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275. Below, inside the wine yeast, the evil yeast, one appellant and slanderer comes out, the first harm-doer in the world, the shape of a man when he approaches the holy. Once he passes from the holy and wants to descend, to dress in a clothing to harm the world, he and his Merkavot [chariots/structures] descend. The first clothing he takes is the pattern of an ox, the shape of an ox.

The first harm-doer of those four forebear harm-doers is an ox. They are four forebears to harm the world, and all three forebear harm-doers besides the ox are from the ox.

The Mochin of the left of Malchut that come with the illumination of Hochma that is clothed in Hassadim are called “wine.” Due to the judgments on the left line, at the end of them, at the end of Malchut, there is waste, called “wine yeast.” The first harm-doer of the shells in the world comes out from that waste. While the harm-doer approaches the holy, meaning becomes incorporated with the wine-yeast in Malchut, it has the shape of a man, like Malchut. Once it has passed from the holy, it takes the pattern of an ox, the shape of an ox, since it adheres only to the left line, called the “face of an ox.” This is the root of all the harm-doers.

276. This is why it is written, “They exchanged their glory for the pattern of an ox that eats grass.” What is “eats grass”? It has no share in the extract of the bread, and also not in the seven species of grain, which are from Malchut, and it is unfit to be there. That is, it is unworthy of suckling from human food, which is Malchut. This is why it is written “eats grass.”

277. Those who sit in their places, before those come out, are called “those.” The eyes cannot control their light and their sparkling. They walk around and surround, and they have no quiet in the world.

278. When a person looks at that hall, right at the first looking, it seems to him as small and not small. When he looks more, it seems big. If he looks more, it seems bigger. The more he looks at it, the more it appears to be in greater and higher expansion. Finally, by looking at that hall even a little bit, it seems to him so big that it is immeasurable.

279. There are many works inside whose craft is unknown. From it, the court and all that is in it shine, except for the Cherubim, whose light rises to the top of the firmament in many colors and glittering lights. 1575 vineyards make fruits in this court.