of the Middle Pillar. She is: (Deut. 4:16) *... a picture of ‘anything’*¹²... And thus: (Hos. 12:11) ... by the hand of the prophets will I be imagined...

footnotes: ¹ kol ² Yesod

These then exit, and others are knocking at the entrance, and they are saying: (Ps. 51:17) “ADNY! Open my lips...” And they are the masters of ‘the sign’ of circumcision, which is ‘the life-force¹ of worlds’, who pray with ḥaiy¹² blessings of prayer, through which they offer an offering to the blessed Holy One, which is considered as corresponding to: (Num. 23:1) ... seven bulls and seven rams... * *and corresponding to (Lev. 5:7) ... two turtle-doves or two doves... * *For from the aspect of this sign did he say to Moses: (Ex. 3:12) *... ‘and this’*¹² is the sign for you...

footnotes: ¹ ḥaiy ¹ life ² 18 ¹ ve-zeh ² 18

And it includes the twelve zodiac-signs,¹ and the seven ‘planets’, from the side of holiness – which is Bat-Shev’a. And from the aspect of Vav-Vav²³ – which are higher Vav and lower Vav. And about them it is stated: (Jer. 10:2) ... and from the signs of the heavens do not fear, because the nations fear them.

footnotes: ¹ BT Berakhot 32b ² ו־ו ³ 12

The letter HEi¹ with milui-Aleph² are six planets, Hei¹ is the seventh planet. Vav-Vav¹ are the twelve zodiacal signs, for each zodiacal constellation is called a ‘sign’, and is appointed over every hour of the twelve hours of the day.³

footnotes: ¹ הא ² 6 ¹ ה ¹ ו־ו ³ See BT Shabbat 156a

Each prophet has his zodiacal sign and his hour. And according to that zodiacal sign, and according to its ‘action’, so is a sign revealed to him, from VAV¹, for the twelve zodiacal signs are appointed over twelve hours, and over twelve months. And from there – from these zodiacal signs – do the twelve tribes inherit their souls.

footnotes: ¹ ו

And there are twelve from ‘the other side’, of which it is stated: (Gen. 25:16) ... twelve princes according to their nations. For they are called: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, etc. This corresponding to that, did the blessed Holy One make.

There are six zodiacal signs from above to below, from Ḥesed through to Yesod, and six from below to above, from Yesod through to Ḥesed. From the aspect of Malkhut, they are called the seven ‘planets’, from the Shekhinah¹ to Ḥesed. And according to the specific ‘action’ of that sephirah, so is the sign revealed.

footnotes: ¹ Malkhut

A sign from the aspect of Ḥesed is love. A sign from the aspect of Gevurah is judgement, and it shows the killing of the wicked, and the spilling of blood, and it shows of the righteous: the blood of cattle, to eat with gladness and delight, of the foods of the groom and the bride, and of the spilling of the blood of the sacrifices. It is this that is written: (Ex. 20:24) ... and you shall slaughter upon it, your burnt offerings... etc. And upon them it is stated:¹ ‘Where is the place of sacrifices? Their slaughter is at the north...’

footnotes: ¹ Mishnah Zevaḥim 5:1

And it further shows of the righteous, the blood of the covenant of circumcision of which it is stated: (Ez. 16:6) ... and I said to you: ‘In your blood, live!’ And I said to you: ‘In your blood, live!’

From the aspect of the Middle Pillar, it is a long, suspended sign: if the deeds of the world deserve merit, then it turns towards benevolence¹, and if not, then towards judgement¹. And so it is with the three others, just like this.

footnotes: ¹ ḥesed ¹ dyna

And to the wise it is sufficient with a hint.

These then exit, and others are knocking at the entrance, from the aspect of ‘the bow’¹, which is also a ‘sign of the covenant’, of which it is stated: (Ez. 1:28) *Like the appearance of the rainbow, that shall be in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the ‘glow’*¹ around, it is the appearance of the image of the glory of Y”Y, and I saw and I fell on my face, and I heard a voice speaking. And why did he fall on his face? Because it is forbidden to gaze at the rainbow.²

footnotes: ¹ qeshet ¹ nogah ² See BT Ḥagigah 16a

Rabbi El’azar said: ‘And why, Father, is it forbidden to gaze at the rainbow?’

Rabbi Shim’on said to him: ‘Because, my son, there are ‘husks’, that become enclothed in it, and that are in it, which are: (Ez. 1:4) a tempest wind... ... a great cloud, *and a sparking fire, and a ‘glow’*¹ round about it. And this is what Ezekiel, peace be upon him, saw.

footnotes: ¹ nogah

For he said: And I saw, and behold a tempest wind coming from the north... (ibid.) * *This is the ‘line of chaos’¹, the green husk of a nut, a ‘green line’.² The great cloud is the second, white, husk of a nut, and this is a ‘void’¹. And the sparking fire is the third husk of a nut – and this is ‘darkness’. *And a glow round about it... *– this is the fourth husk of the nut, which is united with the ‘fruit’¹. *And from the midst of it like the ‘electrum’*¹ – this is the ‘fruit’¹ of the nut, and this is Y-A-Q-D-V-N-Q-Y.

footnotes: ¹ tohu ² See ibid. 12a ¹ bohu ¹ moḥa ¹ ḥashmal ¹ moḥa

And, my son, until these husks of the nut are destroyed and broken, with the Shophar notes of te-qi’ah and she-varim and te-ru’ah, of which: she-varim: (Ex. 23:24) ... you shall surely smash¹ *their idols... *– which are the husks of the nut, and of te-ru’ah: (Ps. 2:9) ... break them¹ *with a rod of iron... *and of te-qi’ah: (Num. 25:4) and hang them¹ before Ha-Shem...

footnotes: ¹ shaber ¹ tero’em ¹ hok’a

For these caused: (Gen. 32:26) ... and he ‘struck’¹ the thigh of Jacob, on the sciatic nerve – which is the Righteous-One.

footnotes: ¹ teiq’a

And the Shekhinah has departed from it, and She is in exile, and there cleaves, in Her stead, the [another] husk of the foreskin, which separates between the Righteous-One and the Shekhinah, (Gen. 32:33) Therefore, they shall not