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53. The letter Vav HaVaYaH is a high and holy Merkava that stands in complete existence. Vav is divided into two letters, two Vavs: Vav-Vav. This is so because in pronouncing the Vav we hear Vav-Vav. The first Vav implies Tifferet; the second Vav implies Yesod, and all that there is in Tifferet, there is in Yesod. They are twelve high secrets since there are three lines in her and Malchut that receives them. They are incorporated with each other, and in each of the four, there are three lines, and they are twelve combinations HaVaYaH that there are in ZA, who is called Vav of HaVaYaH.

54. The top Vav, the first of the two Vavs, implies Tifferet. It stands in five upper supporters on which the first Hey, Bina, stands. Although that Vav is six, since Tifferet contains HGT NHY, she is five.

This is so because the five Sefirot from the Chazeh and below of the general YESHSUT, which is the first Hey of HaVaYaH, are called “five supporters,” since the place of revealing the Hochma is from the Chazeh and below of YESHSUT, and Hochma supports the Partzuf. These five supporters from the Chazeh of YESHSUT and below, clothe and shine in Mochin of ZA.

The top Vav stands in five upper supporters on which the first Hey, Bina, stands. This is so because TNHY of YESHSUT shine for ZA, and from them, five Sefirot HGT NH of ZA come out. Although that Vav is six, since ZA, Vav-Vav, has HGT NHY, she is five, only the five Sefirot HGT NH, which are drawn from TNHY of YESHSUT, since the sixth Sefira, Yesod, is not additional to the five Sefirot HGT NH but contains them. Thus, there are no more than five Sefirot HGT NH since Yesod contains only five Sefirot. You find that these six Sefirot HGT NHY are not more than five.