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162. “You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the wave offering.” Israel and Egypt were in another authority, gripped in impurity like a woman sitting during her days of impurity. After they were circumcised, they entered the holy part called a “covenant,” Malchut. Once they gripped to it, the impurity ceased from them, like a woman whose days of impurity had stopped. Then it is written, “she shall count for herself seven days.” Here, too, since they came to the holy part, to the covenant, the impurity stopped from them and the Creator said, “Henceforth, the count is for purity.”

163. “You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath.” “For you,” for yourselves, in order to be purified in the upper, holy water, the illumination of Bina, through the Omer count. Afterwards, on Shavuot, they will come and connect to the king, ZA, and will receive His law.

164. It is written in regard to a woman in menstruation, “she shall count for herself seven days.” Why ‎are seven Sabbaths required here? It is to be rewarded with being purified in the water of the ‎river, Bina, whose lights are called “living water.” Seven Sabbaths come out of Him—the ‎seven Sefirot HGT NHYM. In each of them there are seven Sefirot HGT NHYM, which are ‎forty-nine Sefirot, the forty-nine gates of Bina. This is the reason for the need to count seven ‎Sabbaths, to be rewarded with ZA on the festival of Shavuot and receive the Torah, like a ‎woman on her night of purification, to mate with her husband.

165. It is written, “And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night.” “Upon the camp,” since dew, the abundance, descends from a dot, Hochma, over the forty-nine days in Bina, which are ‎called “camp,” and Bina connects with them in the holy King, ZA. This dew fell when Israel ‎approached Mount Sinai on Shavuot. At that time, dew fell in wholeness, purified ‎Israel, and the filth was removed from them—the filth that the serpent had cast in Eve in the ‎sin of the tree of knowledge. Thus, the king connected with the assembly of Israel and they ‎received the Torah.

At that time, “All the rivers go to the sea,” to purify and to bathe. All the ‎abundance of the Sefirot of ZA goes to Malchut, to the sea, and Malchut obtains an ‎equal level face-to-face with ZA. Thus, all are tied and connected to the ‎holy King, ZA, the middle line, whose essence is the festival of Shavuot.

166. Any person who does not count seven complete Sabbaths to be rewarded with this ‎purification is not called “pure,” is not regarded as pure, and is unworthy of having a share in ‎the Torah. And one who comes to Shavuot pure and does not lose the count, when the night ‎of Shavuot arrives, he should engage in Torah, connect to her, and observe the high purification ‎that comes to him on that night, and he is purified.