At that time: the ‘children’ will be in the domain of the blessed Holy One, and a voice goes out and says: do not take the mother upon the children. (Deut. 22:6)

Immediately, upon the emergence of Remember and Observe of the Sabbath, and the night of the first day of Sabbath arrives, a second voice goes out: (Deut. 22:7) You shall surely send!

And furthermore: When a bird’s nest happens before you... (Deut. 22:6) * *– this is the Sukkah festival booth, which is Higher Mother, ... *in any tree... *– it is this that is written: (Lev. 23:40) And you shall take for yourselves, on the first day, the fruit of a stately¹ tree...

footnotes: ¹ hadar

... the chicks... (Deut. 22:6) **– these are the seven days of Tabernacles ... or eggs...– in which are performed the 7 perambulations.

And the mystery of the matter: (Jer. 31:22) ... a woman shall encompass a man. [and this is the mystery of: (Is. 4:1) *And seven women shall take hold of one man... *– this is the blessed Holy One and the Shekhinah.]

Fruit of a stately tree... (Lev. 23:40) **– Lower Mother. *... tree...*this is the lulav¹, [lu² and lev¹² pathways] which is the etrog¹. And one needs to shake it the lulav towards six sides: in four directions, and up and down, to arouse over it Vav²³, and three shakings in every direction add up to ‘life’¹².›

footnotes: ¹ palm-frond ² 36 ¹ heart ² 32 ¹ citron ² 6 ³ ו ¹ ḥaiy ² 18

And four times 18 shakings are required: one with the taking of the lulav, and one [Var. and two] at (Ps. 118:25) *Please Y”Y... *two others at (Ps. 118:1) *Give thanks to Y”Y *– beginning and end.

And with these shakings, they bring low, from above to below, the seventy-two nations.

And after they are victorious over them, they say: ANY VaHO Hoshi’ah na – twice, which are the VAV from V-QO, ANY V-QO, from: (Ex. 14:19–21) And he the angel travelled... And it the cloud came... And he Moses stretched...

And at that time: (Deut. 22:6) ... do not take the mother upon the children. Eggs are from the aspect of the angels called ophanim, chicks are from the aspect of the ‘youth’ – Metatron, children are from the aspect of the throne, which is the ‘the tabernacle of peace’, which is the nest of the Shekhinah, for Higher Mother nests in the throne, in the three upper sephirot.

The Middle Pillar comprises six sephirot, nesting in Metatron. Lower Mother nests in the ‘wheel’¹, of which it is stated: (Ez. 1:15) ... and behold one ophan¹ on the earth...

footnotes: ¹ ophan ¹ wheel

And furthermore: the Shekhinah, from the aspect of the throne, is called ‘eagle’. And from the aspect of ‘youth’ [Var. ḥayah¹ ], a ‘dove’, and from the aspect of ophan, a ‘bird’, and of the Shekhinah: (Ez. 1:5) ... they had the image of a human.

footnotes: ¹ ‘living-being’

And furthermore: (Deut. 22:7) *You shall surely send... *Come and see: There is an angel appointed over birds – which are souls that are called ‘birds’ – and Sandalphon is its name. And when Israel fulfils this commandment of sending the nest, and Mother goes wandering, and the children cry out, it the angel instructs merit over its birds, and it says to the blessed Holy One: ‘And yet it is written of You: (Ps. 145:9) *... and His mercy is upon all His works *– so why have You decreed of this bird, that it should be driven from its nest?’

And so does Metatron instruct merit for its ‘birds’, which are the spirits that fly-forth into humans. For such ‘souls’¹ are from the throne, and from this ḥayah are ‘spirits’¹, and from ophan are ‘animating-souls’¹, and they are in the domains of: ‘Creation’¹, ‘Formation’¹, ‘Making’¹.

footnotes: ¹ nishmatin ¹ ruḥin ¹ naphshin ¹ briyah ¹ ye-tzirah ¹ ’asiyah

On Sabbath and Festivals, souls, spirits and animating-souls descend upon them, by way of ‘emanation’¹, which are the spirit of holiness from the 10 sephirot. And each appointed angel instructs merit over its own ‘birds’, which are the souls that fly-forth into humans. And when Israel fulfils this commandment of sending the nest, each appointed-one instructs merit over its ‘birds’.

footnotes: ¹ atzilut

And what does the blessed Holy One do? He gathers all His forces, and says: ‘And is it [Var. thus] that every appointed-one over birds below, instructs merit upon its birds that it is appointed over? And yet no-one amongst you instructs merit upon My son who is Israel: (Ex. 4:22) My son, My firstborn Israel, and upon the Shekhinah who is in exile, Whose nest – which is Jerusalem – is destroyed.’

And His children in exile, are under the hand of harsh masters – the nations of the world, and there is no-one who requests mercy for them, and instructs merit upon them.

At that time, the blessed Holy One ‘cries out’, and He says: (Is. 48:11) *For My sake, for My sake, I shall act...

• (Ez. 20:14) *... and I shall act for the sake of My Name... *and through this, mercy is aroused upon His Shekhinah, and upon His children in exile.

Rabbi Elazar arose and said: ‘But before Israel and the Shekhinah were exiled, why would they have fulfilled ‘the sending of the nest’?’

Rabbi Shim’on said to him: ‘My son, so as to arouse mercy, over those souls, and spirits and animating-souls, which went into exile in reincarnation, driven from their bodies which were destroyed, about whom it is stated: that ‘the blessed Holy One builds worlds and destroys¹ them’,² for their bodies remained destroyed for them.

footnotes: ¹ ma-ḥariv ² Midrash Rabbah, Qohelet, 3:14

And the prevention of blessings above causes: (Job 14:11) ... and the river becomes parched¹ and dry. And thus they the sages have determined:² ‘The First Temple was destroyed – is alluded to by (Gen. 1:2) And the earth was formless and void...

footnotes: ¹ ye-ḥerav ² Bereishyt Rabbah 2:5