Tiqun Nineteen

Be-REiShYT¹ – the word BaT¹ is contained there! And this ‘daughter’ is the point concealed in the ‘air’¹. About her it is stated: (Ps. 17:8) Guard me as the pupil of the eye¹ *... *She is most certainly ‘hidden in the light’¹, and through Her is made AVYR¹.

footnotes: ¹ In-the-beginning ¹ daughter ¹ AVYR ¹ bat’ayin ¹ AUR ¹ air

And because of Her, it is stated: (Ex. 3:2) *And an angel of Y”Y appeared to him, in a flame of fire from the midst of the bush... *Five times the word ‘bush’¹ is mentioned in that passage, and five times ‘light’¹ correspond to them, in ‘the act of creation’, and they are: (Gen. 1:3–5) Let there be light... and there was light... the light for it was good... ELQYM divided between the light... And ELQYM called the light...

footnotes: ¹ sneh ¹ aur

And these are the five constructs of ‘the measure’, which correspond to 5 Alephs: אָ אֵ אֹ אִ אֻ

And about them it is stated: (Is. 40:12) *Who has measured the waters with His step *– this is Ḥesed, ... and the heavens He gauged with a span¹ *... *What is zeret¹ ? – this is Gevurah. ... and all in a measure¹ ... * *– this is the Middle Pillar², which is ‘the third’ sephirah of seven, ... *and has weighed mountains in a scale... *– this is Netzaḥ. ... *and hills in the balance *– this is Hod.

footnotes: ¹ zeret ¹ span ¹ shalish ² Tipheret

And they are in the mystery of the letter Hei¹², for this point measures 5³ points through them the five Alephs. For it is the Yod¹ that emerges from within ‘the pure air’, which is Higher Keter. And because these five ‘measurings’ are in the mystery of higher Hei, it travels through them – five hundred years between each one.

footnotes: ¹ ה ² 5 ³ ה ¹ י

And the mystery of the matter: ‘The Tree of Life was five hundred years long,’¹ – and between each one is five hundred years, and the thickness of each one is five hundred years,² for all of them add up on ‘the scale’, of five, five to every side.

footnotes: ¹ Bereishyt Rabbah 15:6, Shir HaShirim Rabbah 6:21 ² See BT Pesaḥim 94b

And the mystery of the matter: (Ex. 26: 26–27) And you shall make poles of acacia wood, five for the planks of one side of the Tabernacle... ... and five poles for the planks of the other side of the Tabernacle... ... and five poles for the planks of the side of the Tabernacle for the ‘rear-parts’ to the west. ... for the rear-parts – these are ‘the thighs of truth’¹, ... to the west² – what is ‘to the west?’ – this is the Higher Shekhinah, that of which is stated: (Ez. 1:22) And the image upon the heads of theḥayah, a firmament...

footnotes: ¹ Netzaḥ-Hod ² yamah

And this is what they the sages established:¹ ‘There is nothing between the higher waters and the lower waters, but a hair's breadth.’ And of this hair it is stated:² ‘No kingdom touches upon its fellow, even by a hair’s breadth’. And with it: ‘the blessed Holy One is exact with the righteous, even as a thread of hair’.³ And this thread is the thread that encompasses the sign of the covenant of circumcision. And the covenant is a ‘hair-strand’.

footnotes: ¹ BT Ḥagigah 15a ² BT Berakhot 48b, Yoma 38b, Mo’ed Qatan 28a ³ See BT Yevamot 121b and Baba Qamma 50a

Woe to those who separate the sign of the covenant, ‘between waters and waters’, and prevent seed from it, for he returns the world to chaos and void. And the mystery of the matter: (Is. 45:18) *... not for chaos did He create it, for dwelling did He form it...*specifically.

The ‘higher waters’ are the Written Torah, the lower waters are the Oral Torah. The ‘hair’ which is between both-of-them – this is Yesod, which is ‘the mystery of the Torah’, and it is the foundation and essential principle of both-of-them.

And one who prevents the mystery of the principle of two Torahs, is as if he returns the world to ‘chaos and void’ – and these are they who say, that the Torah is only to be understood literally, and has no other mystery in it.

And they the two Torahs are ‘the two faces’, they are the GaN¹² of weekly scriptural sections, of which it is stated: (Song. 4:12) A locked garden¹ is my sister the bride... A locked garden...– from the aspect of: ‘the closed letter Mem’³.

footnotes: ¹ garden ² 53 ¹ gan ³ ם

Vav¹² is locked during the six days of the week. It is this that is written: (Ez. 46:1) ... it will be closed for the six days of the working week, and on the Sabbath day it will be opened...

footnotes: ¹ ו ² 6

And on the Sabbath, so as not to be as one ‘who shuts the door in the face of borrowers’ – about whom it is stated:¹ ‘Borrow on Me and I will repay’ – it is open for those who are ‘the extra souls’. And of those who do not ‘lend’ to it, and do not add to Sabbath and festivals, it is closed for them. And thus: ‘all who add, they add to him’,² and this is the addition of ‘the extra soul’, and it is the addition of ‘a spirit of holiness’. And all who detract from the Sabbath – they deprive him of that extra soul, and he remains poor. And if he is wise, his wisdom is removed from him, and if he is wealthy in money, it his wealth is removed from him, and he is left as a dry, poor man. Just as he

footnotes: ¹ BT Beiytzah 15b ² BT Beiytzah 16a