288. He has three inscriptions on his left shoulder: two red and one black. However, there is benefit to the black inscription since it draws him to approach people, and he connects with them so they do not think he is a leper.
289. A malformation was born in him at night, on one autumn day during his youth, since he ate fish and drank water, and went outside. At that time, Planet Shabtai was ruling the world, and a branch of it was extended to expand downward.
He went out with a bare head, and the branch struck him through Korkfny and Shamriron, two spirits that control that branch. When that man was struck, they inscribed in him two red inscriptions, and that branch inscribed in him that black inscription, since the words of Shabtai use black.
290. This one governs the nation of Shabtai, but not the holy nation, since the holy nation has no portion and lot in stars and signs, but only in the Creator. Israel should show joy, eating and drinking, white clothes, or with nice colors, and to fix the house and the table on that day.
291. However, it is not so in those who are gripped to Shabtai on that day, who must be tormented and show sadness and worry, and dress in black clothes and cover in black, and not eat meat and wine and oil, and not take pleasure in the delights of the world, but rather sit in his home sad, and part from people. At that time, these spirits that control the branch of Shabtai, Korkfny and Shamriron, are drawn upon him and notify him the matters of the world in the extension of Shabtai.
292. There are people who were born when the branch of Shabtai governs, and they are always sad; they are never glad, except when they engage in Torah and unite with the Creator.
293. If there are foundations and roots from ancestral merit in that person, that branch that emerges from Shabtai sometimes defeats the person and grips him, and these two spirits Korkfny and Shamriron expand from the branch and go to the hole in the rock where all the naked spirits of people go, who do not enter the presence of the king.
294. These spirits are naked in this world, for they do not have garments of Torah and commandments. When they come out from this world, they roam so as to enter that world, and the gates are locked before them on all the sides of the world, and they find no rest until they come out and roam the world. They are called by the name “neighbors” [female neighbors].
295. Where do they go on the day of Shabbat [Sabbath], when the day is sanctified? They go into the hole of one rock that is outside the walls of the garden, in the mountains on the outside. They are there throughout the Shabbat, and after Shabbat, they come out and roam the world, and notify things to people in the visions of the night.
296. When the branch of Shabtai defeats that person, these two spirits go to that hole in the rock, and linger there until the end of Shabbat. After the end of Shabbat, these souls, the bare spirits and these two spirits from the branch of Shabtai come out and they are with them, and they connect together.
297. These two spirits and one soul, who are from the root of that person, come from seventy degrees back, and linger over the person, spirit after spirit. They notify him things about the world; some of them true, and some of them untrue. Some of them are true, from the side of the bare soul, since she finds rest there. Some of them untrue, from the side of these two spirits. Sometimes, the spirits notify him things that are true for the near future.
298. This is a soul that did not find redemption from the seventy degrees back, and therefore Planet Shabtai drew into this world these two spirits in order to correct her. And because of her, a person is unafraid when two spirits are on him and he is not rattled. Happy is he who has ancestral merit to help him in all those operations.
It is written, “God has made one opposite the other.” As there are four worlds ABYA of holiness, there is another side opposite them, impure ABYA. The main difference between them is that the other side is adhered to the left without right, and their whole vitality is from GAR of Hochma of the left, while the holy side is adhered to the middle line, which elevate the GAR of Hochma of the left, and unite the VAK of Hochma of the left with the Hassadim on the right.
Israel are adhered to the holy ABYA, and the nations of the world, to the impure ABYA. As Israel do the deed of commandments that awaken their roots above to unify with the Creator and His Shechina in the middle line, the great ones among the nations of the world, such as Balaam, have deeds that can awaken their roots above: to separate the left line from the right, and to draw for them the GAR of Hochma of the left.
One of the bad deeds was that they would eat fish and immediately after drink water. By this they meant that the fish are the degrees there are in the sea, which are Hochma, and therefore eating fish is an awakening from below to draw degrees of VAK of Hochma, and the water from which the fish receive their vitality is an awakening from below to draw GAR of Hochma, since the vitality of VAK of Hochma is extended from the GAR of Hochma.
Therefore, when they wanted to awaken above the illumination of GAR of Hochma, they would eat fish and drink water immediately after, with the intention of awakening the root of the vitality of the upper, spiritual fish, which is GAR of Hochma, and to draw downward.
The man who engages in drawing Hochma from the left without the right, it is considered night, since he causes darkness, night. For this reason, a blemish is born in him at night. “On one autumn day,” since cold and freezing are drawn from these actions, as in the winter. “In his youth,” when the person was in Mochin of a child and young man, Mochin of GAR of Ruach, for then he might sin with drawing GAR of Hochma from above downward.
