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167. The Torah we should engage in on the night of Shavuot is the oral Torah, Malchut, so they will be purified together, Malchut and her children Israel, from the stream of the deep river, Bina. Afterwards, on the day of Shavuot, the written Torah, ZA, connects to Malchut and they will be together, in one coupling, above. At that time, he is proclaimed and it is said about him, “As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord.”

168. For this reason, the first Hassidim [adherents of the Hassidut movement] would not sleep on that night and would engage in Torah, saying, “We will come to inherit a holy inheritance for us and for our children in two worlds.” On that night, the assembly of Israel is crowned with them and comes to make a coupling with the king, and both become crowns on the heads of those who were rewarded with this.

169. When the friends gather on that night, they come to correct the ornaments of the bride, to draw Mochin to Malchut so that the next day, she will be at the king’s place in her ornaments, in Mochin, and in her corrections, as it should be. Happy are the friends, when the king asks the queen who set up her ornaments and illuminated her crowns and made her corrections, and there is no one in the world who knows how to correct the corrections of the bride but the friends. Happy are they in this world and in the next world.

170. At night, the friends fix ornaments for the queen, Malchut, and crown her with crowns for the king. And who fixes the King, ZA, on that night when he is with the bride, to make a coupling with the queen, Malchut? It is the holy river, the deepest of all the rivers, upper Ima, Bina; she fixes ZA, as it is written, “Go out, O daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding.” Once Bina has fixed the king and crowned him, she comes to purify the queen and those who are with her, the friends who engage in her corrections.

171. It is like a king who had an only child. He came to mate him with the upper queen. All throughout that night, his mother went into the treasuries and brought out a high crown with seventy precious stones around it, and crowned him. She brought out silk attires and dressed him, and fixed him with royal corrections.

172. Afterwards, his mother went into the bride’s house and saw two maidens fixing crowns and garments and jewels to fix her. She said to them, “I have set up a bathing house with streaming water, and all the scents and perfumes around this water to purify my bride. Let the bride come, my son’s queen, and her maidens, and let them purify themselves in that place where I have set up a bathing house of living water that is with me. Afterwards, fix her with her ornaments, dress her with her clothes, and crown her with her crowns. Tomorrow, when my son comes to make a coupling with the queen, he will establish a hall for everyone, and his abode will be with you together.”

173. It is likewise with the holy king and the queen, Malchut, and the friends, as well as upper Ima, Bina, who corrects everything. It follows that the upper king, ZA, and the queen, and the friends, their abode is together and they never separate, as it is written, “Lord, who will dwell in Your tent, who will reside in Your holy mountain? He who walks in wholeness and works justly.” They are the ones who fix the queen with her jewels, her garments, and her crowns. Each one is called “works justly,” since Malchut is called “justice.”