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20. Aaron came and taught him his lesson, meaning brought down illumination on his beard, two drops of gemstones that came down on Aaron’s beard and shone a great illumination, illumination of Hochma. This is an intimation of the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, ZA and Malchut, right and left, which connected in his beard.

Through the screen—which are called “Se’arot Dikna” [hairs of the beard], the middle line—the right and left connect, ZA and Malchut. He received two drops from their unification, one from ZA and one from Malchut. Their connection depends on the upper luck, Dikna of AA, since the root of the unification of three lines to reveal Hochma is in the screens, which are called Se’arot [hairs] of Dikna [beard] of AA.

21. And then, as it is written, “How good and how pleasant.” “Good” is the Written Torah, and it is righteous, Yesod of ZA. “Pleasant” is the songs of Israel, Malchut, who is called “pleasant” when the pleasantness of above is on her, of the next world, Bina. It is through Aaron, who connected ZA and Malchut together through an offering.

22. Because of it, it is written about him, “My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared Me.” “My covenant” means my queen, Malchut, who was with Aaron. “Life” is of upper Ima, Bina. “Peace” is the minister of peace, Yesod of ZA, who is called “peace.”

23. “And I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared Me.” “I gave them to him” means I gave him all those degrees to connect those two drops of gemstones. When he passed a razor over his beard, when he would cut his beard, as it is written, “No razor shall come upon his head.” “And he feared Me,” fearing that he might have misappropriated with that oil he was anointed with from the high heavens, who are called name, Bina, and from which the good oil is extended. This is why it is written, “He feared Me because of My name.”

The screens that unite ZA and Malchut are called Se’arot of Dikna. The measure of illumination that the lower one causes in the upper one, the lower one is also rewarded with it. Hence, since the Se’arot Dikna caused a unification of ZA and Malchut, they, too, received two illuminations from them, called “two drops of gemstones,” one drop from ZA, and one drop from Malchut.

Shaving the hairs is cancelation of those judgments and screens that are called Se’arot. If he cancels the Se’arot, he revokes the coupling of ZA and Malchut, who were unified by them.

The two drops of gemstones imply the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, ZA and Malchut, who connected in Aaron’s beard, since through the Se’arot Dikna, which are screens and judgments, the coupling of ZA and Malchut was made, since they are judgments of three seedings, Holam-Shuruk-Hirik, which elicit the three lines to bestow upon Malchut. Since they caused the unification of ZA and Malchut, the Se’arot were rewarded with receiving from them two drops of gemstones.

It is written about that, “My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared Me.” “My covenant” means My queen, Malchut, who was with Aaron. “Life” is that of upper Ima, Bina, and “peace” is of the minister of peace, Yesod of ZA, who is called “peace.” And with the Se’arot Dikna of ZA, Yesod and Malchut were unified and drew life from upper Ima, Bina.

“And I gave them to him,” giving him those degrees, Malchut and Yesod of ZA so he would connect them through the screens of his Se’arot Dikna, and they are two drops of gemstones that I have given him as his reward.

When he passed a razor on his beard, when he would cut his beard, when he was refined for the screen, the Se’arot, the illumination of the unification of ZA and Malchut was canceled and the two drops of gemstones departed to their root. Hence, he feared he may have misappropriated with that oil with which he was anointed from the high heaven, Bina, which are called “name,” since the drops have stopped and departed from him. For this reason, it is written, “He feared Me because of My name,” meaning he feared and was afraid because he stopped the oil from heaven.

24. This is as it is written, “He walked with Me in peace and straightness.” He connected peace in the straightness. Straightness is as it is written, “He is righteous and straight.” “Straight” means Malchut. “Peace” means Yesod, and he connected them together. Then, as it is written, “He returned many from iniquity,” through the offerings he offered to the king. And then peace was given in the straightness.

The matter of the offering that the Creator gave to Aaron depends on the matter of the connection of peace in straightness. Malchut is called “straightness” because he drew Torah, ZA, which is called “straight,” and light to the bottom world, Malchut.

ZA, the middle line, is called “straight” because he does not deviate to the right or to the left, but is between them in the middle. When Malchut receives the light from the middle line, which is called “straight,” she is called “straightness.”