prevents, from above, the extra soul, which is ‘the soul of all life’, and the Sabbath day remains poor and the Shekhinah dry, so blessings are withheld from him – and it is ‘measure for measure’.

And anyone who adds on the Sabbath, then: (Is. 61:11) *... and like a garden, it shall cause its plants to flourish... *So also, his good shall flourish.

And what are the plants of the Shekhinah above? They are the extra souls which seed from it, and Israel below rejoice from the splendour of Her glory.

And when that closed Mem¹ becomes open, it is only opened with appeasement. As it says: (Song. 5:2) ... open for me my sister, my beloved, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is filled with dew...

footnotes: ¹ ם

And this appeasement is towards Vav¹, which is the key that has closed Her. And because of this, open for me – on the first day, open to whom? To the letter Yod¹ – which is the vowel-point of qametz¹. When it becomes open, it opens up with the vowel pataḥ²¹, which is the letter Vav¹. When it closes, it closes with the vowel qametz²¹. And it qametz is composed of Yod¹ and Vav¹ – the drop, and the seed that is drawn from it.

footnotes: ¹ ו ¹ י ¹ ָ ² open ¹ ַ ¹ ו ² close ¹ ָ ¹ י ¹ ו

And because of this: *Open for me... *– on the first day, for the letter Yod¹, which is the vowel-point of the qametz¹, my sister... – on the second day, my beloved² ... – on the third day, which is the Faithful ‘Shepherd’², my dove... – on the fourth day, my perfect one² *... – on the fifth day. (Lam. 4:22) Completed² is your iniquity, O daughter of Zion... * for my head... (Song. 5:2) * *– on the sixth day, for it is stated: (Gen. 47:31) *... and Israel bowed at the head of the bed *– which is the sixth day. ... filled with dew (Song. 5:2) * *– on the seventh day. This is surely the drop Yod¹, and this is the dagesh point of the letter Beiyt¹.

footnotes: ¹ י ¹ ָ ² ra’ayah ² ra’aya ² tam ² tam ¹ י ¹ ב

And because of this, the sexual coupling of scholars is from Sabbath to Sabbath,¹ in order to bestow through inheritance that drop, which is Ḥokhmah – the dew²³ of Torah to their children. And not for nothing did the sages of blessed memory establish:⁴ ‘All who engage in the TaL²³ of the Torah, the dew² of Torah revives them.’

footnotes: ¹ X BT Ketubot 62b ² tal ³ 39 ⁴ See Ketubot 111b ² dew ³ 39 ² tal

(Song. 4:12) ... a locked wave¹ ... Gal¹ is like galgal¹, it hints that in it is a sealed wellspring, which is Yod², and immediately: (Gen. 29:7) *... water the flock... *which are the holy limbs, of which it is stated: (Ez. 34:31) And you are my flock, the flock of my pasture, you are man¹ *... *They are all shepherds, and Moses is above all of them, for it is written: (Ex. 2:15) *And he sat by a well... *And it is written: (Ps. 90:1) A prayer for Moses, the man¹ of ELQYM... etc.

footnotes: ¹ gal ¹ wave ¹ wheel ² י ¹ adam ¹ iysh

He is the ruler of the seven firmaments. The Righteous-One¹ is the firmament, which separates between the waters, between the higher sea which is Higher Mother¹, and the lower sea which is Lower Mother¹.

footnotes: ¹ Yesod ¹ Binah ¹ Malkhut

And about that it is stated: ‘There is nothing between the higher waters and the lower waters, except a hair’s breadth’, as the Masters of the Mishnah have established. And this hair-strand is the Righteous-One. And not for nothing did the earlier-sages establish: ‘The blessed Holy One is exacting with the righteous, even as a thread of hair’.

And there is no single strand of hair of the Ancient Holy One, that has not emerged from a higher fountain source. And this strand of hair is a Vav¹, its fountain source is Yod¹, which ascends in air infinitely, and descends limitlessly.

footnotes: ¹ ו ¹ י

And it is ten. And because of it, it is stated: (Ex. 26:1) Ten cubits¹ is the length of the plank... AMOT¹ are the same letters as MEi-OT¹ in reverse. ... *and a cubit and half a cubit, is the breadth of one plank... *This is the mystery of ‘the dimensions of stature’, which extends upon the ‘line¹ of the measure’. What is a qav¹ ? It is the letter Vav²³, which is the measure of the entire dimension of ‘the body’.

footnotes: ¹ amot ¹ cubits ¹ hundreds ¹ qav ¹ line ² ו ³ 6

It is the measure between eye to eye, and upon it is stated: (Ex. 8:15) *... it is the finger of ELQYM... *It is the dimension of the length of the nose, and it is the dimension of each-and-every finger, and the dimension between each finger – Vav¹². [Var. Yod¹² ]

footnotes: ¹ ו ² 6 ¹ י ² 10

Yod¹ is the measure of the lip, and the circular measure of each eye, and the measure of each facet of the face, and the measure of the closed qametz¹.

footnotes: ¹ י ¹ ָ

And when qametz¹ is opened, it is opened with five fingers, in the mystery of the letter Hei¹², for through them this line³ goes 5 hundred years.

footnotes: ¹ ָ ¹ ה ² 5 ³ QaV

And when [Var. Vav¹, when] it descends, downwards towards the Righteous-One, it is called ‘dimension’², and when it ascends upwards towards Higher Mother, it is called ‘stature’².

footnotes: ¹ ו ² shi’ur ² qomah

And the mystery of the matter: (Ex. 16:18) And they measured with the’omer... * *– this is the Higher Shekhinah, Who is: (Ex. 16:16) ... the’omer for each head¹, which is ‘the skull¹ of the head’.

footnotes: ¹ gulgolet ¹ gulgalta

And the Lower Shekhinah is ‘the Counting of the ’Omer’, in which are counted seven days which are 7 Sabbaths, in which there are 42 days of the six days of each week, and seven