I have further heard from the Sacred Lamp (R. Simeon) that the t’rumah is meant to be resolved into tre (two) and meah (hundred), indicating two out of a hundred. For the sum of the holy grades involved in the mystery of Faith, by which the Holy One, blessed be He, manifests Himself, amounts to ten, and these are also ten utterances. The whole thus amounts to a hundred; and so in bringing an offering¹) due to the priest which, according to the Mishnah, normally consisted of a fiftieth part (2/100) of the produce. we have to combine the lower central point with the supernal central point, so as to unite the Shekinah with her Spouse, these being the two of the hundred grades and sub-grades just mentioned.

footnotes: ¹ A side allusion to the heave-offering (t’rumah