Sabbaths.

Behold this amounts to Mem-Tet¹² [Var. Metatron], which are the ‘49 pure faces’, alluded to by (Deut. 6:4) Hear O Israel Y”Y ELoQeYNU Y”Y is One, ‘Blessed is the Name of the glory of His Kingdom for ever and ever.’³

footnotes: ¹ מ־ט ² 49 ³ Liturgical – ‘Recitation of Shm’a’

Through which, the Lower Shekhinah is purified for Her Husband, in Her miqveh¹, [this] which is: (Jer. 17:13) The hope¹ of Israel is Y”Y.

footnotes: ¹ ritual-pool ¹ miqveh

And it is the ‘dimension of stature’. For thus are the letters of miqveh the same as qomah¹. And they are the closed ם²³ in this mystery:

footnotes: ¹ stature ² final-Mem ³ 40

of 9 points to each side. With the middle point, they are completed to forty seah, which is the measure of a miqveh, in which a wife is purified for her husband.

And before She is purified, one needs to wait 7 days of purity, to complete ‘the 49 faces of purity’, of the Torah.

And through them, the Written Torah is joined with the Oral Torah, on the day of the Festival of Weeks¹, which are the ‘two faces’ of Adam.² And the combination of the two is ReḤeM¹³, which are the 248 positive precepts of the Torah.

footnotes: ¹ Shavu’ot ² X BT Berakhot 61a and Vayiqra Rabbah 14:1 ¹ womb ³ 248

And the mystery of the matter: (Ex. 13:2) *Sanctify to me every first born, the breach of every womb... *On this ‘joining’ of Shavu’ot¹, all the positive precepts merge, (Ecc. 11:5) ... like the embryonic in a full belly...

footnotes: ¹ Festival of Weeks

And at that time, all those limbs receive, by means of ‘channels’, one from the other. It is this that is written: (Ex. 26:5) ... the loops paralleling one to another. [Var. (Ex. 36:12) ... one to one...].

And when these are aligned, all the sephirot receive one from the other, and the angels below receive, these from these, as it says:¹ ‘and they receive, these from these’. And each one gives permission one to the other, to enter the domain of his companion, as it says:² ‘and they give permission one to the other...’

footnotes: ¹ Liturgical – from Targum Yonatan, Isaiah 6:3 ² X ibid.

And who causes this? Israel – when they receive one from the other, whether in Torah, whether in money, they cause one to receive from the other ‘above’, and for one to bestow to the other. And all by means of ‘channels’. It is this that is written: (Ps. 42:8) Deep calls to deep, to the sound of your channels... etc.

And what do they say, one to the other? ‘Express your waters! I hear the sound of two friends.’

And they correspond to the two lips, which are called: (Ps. 42:2) the streams of water. And what are they? Netzaḥ and Hod, which are called: (Gen. 30:38) the irrigation-troughs of water, and both-of-them are irrigated, by means of that channel which is the Middle Pillar, which includes all, and it is the covenant¹ – which incorporates all the limbs of the body.

footnotes: ¹ Yesod

All channels are irrigated from the letter Vav¹, which is the river that is drawn-out and emergent from Eden. And it is the channel that emerges from the wellspring of water which is Yod¹, and from which extends Hei¹, which is ‘higher sea’.

footnotes: ¹ ו ¹ י ¹ ה

And come see: there are nine vowel points from qametz¹ to shureq¹, and all are called ‘channels’ and ‘fountain-sources’, for the letters, which are included in ‘the ground’, which is the Lower Shekhinah, which is called ‘garden’²³, – comprised of the fifty-three weekly divisions of the Torah.

footnotes: ¹ ָ ¹ ּ ² gan ³ 53

And about Her is stated: (Song. 4:12) *A locked garden is my sister the bride, a locked wave, a sealed wellspring... *Sealed, certainly! Because She is: (Gen. 24:16) ... a virgin, and no man had known her...

And She is ‘the wisdom of Solomon’, about which it is stated: (1 King. 5:10) *And the wisdom of Solomon increased... *It became increased, from all the irrigation of each-and-every sephirah, by means of that channel, which is Vav¹, until it reaches that higher fountain source, which is higher Yod¹ – ... *the wisdom of all the sons of the East... *And at that time, She is made the crownlet² on the top of the letter Vav¹.

footnotes: ¹ ו ¹ י ² taga ¹ ו

And come see: the Lower Shekhinah, when She is irrigated from the vowel-points, is called ḥireq¹, ḥolem¹, shureq¹. For whom? For that channel, which is Vav¹², which includes six channels, for they are all from six letters, which are A-B-G-Y-T-Tz etc. There are six channels that suspend from it, and it includes six others. And they all add up to 42. She is called ḥireq¹, ḥolem¹, shureq¹ of that channel, like this: וִֹּ.

footnotes: ¹ ִ ¹ ֹ ¹ ּ ¹ ו ² 6 ¹ ִ ¹ ֹ ¹ ּ

And so She is called in relation to Yod¹, and so also in relation to Hei¹, and the mystery of the matter: (Is. 44:6) ... I am first, and I am last... etc.

footnotes: ¹ י ¹ ה

And sometimes, She is ‘the diadem’¹ upon the head of the letter Vav²’, like this: . And the mystery of the matter: (Ps. 104:2) He stretches the heavens like a curtain. And this is the mystery of the top of the letter א².

footnotes: ¹ ’atarah ² ו ² Aleph

And sometimes, She descends below it, like this: – a qametz¹.

footnotes: ¹ ָ

When She ascends upon the head, She is called the ‘crownlet’ – the cantillation note zarqa¹. At that time, it is stated of Her: (Prov. 12:4) A woman of valour is the diadem of her husband. And She is called ḥolem¹. And when She descends beneath Him, She is called ḥireq¹, and She is

footnotes: ¹ ֘ ¹ ֹ ¹ ִ