of the terumah¹ is two parts of one hundred,² corresponding to ‘the two tablets of the Torah’, which is the Torah that was given in forty days, and this is: TORaH and Mem³⁴ anagram: TeRuMaH.

footnotes: ¹ offering to priests ² Mishnah Terumot 4:3 ³ מ ⁴ 40

And through Her¹, all the sephirot are made into ‘tens’. The three Patriarchs are three ‘tens’, the ‘two prophets of truth’ Moses and Aaron are: (Num. 28:21) A tenth²,a tenth...

footnotes: ¹ Malkhut ² ’issaron

[In manuscript, it is written here: Tiqun 23 and 24, and afterwards the 18th Tiqun.]

Tiqun Eighteen

Be-REiShYT¹ [ELQYM created] is composed of the words BaRA¹ ShYT¹ – they are the six levels of prophecy, of which it is stated: (Song. 5:15) *His thighs are pillars of ‘shesh’*¹¹.

footnotes: ¹ In-the-beginning ¹ He-created ¹ six ¹ marble ¹ six

And just as there are six below, so there are six above. And they are six, ascending to sixty. In which place? In YeSOD¹² – ‘life force of the worlds’.

footnotes: ¹ foundation ² Yesod

YaD¹² remains from YeSOD – this is the Lower Shekhinah – comprising fourteen parts of the hand, which are in the five fingers, and they are YQV”Q, YOD QE VAV QE – the fourteen letters of the blessed Holy One, which are included in Her, and this is: (Hos. 12:11) ... *and by the ‘hand’*¹² of the prophets, I shall be imagined.

footnotes: ¹ hand ² 14 ¹ yad ² 14

S-O¹ of YeSOD – these correspond to ‘the six steps of the throne’, of which it is stated: (1 King. 10:19) Six levels to the throne. And the letter Vav²¹ amounts, with Yod²¹ which is the crown of the covenant of circumcision, to sixty. Six times ten, and amounting to sixty, correspond to the sixty ‘wheels’ which surround the throne. And the throne there is the Shekhinah, which is the ‘image’ and ‘appearance’³ of all.

footnotes: ¹ 66 ² ו ¹ 6 ² י ¹ 10 ³ mar-eh

Image¹ is that which has been stated: ... and by the hand of the prophets I shall be imagined¹. (Hos. 12:11) And upon that it is stated: (Num. 12:8) ... and the depiction of Y”Y he will behold.

footnotes: ¹ dimyon ¹ adameh

Because all the countenances of the prophets, are inscribed in it¹, it is called dimyon².

footnotes: ¹ Malkhut ² imagination

And because all the lights which are above it¹ are seen through it, it is called mar-eh². It is this that is written: (Num. 12:6) ... Y”Y, in appearance² , I shall become known to him.

footnotes: ¹ Malkhut ² appearance ² mar-eh

With eyes shut, it is called ‘appearance in a dream’. And the mystery of the matter: (Song. 5:2) *I am asleep, but my heart is awake... *And with eyes open it is ‘a waking appearance’.

And there are two appointees there: one is Sagron, and one is Patḥon. And Metatron, who is called by the name of both-of-them, is appointed over these two keys.

From the aspect of the Middle Pillar¹, the Shekhinah is ‘a waking appearance’. And Moses is of this aspect, since it is written of him: (Num. 12:8) ... mouth to mouth I shall speak with him, and with appearance and not with riddles, and the depiction of Y”Y will he behold.

footnotes: ¹ Tipheret

From the aspect of the Righteous-One¹², which is ‘the light hidden for the righteous’ for the world to come [Var. for the future], it is called ‘a vision in a dream’, – and that is what is seen through it.

footnotes: ¹ tzadiq ² Yesod

From the aspect of the body, it is YQVQ, the Middle Pillar, which is taken from two sides.

And it rides upon four angelic-beasts¹ which are: the face of a human, the face of a lion, the face of an ox, the face of an eagle. YOD QE VAV QE² is called the interior of the body, and it is the ‘human’¹² sitting upon the throne.

footnotes: ¹ ḥayot ² 45 ¹ adam ² 45

To one who is of the level of ‘human’, it prophecy appears to him in ‘the image of man’. To one who is like the other angelic-beasts of the Chariot, it appears to him in the image of the ḥayot¹ of the throne, – to each one according to his strength.

footnotes: ¹ angelic-beasts

(Jer. 9:22–3) And let not the boaster boast... of perceivingit, but all is seen through His Shekhinah. For no prophet or seer can comprehend it, except through the Shekhinah.

And there is ‘a human’ higher than ‘human’, from the aspect of Ḥokhmah, comprised of Ko-aḤ¹² and MaH¹², specifically. And it is stated of it:³ ‘a wise man¹ is more preferred than a prophet’.

footnotes: ¹ power ² 28 ¹ what ² 45 ³ BT Baba Batra 12a ¹ ḥakham

Arose Rabbi Shim’on with all the companions and said:

‘Faithful shepherd! Master of all prophets! Arise! Be aroused from your sleep! For you are among the prophets, like the sun,¹ from which the moon and the planets shine. And they have no light from ‘the other side’. And when you were gathered from the world, it is stated of them: (Job 3:9) May the stars of its twilight be darkened...

footnotes: ¹ BT Baba Batra 75a

Arise! Shine lights! [Var. your light!]

And not only that: but at the time you were gathered from the world, ‘the house of prophecy’ – of which it is stated: (Num. 12:7) *Not so my servant Moses, in all My ‘house’ he is faithful *– it is shut.

Arise! Open it! For it is the supernal house, treasure of all the hidden treasures above, the concealments [Var. sealed things] of the King Most High are there. And you were like a ‘son of the house’ – a son of that house.

BaYiT¹ is composed of: Beiyt² – Higher Mother³,

footnotes: ¹ house ² ב ³ Binah