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57) “At the command of the Lord they will camp, and at the command of the Lord they will set out; they kept the Lord’s charge.” There are three names HaVaYaH, corresponding to the three Yods, and each Yod has four faces, the four letters HaVaYaH [Yod–Hey–Vav–Hey]. Those are the twelve boundaries in which there is the entire perfection, which are the four letters HaVaYaH, HG TM, in each of which are three Yods, three lines, and they are twelve. Three animals correspond to the three Yods, three lines—lion, ox, eagle—and the four faces for each animal, for each line, correspond to the four faces of HaVaYaH, corresponding the four letters of HaVaYaH, HG TM, which are twelve boundaries. “At the command of the Lord they will camp,” and will set out, by the perfection of the twelve boundaries.

58) After the three times HaVaYaH—“At the command of the Lord they will camp,” “At the command of the Lord they will set out,” and “Kept the Lord’s charge”—it is written, “Kept.” This is Divinity, who receives from those three lines, which are the twelve boundaries. She is implied in the word, “Kept” because she keeps the Sabbaths and good days for those keepers. This is the reason why Divinity does not move from Israel through all the Sabbaths and good days, and even on secular Sabbaths. Rather, she closes and is closed in them, meaning she does not give to the lower ones. However, on Sabbaths and good days her abundance is increased abundantly.

GAR de Nukva are called “Sabbath.” Indeed, there is also GAR in Mochin de Achoraim of the Nukva, and they, too, are called Sabbath, but “secular Sabbath.” “Even on secular Sabbaths” means when that GAR de Achoraim is closed, frozen, and cannot impart to the lower ones, when she closes and is closed in them, that is, when she cannot bestow.

59) In each prayer, Malchut rises to HaVaYaH, ZA, until she reaches the Merkava [chariot/assembly] of the upper patriarchs, HGT, who have twelve faces opposite the twelve tribes, since each of the HGT consists of four faces HG TM, and they are twelve. And as the Malchut advocates the ones who pray and those of merit in each Mitzva in the Torah, so they “Will camp” on their merits and they “Will set out” to the merits. This is how the keeping comes down to them.

60) For those who perform worthy deeds for a prize, to receive reward, the Creator comes down in the Merkava of the servant Matatron and his four guards, Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, and Raphael. And for those who perform worthy deeds not in order to receive reward, He comes down in His own Merkava. And to the wicked, He comes down on them in their actions, in those demons and damagers and harm-doers, in their Merkava to avenge them.