– in ‘the awe of Y”Y’. And if there is no fear, there is no wisdom, as they have established:¹ ‘If there is no awe there is no wisdom²’, because awe is the treasure-store of wisdom, it is its secret repository, it is its hiding place, it is the house of the King.

footnotes: ¹ Mishnah Avot 3:17 ² ḥokhmah

Be-REiShYT¹ contains RoSh¹ and BaYiT¹, and the mystery of the word: (Prov. 24:3) In wisdom will a house be built... And one who wishes to see the king, has not permission to see him except in his house, and the mystery of the word: Wisdom² is not recognised except ‘in its house’².

footnotes: ¹ In-the-beginning ¹ head ¹ house ² Ḥokhmah ² Binah

Similarly, ‘the Middle Pillar’¹, which is YQVQ, is not made known to a prophet or seer, except in His ‘chamber’, which is ADNY², and the mystery of the word: (Hab. 2:20) And Y”Y is in His holy chamber³²...

footnotes: ¹ Tipheret ² 65 ³ heikhal ² 65

[and it is: (Ps. 63:3) *Thus ‘in holiness’*¹ *have I beheld You... *– ba-qodesh¹² in gematria is ‘a house’¹² ]

footnotes: ¹ ba-qodesh ¹ in-holiness ² 412 ¹ bayit ² 412

And it is comprised of 7 chambers of 7 lands, and about them did David say: (Ps. 116:9) I shall walk before Y”Y in the lands of the living, and the Middle Pillar comprises seven firmaments, and about them did David say: The heavens are the heavens of Y”Y... (Ps. 115:16)

And there is no knowledge at all, – of the King, and His garments, and His ‘arrangements’¹, – for any person in the world, until he enters His house and His chamber, which is the letter Beiyt², and about it is stated: (Is. 56:7) ... for My house¹ shall be called a house of prayer, for all the nations.

footnotes: ¹ tiquneih ² ב ¹ beiyt

And one who is a ‘man’¹, in the image of ‘the Middle Pillar’², of him it is said:³ ‘the prayer of man is not heard except in the synagogue’, and thus have the Masters of the Mishnah established.

footnotes: ¹ adam ² Tipheret ³ BT Berakhot 6a

And one who ‘guards the covenant’, is called ‘the man of perfection’, and there, in Be-REiShYT, is a ‘covenant of fire’¹, for he guards it from the fire of hell. But one who is occupied in the Torah and guards it, is called ‘man’ in the image of He that is above, It is this that is written: (Is. 44:13) ... like the glory¹ of a man, to dwell in the house.

footnotes: ¹ BRYT EiSh ¹ tipheret

Come see: Of everyone who guards the sign of the covenant, his image is inscribed in the Shekhinah¹ and ‘the Righteous-One’¹, and yet of one who strives in the Torah, his image is inscribed in ‘the Middle Pillar’¹.

footnotes: ¹ Malkhut ¹ Yesod ¹ Tipheret

Tiqun Four

Be-REiShYT** **It is written: (Ps. 118:19) Open for me the gates of righteousness, I shall enter through them, I shall acknowledge Y-Q. Open for me... – these are the two eyelids, which open and shut, and about them it is stated: (Ex. 25:20) And the cherubs shall be spreading their wings upwards... [cherubs] – these are the two cherubs of the eyes, spreading wings – the eyelids.

And furthermore: Open for me the gates of righteousness... (Ps. 118:19) – these are the 2 eyes.

When they are [Var. that the eyes are] (Ps. 27:11) looking*‘in a straight way’, it is stated of them:... and their faces are one to the other... And when they are not looking‘in a straight way’*, then: (Is. 27:1) the crooked serpent is there, about which it is stated: (Rut. 1:17) ... for death shall separate... etc. [Var. see Hos. 13:15 “and it shall separate between ‘brothers’.”]

The three colours of the eye are the three Patriarchs, of whom it is stated: (Ex. 6:14) These are the heads of their fathers’ house... The ‘eye’s daughter’¹ the pupil which is thin and small, – this is the Shekhinah, Who participates with the Patriarchs. And about Her it is stated: (Ps. 17:8) Guard me, as the ‘pupil of the eye’s daughter’... and all is within the mystery of Be-REiShYT: there is RASheY¹, there is BaT¹.

footnotes: ¹ bat’ayin ¹ heads-of ¹ daughter

Rabbi Shim’on rose to his feet and said: ‘Master of the Universe! Open my eyes that I may gaze above through them. *I shall enter ‘through them’*¹², (Ps. 118:19) with ‘the forty-two letters of the explicit Name’, to know each-and-every letter upon

footnotes: ¹ VaM ² 42