Five Alephs: אָ אֵ אֹ אִ אֻ which are aur¹, aur, aur, aur, aur– 5² times. 5 lights of the act of creation – and their vowel points אָ אֵ אֹ אֻ אִ – five which add up to ten.

footnotes: ¹ light ² ה

And the mystery of the word: (Gen. 37:7) And behold, we are sheaving etc... ... and behold my sheaf¹ *rose-up, and it also stood... *this is Aleph with vowel-point ḥolem²¹, which is above all vowel-points, with an upright stature, and through it, Joseph ascended [Var. gazed] in a dream¹.

footnotes: ¹ alumah ² ֹ ¹ dreaming ¹ ḥelma

And so, Jacob. It is this that is written: (Gen. 28:12) *And he dreamt, and behold, a ladder was set in the earth, and its ‘head’ reached to the heavens... *This is א¹ which is the ‘head’.

footnotes: ¹ Aleph

*... and behold angels of ELQYM ascending and descending upon it. *The Masters of the Mishnah have said:¹ ascending² – being plural indicates two, and descending² being plural indicates two, and they are: אָ אְ אִ אֻ And this letter, which is Aleph³ with ḥolem³, which is in the middle, [this is Vav³ ], is Higher Keter, which encompasses [Var. which encompasses them] the head of the Middle Pillar.

footnotes: ¹ BT Ḥullin 91b ² ’olim ² yordim ³ א ³ ֹ ³ ו

And when the Shekhinah ascends towards [And because of this: (Gen. 37:7) ... and behold your sheaves leaned, and bowed down to my sheaf ] this crown, it is stated of it: (Ps. 118:22) The stone which the builders refused, became the head of the corner.

And She is ‘the stone that was hewn without hands’. It is this that is written: (Dan. 2:34) ... until a stone was hewn, without hands etc. * *And because the place from where it is hewn is not found, the holy angels ask: ‘Where is the place of His glory to praise Him?’ And a place for it is not found, such that they say: (Ez. 3:12) ‘Blessed is the glory of Y”Y from His place.’

[Var. Meanwhile, the Sava arrived and said: Rabbi! Rabbi! This is with the Lower Shekhinah, that has nought there but ‘emanation’, and this is ‘the hewn¹ stone’ – because it is ‘the decree¹ of kings’, and through it, they decree soft judgement. This is the last judgement, and ‘the crown of sovereignty’ is called ‘sephirah’, for there is no complete sephirah below without it].

footnotes: ¹ it-gazrat ¹ ge-zeirah

And this stone is the unique treasure of kings, it is the speech of the ministering angels, the speech of ḥayot, and seraphim and ophanim, the speech of all above and below, the knowledge of the sun and moon in seasons, [and in it, there is] the time and season for everything.

All cantillation-notes, and vowel-points, and letters, are included in it, voice, speech, and thought, [Var. and speech that emerges from within thought] are included in it. It is ‘the crown of Torah’, and ‘the crown of Priesthood’, and ‘the crown of Kingship’,¹ and it is the ‘crownlet’ at the top of all letters, like this:

footnotes: ¹ Mishnah Avot 4:13

And about this stone, Rabbi Aqiva said to his companions:¹ ‘When you arrive at the stones of marble, do not say “water, water!”’

footnotes: ¹ BT Ḥagigah 14b

And it is the ‘tip’ of all letters: ב¹ like this דּ¹ with dagesh, the tip of each-and-every letter, [Var. Her] ‘dimension of structure’ is ו¹, from above to below, and from below to above.

footnotes: ¹ Beiyt ¹ Dalet ¹ Vav

And the mystery of the word is: (Deut. 4:32) ... from the edge of the heavens, to the edge of the heavens. And this mystery is: (1 Chron. 29:11) To You Y”Y, is the greatness, and the might, and the glory... etc. ... *to You Y”Y is the kingdom... –*this is Malkhut, which is in everything.

And it is the chirping of the sacred birds, of whom it is said: (Ecc. 10:20) For a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, the chirping of all birds, which are the holy souls, who chirp with many prayers, the speech of the ḥayot, who are the scholars of Torah. And because of it is stated: (Gen. 24:63) And Isaac went out to converse¹ in the field... etc. * *‘And there is no ‘conversation’¹ but prayer.’²

footnotes: ¹ su-aḥ ¹ siḥah ² BT Berakhot 26b

And because of it is stated:¹ [‘the evening prayer is voluntary²’] ‘the prayer service of the morning is an obligation’, [which is ‘a private domain’] the evening prayer service is a domain², [of the public, which has no fixed-time] because it is the domain of the night, [Var. inclusive of] its own, and therefore, it has no fixed time at night, which is likened to exile, [which is ‘a public domain’, in which (Ps. 104:20) *... every beast of the forest moves about *– which are all the light of the world that enters it] but sometimes it is present there, and sometimes it is not present.

footnotes: ¹ See BT Berakhot 27b ² reshut ² reshut

Worthy is he who encounters Her, like Jacob, of whom it is stated: (Gen. 28:11) *And he encountered the place, and he sojourned there because the sun had set... *until Her Master came and watched over Her, and he was there, with Her, from there onwards they established it night-prayer as an obligation.

But on the Sabbath, She is ‘a private domain’, for She is in the domain of Her Husband, and not like the night, when She is alone, in Her own domain. It is this that is written: (Lam. 1:1) How alone She sits...

And Jacob, because he drew Her near to Her Master with his encounter, he certainly made it the evening prayer an obligation. And when the sun comes in the morning, of which it is stated: (Ps. 84:12) For a sun and a shield is Y”Y ELQYM, then it is stated of him: (Gen. 32:32) ... and the sun rose upon him...

From there onwards, he bound Her to him, which is the knot of thetephilin¹ of the hand, he binds Her to him, so that She would not move from him forever.

footnotes: ¹ phylacteries

From the left-hand side, he binds Her with the phylacteries¹ of the hand, which is on the left arm.

footnotes: ¹ tephilin

From the right-hand side, he places for Her a crown upon his head, the phylacteries of the head.

And this, on the day when She is bound with