each-and-every sephirah, as David said: (1 Chron. 29:11) To You, Ha-Shem, is the greatness, the might... etc.

And there is no action among those below – except by means of Malkhut, of which it is stated: (Ps. 103:19) ... and His sovereignty¹ rules over all.

footnotes: ¹ malkhuto

But when the blessed Holy One requires ‘to act righteously towards a righteous-one’¹, and to perform righteousness¹ with him, which is Malkhut towards those below, then all the sephirot are included with it², and they are called ‘righteous’ after His Name.³ Ha-Shem is called tzadiq¹ for its sake, as is stated: (Ps. 145:17) Righteous¹ *is Y”Y in all His ways... *and He is merciful towards His creatures in ‘charity’¹.

footnotes: ¹ tzadiq ¹ tzedaqah ² Yesod ³ BT Baba Batra 75b ¹ Righteous-One ¹ tzadiq ¹ tzedaqah

There is notzedaqah¹ but prayer: Tzadi²³ amens, Dalet²³ sanctifications, Quph²³ blessings, Hei²³ books of the Torah.

footnotes: ¹ charity ² צ ³ 90 ² ד ³ 4 ² ק ³ 100 ² ה ³ 5

And this is: (Prov. 14:34) Righteousness¹ *shall elevate a nation... *And about it, it was said of Abraham: (Gen. 15:6) ... and He counted it for him as righteousness. And when He desires it, it is stated of it: (Is. 59:17) He has dressed in righteousness as armour...

footnotes: ¹ tzedaqah

From the aspect of ה¹, She² is ‘righteousness’³, and from the aspect of י¹, She is ‘the hat upon the head of the Righteous-One’, – the sign of the covenant – ‘the crown upon the head of every righteous person’.⁴ And from the aspect of ו¹ it is said of it: (Job 11:9) *Longer than the earth is its measure... *from the aspect of the upper ה¹, ... and broader than the sea.

footnotes: ¹ Hei ² Malkhut ³ tzedaqah ¹ Yod ⁴ BT Megillah 15b ¹ Vav ¹ Hei

And when the Holy One blessed be He wishes to draw-down prophecy, all the sephirot are included in them, and they are called ‘prophets’¹.

footnotes: ¹ ne-vi-im

And Malkhut is the imagination¹ of all of them, as it says: (Hos. 12:11) ... and by the hand of the prophets I shall be imagined¹. As the prophet has said: (ibid.) *And I spoke upon the prophets... etc., *for it is like the looking-glass, in which all faces are seen, so do all the sephirot show through it, their power, and their image and their form, to each prophet according to his comprehension of what is above.

footnotes: ¹ dimyon ¹ adameh

And similarly, below, She is enclothed in the Throne of Glory, and in all the angels, and the ophanim, the holy*ḥayot*, and in all the firmaments, and the thrones that are in them, and the angels suspended therefrom.

For there are angels that are higher than them, as it is said: (Ecc. 5:7) ... for the higher over the high waits, and there are higher-ones over them.

And so, with every star and zodiacal sign, as it is stated: (Ps. 103:19) ... and His sovereignty rules over all. And this is: (Hos. 12:11) ... and by the hand of the prophets I shall be imagined...

And by each one it is imagined according to his power¹ – which is his soul, and thus understand the statement: ‘Amen with all his strength’.²

footnotes: ¹ koḥo ² See BT Shabbat 119b

YHVH is in Keter, for it was before the world was created, when He and His Name were alone in Keter. When He created the world with the attribute of reishyt¹², it² descended upon it, and nothing was lacking above, and so with every sephirah, like one who lights a candle from another candle, and nothing is missing from the first or its companion, to infinity and without end.

footnotes: ¹ beginning ² Ḥokhmah ² Keter

And whoever comes to know Him through ‘this’¹², as he knows Him through the higher and lower realms, it is because She² is comprised of the higher-ones, and She is the unity and connection of them all, and She is enclothed in the lower-ones.

footnotes: ¹ zot ² Malkhut ² Malkhut

And about this did the prophet say: (Jer. 19:22–23) *Let not the boaster boast... ... except in ‘this’*¹.

footnotes: ¹ zot

She is called ‘prophecy’¹ from the aspect of the prophets, ‘wisdom’¹ from the aspect of the wise, for all the sephirot are called ‘wise-ones’¹.

footnotes: ¹ nevuah ¹ ḥokhmah ¹ ḥakhamim

And there are 28¹ letters for every act of creation, and they are all required, whether in writing, or for anything that is made with the hands, for the work of ‘the 28 parts’ are in the ten fingers.

footnotes: ¹ ko-aḥ

And this is the mystery of: ‘from potential¹² to actuality.’ And all is with Ḥokhmah, and the mystery of the matter: (Ps. 104:24) You have made everything with wisdom¹.

footnotes: ¹ ko-aḥ ² 28 ¹ ḥokhmah

There is Ḥokhmah from the aspect of the letters, and there is Ḥokhmah from the aspect of the vowel-points. For letters are ‘vocal’¹, and through them is the mystery of speech for expounding, and for every word that depends upon expounding.

footnotes: ¹ bat qol

The ‘crownlets’¹ of the letters are for thought, and they are of the mystery of this verse: (Ex. 35:32) And to think thoughts... etc. And all depend upon the Lower Shekhinah, and She is the totality of all of them.

footnotes: ¹ tagin

And in the mystery of א¹, you will find cantillation notes and vowel-points and letters. And so it is with each-and-every letter.

footnotes: ¹ Aleph

And the mystery of the word: ¹ – three ‘crownlets’ above, like Zayins¹ of the Scroll of the Torah, in it are inscribed [Var. alluded] crowns² and vowel-points and letters, and so it is with each-and-every letter.

footnotes: ¹ Shyn ¹ ז ² kitrin

ש¹ is the ‘Great Sabbath’ – Binah. The ‘small Sabbath’ – Malkhut. ב¹² – the two arms of Gedulah³ and Gevurah. ת¹ is Tipheret, through it, the Sabbath is equal to the whole Torah.⁴ The three ‘crowns’ of the Shyn¹ are the 3 upper sephirot. And they are all included in repentance, which is the Higher Shekhinah, and about which it is stated: ‘the prayer of every mouth’.⁵

footnotes: ¹ Shyn ¹ Beiyt ² 2 ³ Ḥesed ¹ Tav ⁴ Shemot Rabbah 25:12 ¹ ש ⁵ Liturgical: Weekday ‘Standing’ Prayer

And yet the Middle Pillar is called ‘the prayer of every mouth’, but [every] it is also BeN¹ YaQ from BYNaH, and it is the Middle Pillar², it is an intermediary of the three letters which are Y-Q-V, which are included in Binah, and it² is an intermediary, like the body between two arms. And it is

footnotes: ¹ son-of ² Tipheret ² Tipheret