Kabbalah Library

791. “And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden by the wind of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves.” Why does the Creator need the wind of the day? The verse teaches that Adam had a mist in the clarity, where although the Creator appeared to him by the wind of the day in clarity, he still could not tolerate it, “and Adam and his wife hid themselves.”

In this world, a man is like a bird that walk, when she leaves her nest and does not find anyone to let her in. So is man: When the soul exits the body, he no longer knows or understands anything, except for that body that was made from extensive illumination, which comes to him in the Garden of Eden to entertain himself. Here, too, when Adam sinned, the upper soul departed from him, he returned to the beastly soul, and therefore lost the intellect and intelligence, and hid from the Creator.

792. It is written, “walking” [with a Tav in Hebrew]. Should it not have written “walking” [without a Tav]? However, it is written, “the sound,” which is the same one of which it is written, “Moses spoke, and God answered him with a sound,” and also “And there came a voice above the firmament over their heads.” It is written, “the voice of the Lord,” and not “the Lord.” “Walking in the garden by the wind of the day” is also written about the voice, as it is written, “And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a noise.”

793. Here we must delve, for it is Maase Merkava [Maase: work, Merkava: composition/construction/chariot]. The voice that is above the firmament, above the heads of the animals, are the Merkava. High secrets were revealed here, higher than Maase Merkava.