– the right arm to receive those who return, and it lifts them up from their falling, and takes hold of their hands, and says to them: (Is. 52:2) ... arise! Sit down, O Jerusalem...

And on the Festival of Weeks they will emerge, through the merit of Moses, who is ‘the giving of the Torah’ – which is mercy, and he reveals to them the Book of the Torah, and they will gather to Jerusalem, (Gen. 1:9) ... and the dry land will be visible – the wicked kingdom, and He has mercy upon His children, of that: (Deut. 32:11) Like an eagle arousing its nest... Who is ‘His nest?’ Jerusalem is His nest [for the Shekhinah].

At that time, the cantillation notes: shophar mehupakh¹, qadmah¹, zaqeph qatan¹: the regime of the nations of the world is to be overturned, and Israel – who are of the seed of him of whom it is stated: (Gen. 32:11) I Jacob have become small from all the kindnesses – will rise and straighten-up.

footnotes: ¹ ֚ ¹ ֨ ¹ ֔

And it is said of it, the cantillation note zaqeph gadol¹², with the right-hand they will go up from exile, because: (Is. 63:12) He led at Moses’ right... * *– whose level is the Middle Pillar, which is the Festival of Weeks.

footnotes: ¹ great upright ² ֕

And with it, He is the cantillation notes: ma-arikh tarḥa¹, with it the blessed Holy One ‘lengthens’², for He is (Ex. 34:6) long-suffering² over ‘average people’, and He ‘takes trouble’² because of them, to fulfil: (Is. 54:7) ... and in great mercy I shall gather you.

footnotes: ¹ ֖ ֥ ² ma-arikh ² erekh-apayim ² taraḥ

And through it, they will go out, by the hand of ‘he through whose hand the Torah was given’, on the Festival of Weeks, which goes towards the right-hand – which is Passover. At that time: (Ex. 15:1) Then¹ *did or will Moses sing...*²

footnotes: ¹ az ² See BT Sanhedrin 91b

And of the Festival of Tabernacles: (Gen. 33:18) And Jacob came complete... * *– complete in his body, complete in his wealth¹ – and he is surrounded by seven clouds of glory, like at first, when Israel went out of Egypt, to fulfil: (Mic. 7:15) Like the days when you went out of Egypt... etc.

footnotes: ¹ BT Shabbat 33b

And the wicked, who are ‘the mixed multitude’, it is stated of them: the cantillation note: soph-pasuq¹, for they are of the seed of’Amaleq, of whom it is stated: (Ex. 17:16) And He said: ‘For a hand is upon the throne of YaH...’

footnotes: ¹ end-of-verse

And they are of five types: ’Amaleqites, ‘mighty-ones’¹, Nephilim, ‘giants’¹, ‘ghosts’¹. For all of them rise up and overpower Israel in the exile. It is this that is written: (Gen. 7:18) *And the waters became mighty, and increased greatly upon the earth... *Four times it is written: and they became mighty¹ or, and... they were mighty... (Gen. 7:19) – corresponding to ‘the four exiles’, and about them it is stated the cantillation note: soph-pasuq¹, for the blessed Holy One stops¹ them, at the end¹ of days, from the world.

footnotes: ¹ giborim ¹ ’anaqim ¹ repha-im ¹ va-yigbe-ru ¹ end-of-verse ¹ pasiq ¹ soph

And at that time: (Is. 60:22) The small one will be a thousand¹ – from the left-hand side, ...*and the young one for a mighty nation... *– from the right-hand side, ...I am Y”Y, in its time I shall hasten it – from the side of the Middle Pillar.

footnotes: ¹ eleph

And immediately, the’Amaleqites will be stopped from the world, and the blessed Holy One will sit upon His throne, and this is the cantillation notes: shophar holekh¹, atnaḥ¹, ye-tiv¹.

footnotes: ¹ ֣ ¹ ֑ ¹ ֚

At that time, when the’Amaleqites are wiped-out from the world, the blessed Holy One ‘rests’¹ – an ‘easing’¹ for Israel – and He sits upon His throne, as it is stated of Him: (Dan. 7:9) ... and the Ancient of Days sitting¹ *, His garment like white snow... *to fulfil: (Is. 1:18) ... if your sins be as scarlet, like snow they shall be whitened...

footnotes: ¹ naḥ ¹ naiyḥa ¹ ye-tiv

And regarding Esau and Yishamel, it is written: (Dan. 7:9) ... His throne is sparks *of fire... *– and by these sparks of His throne, all their erroneous idols will be burnt up, ... its wheels are burning fire, from which descend ten wheels from the aspect of the letter Yod¹², and sparks from the aspect of the letter Hei¹, the two letters will become aroused in fire, to burn their erroneous idols. At that time: (Is. 1:31) And the strong will be as chaff... etc.

footnotes: ¹ י ² 10 ¹ ה

At that time: Vav¹² rises above to its level, which is (1 King. 10:19) *Six levels to the throne... *– and this is the cantillation notes: darga¹; trei ta’amei¹. What is trei ta’amei¹³ ?

footnotes: ¹ ו ² 6 ¹ ֧ ¹ ֦ ¹ ֦ ³ two-notes

But after it ascends to its level, it will say to Israel: (Gen. 27:4) And make for me ‘delicacies’¹ , such as I have loved – from positive precepts, which are included in the Hei² of AVRaHaM¹³, who incorporates 248 commandments, by which Hei² is brought close towards Vav². And this ‘bringing near’ offering¹, is the ‘bringing near’ of the blessed Holy One with His Shekhinah, in each-and-every place [Var. each-and-every limb] – the bringing close of Y-H.

footnotes: ¹ mat-’amim ² ה ¹ Abraham ³ 248 ² ה ² ו ¹ qorbana

Hei¹²: five thousand years to the creation of the world, Vav¹²: the sixth millennium, in 248³, and with the left-hand side, for the heart is there, He will take revenge upon the nations of the world.

footnotes: ¹ ה ² 5 ¹ ו ² 6 ³ RaMaḤ

And the mystery of the matter: (Is. 63:4) For a day of revenge is in my heart, surely incorporated in the Middle Pillar, for the positive precepts were given from the right-hand, and negative precepts from the left-hand, and these are the cantillation note: trei ta’amei¹². And the positive precepts, are the ‘foods’ of the blessed Holy One, while the negative precepts, are the sustenance of Samael, to one who transgresses them.

footnotes: ¹ ֦ ² two-notes

[And these did he offer] [Var. introduce] [Var. and with these was brought close] Esau to Isaac, and he said to him: (Gen. 27:31) *... Let my father arise, and eat from the hunt of his son... *And Samael, because of him, introduced [Var. offered] to the left, to give to taste to the blessed Holy One of the sins of his son, which are the ‘bitter foods’, because of which, it is written: (Mal. 1:3) And Esau I hated...

The Middle Pillar – from there the Torah was given – which is comprised