She is complete with positive precepts, it is stated of Her: (Song. 4:7) All of you is beautiful, my beloved, and there is no blemish in you.

At that time, the Name Y”Y resides upon Her, and it is stated of Her: (Deut. 28:10) And all the peoples of the land will see, that the Name of Y”Y is called upon you, and they will fear you.

And the appointed-ones of the liver and its veins, and the appointed-ones of the spleen and its evil mixture, become subjugated beneath the heart, for the soul¹ is there.

footnotes: ¹ nishmata

And if the soul is defiled [Var. defected] by sins, or is lacking even one precept of these precepts – as the Masters of the Mishnah have established:¹ ‘a transgression extinguishes a precept’ – then in that place [Var. limb] where the transgression resides, and the precept is withdrawn from it, that limb is defective, and it is a blemish of the soul, – because of it, the blessed Holy One does not reside upon the soul. It is this that is written: (Lev. 21:18) *Anyone in whom there is a blemish shall not approach *– a soul which has a blemish in one of its 248 precepts, does not approach the blessed Holy One because of it.

footnotes: ¹ BT Sotah 21a

But a soul from the aspect of the Shekhinah has no blemish. It is this that is written: (Song. 4:7) All of you is beautiful, my beloved, and there is no blemish in you. If the evil inclination wishes to approach that place, then since the Shekhinah – which is the soul – resides there, it is stated of Her: (Num. 1:51) ... and the stranger who approaches will die.

Because of Her it is stated: (Is. 42:8) *I am Y”Y, that is My Name, and My glory I shall not give to another... *meaning ‘another god’, ‘a foreign god’.

For the soul is His glory, and it is His praise, with which a person praises the blessed Holy One in prayer every day, with many praises and thanksgivings.

And because of this: *I am Y”Y, that is My Name, and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to idols *– these are the seventy appointed-ones, to whom the blessed Holy One does not give permission to have dominion over Her, those which are the veins of the liver, which is ‘another god’.

The spleen is ‘snake’, the extra lobe of the liver is ‘the whoring wife’, after she has acted dishonestly [Var. immorally ] with ‘other gods’, and has distributed her blood, which is her concentrate, to all the veins, she offers the leftover to the spleen who is her husband, the fool. For the spleen takes only the concentrate [Var. dregs] of blood, but she does not give him of any other blood, and because of this she is called ‘the extra lobe of the liver’, because she gives him only the leftover.

And the liver is the antagonist of the lung, for it raises up a fire from it towards the heart, and were it not that the wings of the lung blow upon it, it would burn up the heart, [Var. and the fire of the heart would burn up the whole body].

The ‘entrails’¹ is livyatan², corresponding to the impure fat, and upon it is stated:³ ‘Even if a snake is wound around his ankle, he should not interrupt his prayer, but for a scorpion, he interrupts’.

footnotes: ¹ See BT Ḥullin 13a ² Leviathan ³ BT Berakhot 33a

A serpent¹ is the gall bladder – the denouncer of the lung, because the bile is the burning¹ of the whole body.

footnotes: ¹ saraph ¹ se-reiphah

Because of this, the horn-blasts te-qi’ah, she-varim, and te-ru’ah are the means of their smashing, and of them it is stated: (Ps. 89:16) Happy is the nation, those who know the te-ru’ah, Y”Y, they shall walk in the light of Your face. What is ... Your face? These are te-qi’ah, she-varim, te-ru’ah, which are: te-qi’ah – the white of the face, she-varim – the red of the face, te-ru’ah – the green of the face. And through it te-ru’ah Israel emerges from exile, when the faces of Israel are transformed to green, like a pregnant woman.¹

footnotes: ¹ See BT Sanhedrin 98b

And with these three colours does a candle shine, which is: (Prov. 20:27) A candle of Y”Y is the soul of adam¹². What is ‘adam’? YOD QE VAV QE².

footnotes: ¹ human ² 45 ² 45

There are three colours of a candle, and these three colours are the garments of the three Patriarchs, which are white, red and green, the colour black is their ‘darkening’, and of it is stated: (Is. 50:3) I shall dress the heavens with darkness, and in them are enclothed H-V-H. Blue¹ is the garment of the letter Yod², which is the essential point¹ of everything.

footnotes: ¹ te-khelet ² י ¹ takhlit

The candle is Yod¹, the flame that ascends from it is Vav¹, and its flickering movement – here and here – is Hei-Hei¹.

footnotes: ¹ י ¹ ו ¹ ה־ה

And of ‘the other side’, there is a candle of darkness of hell¹, and it has three colours. The colour red is the liver: (Gen. 36:1) ... Esau is Edom. The gall bladder is green, the spleen is the colour black, and of it is stated: (Gen. 27:1) ... and his eyes were dimmed from seeing...

footnotes: ¹ gehinom

And your sign for these colours: (Lev. 14:37) ... greenish or reddish stains, and their appearance is lower¹ than the wall. Shaphal¹ is the colour black,

footnotes: ¹ shaphal ¹ low