And outside of You, there is no uniqueness [Var. unity] among the higher and the lower, and You are known as ‘Lord over All’.

And all the sephirot, each one has its own name, and with them, angels are called. But You have no specific Name, for You are He that fills all Names, and You are the completeness of everything. And when You withdraw from them, all those names are left like a body without a soul.

You are ‘wise’, but not with any specific ‘wisdom’. You are He that ‘understands’, but not from any specific ‘understanding’. You have no specific ‘place’, other than to make known Your strength and Your power to humans, and to show them how the world is governed, – through judgement and through mercy, which are ‘righteousness and justice’ – according to the deeds of people.

‘Judgement’ is Gevurah, Justice is ‘the Middle Pillar’¹, Righteousness² is ‘the holy kingdom’¹, (Lev. 19:36) Scales of righteousness...– ‘two pillars of truth’¹, ... the ‘hin’ of righteousness...– ‘sign of the covenant’¹. All are to show how the world is governed.

footnotes: ¹ Tipheret ² tzedeq ¹ Malkhut ¹ Netzaḥ-Hod ¹ Yesod

But not that You have any specific righteousness – which is ‘judgement’, and no specific justice – which is ‘mercy’. And none of any of these attributes at all.

Rise Rabbi Shim’on! And may words be innovated by your hand! For behold you have permission [Var. it is given to you], to reveal hidden secrets by your hand, that for which permission to reveal was not given to any person, until now.

Arose Rabbi Shim’on. He opened and said: (1 Chron. 29:11) To You, Y”Y, is the greatness and the might... etc.

Hear O high-ones! Those sleepers of Hebron, and the Faithful Shepherd! Wake up from your slumber!

(Is. 26:19) ... Wake up and rejoice! O dwellers of the dust... These are the righteous-ones, who are from the aspect of whom it is stated: (Song. 5:2) I am asleep, and my heart is awake... And they are not dead. And thus, it is said of them: (Is. 26:19) ... Wake up and rejoice... etc.

Awake O Faithful Shepherd! Be aroused, you and the Patriarchs, for the arousal of the Shekhinah, Who is sleeping in exile, for until now the righteous have all been reposing, and slumber is in their nostrils.

Immediately, the Shekhinah gives [Var. there are aroused] three ‘voices’, towards the Faithful Shepherd, and says to him: ‘Rise O Faithful Shepherd! For about you it is stated: (Song. 5:2) ... the voice of my beloved is knocking... towards Me – with His four letters.’

And He shall say through them: ‘... *open-up for Me, My sister, My beloved, My dove, My‘completion’*¹...’ For behold: (Lam. 4:22) Completed¹ is your sin, O daughter of Zion, He will not exile you again...’

footnotes: ¹ tam ¹ tam

(Song. 5:2) ... for my head is full of dew....¹ What is the meaning of full of dew? But the blessed Holy One said: ‘Do you think that since the day the Temple was destroyed, that I have entered My house, and that I have entered in settlement? Not so! For I do not enter all the while you are in exile.’²

footnotes: ¹ See Shemot Rabbah 33:3 ² See BT Ta’anit 5a

Behold you have a sign:... *for my head is full of ‘dew’*¹². H-Ei³ is the Shekhinah in exile. Her perfection, and Her life is tal¹². And this is Y-O-D H-Ei V-A-V². And H-Ei³² is the Shekhinah, Who is not counted of ‘the 39’¹.

footnotes: ¹ tal ² 39 ³ ה־א ¹ dew ² 39 ² 39 ³ ה־א ² 6 ¹ Ta-L

But YOD QEi VAV, whose letters add up numerically to 39, is He that fills the Shekhinah, from the fountain of all higher sources.

Immediately, the Faithful Shepherd rose, and the holy Patriarchs with him.

Until here is ‘the mystery of unity’. From here onwards is the first passage of ‘the secrets of the Torah’.

Until here.

Opened Rabbi Shim’on and said: (Gen. 1:1) In the beginning, ELQYM created... (Ps. 25:14) The ‘secret’ of Y”Y is with those who fear Him, and His covenant is to let them know it.

*The ‘secret’*¹² – these are seventy times [Var. faces], that the word Be-REiShYT¹ is explained in this passage.

footnotes: ¹ sod ² 70 ¹ In-the-beginning

First Tiqun For Day 2

(Gen. 1:1) In the beginning¹ *... *The letter Beiyt²³ and the word REiShYT¹.

footnotes: ¹ Be-REiShYT ² ב ³ 2 ¹ beginning

(Ps. 118:20) This is the gate to Y”Y, the righteous shall enter therein, This is the gate [Var. fear] of ‘the righteous’, who have permission to enter there, [and others] and those who are not