naked of it – of all that is above, of Higher Mother, who is repentance, he sinned, and they withdrew from him.

And if not that ‘Repentance’¹ had stood by him, Adam, and had become exiled with him, he would have become lost from everything. And because of this: (Ps. 130:3) *If You preserve sins, YaQ, Y”Y ‘who’ will stand? *‘Who’¹² will stand, surely!

footnotes: ¹ te-shuvah ¹ MiY ² Binah

And because of this: (Is. 50:1) ... and through your sins, your ‘mother’ was sent-away, – She of whom it is stated: (Deut. 22:7) You shall surely send-away–‘ET’–the mother... the direct-object signifier ‘et’**comes to include the Lower Shekhinah with Her.

‘Higher Mother’ stood by Adam, and ‘Lower Mother’ by Abel, for the sin of Adam was greater than that of Abel. And because of that, my son, The E-Y from EQYeQ is the E-Y through which sinned [Abel, and they withdrew, and there remained] [Var. Cain, and it withdrew, and there remained] H-H¹.

footnotes: ¹ ה־ה

And therefore: (Gen. 4:9) ... Where¹ *is Abel, your brother? *And it is the A-Y from ADNY, and there remained D-N¹ from ADNY. The sin of Adam caused the removal of Y-V from YQV”Q, leaving H-H.’

footnotes: ¹ E-Y ¹ judging

He said to him: ‘Father! This Y-V should have been V-Y!.’

He said to him: ‘My son, this surely is the mystery: that he Adam sinned in ‘higher Thought’, for a י¹ was removed from א¹, leaving the form of ‘V-Y’¹², because the Cause of causes withdrew from there, Who is the Hidden Thought in the letter Yod¹ of א¹, for there is no unity [Var. thought] without it.

footnotes: ¹ Yod ¹ Aleph ¹ ו־י ² woe ¹ י ¹ Aleph

And here is a mystery which has never been revealed until now.

And this is: (Ps. 91:14–15) ... because he has known My Name. He shall call Me, and I will answer him...

This is the ‘Name of Yod¹’, above Which nothing at all is higher except: He that created everything, and Whom no-one created. For there is a creating agent that is created, such as water, which creates vegetations, and grows them – yet itself is created. But This-One created, and was not created, He above Whom there is no higher god.’

footnotes: ¹ י

He said to him: ‘Father, what is AV-Y OY HV-Y HOY?’

He said to him: ‘My son, this is when Aleph is removed from EQYe”Q, together with Y-V from YQV”Q, it is made into A-V-Y AUY¹’.

footnotes: ¹ woe

He said to him: ‘If so, then this א¹, where there is Vav¹ Yod¹, it is higher than the Aleph¹ of EQY”Q, and of all other Names!’

footnotes: ¹ Aleph ¹ ו ¹ י ¹ א

He said to him: ‘My son, there is an Aleph which is in this image: Y-O-D – Yod¹ above, Vav¹ in the middle, Dalet¹ below – and this is the Aleph¹ of EQY”Q, the Aleph of ADNY.

footnotes: ¹ י ¹ ו ¹ ד ¹ א

But of this א¹, its end is like its beginning, and its beginning is like its end! And of it, the Cause of causes has said: (Is. 44:6) ... I am first and I am last... And of the middle letter Vav¹:... and besides Me there is no ELQYM.’

footnotes: ¹ Aleph ¹ ו

He said to him: ‘Surely it has been revealed to me, that which I did not know until now, and which is not destined to be revealed, until the days of the arrival of King Messiah.’

He further said to him: ‘If so, it is also made known, that there is a ‘man primordial to all primordials’, and there is another ‘man’¹.’

footnotes: ¹ adam

He said to him: ‘My son, that is surely how it is! The Adam whom the Cause of causes created in His own image, – hidden and concealed – this one caused the withdrawal of the Cause of causes.

The second Adam sinned in ‘thought’, and the third Adam sinned in ‘action’. For there are three Adams: the Adam of ‘creation’¹, the Adam of ‘formation’¹, the Adam of ‘action’¹, – and not all sins are equal.’

footnotes: ¹ briyah ¹ yetzirah ¹ ’asiyah

He said further to him: ‘My son, nevertheless, the letter Hei¹ stood by Adam.

footnotes: ¹ ה

After the mixed multitude¹ came and made the golden calf, they caused the withdrawal of Hei² towards V-Y, and it was made into H-V-Y HOY. And who caused this? (Is. 1:4) Woe¹ ! A sinning nation!...

footnotes: ¹ ’eirev rav ² ה ¹ HOY

And the final Hei¹ remained alone. It is this that is written: (Lam. 1:1) *How She dwells alone... *For at first: (Ruth 1:19) And they went, the two of them... – Hei¹ and Hei¹.

footnotes: ¹ ה ¹ ה ¹ ה

Later, when higher Hei was removed, the lower, final Hei remained alone, because good had become mixed with bad – that which the blessed Holy One had separated. It is this that is written: (Gen. 1:4) And ELQYM divided between the light and the darkness...

They the mixed multitude caused the Shekhinah to be exiled, and She became ‘mixed’ among the nations of the world, [Var. amongst the nations of the world, and Her children with Her] and yet She watches over them [Var. to watch over them] in exile.

At that time, the blessed Holy One descends, through all His letters that were withdrawn in exile. It is this that is written: (Is. 42:8) I am Y”Y, that is My Name, and My glory I shall not give to another... etc.’