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63. “The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him and His covenant, to let them know.” This is the assembly of Israel, Malchut, who is called “the secret of the Lord.” “His covenant to let them know” is the righteous, foundation of the world, Yesod of ZA, a covenant. The two of them are in one unification.

64. Yod has three letters in it, and they are complete in everything. First of all, Hochma, called Resheet [beginning], is Yod, above all the letters of HaVaYaH, above all the Sefirot. The Vav in Yod is the middle line, ZA, the wholeness of all the sides, completing the right and the left. It is a transition, the root of all the spirits. Faith depends on it, Malchut. The Dalet in Yod is the garden, the bundle of life, Malchut. The letter Dalet is small because in Malchut, the letters are small. She is the wholeness of everything since Malchut completes all the Sefirot.

65. The letter Yod is blocked on all sides. When it comes out, when it appears, it comes out like a king with his soldiers, and then the Yod returns alone. The matter is blocked in her, appears in her, she closes, and she opens.

Upper AVI are Yod of HaVaYaH; the Avir [air] in them is blocked, for the Yod does not come out of their Avir. Hence, they are blocked from the light of Hochma. Only YESHSUT, the first Hey of HaVaYaH, their Avir opens, the Yod comes out from their Avir, and the light of Hochma returns in them. Nevertheless, the Hochma that YESHSUT receive, they necessarily receive from upper AVI, from Yod of HaVaYaH, since a degree receives only from the adjacent degree before it. Hence, although AVI are blocked from Hochma, they nevertheless open in Hochma to shine for YESHSUT, to the Hey of HaVaYaH. However, afterwards, they are blocked again from Hochma, as is their way.

Therefore, there are two states to HaVaYaH: 1. When she is filled with Vav-Dalet, Yod, 2. When she is without Vav-Dalet, but only the Yod.

When upper AVI open up to bestow Hochma upon YESHSUT, they are Yod in its filling. Yod implies upper AVI, upper HB. Vav-Dalet are the Daat, Vav is ZA, the right in Daat; Dalet is Malchut, the left in Daat, implying that the Hochma in them is revealed to YESHSUT through this Daat. After their bestowal, when AVI are blocked from Hochma once more, they are Yod without a filling, implying that the Hochma is not revealed through the Daat and they are blocked.

The letter Yod is blocked on all sides since the letter Yod is upper AVI, whose Avir is blocked from Hochma. When the Yod emerges to bestow Hochma to YESHSUT, she emerges as a king with his soldiers. She comes out with her filling of Vav-Dalet, the right and left of Daat, which are regarded as the armies of the Yod, and the Hochma opens and is bestowed upon YESHSUT through the Daat. Once she concludes the bestowal of Hochma, the Yod returns alone, without the Vav-Dalet, to her previous degree, and becomes blocked, as is her way. It follows that at one time, the Hochma is blocked in her, and at one time, the Hochma emerges, to bestow upon YESHSUT; at one time, she closes the illumination of Hochma, and at one time, she opens it.

66. Hey of HaVaYaH is the wholeness of everything above and below, Bina, YESHSUT. Aleph of the filling Hey-Aleph is Yod, since the shape of Aleph has Vav in the middle, Yod on top, Dalet below, which is the wholeness of the three letters in the Rosh, which are concealed in the Yod of HaVaYaH, which, when filled, it is the letters Yod-Hey-Dalet. It is all one, since the wholeness of the holy name is the wholeness above and below. This is why the letter Hey, when it is crowned in its crowns, takes the Aleph for a filling.

Although the Yod of HaVaYaH, upper AVI, bestows Hochma to YESHSUT, to the Hey of HaVaYaH, AVI themselves are nevertheless blocked from Hochma, and it is revealed only in YESHSUT, in the Hey of HaVaYaH, in which there is the wholeness to complete everything, both Hassadim to ZA, who is above, and Hochma to Malchut, who is below.

In the Hey of HaVaYaH, Hochma is also revealed. Hey is Bina, YESHSUT. Aleph of the filling Hey-Aleph is Yod, where the way to write Aleph is Yod on top, Dalet below, and Vav in the middle. This is the wholeness of the three letters in the Rosh, which are concealed in the Yod of HaVaYaH, since the shape of the Yod, when it bestows Hochma to Hey, is three letters Yod, where the Hod is HB, and Vav-Dalet are Daat. When the Hey of HaVaYaH receives illumination of HBD in the three letters of the Yod in the Rosh of HaVaYaH, it is Hey with a filling of Aleph, Hey-Aleph. Aleph implies illumination of HBD, which she receives from upper AVI. As the filled Yod indicates illumination of Hochma through Daat, so the filled Hey indicates illumination through Daat.

