## Ba'al Shem Tov, Lech Lecha

###### Ba'al Shem Tov, Lech Lecha 7:1
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שמעתי ממורי, כל אשר תמצא ידך לעשות בכחך עשה (קהלת ט׳:י׳) להעלות אנשי עשייה אל המחשבה, שנקרא יוד אותיות ידו, והיינו על ידי הדעת שהוא בחינת יוסף כנודע כו':
(בן פורת יוסף דף ס"ח ע"ד)

**Ami Silver, 2020:**
**Whatever your hand can do by your strength, do…** (Ecclesiastes 9:10)
That is, in order to uplift people on [the level of] *Assiyah*¹¹ to [the level of] thought, which is known by the letter *yud*,¹² represents the world of thought; i.e. the beginning of creation. The letter *hey*, as the last letter of the Tetragrammaton, corresponds to *Malchus* and the world of *Asiyah.* that also spells out the word *yado* – “his hand” (יוד – ידו). This is by means of *Da'as*, which is the aspect of Yosef, as is known.
*Ben Poras Yosef*, p. 68d

footnotes:
¹¹ The lowest of the spiritual worlds.
¹² As the first letter of the Tetragrammaton, the letter yud