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267. He drew an extension from his side and he hides and covers himself under a place called the “cabin of the runners” until midnight. After midnight, a flame emerges from the pillar of Isaac, the left line, and strikes the rooster, who is called a “man.” This is Gabriel, like another upper man, Gevura of ZA, on whom there is the pillar of Isaac. Since the flame of the left line strikes the man, Gabriel, he calls and gives six voices, and all of them are in Tevuna.

268. When Gabriel calls, all the roosters of this world call, and another flame emerges from Gabriel and reaches them under their wings, and they call.

On the first hour, Gabriel calls out and says, “The voice of the Lord in strength; the voice of the Lord in grandeur.” On the second hour, he calls out and says, “The voice of the Lord breaks cedars.” On the third hour, he calls out and says, “The voice of the Lord carves flames of fire.” On the fourth hour, he calls out and says, “The voice of the Lord frightens the desert.” On the fifth hour, he calls out and says, “The voice of the Lord is over the water.” On the sixth hour, he calls out and says, “The voice of the Lord will make does give birth.” Afterwards, he calls out and says, “A voice says, ‘Call!’” and he said, “What shall I call?” Gabriel is a rooster who calls and does not keep silent, and afterwards it calls again, as in the beginning.

269 What does Gabriel call afterwards? He calls out all the deeds of the people of the world, since he is the owner of the case, and in his possession is the vessel in which all the writings and the verdicts and decrees, and the writer’s pen is in his girdle. He writes all the actions of the people of the world each day, and at night, after he has called out all the calls, he reads what he had written during the day.

270a. There are two degrees in his toes: the big toe that stands in the middle, and the little toe that stands in the back. Were it not for these two toes that detain him, he would burn the world with his flames. What do they do? Since the morning has broken and a thread of Hesed emerges from the south, everyone connects, the middle toe with the rear toe, and become two hooves in each of the two legs, like a calf, to observe what is written, “And their foot as the foot of a calf.”

Toes are illumination of Hochma. Since at midnight, the middle line unites with Malchut, two phases emerge in the left line in Malchut: 1) the illumination of Hochma on the left, which is connected to the middle line and all its corrections, so that the Hochma does not shine from above downward, but from below upward, like the middle line, and its illumination is therefore a great illumination. 2) Her left line before midnight, before she received the middle line, full of judgments and does not shine, and is regarded as posterior and Katnut.

Gabriel is from the left line of Malchut. For this reason, these two degrees of Malchut come out in him, and are regarded in him as his two toes. The toe that is from the middle line is the big toe whose light is plentiful since it is established from the middle line and shines only from below upward. That finger that is from the posterior and Katnut of the left line in Malchut is called the posterior finger, and is small.

In the morning, when the control of Hesed begins, a thread of Hesed goes out to Gabriel, who receives in this the degree of the right of ZA. At that time, the two degrees in his left, the degree of the middle and the degree of the posterior, connect and become one, and the Hesed he received becomes in him a second degree to the right. Then, his two toes become two hooves—to the right and to the left—which are Hassadim from the right and Hassadim from the left.

270b. Inside this court, Malchut, there are 365 halls, as the number of the days in the year. In each door in each hall, it is written, “May there be peace in your walls, tranquility in your palaces.” It is not known what is in those halls, but they all surround each other like an embroidery. Seven orders of gems surround one inside the other in each and every one, in each and every hall.