhere. As for the name HaVaYaH<\/em>, there is a place in which it is called Elokim<\/em>, such as ADNI<\/em> [God\/the Almighty] HaVaYaH<\/em> [the Lord]. That is the name HaVaYaH<\/em> punctuated with the punctuation of Elokim<\/em>. Why is He called Elokim<\/em> if the letters of HaVaYaH<\/em> are Rachamim<\/em> in every place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

158) It is written, \u201cAnd you shall know this day and take it to your heart that the Lord, He is the God.\u201d It is also written, \u201cAnd all the people saw it and fell on their faces, and said, \u2018The Lord, He is God.\u2019\u201d Where there is Din<\/em>, there are Rachamim<\/em>. Sometimes where there are Rachamim<\/em>, there is Din<\/em>. This is why it is written, HaVaYaH<\/em> is the Elokim<\/em> [the Lord, He is God], since HaVaYaH<\/em> is Rachamim<\/em> in every place, and when the wicked turn the Rachamim<\/em> to Din<\/em>, it is written HaVaYaH<\/em>, and it is read, Elokim<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

159) There are three degrees, and each is on its own, although it is all one and they connect as one and do not part from one another. All the plantings, the Sefirot<\/em>, and all the candles, the Sefirot<\/em> of Malchut<\/em>, called \u201clights of fire,\u201d all light and blaze, and are watered and blessed by the same river, Bina<\/em>, which extends and emerges, and everything is included in it, for all the Mochin<\/em> come from it, and everything is included in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

160) That river is called \u201cThe mother of the God of the garden,\u201d the God of Malchut<\/em>. Bina<\/em> is called \u201cmother,\u201d as it is written, \u201cIf you should call for understanding\u201d [in Hebrew, \u201cif\u201d and \u201cmother\u201d have the same letters, and \u201cunderstanding\u201d means Bina<\/em>]. The river is above the garden. She is called \u201cmother\u201d because Eden, Hochma<\/em>, joins with her and does not part from her. Because of it, all the fountains of the Mochin<\/em> emerge and extend from her, and water every side\u2014right and left\u2014opening doors in her. For this reason, the Rachamim<\/em> come from her, the middle line, and the Rachamim<\/em> open in her, since the beginning of the opening of the middle line to subdue and unite the right and the left, which is the wholeness of everyone, begins in Bina<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

