145. “Six times, etc.” Six times Havaya is written here, and they are six verses, from: “The heavens declare” until: “The Torah of the Lord is perfect” [Psalms 19:2-8]. With regard to this secret it is written Bereshit [“In the beginning”], which consists of six [Hebrew] letters. “God created the heavens and the earth” [Genesis 1:1] are six [Hebrew] words. The other verses, from “the Torah of the Lord is perfect” until “which are more to be desired than gold” [Psalms 19:12] only correspond to the six times that Havaya is written in them, but these six verses themselves are not expounded. The six verses from “the heavens declare” until “the Torah of the Lord is perfect” are for the six letters here, in the word Bereshit. The six names are for the six words here, that is, “God created the heavens and the earth.”

Explanation: It is known that every level that is revealed from the [supernal] levels first manifests through the aspect of letters, at which point [the level] is still unknown. After this, it manifests as combinations of words, and then that which is contained within the level becomes known, in the manner explained above with regard to the mystical meaning of the 216 letters and seventy-two words (section #116#). This is the mystical meaning of the six letters in the word Bereshit, which already include the entire existence of heaven and earth in the mystical meaning of their six letters. However, they are still unknown because they are alluded to only through the letters, without any combinations of words. Afterwards, there are six words: Bara Elohim et HaShamayim ve-et ha’aretz [“God created the heavens and the earth”]. Here, [in this phrase, ] what is contained in the word Bereshit becomes revealed, for they are the heavens and the earth and all that fills them.

In this manner we must understand the six verses from “the heavens declare” until “the Torah of the Lord is perfect.” This is still the beginning of the revelation of the completion of the rectification, that is, when it is still in the form of letters, similar to the six letters in the word Bereshit. The full revelation of the completion of the rectification starts from “the Torah of the Lord is perfect” and onward, where there are six names, such that each name indicates [a certain level of] attainment. This shows that only after the full repentance, in the mystical meaning of the verse: “And there is nothing hidden from its heat” [Psalms 19:7], all the combination of words that were in the great fusion of the completion of the rectification will then be revealed, that is, the six names.

[The Zohar] thus states: “With regard to this secret it is written Bereshit, which consists of six letters; ‘God created the heavens and the earth’ are six words.” With respect to the mystical meaning of those six verses and six names, the Torah writes six letters in Bereshit, within which heaven and earth are concealed. In the six words they are revealed: Bara Elohim et HaShamayim ve-et ha’aretz. Likewise, in the six verses from “the heavens declare” until “the Torah of the Lord is perfect,” the great fusion of the completion of the rectification has not been revealed in its clarity. It is only subsequently, after the verse: “And there is nothing hidden from its heat,” that the six names were revealed. In those six names the entirety of the great revelation of the completion of the rectification comes to its fullest and complete state.

[The Zohar] continues: “The other verses correspond to the six times Havaya,” that is, the six names of Havaya. The verses written after “and there is nothing hidden from its heat,” until the end of the psalm, allude to the six names that are written in them. It follows that “the six verses are on account of the six letters here; the six names are on account of the six words here.” This is as explained, that the six verses from “the heavens declare” until “the Torah of the Lord is perfect,” are like the six letters of Bereshit, which are not fully revealed, while the six names that are written from “the Torah of the Lord is perfect” until the end are like the six words: Bara Elohim et HaShamayim ve-et ha’aretz, which here have come to their complete state. He is teaching us that in the case of the six verses their level is not yet known, and they are like the six letters of Bereshit. However, after the six verses, in “the other verses,” in which there are six names, they achieve the desired revelation.