The wholeness of the holy name is the wholeness of ZA and Malchut, where ZA is above and Malchut is below. The wholeness is to bestow Hassadim to ZA and illumination Hochma to Malchut. For this reason, when the Hey, YESHSUT, is crowned with illumination of HBD from the three letters Yod, she takes Aleph for her filling, indicating these illuminations of HBD.

67. The wholeness of the whole name is seen in each letter of the holy name. Yod of HaVaYaH is the wholeness of everything, for the Yod implies upper HB, Vav over ZA, the right in Daat, Dalet over Malchut, the left in Daat, the Hey of HaVaYaH is the wholeness of everything. Although it is not with a filling of Aleph, but only of Hey, the shape of the Hey is the wholeness of everything, since her manner of writing is Yod-Vav-Dalet.

The shape of the Hey is Dalet over Vav, and the corner of Hey is Yod. Unlike Yod of HaVaYaH, which is the wholeness of everything only when she is filled with Yod, and not when she is simple, without a filling, the Hey of HaVaYaH is the wholeness of everything even when she is simple, without a filling, since in her, the Yod exits the Avir [air] and becomes Ohr [light].

Vav of HaVaYaH, whether filled or simple, is the wholeness of everything, since Vav indicates the middle line, which contains within it the two lines right and left, Yod-Hey. Hence, she is the wholeness of everything, meaning HB, which are Yod-Hey, and Daat, which is Vav.

Vav Hey, Hey of HaVaYaH that is connected with the Vav of HaVaYaH, is a great wholeness to decorate all the worlds, since Vav-Hey are ZA and Malchut in a coupling. Thus, it is all one, for each letter of HaVaYaH indicates the entire wholeness of HaVaYaH.

68. “It shall be seven days with its mother.” Concerning the Yod He Vav He, the letters were engraved as Vav-Hey-Yod-Hey, since Vav-Hey-Yod-Hey are the letters of Vav-Hey Yod-Hey. Vav-Hey, seven days are included in them as one, since Vav-Hey, which are ZA and Malchut, are the seven Sefirot HGT NHYM. Yod Hey are seven days, since Yod is one, the sum of everyone, containing all the letters of the name.

Hey is three, she and her two sons, since she contains within her Dalet Vav, ZA and Malchut, which are impregnated in Bina. Right and left in Daat, and with the Bina herself, they are three. One son, the Vav in the letter Hey, two fathers are included in him: the two lines HG. Thus, they are five, which are Bina, ZA, Malchut, Hesed, Gevura. Vav, too, contains within her the daughter, a female, Malchut. Thus, they are six. This means that the first Hey of HaVaYaH contains six: Bina, ZA, Malchut, Hesed, Gevura, and Malchut that is included in ZA.

Yod-Hey is Hey with Yod, seven, the seven Sefirot above the Chazeh, which are called Yod-Hey. These are Hochma, Bina, the right of Daat, the left of Daat, Hesed, Gevura, and the upper third of Tifferet along with Malchut at the Chazeh, as it is written, “Seven days and seven days, fourteen days,” seven days in Vav-Hey and seven days in Yod-Hey.

69. “It shall be seven days with its mother.” “With its mother” means that under Yod-Hey, the seven days of Vav-Hey were decorated. “To You, Lord, is greatness and might, glory and eternity and splendor, for all that is in heaven and in the earth,” which are the seven Sefirot HGT NHYM of ZON. This is why there are seven days below, in ZON, to honor upper Ima, meaning corresponding to the seven phases in Yod-Hey. There are also seven days below, under his mother.

It is written, “The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.” The kernel of the entire house, Bina, has borne seven, the seven days of the festival of Sukkot, HGT NHYM. “She who has many children is forlorn.” These are the offerings on the festival, seventy bulls that are sacrificed on the festival of Sukkot, which are deducted from the count each day. They correspond to the seventy nations, and this is “She who has many children is forlorn.”

70. These seven days of Sukkot, HGT NHYM, rise up above; the illumination of Hochma in them shines from below upward, while these seventy bulls from which the nations suckle, descend down below. The nations suckle from them from above downward, as is their way, and therefore drop them down, as it is written, “Though you soar like the eagle, though you place your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.” Israel ascend from below upward, as it is written, “And your descendants will be as the dust ‎of the earth.” It is also written, “I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven.” ‎They will rise from the dust of the earth to the stars of the heaven. Afterwards, they rise ‎above everything and adhere to the uppermost place, as it is written, “And you who adhere to ‎the Lord your God.”