as in the case of Joseph.

And the People of Israel, because they have guarded the covenant, have therefore merited the kingdom. And it is stated of them:¹ ‘All of Israel are the children of Kings’. And of Moses, because he guarded the sign of the covenant, it is stated: (Deut. 33:5) And there was a king in Jeshurun... Worthy is he who guards the covenant!

footnotes: ¹ Mishnah Shabbat 14:4

Tiqun Sixteen

Be-REiShYT¹ – this is ḥallah, * *it is this that is written: (Num. 15:20) *Of the ‘first’*¹ of your dough, ‘a loaf’¹ you will offer as an offering... For behold they the sages have established:² ‘Adam was the ḥallah¹ of the world’. And from where do we derive that ḥallah is ‘reishyt’¹ ? For scripture proves it – it is this that is written: ... *the ‘first’*¹ *of your dough, ‘a loaf’*¹ ... you shall offer as an offering to Y”Y.

footnotes: ¹ In-the-beginning ¹ reishyt ¹ ḥallah ² Bereishyt Rabbah 14:1 ¹ ‘loaf’ ¹ first ¹ reishyt ¹ ḥallah

What is ‘ḥallah’? But there are seven species: (Deut. 8:8) wheat, and barley, and the vine, and the fig, and the pomegranate, a land of olive oil, and honey – which is date honey.

ḤiTaH¹ is the ‘tree’ from which the first man ate,² and he did not remove ḥallah from there. Therefore, the letter Hei³ did not ‘occur’¹ upon it, but only Ḥet¹³ and Tet³ resided upon it – and this caused his death.

footnotes: ¹ wheat ² BT Berakhot 40a ³ ה ¹ ḥal ¹ sin ³ ח ³ ט

And ḥallah is the Shekhinah, comprised of these seven species, and, through it ḥallah did the first man sin. The ‘drop’ is Yod¹. Ḥallah must be removed from dough, and then immediately it ‘occurs’² upon that drop, and gives it seed comprised of both-of-them, which is Vav¹. And the mystery of the matter: *Hey!*² You have seed!

footnotes: ¹ י ² ḥal ¹ ו ² Hei

And therefore, separation of ḥallah, specifically, is a precept commanded to a woman, for because of her died Adam, who was ‘the ḥallah of the world’.

She therefore is required to separate ‘a loaf’¹, and to extract it from her ‘dough’, which is her drop, to return it upon Adam.

footnotes: ¹ ḥallah

She extinguished [Var. extinguished] his candle, of which it is stated: (Prov. 20:27) *The candle of Y”Y is the soul of man... *therefore She is required to light it on Sabbath eve,¹ in arousal of the flames of ‘the fire of love’, towards her husband. And the mystery of the matter: (Song. 8:7) Many waters cannot extinguish the love...

footnotes: ¹ Midrash Tanḥuma, Noaḥ, Ch.1

And the arousal of heat on Sabbath eve, from his wife, needs to be with love and fear, and this is: (Lev. 12:2) ... a woman, when she shall conceive, and give birth to a son...

She is ‘the spilling of blood’ of Adam, therefore her blood is dispersed, and because of [all] this, she needs to protect him, from menstrual blood.

And therefore: on these three things, women are to be careful: in the laws pertaining to menstrual separation, and separation of ḥallah, and in the lighting of the Sabbath candle.

Until here: the mystery of wheat – from where ḥallah is separated. ḤiTaH¹² is the mystery of the twenty-two letters of the Torah.

footnotes: ¹ wheat ² 22

Tiqun Seventeen For Day 9

(Gen. 1:1) Be-REiShYT¹: Upon that it is stated: based upon Deut. 18:4 The reishyt¹ of the tithing¹ of your grain...[Var. your produce] And this is the sephirah of Malkhut, which is ma’aser¹, and it is ‘the tenth’ of the ten sephirot, and because of Her there is tithing.

footnotes: ¹ In-the-beginning ¹ first ¹ ma’aser ¹ tithing

And ‘husk and straw’, which are the ‘garments’ of wheat in this world, are exempt from tithing. And whoever wishes to extract a tithe from wheat, needs to clean it of ‘husk and straw’ – which are Ḥet-Tet¹ – and She remains, the ‘clean’ Hei¹. And then, he will shoot into her a drop, which is Yod¹ [O-D¹ ].

footnotes: ¹ ח־ט ¹ ה ¹ י ¹ ו־ד

And similarly, in human coupling, one needs to clean the drop from sin¹, which is the evil inclination, to become a clean seed, with Hei². It is this that is written: (Gen. 47:23) *... Hey!*¹ You have seed!

footnotes: ¹ ḥet ² ה ¹ Hei

But in the world to come, ‘wheat’ is completely clean, – it and its garment. And it is the twenty-two letters of the Torah.

Therefore, in the ‘Ha-Motzi’¹ blessing over bread, the master of the house must be scrupulous in pronouncing Ha², that it may be clean, without refuse.

footnotes: ¹ The-Extractor ² ה

And there are two tithings¹², for scripture says: (Deut. 14:22) You shall ‘surely’ tithe². Why? Rather, because it is to bind Her³ with two arms, which are the Priest and the Levite, which are: ‘the first tithing’ to the Levite, and ‘the tithe of the tithing’ to the Priest.

footnotes: ¹ BT Rosh HaShanah 8a ² ’issurin ² ’aser te-’aser ³ Malkhut

For all sephirot add up to ten [in the Shekhinah], until they add up to one hundred by the correction of Malkhut. And She Malkhut is made into ‘an offering’¹ for all one hundred. And because of this, the measure

footnotes: ¹ terumah