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420. As in Adam, ZA, there is a full HaVaYaH, Yod-Vav-Dalet Hey-Aleph Vav-Aleph-Vav Hey-Aleph, and his light is clarified into MA, since he is MA in Gematria (45), so there is a full HaVaYaH in the lower body, which is spread into twenty-two letters. And with the five letters MANTZEPACH, they are twenty-seven.

421. Similar to Adam, who is from the four letters HaVaYaH, and he is a great light, so there are four foundations in the body correspondingly: fire, dust, wind, water. They four forces: The beastly Ruach and the beastly Nefesh are the two elements wind and dust. Neshama, and Neshama to Neshama are the two elements water and fire, and they are all from the left side.

422. They operate in this world in the following manner: The mind is from Neshama to Neshama. The lust of the mind is extended from Neshama. The negotiation with the gentiles will come from the beastly Ruach, and the beastly Nefesh is in order to lead the organs, to go eat, drink, and for the lust of intercourse.

423. There are five places where the twenty-wo letters are mentioned: The letters Aleph-Het-Hey-Ayin from the throat, Bet-Vav-Mem-Peh from the lips, Gimel-Yod-Kaf-Kof from the palate, Dalet-Tet-Lamed-Nun-Tav from the tongue, Zayin-Samech-Shin-Reish-Tzadi from the teeth. These five places are incorporated in four forces: fire, wind, water, dust, which lead the organs and with which the whole body is created. On top of them are the four holy letters HaVaYaH, which were called Adam. It is written about them, “And God created the man in His own image.”

424. The fear of the masters of the masters, that man should fear Him, awakens from the Yod of HaVaYaH, and repentance awakens in a person from the first Hey of HaVaYaH. The Torah awakens for a person from the Vav of HaVaYaH, and good deeds and commandments, that he will not sin, awaken for a person from the bottom Hey of HaVaYaH.

These four letters are the name that is hidden in His image. As the Creator is hidden in His world, this name is hidden in man.

425. There are four names HaVaYaH, AB-SAG-MA-BON, since there are four letters HaVaYaH, which are called body, which are ZA and HaVaYaH with a filling of MA, which are four elements: fire, wind, water, dust. They expand into 248 organs, which are the Malchut and HaVaYaH with a filling of BON (52).

426. There are Taamim [tastes] on the dots, and the dots lead the four letters that correspond to the legs of the Merkava [chariot/structure], which are the outlet and the origin of the four lowly elements called “body.” They are called dots that lead the four elements. Over them, there are three Taamim, which are Zarka, Talisha, Shalshelet, and they are the hidden, pure, and holy name, which is the name HaVaYaH with a filling of AB (72).

This explains the four names HaVaYaH with the four fillings AB SAG MA and BON. The 248 organs are the four letters HaVaYaH of Bina, and the four elements called body, which lead the organs, are the four letters of HaVaYaH of MA.

The four letters HaVaYaH that are fear, love, Torah, and commandment that lead the four elements are the four letters HaVaYaH of SAG, which are called dots. The four letters HaVaYaH in the Taamim Zarka, Talisha, Shalshelet are HaVaYaH of AB.

427. So it is in Adam. From the Aleph alone expanded the four hidden letters of the name, the dots, HaVaYaH of SAG, Aleph-Yod Aleph-Hey Aleph-Vav Aleph-Hey. From the Aleph, there also expanded the hidden Hey, Aleph-Hey, Malchut of that HaVaYaH, since she elicits what she received, since Malchut receives from the three letters Yod-Hey-Vav, and elicits to the lower ones.

His two syllables are Ah Oh, which are Bina and ZA of this HaVaYaH. The first, Bina, receives from the Yod, who is Hochma, and the second, who is ZA, engenders, meaning bestows upon Malchut, who brings out.

The hidden Yod of Aleph-Yod indicates that everything expands from her. Hence, the first, meaning Ah, who is Bina, is called “receiver,” since she receives from that Yod. The second, which is Oh, engenders through Malchut, who bestows outwards. The hidden Yod indicates that everything expands from her.

428. This is why the first of the Taamim, the Yod in the four letters HaVaYaH of AB, is named Zarka, for like its name, it indicates that it has no end, since Zrika [throwing] is the opposite of attainment, indicating that you have been thrown off from a thought. And since the Yod consists of KH, and Keter is Ein Sof, there is no attainment in her.

The second among the Taamim, the first Hey, Bina of the Taamim, is called Talsha, which is a compound word, Tav-Lamed Shin-Aleph. This is because she, Bina, carries the TEL [Tav-Lamed], Malchut, who is called Tal Piot [hill of mouths], for all the mouths turn to her, and Bina carries and sweetens the Malchut so she is fit to receive Mochin.

The third of the Taamim, Vav, ZA of the Taamim, is called Shalshelet. She is as her name, since Shalshelet has the letters Shin, Shin, TEL, indicating that ZA, who consists of the three letters Yod-Hey-Vav, bestows upon the TEL, Malchut, where everyone turns.

429. They are four names HaVaYaH, like Yosi, Yosi, Yosi, Yosi, meaning four names Yod-Hey Vav-Hey, where the difference between them is only in the filling of the letters. There is HaVaYaH with a filling of the letters Hey, Yod-Vav-Dalet Hey-Hey Vav-Vav Hey-Hey, which is BON in Gematria (52), and there is HaVaYaH filled with the letters Aleph, Yod-Vav-Dalet Hey-Aleph Vav-Aleph-Vav Hey-Aleph, which is MA in Gematria (45), and there is HaVaYaH filled with Yod Aleph Yod-Vav-Dalet Hey-Yod Vav-Aleph-Vav Hey-Yod, which is SAG in Gematria (63), and there is HaVaYaH filled with Yod, Yod-Vav-Dalet Hey-Yod Vav-Yod-Vav Hey-Yod, which is AB in Gematria (72).

There are four letters of the Guf, HaVaYaH of MA, which expand into 248 organs, HaVaYaH of BON, and there are four letters HaVaYaH of SAG, which are called dots, which rise above the body, bestowing to HaVaYaH of MA, to the Guf.

There are Taamim on the dots, four letters HaVaYaH of AB, three Taamim, Zarka, Talisha, Shalshelet, which bestow upon the Tel, Malchut. The dots, SAG, lead the letters, MA, and over the three, which are Taamim, dots, letters, there is a hidden and holy name. The dots are regarded as the Guf of the Taamim, and the letters are the Guf of the dots.