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287) In the upper secrets, meaning upper lights, there are capturing fortresses, meaning the Dinim<\/em> in the left line. The lights ascend and descend. The fortresses are in their posts. The lights, the turning wheels, are present since the time when the dust was gathering, and they circle the world in a circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HG<\/em> TM<\/em> de<\/em> ZA<\/em> are called \u201cthe four legs of the chair,\u201d Bina<\/em>, and with respect to the Merkava<\/em> [chariot\/structure] they are called \u201cfour wheels\u201d\u2014three lines and Malchut<\/em> who receives them. They are called \u201cturning wheels\u201d because they illuminate as they roll and travel. They were completed on the third day of the work of creation, when Malchut<\/em> was established from what she was, prior to the arrival of the middle line, as dry and crumbled dust, in the Dalet<\/em> of the EhaD<\/em> [\u201cone,\u201d a special word in the Shema<\/em> prayer]. The dust gathered and became a fruit-bearing land by having received from the middle line, and then the four wheels were completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why it was said that they are present since the time when the dust gathered, from the time it is written, \u201cLet the earth put forth grass.\u201d They illuminate the Malchut<\/em> through their circling, which is called \u201cworld,\u201d Nukva<\/em> de<\/em> ZA<\/em>. Also, those wheels circle the world in a circle because they do not illuminate to the world, Nukva<\/em> de<\/em> ZA<\/em>, except by circling, and this is why it is considered that they are circling the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

288) In the circling that they circle the deserts, the domination of absorption of Hochma<\/em> within them, there is a wheel among them that is turning and not turning. It stands in 12,000 worlds; it is among the wheels; it rises and journeys among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world divides into the settled and the deserts. The right line is ascribed to the settled; the left line is ascribed to the deserts. The circle that the deserts circle is the left line, the domination of absorption, meaning obtainment of Hochma<\/em> within them, since the Hochma<\/em> is extended by the circles of the left line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fourth wheel, Malchut<\/em>, is not considered a specific line, but rather receives from the three lines. There are three lines in it, as well, and it turns and does not turn because with respect to the three lines that it receives, it is considered turning. But in itself, there is no turning in it, hence it is regarded as not turning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It stands in 12,000 worlds because the three lines in it illuminate in HG<\/em> TM<\/em> in it, and three times four is 12. Since the illumination of Hochma<\/em> in them is called \u201cthousands,\u201d they are 12,000 worlds, on which the fourth wheel stands. And because it is between three lines, it ascends and travels within them, and its turning comes to it because it is found in the three lines in which it travels. But with respect to its being 12,000 worlds and not 16,000, it is regarded as not turning, since her own Behina<\/em> [essence\/discernment] is missing, as even in Malchut<\/em> there are no more than three lines, without the Behina<\/em> of Malchut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

289) A pillar stands under the fourth wheel, pinned through the great deep. In the great deep, stones are rolling, rising, and falling within the deeps. That pillar stands atop them, journeying and not journeying, pinned from above downward. 220 other wheels surround that pillar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great deep is Malchut<\/em> that is mitigated in Bina<\/em>. The pinned down pillar is Yesod<\/em> de<\/em> ZA<\/em>. Under the fourth wheel\u2014Malchut<\/em> from Chazeh de<\/em> ZA<\/em> and above\u2014meaning from Chazeh de<\/em> ZA<\/em> and below, \u201cA pillar stands,\u201d Yesod<\/em> de<\/em> ZA<\/em>, \u201cPinned through the great deep,\u201d meaning the mitigated Malchut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the great deep, stones are rolling,\u201d meaning Masachim<\/em>, \u201cWithin the deeps,\u201d within the Malchuts<\/em>. \u201cRising\u201d means that the Masachim<\/em> raise Ohr Hozer<\/em>, and \u201cFalling\u201d means that Ohr Yashar<\/em> comes down, as is the case with the Zivug<\/em> of the upper light on the Masach<\/em> in the Kli<\/em> of Malchut<\/em>. \u201cThat pillar stands atop them,\u201d meaning that the upper light extends to these stones through the Yesod<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesod<\/em> receives all the Behinot<\/em> in Partzuf ZA<\/em>, and it, itself, is the middle line from Chazeh de<\/em> ZA<\/em> and below. Accordingly, it, too, is considered among the three traveling lines. On the one hand, it is regarded as traveling, as it is the middle line, and it also receives HG<\/em> TM<\/em> of above. Hence, it travels like them. On the other hand, it is regarded as not traveling because there is no journeying of lines in the place from the Chazeh<\/em> and below, but only what the wheels above the Chazeh<\/em> illuminate on them. \u201cPinned from above downward\u201d means that it extends everything that there is above Chazeh de<\/em> ZA<\/em> to the place below Chazeh de<\/em> ZA<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesod<\/em> consists of Hochma<\/em> and Hassadim<\/em>, and it is called Avrech<\/em>. It is made of the letters Av<\/em> [father] Rach<\/em> [soft]\u2014Av<\/em> from Hochma<\/em>, and Rach<\/em> from Hassadim<\/em>. However, the dominion in it is given to Hassadim<\/em>, and the Hochma<\/em> is only included in it. It was said, \u201c220 other wheels surround that pillar.\u201d It is not like the fourth wheel, in which the Hochma<\/em> has dominion, but the wheels that turn and illuminate around the Yesod<\/em>\u2014220 [Rach<\/em> in Gematria<\/em>] wheels\u2014are only Hassadim<\/em>, which are called Rach<\/em> [\u201csoft,\u201d 220]. Moreover, Rach<\/em> indicates a general illumination of all twenty-two letters, where each letter contains ten Sefirot<\/em>, and ten times 22 is 220.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

290) The other wheel on the pinned down pillar, the fourth wheel, which stands in 12,000 worlds, is turning inside the tabernacle, Nukva<\/em> de<\/em> ZA<\/em>. It turns and does not turn, and the tabernacle stands on 12,000 worlds. In the tabernacle, there is that clarion who calls, \u201cBeware the turning wheel!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

291) One who has eyes in Tevuna<\/em> [gumption] will know and regard the wisdom of his Master, and will know these sublime matters where the keys of his Master are found, which are hidden within the holy tabernacle. They are happy in this world and happy in the next world. It is written about them, \u201cHappy is the man whose strength is in You; in whose heart are the highways.\u201d \u201cHappy is the man whom You choose, and bring near, that he may dwell in Your courts; may we be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, the holy place of Your palace!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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