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2. When the sun, ZA, begins to set and weakens after midday, a door opens in the sun, the door of the control of the left, and the power of the sun, ZA, the middle line, wanes, and the left rules. Then Isaac, the left line, digs a well underneath him, which is Malchut, whose suckling is from the left, and then he establishes it.

3. When the night begins, the written decrees are in their pockets, and several armies of harm-doers spread in the world. They all roam in a medley, walking and laughing at the souls of the wicked, telling them things, some false and some true, and whoever is found among them from among the people, they have permission to do harm, and all the people of the world are asleep and taste the taste of death.

4. When the north wind awakens, the assembly of Israel, Malchut, is received in the left of ZA, they connect together, and she is present in the left arm, in her place. The Creator comes to entertain Himself with the righteous in the Garden of Eden, and then, anyone who awakens to engage in Torah participates with the Malchut because she and all her throng praise the upper King, ZA. Then, all those who praise the Torah are written among the dwellers of the hall, and they are called there by their names. Those who are written in the day are written to receive Hassadim, the quality of the day, ZA.

5. There is one holy name in engraved letters, which rules from midnight onward. These are the letters Kaf-Lamed-Kaf, Samech-Ayin-Peh-Hey, Yod-Aleph-Ayin-Vav-Tzadi-Hey, that Mem-Nun of MANTZEPACH include. The [final] Mem was clarified in the words, “Of the increase of His government,” where the blocked letter Mem [final Mem] that is written in the middle of the word implies Bina during the control of the left, where the lights are concealed in her. Nun was blocking one with the other. The bent Nun is as it is written, “She has fallen, she will rise no more,” blocked the Bina and Malchut, for then the Sefirot were incorporated since Malchut and Bina were incorporated in one another, and Bina was in a fall, as well, like Malchut.

The Vav of the holy name established Malchut, Nun, and extended the left line to her in the shape of the letter Vav, at which time she arose from her falling. However, she concealed her fountains since through the control of the left, the lights were blocked and froze. Similarly, Bina was concealed under the control of the left, and at that time, it is called a “blocked Mem.” After Bina engendered the Vav of HaVaYaH, ZA, the middle line, or that Malchut engendered the soul, she became open at the top of one day, where the hidden Hey opened up from below upward and became an open Mem.

Because of the ascent of Malchut to Bina, they became incorporated with one another. This is why The Zohar interprets the blocked Mem, which indicates Bina when she is under the control of the left, also with regard to Malchut. Moreover, it interprets even the shape of the blocked Mem in the shape of a bent Nun as being Malchut with Vav, that it is the left arm of the Vav, which connects with the shape of Nun and blocks it, making it into a square shape, like the blocked Nun.

After Bina engendered the Vav, ZA, the blocked Mem opened and became an open Mem, which is also the shape of a Nun that is connected to Vav. However, it has an opening at the bottom, implying it was opened from its blocking and bestows its lights to the lower ones.

6. When the Temple was ruined, meaning when there was no coupling of ZA and Malchut, at which time the Temple, Malchut, was ruined, the fountains of Malchut were blocked on all sides, and she became a blocked Mem, since all its lights froze.

The blocked Mem contains seven letters from the holy name: three that are Samech-Ayin-Vav on this side, and four, which are Aleph-Ayin-Tzadi-Hey, on the other that side. Kaf-Lamed-Kaf Yod-Peh-Hey remain of the holy name, as it is written, “You are all beautiful, my wife, and there is no flaw in you,” is [final] Nun, implying male and female, which are ZON that are incorporated together. That Nun consists of three letters from here, Kaf-Lamed-Kaf, and three, Yod-Peh-Hey, from here. Thus, they are six letters.

It follows that thirteen letters of the holy name are included in these two [final] letters Mem, Nun: Kaf-Lamed-Kaf, Samech-Ayin-Peh-Hey, Yod-Aleph-Ayin-Vav-Tzadi-Hey, since two phases rise from them, one phase in the letter [final] Mem, and one in the letter [final] Nun.

7. Kaf-Lamed-Kaf, Samech-Ayin-Peh-Hey, Yod-Aleph-Ayin-Vav-Tzadi-Hey, this is how the letters were engraved. As in the portion, “If you go to war,” where it is written, “If the girl is a virgin,” where it is written “girl” without a Hey [in Hebrew], and after the night departs and the morning shines, the Hey rises and becomes incorporated in the upper light. At that time, it is written, “[Have you] informed dawn its place?” where the dawn, ZA, knows the place of the Hey and she is incorporated within him.

There are two phases to the night: 1) The first half of the night, when Malchut is without a coupling with ZA, and she is a blocked Mem whose lights are all frozen. 2) The second half of the night, from midnight onward, when there is a coupling of ZON, as it is written, “His left under my head,” when the Creator, ZA, enters the Garden of Eden, Malchut, and male and female are incorporated together, which is what the [final] Nun implies.

The combinations that emerge from the thirteen-letter name, Kaf-Lamed-Kaf, Samech-Ayin-Peh-Hey, Yod-Aleph-Ayin-Vav-Tzadi-Hey, which rules at night, are Samech-Ayin-Vav Aleph-Ayin-Tzadi-hey Kaf-Lamed-Kaf Yod-Peh-Hey. And in this way: Kaf-Lamed-Kaf, Samech-Ayin-Peh-Hey, Yod-Aleph-Ayin-Vav-Tzadi-Hey.

The interpretation is as it was in the exodus from Egypt, when the Nukva was a blocked Mem, and Israel were in great trouble. At that time, the Creator advised Moses, “Tell the children of Israel that they go,” where through their journeying below, they will awaken the journeying in three lines above, and Malchut will unite with the middle line, and from this, Malchut was opened from her blocking and the miracle of the dividing of the Red Sea happened to them.

Here, too, at midnight, when the blocked Mem governs, which is left without right, and the judgments should be removed from Malchut, the name Samech-Ayin-Vav Aleph-Ayin-Tzadi-Hey governs, as the Creator advises to go journey and draw three lines in a coupling with the Nukva, implied in the Nun of MANTZEPACH.

At that time, a northern wind awakens, as it is written, “His left under my head,” and the assembly of Israel, Malchut, is accepted in the left of ZA and they are joined together in the Nun of MANTZEPACH. Then the combination Kaf-Lamed-Kaf Yod-Peh-Hey comes out, as it is written, “You are all beautiful, my wife, there is not a flaw in you.” A flaw implies a blocked Mem, and through the coupling with ZA, the blocked Mem is removed and is no longer in it.

Yet, the coupling at midnight is not enough to complete the Malchut, and all her completion is in the mourning coupling, when she receives the Hassadim. At night, Malchut is called “girl” without a Hey, since Hey indicates that she is full of Hassadim. And after the night departs and the morning shines, the Hey rises and becomes incorporated with the upper light, as she is incorporated with the Hassadim of ZA, and then she is called a “girl” with Hey.