Kabbalah Library

140. There are seven days on Passover, and seven days on Sukkot. The completeness of the joy of Sukkot is on a different day, the Eighth of the Assembly. Why are there no seven days on Shavuot? After all, Shavuot is the time of the giving of the Torah, the most important! Passover is the right line, Sukkot is the left line, and Shavuot is the middle line, which contains the two lines within it. Thus, more than on them, there should have been seven days in it.

141. It is written, “Who like Your people Israel are one nation on the earth.” What is the difference, that here, Israel are called “one” more than elsewhere? Since he comes here to interpret the praise of Israel, He called them “one,” since the praise of Israel is “one” everywhere, as the whole connection of the upper ones and lower ones is in a place called “Israel,” ZA. It is connected to what is above, from his Chazeh and above, Hassadim, and tied to what is below, to NHY, from his Chazeh and below, from there is imparting of Hochma and it is connected to the assembly of Israel, Malchut, in which there is disclosure of Hochma. Hence, since he connects these three places, everything is called “one,” and in this place, faith is known, Malchut, and the complete connection, NHY, and the high and holy unification, in GAR.

142. For this reason, the day of Shavuot, the middle line, corresponding to ZA, which is called Israel, is the tie of faith and the connection of everything. It is written, “It is a tree of life for those who hold it.” A tree of life, ZA, is called “one.” Because Israel below connect and hold on to the tree of life, ZA, they are called “one,” since the tree of life is called “one,” for everything is connected to it and its day, Shavuot, is indeed one, for it is the connection of everything and the middle of everything, for it is the middle line.

143. It is written, “and the tree of life inside the garden,” for ZA, the tree of life, is inside, in the middle, including all the sides—the right line and the left line—and is tied to them. Hence, Shavuot is between Passover and Sukkot, since Passover is the right line and Sukkot is the left line, and Shavuot is the middle line, as it is the middle of everything. On that day, there is the praise of the Torah, the time of the giving of our Torah, and not more, since Torah is ZA, the middle line, and the praise of the faith, Malchut, and the connection of everything, meaning of the GAR, since all those are connected in the middle line.

144. Israel are destined to sing and rejoice in praise of the Creator, like that praise that Israel praise on Passover night, when the assembly of Israel, the night, is sanctified in the sanctity of the king in the great coupling in the place of AVI. It is written, “The song will be to you as a night when a festival is consecrated,” like that coupling on Passover night.