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252. For this reason, that name is a name of Rachamim, since the letters and dots are in one form in a manner of straightness where the dots are from the three lines in Bina, and shine in the three lines in the letters, each in its own line.

But when the letters and dots are crooked toward each other, when they are not compatible with one another, as in the Katnut of ZA, when all the dots are from the left line and shine for the letters, which are from the three lines, they are not in the manner of Rachamim since they stand opposite from one another where the dot of the left shines in a letter of the right.

253. This is as it is written, “And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel,” since in the name of the seventy-two engraved letters of the Creator, they appear in these three sides, three lines, Hesed, judgment, and Rachamim, and the line that is written in a reversed order, which is the words, “And it came between the camp of the Egyptians,” is not in a manner of Rachamim, but rather judgment, since the order of the letters is reversed. It is all the more so with the letters that are reversed in a way that the light is incompatible with the vessel, when the dots of the left shine in vessels of the right; this is certainly judgment.

254. The bottom Hey of HaVaYaH has nothing of her own. For this reason, she has no dot of her own, except when she is on a mission to bestow upon the lower ones and lead them. At that time, one dot is lent to her, to enter her and become strength and power. As one dot is lent to her, which is light, to enter her, so letters are lent to her, which are vessels, the upper one, from Bina, to complete her in the mission.