ADNY through the four which are YQV”Q.’

And one needs to bow in all of them with the 18¹ vertebrae of the spine, which correspond to the eighteen blessings,² which are incorporated into the life-force¹³ of the worlds.

footnotes: ¹ ḥaiy ² Vayiqra Rabbah 1:8 ¹ ḥaiy ³ 18

And this is what the Masters of the Mishnah enacted:¹ ‘until all the vertebrae of the spine are loosened’.

footnotes: ¹ BT Berakhot 28b

And the spine is a palm-shoot¹.² If its leaves become spread, it is invalid.³

footnotes: ¹ lulav ² Vayiqra Rabbah 30:14 ³ Mishnah Sukkah 3:1

In similar fashion, one must not interrupt the eighteen blessings of prayer, which correspond to the 18 ‘shakings’ of the lulav. As the Masters of the Mishnah have established:¹ ‘even if a snake is wound about his ankle, he should not interrupt’.

footnotes: ¹ BT Berakhot 30b

Because it is ‘the life-force of worlds’¹², which unites between YQV”Q and ADNY, like this: Y-A-Q-D-V-N-Q-Y, which amounts to the numeric-value of the word AMeN³. And therefore, even if a snake is wound about his ankle, he should not interrupt, when he bows at ‘Blessed’¹. And that which is stated:⁴ ‘but he should interrupt for a scorpion’, is because they have established:⁵ ‘ (Lev. 18:5) *... and live in them... *and not that he should die in them.’

footnotes: ¹ ḥaiy’almin ² Yesod ³ 91 ¹ barukh ⁴ BT Berakhot 33a ⁵ BT Yoma 85b

And furthermore: ‘All who bend the knee, bend at ‘Blessed’...’¹ They have indeed established, that one should include in it the ten sephirot, which are: YOD QE VAV QE, which are: the letter Khaf² from ‘baruKh’³ – Keter, the letter Reish² of: (Ps. 111:10) Reishyt³ *–Ḥokhmah, *the letter Beiyt²⁴ are two Heis – Higher and Lower Shekhinah, the letter Vav²⁴ – six sephirot. Behold ten.

footnotes: ¹ BT Berakhot 12a ² כ ³ blessed ² ר ³ beginning ² ב ⁴ 2 ² ו ⁴ 6

And because of it, it is stated: (Gen. 14:20) And blessed is the EL Most High... etc... * and he gave him a tenth of everything*.

Joseph, because he merited to the level of ‘the Righteous-One’,¹ the ‘life-force²³ of the worlds’, through which one is required to worship with all the sephirot – towards the Shekhinah – he merited this dream. It is this that is written: (Gen. 37:9) ... and behold, the sun and the moon... etc.

footnotes: ¹ Yesod ² ḥaiy ³ 18

And a prophet who ascends to this level, the sun and moon and stars and constellations, all confer prophecy to his soul, and the spirit of prophecy, to prophesy, from all of them.

And this is the meaning of... bowing down to me. (ibid.) Because from all of them does prophecy descend to him, and from all of them is his soul comprised, and that is the reward of these ‘masters of the stature’.

These then exit, and others are knocking at the entrance – and they are ‘masters of the arms’ – and they are saying: (Ps. 51:17) “ADNY! Open my lips...”

Immediately, the guardians of the gates enter and say: ‘Master of the Universe! Behold, the ‘masters of the arms’ are knocking at the entrance.’

A voice emerges and says: ‘These are the ‘masters of the arms’, – with the binding of the phylacteries¹, – and with ‘the wrapping of precept’, of which it is stated: (Gen. 9:23) *... and they placed it upon the shoulder of both-of-them... *Like Shem and Japheth, of whom it is stated: (ibid) And Shem and Japeth took the cloak... etc. ... and the’ervah¹ of their father they did not see...

footnotes: ¹ tephilin ¹ obscenity

Sexual-obscenity¹ is from the aspect of Noah’s son Ḥam¹, and this is the evil inclination, which ‘heats’ the body towards obscenity [Var. transgression¹ ], and reveals obscenities in the world, for it is from the aspect of the primordial snake, of which it is stated: (Gen. 3:14) ... cursed are you of all beasts... And because he Ḥam is from its the snake’s side, (Gen. 9:25) he Noah said:... cursed is Canaan... etc.

footnotes: ¹ ’ervah ¹ hot ¹ ’aveirah

And furthermore: these are ‘the masters of gifts’, who perform acts of kindness – towards the Shekhinah, Who is poor – which are: (Deut. 15:11) *... you shall surely open...

• (Deut. 15:10) *You shall surely give...
• (Deut. 15:14) *... you shall surely bestow... etc. *– there are ten. And the companions have indeed established them, those who are the Masters of the Mishnah.¹

footnotes: ¹ BT Baba Metzi’a 31b

And they are the ‘hands of the benefactors’, from the aspect of the Patriarchs, of whom it is stated: (Ps. 47:10) The nobles of the peoples... etc.

Hands open in generosity towards the poor, for they are ‘the Righteous-One’,¹² and ‘righteousness’¹², with which acts of kindness are bestowed in exile, through the Torah, which is given from the right and from the left.

footnotes: ¹ tzadiq ² Yesod ¹ tzedeq ² Malkhut

It is this that is written: (Ps. 42:9) By day, Y”Y shall command His kindness, and at night His song is with me... these are the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, which are granted from both-of-them, it is this that is written: (Deut. 33:2) ... from His right hand, a fiery law for them...

And furthermore: ‘Master of the Universe! Accept their gift! For it is ‘the good present’ that ascends above them, of which it is stated:¹ ‘A good present do I have in my treasure house, its name is Sabbath.’ These are they who have performed TZeDaQaH² towards Her, which is comprised of: the letter Tzadi³⁴ stands for ninety times amen, the letter Dalet³⁴ stands for four liturgical ‘Sanctities’, the letter Quph³⁴ stands for one hundred blessings, the letter Hei³⁴ stands for five books of the Torah.

footnotes: ¹ BT Shabbat 10b ² charity ³ צ ⁴ 90 ³ ד ⁴ 4 ³ ק ⁴ 100 ³ ה ⁴ 5

Immediately: (Ez. 1:8) *And the hands of a man... *– which are Ḥesed and Gevurah – would emerge from ‘the man’¹ who is ‘the Middle Pillar’², to receive their gift, and they give it to the King.

footnotes: ¹ adam ² Tipheret

For those who do not perform acts of kindness, towards His Shekhinah in exile, and are miserly towards Her, their gift is handed to ‘the dog’.

And the gift of the Shekhinah must be made for Her sake, from that which he loves.