And since they have been given into their hands, they have already received their punishment, and because of this:... my corpses will arise.

And all the lung-adhesions¹ of the poison of death, are her legs, and about them it is stated: (Prov. 5:5) *Her feet descend unto death... *And there are 18¹ lung-adhesions, about them it is written: (Gen. 8:21) ... and I will not again strike all life¹², *as I have done. *This is said to those who pray with the 18 blessings of prayer.

footnotes: ¹ sirkh-an ¹ ḥaiy ¹ ḥaiy ² 18

[And who causes the waters of the flood to overwhelm? Whoever pours the ‘water’ of seed of the covenant of circumcision, into a menstruant, a maidservant, a gentile, a whore]

And always, the ‘rose’¹ of the lung with an adhesion in any place, is rendered unfit and does not live – for in every place where she adheres as a sirkha to a person, she kills him through its that limb’s sins.

footnotes: ¹ varda

And furthermore: the Shekhinah is the precept of ‘the gathering of fish’, of the sea of Torah, of whom it is stated:¹ ‘fish and locusts do not require slaughtering’, and these are ‘the scholars of the Master’s school’, who increase in the sea of Torah, about whom it is stated,² that ‘their gathering’ permits them for consumption, it is this that is written: (Num. 11:22) *... will be gathered for them and found for them *– this specifically frees them from slaughter.

footnotes: ¹ See BT Ḥullin 27b ² See ibid.

And the wings of the Shekhinah, are the ‘covering of the blood’ of a beast or bird’, for they are the wings of the dove, and they are ‘the wings of precept’ which cover their blood, so that ‘the dogs that are brazen’ do not rule over them, who are angels of destruction, and so that the prosecutors of sin do not recognize them, thus is: (Deut. 12:23) ... the blood is the soul¹, and the dust which covers it alludes to: (Deut. 32:43) ... and will appease His land, His people.

footnotes: ¹ naphesh

And furthermore: the Shekhinah is ‘the examination of the indicators¹’, of a beast or bird, of people who are compared to beasts, animals and birds, about whom it is stated: (1 Sam. 14:34) *... and you will slaughter with ‘this’*¹ * *– ‘examine like this’,² – for they are suffering afflictions, as they have established: (Ps. 44:23) For Your sake we are killed all the day, and they never lapse in prayer on any day, and the blessed Holy One ‘examines’ them with many afflictions.

footnotes: ¹ simanim ¹ zeh ² See BT Ḥullin 17b

And they say one to the other in prayer: “Blessed Holy One save us! – from the judgement of animals and beasts of the land, and enter us into the portion of the angels, who are ‘the holy beings’¹, who call one to another and say: (Is. 6:3) *... Holy, holy, holy...” *– this is [holy] when the Name of the blessed Holy One is sanctified, by his hand, and his portion will be in Him.

footnotes: ¹ ḥayot ha-qodesh

And furthermore: *... and you will slaughter with ‘this’*¹ ... (1 Sam. 14:34) * *this is: ALePh DaLeT NUN YOD, with which the blessed Holy One judges¹ all damages, and judges upon anyone who kills his fellow, and upon all those who steal.

footnotes: ¹ zeh ¹ dan

YQV”Q, He judges¹, when enclothed in ‘chaos¹ and void¹, and darkness¹ and abyss¹’, and through them It judges the 4 capital punishments of the court, and they have determined them all represented in the letters: Yod² in a burning coal, Vav² in a flame, Hei-Hei² – the colours and lights of fire – this is ‘burning’¹’, (Deut. 4:24) For Y”Y ELoQeYKha is a consuming fire...

footnotes: ¹ DaN ¹ tohu ¹ bohu ¹ ḥoshekh ¹ tehom ² י ² ו ² ה-ה ¹ sreiphah

‘Stoning’¹ is with three stones: Y-Y-Y, and they are YQV”Q which equals 26, and the 4 letters thus equalling Y-Y-Y²³.

footnotes: ¹ sqilah ² י־י־י ³ 30

‘Beheading’¹ is with a sword: Yod² is the head of the sword, Vav² is the body of the sword, Hei-Hei² are its two edges.

footnotes: ¹ hereg ² י ² ו ² ה־ה

‘Strangling’¹: Vav² [Var. Gimmel² ] is made into a chord, like this cantillation note ², and upon it is Yod², of a ring, on a chord, to be wound around the neck.

footnotes: ¹ ḥeneq ² ו ² ג ² zarqa ² י

And the mystery of the matter: (Num. 27:3) ¹ died in the desert, – the cantillation notes maqaph² and holekh², are Hei-Hei², – one surrounds¹ him, and one goes¹, until they strangle him. And because of this, the blessed Holy One stated: (Deut. 32:39) See now, that I, I am He, I cause death and I cause life, I wound and I heal, and there is none who can save from My hand.

footnotes: ¹ Our-father ² ־ ² ֣ ² ה־ה ¹ maqaph ¹ holekh

Vav¹ is: (Esth. 5:14) *... a tree gallows, fifty cubits high *– this is Hei¹², which amounts through Yod¹² to fifty. Zarqa¹ is a line that strangles with three letters, for the Lower Shekhinah judges the 4 capital punishments of the court: She strangles the wicked, and kills them with burning and stoning. And because of this: See now that I, I am He, (Deut. 32:39) it is this that is written: (Lev. 26:28) ... and I will chastise you, even I... etc.

footnotes: ¹ ו ¹ ה ² 5 ¹ י ² 10 ¹ ֘

And just as, with His Name, He kills one who transgresses – upon excisions and capital offences of the court of the Torah – thus so He heals and revives through His Name, whoever observes them.

And furthermore: the precept of (Is. 3:14) ... the spoil of the poor is in your houses – this is the Shekhinah, for one who ‘steals prayer’, – which is charity for the Righteous-One, ‘theḥaiy¹ of the worlds’, comprising 18¹ blessings – is as if he stole His life, which is the Shekhinah, of whom it is stated: (Ecc. 9:9) See life with the woman you love.

footnotes: ¹ life-force ¹ ḥaiy

And so also, one who detracts from the delight of the Sabbath, it is as if he stole His Shekhinah – who is the Sabbath, the only daughter, and this causes Her to be stolen from Him in exile. It is this that is written: (Is. 50:1) ... and in your sins, your mother was sent away.

And ‘repentance’, what is it? (Lev. 5:23) ... and he shall return