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51) The following Mitzva is to set apart a tithing for the Levite, which is Divinity. From the right side, Hesed, a big donation was given to the priest, which is Hesed. From the left side, Gevura, a donation of tithing is given to the Levite, which is Divinity from the left side.

52) HaVaYaH in the number SAG [sixty-three], Yod–Hey–Vav–Hey, is Ima, which is the left of Aba, being HaVaYaH in the number AB [seventy-two], since AB SAG are right and left. This is, “Three tenths for each bull,” the three Yods of the filling of SAG, which are called “three tenths.” And it says, “For each bull” because it is said about it, “The face of an ox on the left,” Gevura, left line. And a “Tenth for a lamb” is the Yod–He–Vav–He, which is ten letters, and this is the tenth, the ten letters in the number MA, which is Me’ah [100].

53) However, three tenths imply to the Hallah donation, which applies to a dough of forty-three eggs and a fifth of an egg. This is so because the Yod, Yod, Yod in HaVaYaH de SAG are three letters, which add up to thirty. Thus, they are thirty-three, and with the ten Sefirot in them, in the three Yods, they are forty-three, forty-three eggs. And all is ten, since the number forty-three extends from the letter Yod, the three letters Yod with the filling of HaVaYaH de SAG, which add up to thirty, and ten Sefirot. And there is a fifth of an egg in addition to the forty-three eggs from the side of Hey, since the Malchut has ten discernments in it, as well as a discernment of five.

So is the tithing, the commandment that Israel should set apart a tithing. It comes from the letter Yod in Malchut, a tenth of the tenth, since Malchut is one of ten Sefirot, and the nine Sefirot are included in her, hence it is ten. And she is one of five Sefirot with respect to the letter Hey. Any place where it says ten comes from the letter Yod, which is Divinity, one of ten Sefirot. And one of five is from the side of Tifferet, relating to the Tifferet being fifth from Keter, HB HGT. When you calculate from Malchut through Tifferet, you will find that Tifferet is the fifth from below upward: Malchut, Yesod, Hod, Netzah, and Tifferet. And Divinity is fifth to Tifferet, and all those four TNHY shine in her. This is why she is Hey; and because of this Hey there is the added fifth of an egg.

54) From the side of Malchut, she is two tenths for a ram. Two tenths are two Yods, and she consists of “Ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary.” Ten shekels apiece is Yod from the right, the full Hey from the left, in Gematria. “To the ram” is Vav, the shekel of the sanctuary, the middle line, which weighs [Shokel] and determines them. This is, “Ten shekels apiece,” and the pan is Malchut, which contains ten on the right and ten on the left. “After the shekel of the sanctuary” refers to the middle line, the Vav. “Two tenths for the ram” are Yod, Yod, from “Formed” [written with two Yods in Hebrew], and all is the shape of an Aleph [], whose shape is Yod above and Yod below, implying right and left, and Vav in the middle, implying to the middle line.

The two Yods of “Formed” imply to the two Yods of the combination YAHDONHY [Yod–Aleph–Hey–Dalet–Vav–Nun–Hey–Yod]. In this combination, there is a Yod above, in the Rosh, a Yod below, in the Sof [end], and Vav [six] letters in the middle, like the shape of an Aleph, which contains a Yod above, a Yod below, and a Vav in its middle. The first Yod is for adding the upper Hochma, the last Yod is for adding the bottom Hochma, and the six letters in the middle extend from the upper Hochma to the lower Hochma.