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374. “We will praise your love more than wine.” Illumination of Hochma is called “wine.” “Your love” is the seventy appointees surrounding the holy throne, Malchut. They are ruling ministers who take judgment from that wine, as it is extended from the Hochma of the left, where there are judgments. This is why it is written, “I would give you spiced wine to drink,” and they are seventy beloved ones.

375: These are they: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and more.

377. These seventy angels who surround the holy throne are called beloved ones. They shine and glitter from those upper beloved ones, which are the seventy names in HGT of ZA, which shine and glitter in hiding and in upper concealment. It is written about them, “For your love is better than wine.” “Your love” is all of them in one collective, the seventy names of the lower angels who shine from within the seventy upper names in ZA. They all shine and glitter from that kept wine in Bina.

378. The seventy upper, hidden names in ZA, are called “hidden animals,” who run back and forth. These shine from the upper world, the next world, Bina, and those seventy lower names in Malchut shine and glitter from within that hidden and concealed light of those seventy upper sparks, which are the seventy name of ZA.

379. All seventy names in Malchut that are called “beloved ones,” are drawn from wine, from those seventy names of ZA. They are hidden lights since illumination of Hochma cannot be revealed in ZA.

This is so because these seventy names that surround the holy throne—Malchut, below—all shine and glitter from those seventy inner names in ZA. This is the meaning of “than wine,” than the high rivers of ZA, than the wine of Torah. They are the upper candles that illuminate the faces, and the bottom candles of Malchut, and they are the seventy names by which the Creator is called, the name AB.