over the forces of defilement.

And a priest who is pure, when he would strive to offer to’Azazel, would purify Israel from all its sins, as it says: (Lev. 16:30) For upon this day it will atone for you, to purify you etc.

And he that was pure, would become impure through that’Azazel.

And thus also, regarding the ‘waters of nidah’: the priest would purify her, and would be himself impure until evening time, and then would become purified.

And furthermore: on the idea of ‘it purifies the impure’. When Moses was born, it is stated of him in relation to the daughter of Pharaoh: (Ex. 2:2) *... and she saw him that he was good... *– for she saw the Shekhinah with him, and as soon as she touched him, she became purified and healed¹ from her leprosy, and the leprosy then adhered to Moses, as it says: (Ex. 4:6) ... and behold his hand was leprous like snow.

footnotes: ¹ See Pirqei d-Rabbi Eli’ezer Ch.47

For at that time, when the daughter of Pharaoh touched him, the Shekhinah flew away from him, and because of this, when he wanted to approach Her at the bush, She said to him: (Ex. 3:5) *... ‘Do not approach here, remove your shoes from your feet’ *– until he shall divest himself of that body, which the daughter of Pharaoh had touched.

It is there at the bush that He showed him, that the body of a person in this world is leprous, from the skin of the snake.

After he a person becomes divested of it, and returns to the Garden of Eden, he becomes clothed in his holy body, and this is: (Ex. 4:7) ... and behold it returned as his flesh...

And thus was Moses enclothed in it. And this is... *and behold it returned as his flesh *– like it was ‘at first’ with Adam, of whom it is stated: ... (Gen. 2:23) bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.

And because of this, He said to him: ...remove your shoes from your feet (Ex. 3:5) * *– this is the body, which was as a ‘shoe’ for him, that which the daughter of Pharaoh had touched, and had become enclothed in another. And at that time, the Shekhinah returned to be upon him.

And because of this, it was shown to [Var. He showed] to him through signs that He made – through the first sign – and He said to him: (Ex. 4:6) Put your hand in your bosom etc. And why in your bosom? Here He alluded to: (Mic. 7:5) ... from the one lying in your breast, guard the openings of your mouth. (Ex. 4:6) And beholdhis hand wasleprous like snow.

After which, He showed him that it leprosy is purified cured in the Torah, it is this that is written of it: (Ex. 4:7) ... and behold it returned as his flesh.

And furthermore: the Lower Shekhinah is ‘the calf whose neck is broken’, and from the aspect of the cow – it is ‘ox’. And this is: (Ez. 1:10) *... and the face of an ox from the left... *And from the aspect of the calf: (Lev. 9:2) ... a calf of the cattle for a sin offering. And a ‘cow’¹ specifically is called the Higher Shekhinah, when it takes from Gevurah, and the Lower Shekhinah is called ‘calf’¹, when it takes from it.

footnotes: ¹ parah ¹ ’eglah

And furthermore: the cantillation-note qarnei parah¹ **is Netzaḥ and Hod, (Deut. 33:17) ... with them he shall gore nations together... ... the horns of re-eim – Ḥesed and Gevurah, with which He makes war with’Amaleq, and will vanquish him and his seed from the world.

footnotes: ¹ ֟

And furthermore: the cantillation-note qarnei parah¹² – these are the scholars, who argue with one another in the Torah, and gore each other like oxen, because the Oral Torah is from the side of Gevurah, which is called ELQYM, and with it the Torah opens: (Gen. 1:1) In the beginning, ELQYM created...

footnotes: ¹ ֟ ² ‘horns of a cow’

Because of this, scholars are ‘goring’ in the Torah, like oxen, one with each other. And because of this: (Is. 42:13) YQV”Q will go out like a warrior¹ * *– from the aspect of Gevurah, He will shout – in te-ru’ah, He will scream – in she-varim, over His enemies He will prevail – in te-qi’ah.

footnotes: ¹ gibor

At that time, all the sephirot take from Gevurah, and the Name of YOD QE VAV QE, and even the angels above and Israel below take from there.

And after He has taken revenge upon them, He shall be filled with mercy over Israel, and before He shall take revenge upon’Amaleq, He does not sit upon the throne.

And at the time that He takes revenge upon the sons of Esau, He will come to appease the young deer, and She will wail¹ and cry. It is this that is written: (Jer. 31:14) *... Rachel is crying over her children... *Until the blessed Holy One promises, to remove them from the world, and to kill them, until the sea is coloured from their blood. And He shall kill so many of them, until wild beasts will be sustained by them for twelve years, and the birds of the heavens for seven years.

footnotes: ¹ ga’iya

And furthermore: the cantillation-notes: ga’iya, talisha¹, azla ge-rish¹.

footnotes: ¹ ֩ ¹ ֝

Ga’iya is in te-ru’ah, and it gives them ‘stoning’¹. It is this that is written: (Is. 34:11) ... and He stretches over it a line of chaos¹ , and stones of void¹.

footnotes: ¹ sqilah ¹ tohu ¹ bohu

Talisha¹ is in she-varim, composed of tel² and esh² [and this is ‘burning’]. ‘Mound’² is strangling², similarly, ‘fire’² is burning².

footnotes: ¹ ֩ ² mound ² fire ² tel ² ḥeneq ² esh ² sreiphah

Azla ge-rish¹ is in *te-qi’ah *– which is like a spear with which to kill them, with ‘beheading’².

footnotes: ¹ ֝ ² hereg

Shalshelet¹² is te-ru’ah, to take hold of them – prisoners in the prison of the King, as it says: (Ps. 149:8) To bind their kings in chains... etc.

footnotes: ¹ ֓ ² chain

Shophar holekh¹, paseq maqaph¹ * *– the sound of the ram’s horn² ascends in te-ru’ah...

footnotes: ¹ ֣ ¹ ֽ ² shophar