Tiqun Nine, For Day 6

Be-REiShYT¹ is composed of the letters YeRE¹ ShaBaT¹ which is the Shekhinah, about Whom it is stated: (Ex. 31:14) ... its desecrators¹ *shall surely be put to death... For the enemies have entered into Her ‘space’¹, which is the Holy of Holies, and it is stated of them: (Num. 19:20) ... he has defiled the sanctuary of Y”Y,

• (Lam. 2:2) He has profaned¹ the kingdom and its princes, and the maidservant has entered the place of the mistress, for she is ‘menstruant, maidservant, heathen, whore’, and she has polluted Her place, there that was the resting place of the Shekhinah. And a voice descended and said: ‘Fear¹ Sabbath¹!’ And she did not do so, but profaned the kingdom and its princes, and the Shekhinah fled from there.

footnotes: ¹ In-the-beginning ¹ Fear ¹ Sabbath ¹ me-ḥale-leha ¹ ḥalal ¹ ḥilel ¹ YeRE ¹ ShaBaT

At that time: (Lam. 1:7) ... enemies were gloating over her undoing... * *And the maidservant said: ‘Is this not, just as Sarai did to her maidservant?’ It is this that is written: (Gen. 16:8) ... from Sarai my mistress I am fleeing...

The blessed Holy One then said: ‘Daughter of the wicked guilty one! And yet even though Sarai expelled her, I was merciful upon her and upon her son, but you did not do so, rather, you caused [Var. bestowed] evil instead of good. I promise to remove the wicked kingdom from the world, and there shall be no joy before Me, until they are vanquished from the world – and at that time, there shall there be joy before Me.’ Thus it is written: (Prov. 11:10) And in the perishing of the wicked there is joy.

Tiqun Ten

Be-REiShYT¹ is composed of the letters ShYR¹ TAeV¹, and this is the most praiseworthy song of all songs, desired above all songs, and upon it is stated: (Song. 1:1) A song of songs which is to Solomon¹, ‘the King to whom peace¹ belongs’², thus they the sages have established.

footnotes: ¹ In-the-beginning ¹ Song-of ¹ Desire ¹ Shlomoh ¹ shalom ² Midrash Rabbah Shir HaShirim 1:12

And when will this ‘song’ be aroused? When they are vanquished – Samael and his wicked agents – from the world. And at that time: [song] (Ex. 15:1) Then¹ *Moses sang... *It is not written ‘then he sang¹’ but he will sing¹², and they the sages have established this.

footnotes: ¹ az ¹ shar ¹ yashir ² BT Sanhedrin 91b

And this song with az¹ ascends in the mouth. [Var. here ascends in the mouth, the ‘song of EL’] But ‘song’¹ is surely ‘the wisdom of Solomon’. At that time: (1 King. 5:10) And the wisdom of Solomon was greater... [For at that time: (Is. 11:9) ... and the earth shall be full of knowledge ofHa-Shem etc.]

footnotes: ¹ then ¹ shir

And who raises Her to Her place? It is Moses. And the mystery of the matter: ‘Then’¹ shall Moses sing... (Ex. 15:1) With what does he raise Her? With the cantillation note ֠**². This ‘crownlet’ of the te-lisha is the Yod² of YaShYR¹.

footnotes: ¹ az ² te-lisha ² י ¹ he-will-sing

And She shall rise-up from the Hei¹ of MoSheH², [Var. She is י¹ and Shir, וו¹ will rise from הה¹ of Mosheh] and reside upon the head of the letter ו¹, to become the crownlet of the letter ז¹, and then he raises Her to the place from where She was hewn.

footnotes: ¹ ה ² Moses ¹ Yod ¹ Vav-Vav ¹ Hei-Hei ¹ Vav ¹ Zayin

When She ascends towards higher Yod, She is called ‘ShYR’¹ – of the male, but when She descends towards Hei², She is called ‘ShYRaH’ which is female. It is thus written: Then shall Moses and the Children of Israel sing, (ibid.) * this song*¹ to Ha-Shem... etc. About which it is stated: (Ps. 118:22) The stone which the builders rejected... etc.

footnotes: ¹ song ² ה ¹ shirah

For She is the stone that smashes the icon of idol worship.

At that time: when the icon of idol worship – the evil image – is smashed, it is stated of it: (Dan. 2:35) ... and the stone which smashed the idol became a huge mountain and filled the earth. It is this that is written: (Is. 6:3) ... the earth is full of His glory.

And thus, She ascends, until Her place is not cannot be found, and the angels enquire about Her: ‘Where is the place of His glory to praise Him?’¹ And no measure is found for Her, to the point where they say: Blessed is the glory of Y”Y from His place. (Ez. 3:12) Because She has ascended to ‘the Infinite’, which is י² – the head of א².

footnotes: ¹ Liturgical: Qedushah of Musaph for Sabbaths and Festivals ² Yod ² Aleph

And where how does She ascend? Through ‘the Middle Pillar’¹ which is ו², – to become the crown upon its head. When She ascends to be the crown upon its head, it is stated of Her: (Prov. 12:4) *A woman of valour is the crown of her husband... *And when She descends to be below Him, She is called His coupling and intimate partner.

footnotes: ¹ Tipheret ² Vav