Who are... its chicks... ? These are Israel, who are like chicks, chirping to Her, with the many chirpings of prayer, and She descends towards them. To each one She brings down the sustenance appropriate to him: to one She brings down the sustenance of Torah, which is sustenance of the soul, to another She brings down sustenance of the body – to each according to his desire.

Another word on the verse: ***Eim (Ps. 68:14)***¹ if you will lie down... – this is Higher ‘Mother’¹, which is the Sabbath prayer – whom the ‘lips’ are required to receive on the eve of Sabbath, for She is ‘the soul of all life’¹, She descends upon ‘the head of the righteous’, – which is the seventh day.

footnotes: ¹ mother ¹ imma ¹ nishmat kol ḥaiy

(Is. 50:4) ... a tongue of studies they call it, and She resides upon it ‘between the two lips’, which are Netzaḥ and Hod.

And the Sabbath is the mouth [Var. pataḥ or petaḥ¹ ], which is opened on the Sabbath eve, to receive Her with this prayer of the Sabbath.

footnotes: ¹ opening

For the prayer of the Sabbath is called ‘acceptance’¹, and from Her do all the sephirot receive, one from the other, and, in Her, the prayer of a person is accepted before Y”Y.

footnotes: ¹ qabalah

And She is the prayer of ‘the Ten Days of Repentance’, and She is the higher Hei¹², of which they established the five prayer-services of the Day of Atonement.

footnotes: ¹ ה ² 5

But the Sabbath is the Lower Shekhinah, comprised of the three Patriarchs, who are three branches of the ש¹ of SHaBaT².

footnotes: ¹ Shyn ² Sabbath

The lone ‘daughter’¹, She is ‘the point in her empty space’. And She is the ‘festival’¹ – of all [Var. that includes all] holidays, about Her it is stated: (Is. 40:22) Who sits above the circle¹ of the earth...

footnotes: ¹ BaT ¹ ḥag ¹ ḥug

But the ‘extra soul’ – on Sabbath¹ and Holidays, and all Additional services, – She is Higher Mother, the addition of holy spirit.

footnotes: ¹ See BT Beitzah 16a

The prayer of the six weekdays, – three times every day – it is the Lower Shekhinah, the totality of the eighteen prayers, three times a day, amounting – in 6¹ days – to 18², and for its³ sake, it is called: ‘the prayer of every² mouth’.

footnotes: ¹ ו ² ḥaiy ³ Yesod ² kol

On weekdays, sustenance is brought to Her by means of a messenger, but on the Sabbath and Holidays, sustenance is brought to Her by the hand of the blessed Holy One. Woe to the wife who is provided for by a messenger.

And they have established this,¹ about the dove: for it says: (Gen. 8:11) ... and behold, it had torn-off an olive leaf with its mouth... And why an olive leaf? But the dove said: ‘Master of the Worlds! May my sustenance be delivered by Your hand, though it be bitter like an olive, and let it not be delivered by a messenger though it be sweet’, and ‘the messenger’ in this instance is Metatron.

footnotes: ¹ BT’Eiruvin 18b

And furthermore, the Shekhinah is called: ‘the prayer of the Passover’ from the right-hand side, ‘the prayer of New Year’ from the left-hand side, ‘the prayer of the Festival of Shavu’ot’ Weeks from the aspect of the Middle. YQV”Q is in every place to receive Her. [and to prepare weapons of war]

Another word: (Mic. 6:2) Hear, O mountains, the argument of Y”Y... What is ‘the argument¹ of Y”Y’? And who are the mountains? The ‘argument of Ha-Shem’ is the Shekhinah, the mountains are the Patriarchs, the argument–**She is controversy and debate for the blessed Holy One, over Her children who are in exile.

footnotes: ¹ ryv

And when they are not in exile, She is an argument for Him over those impoverished-ones, who go wandering from their place, so that He should have mercy upon them.

And the verse proves it since, it is this that is written: (Is. 27:5) If he would grasp My stronghold, he will make peace for Me, peace shall he make for Me – two of peace: one with the Shekhinah, who argues with Him for the sake of the impoverished.

And who is the ‘impoverished’ for whose sake She makes argument? This is the impoverished who is from the aspect of the Righteous-One. How much more so when the Righteous-One is ‘parched and dry’, of the ḥaiy¹² blessings of prayer. And they cry out towards the blessed Holy One, and it is stated in relation to them: (Prov. 1:28) Then shall they call Me and I will not answer.

footnotes: ¹ 18 ² life

And just as the Lower Shekhinah¹ is ‘argument’, for the sake of the Righteous-One¹, who is ‘the life-force² of the worlds’, when it is dry and parched, [‘dry’ of the Temple, ‘and parched’ of libations and burnt offerings] so is the Higher Shekhinah¹ an argument for its sake, with the blessed Holy One.

footnotes: ¹ Malkhut ¹ Yesod ² ḥaiy ¹ Binah

And about them the two arguments it is stated: (Deut. 17:8) *... words of arguments in your gates... *And when both-of-them are arguing for its sake, with the blessed Holy One, then the blessed Holy One shouts towards Israel below: If he would grasp My stronghold, he will make peace for Me, (Is. 27:5) * peace shall he make for Me *– two of ‘peace’ – corresponding to two arguments.

And more difficult for Her than anything, is the separation of the blessed Holy One from Her, and this is the meaning of: ‘a dispute for the sake of heaven’.

And yet when She falls, She falls to His feet, it is this that is written: (Ruth 3:7) and she uncovered his feet and lay down, and She falls before Him, in ‘the falling of the face’, because of the Righteous-One, who is ‘the life-force of the worlds’, – ‘the poor-one’ in exile.

And when the Righteous-One is outside his proper place, it is stated of him: (Ps. 2:12) *Desire ‘outside’*¹ lest he become angry... * *And when the Shekhinah is outside Her place, She is called braiyta.

footnotes: ¹ bar

He is bar¹, and She is braiyta¹,

footnotes: ¹ outside ¹ external