161) Because Bina<\/em> is called \u201cmother,\u201d she is Nukva<\/em> and Gevura<\/em>, and Din<\/em> emerges from her. For this reason, she is called Rachamim<\/em> in and of herself, in regard to her essence. But Dinim<\/em> awaken from her side, hence the name of Bina<\/em> is written with Rachamim<\/em>, with the letters of HaVaYaH<\/em>, which indicates Rachamim<\/em>, and is punctuated in Din<\/em>, where her four letters HaVaYaH<\/em> are punctuated like the punctuation in the name Elokim<\/em>. Thus, the letters of the name, which are in Rachamim<\/em>, and Dinim<\/em> extend from her side, implied in the punctuation of the name, such as Yod<\/em>–Hey<\/em>–Vav<\/em>–Hey<\/em> [\"punctuation]. This is one degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HB<\/em> are called AVI<\/em> everywhere, since Malchut<\/em>, from whom the worlds were created, is in herself unfit to receive the upper light, since Tzimtzum Aleph<\/em> and the Masach<\/em> are on her so she does not receive the upper light. To sustain the worlds so they can receive the upper light, Bina<\/em> raised Malchut<\/em> to her, by which Bina<\/em> received into her the Dinim<\/em> of Malchut<\/em>, and the GAR<\/em> departed from her. For this reason, Malchut<\/em> in Bina<\/em> received the Kelim<\/em> and the Katnut<\/em> of Bina<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsequently, when Malchut<\/em> descended from Bina<\/em> and the GAR<\/em> returned to Bina<\/em>, Malchut<\/em> received the Mochin de<\/em> GAR<\/em> of Bina<\/em>, and all the worlds receive from Malchut<\/em>. It follows that Bina<\/em> received Malchut<\/em> and her Dinim<\/em> into her, and diminished herself so that Malchut<\/em> would be able to receive Mochin<\/em> and subsistence. The ascent of Malchut<\/em> for reception of Mochin<\/em> from Bina<\/em> is regarded as Ibur<\/em> [conception] and birth. This is why Bina<\/em> became like a mother to Malchut<\/em>, and Malchut<\/em> is her daughter. And because HB<\/em> are in Zivug<\/em> and there is no Bina<\/em> without Hochma<\/em>, it is regarded that Hochma<\/em>, too, is Malchut\u2019s<\/em> father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That river is called \u201cthe mother of the God of the garden.\u201d Bina<\/em>, who is called a \u201criver,\u201d became the mother of Malchut<\/em>. Due to Malchut\u2019s<\/em> ascent to Bina<\/em>, three lines emerged in Bina<\/em>, three points\u2014Holam<\/em>, Shuruk<\/em>, Hirik<\/em>. These are three sowings, three Dinim<\/em>. Holam<\/em> is the right line; Shuruk<\/em> is the left line; and Hirik<\/em> is the middle line. For this reason, all the fountains, the roots of the Mochin<\/em>, emerge and extend from her, and water every side\u2014the right line and the left line. For this reason Rachamim<\/em> come from her, which is the middle line. Thus, three forms of Dinim<\/em> were made in Bina<\/em> from the three lines, and all that happened to her because she raised Malchut<\/em> into her, for in and of herself, she desires mercy, without any Din<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because Bina<\/em> is called \u201cmother,\u201d who raised Malchut<\/em> into her, she is Nukva<\/em> and Gevura<\/em>, and Din<\/em> emerges from her. And because Malchut<\/em> is Nukva<\/em>, Bina<\/em>, too, became Nukva<\/em>. And because Malchut<\/em> is Gevura<\/em>, Bina<\/em>, too, became regarded as Gevura<\/em>, Dinim<\/em> emerge from her, and three sowings were made in her, of Holam<\/em>, Shuruk<\/em>, and Hirik<\/em>, from which Dinim<\/em> emerge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why she is called Rachamim<\/em> in and of herself, in her essence, for in herself she is all Rachamim<\/em> without any Din<\/em>, since she desires mercy. But Dinim<\/em> awaken from her side because she received Malchut<\/em> into her. This is why the name of Bina<\/em> is written with Rachamim<\/em>, the letters, HaVaYaH<\/em>, indicating her essence, which is Rachamim<\/em>, but it is punctuated with Din<\/em>, indicating the Dinim<\/em> in her due to the connection with Malchut<\/em>. For this reason she is punctuated as the name that is in Malchut<\/em>, which is Elokim<\/em>\u2014Hataf, Segol<\/em> under the Yod<\/em>, Holam<\/em> on the Hey<\/em>, and Hirik<\/em> under the Vav<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

162) A second degree, from the side of the first degree, Bina<\/em>, comes out, and another degree awakens, called Gevura<\/em>, the left line of ZA<\/em>, called Elokim<\/em>, and only in punctuation, like Bina<\/em>, but in those very letters. It is the beginning of Hesed<\/em> de<\/em> ZA<\/em>, since Gevura<\/em> extends from there, and it is included in it because the left line of ZA<\/em> is included in the right line of ZA<\/em>, which is Hesed<\/em>. And because it unites with Hesed<\/em>, it is written, HaVaYaH<\/em> is Elokim<\/em> [the Lord, He is God]. It is so because HaVaYaH<\/em>, Hesed<\/em>, is the Elokim<\/em>, Gevura<\/em>. And here, not only in the punctuation of Elokim<\/em>, as in Bina<\/em>, but included in the letters of Elokim<\/em>, and they are one because they are included in one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

163) A third degree is Tzedek<\/em> [justice], Malchut<\/em>, the last Sefira<\/em>, the courthouse of the king, ZA<\/em>. The name ADNI<\/em> is written so and is read so. But the name of ZA<\/em> is written as HaVaYaH<\/em> and is read as ADNI<\/em>. The Assembly of Israel, Malchut<\/em>, is called by the name ADNI<\/em>, and that name is completed in Malchut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are three degrees called by names of Din<\/em>. The degree of Bina<\/em> is called HaVaYaH<\/em> punctuated as Elokim<\/em>. The degree of Gevura<\/em> is also called by the letters of Elokim<\/em>. The degree of Malchut<\/em> is called ADNI<\/em>. The three names are Din<\/em> because it concerns the left line, Din<\/em>, whose root is Bina<\/em>. This is why it is implied only in the punctuation of Elokim<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From her, it extends to the left line of ZA<\/em>, where it is in actual reality, but is included in the right. For this reason it is Elokim<\/em> in letters, too. From him it extends to Malchut<\/em>, who is built entirely from the left line. This is why she is called ADNI<\/em>, the explicit letters of Din<\/em>. They all connect to one another without separation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

157) The name Elokim is Din everywhere. As for the name HaVaYaH, there is a place in which it is called Elokim, such as ADNI [God\/the Almighty] HaVaYaH [the Lord]. 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