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153. Adam HaRishon is Neshama to Neshama. Eve is Neshama. Abel is of the same kind as Adam and Eve, Ruach of holiness. Cain is the Ruach of impurity of the left, and he is called “hybrid,” a mixture of holiness with what is not needed. He is the other side, which is not from the king of Adam and Eve, as it is written, “You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.” The ox is a pure beast; the donkey is an impure beast, and it is forbidden to mix them with each other. Hence, the holy covenant shall not come into another authority, “You shall have no other god over Me.”

154. Adam is similar to what is above, the holy side. Other gods are the donkey and the mare, the male and female of impurity. For this reason, one who brings the holy covenant into another authority, it is written about him, “They have betrayed the Lord for they begot foreign children.” The Lord is zealous over nothing but the holy covenant.

155. The Creator created four letters in man, Yod-Hey Vav-Hey, which are His holy name. He created in him Neshama to Neshama, which is called “man,” and the lights expand in it in nine lights KHB, HGT, NHY, and Ateret Yesod completes them into ten. They cascade from the Yod of HaVaYaH, and they are one light without separation. For this reason, the body of the man is called the garment of the man since it clothes the Neshama to Neshama, which is called “man.”

156. The Hey of HaVaYaH is called Neshama. She makes a coupling with the Yod of HaVaYaH, who is Neshama to Neshama, and expands into many lights, and they are one. Yod-Hey are together, inseparable. It is written about this, “And God created the man in His own image; He created him in the image of God. He created them male and female, and called their names Adam.”

157. Vav of HaVaYaH is called Ruach, and is called Ben [son of] Yod-Hey, since it is emanated from the coupling of Yod-Hey. The Nefesh is called Hey of HaVaYaH, and is called “daughter.” This is why the Neshama to Neshama, Neshama, Ruach, and Nefesh are father and mother, son, and daughter.

The name HaVaYaH filled with letters Aleph, Yod-Vav-Dalet Hey-Aleph Vav-Aleph-Vav Hey-Aleph, is called Adam since his light expands into forty-five lights, which is Adam [man] in Gematria, who is MA.

158. The name Yod-Vav-Dalet Hey-Aleph Vav-Aleph-Vav Hey-Aleph, which is Neshama to Neshama, Neshama, Ruach, Nefesh is “created them male and female,” since Neshama to Neshama is male, Neshama is female, Ruach is male, and Nefesh is female. “And He called their name Adam.” Afterwards, He formed the body, as it is written, “And the Lord God formed the man dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the soul of life.”

159. What should we distinguish in the writings between Adam and Adam? After all, HaVaYaH, which are Neshama to Neshama, Neshama, Ruach, Nefesh, is called Adam, and the body is called Adam. What is the difference between them? That is, how do we tell if the text speaks of HaVaYaH or of the body of Adam? Where it is written “And God created the man in His own image,” it is HaVaYaH, NRN and Haya of the man. Where it is not written “In His own image,” it is the body of Adam.

160. After it said, “And the Lord God formed,” that He formed the man, which is regarded as the world of Yetzira, He made him from the phase of the world of Assiya, as it is written, “And the Lord God made for the man and his wife gowns of skin and clothed them.” At first, they were gowns of light, such as above, and after they sinned, they became gowns of skin.

161. It is written about this, “All that is called by My name and for My glory, I have created the evil inclination; I have created the Torah as a spice it, formed it, as well as made it,” Yod-Vav-Dalet Hey-Aleph Vav-Aleph-Vav Hey-Aleph, NRN and Neshama to Neshama of the man. “I have formed him,” gowns of light from before the sin. “As well as made it,” gowns of skin, due to the ire, which is the anger over his sin.

162. And who would be called evil? The evil inclination, which is the serpent, who made it and caused Adam and Eve to be sentenced to death, and for every person.