Because he ate fish and drank water, he was tempted to the bad deeds of the other side: to draw GAR of Hochma of the left by eating fish and drinking water. He went outside, for by this he was ejected and went outside the holiness, and was given to the forces of the other side.
“At that time, Planet Shabtai was ruling the world,” meaning that because of his sin, the governance of Shabtai was revealed over him, namely the governance of the left of the other side, meaning he was given to him.
“And a branch of it was extended to expand downward” is the force of the revelation of the lock, whose way is to be revealed at the end of the left line, as it is written, “Sin crouches at the door.” For this reason, he is regarded as a branch of Shabtai, since Shabtai, who is illumination of the left without right, uses it.
“He went out with a bare head,” revealing of GAR of Hochma of the left, and the branch struck him through Korkfny and Shamriron, two spirits that control that branch, as these two spirits are the judgments that control the left line.
Korkfny has the letters of Kor [cold] and Kipaon [freezing], which are extended from the illumination of the left without right. Shamriron has the letters of Shimrey-Ron [yeast of singing], yeast that are mixed in his singing. Since he is connected to a branch of Shabtai, who is the harsh force of judgment of the lock, although it overcomes him and revokes his strength, since the two spirits control him, the yeast, the judgments of the branch, still mix with his light of the left, and he is not so clean. This is why he is called Shamriron.
For this reason, these three judgments, which are two judgments of the two spirits, the freezing from Korkfny and the yeast from Shamriron, and a third judgment, which is the force of the judgment of the lock in the branch of Shabtai, these judgments strike and sentence that person who drew GAR of the left by eating fish and drinking water afterwards.
When that man was beaten, two red inscriptions were inscribed in him, since the left is the color red, which is why the inscriptions of the blows of the two spirits are red, since two spirits are from the left, and that branch inscribed in him that black inscription, since the color of Malchut of the quality of judgment, called “lock,” which is the force in the branch of Shabtai, is colored black, since the words of Shabtai use black because he always uses the branch, which is the color black.
He has three inscriptions on his left shoulder, two red and one black, since through his actions, he is given to the spirits of Shabtai and to his branch so they will torment him. The two spirits from the judgments of the left, red, inscribed in him two red inscriptions, and the branch, the force of the judgment that is extended from Malchut of the quality of judgment called “lock,” and whose color is black, the inscription of that blow is therefore black.
Indeed, that force of judgment in the branch of Shabtai, which is from the lock, should have canceled the Hochma of the left, from which the judgments in the two spirits are extended. However, this is the operation of Shabtai, that he ordains the spirits over the branch, and their strength is greater than his strength. For this reason, the Hochma of the left is not canceled from them.
However, all this is in the beginning. In the end, however, the power of the lock prevails over the two spirits and cancels their Hochma along with their judgments that are extended from her. But there is a benefit from the black inscription: It pulls him to draw near to people.
That is, afterwards, when the black force in the branch overcomes the two spirits, there is benefit in that black, since then it will cancel judgments in the Hochma of the left, where the hardest of those judgments is that he must isolate himself from people like a leper, to sit at home sad, and separate from people.
After the force of the black prevails, the lock will cancel the Hochma with those judgments and he will be able to approach people and connect with them, since they will not think he is a leper and will not regard him as though he were a leper, where it is written about him, “He shall dwell alone outside the camp. This is the benefit extended from the black.
Opposite these GAR of Hochma, which the other side, Shabtai and his spirits, adhere to, Israel has GAR that shine on Shabbat, in Malchut. This is why it was said, “This one governs the nation of Shabtai,” that these judgments control those who adhere to Shabtai, but not the holy nation, since Israel adhere to the Creator, the middle line. In order to recognize and know the difference between those who adhere to the Creator and those who adhere to the other side, Israel must show gladness, and eating and drinking, that opposite from the torture and torment that those who adhere to the other side have, those who adhere to the Creator on the day of Shabbat have rest, pleasure, and joy.
However, this is not so in those who are gripped to Shabtai on that day, as they must be tormented and show sadness. Then, after they are tormented in all those torments, those spirits that control the branch of Shabtai, Korkfny and Shamriron, are extended over him and notify him matters of the world, hidden matters, GAR of Hochma, through the extension of Shabtai, through the left without right, which is the drawing of Shabtai.
There are people who were born when the branch of Shabtai governs, that because of the iniquities in past incarnations, they are born under the governance of the branch of Shabtai and of the two spirits that govern him. They are always sad, tormented in torments in order to draw on themselves the spirits of Shabtai, and to suckle from the GAR of Hochma of the left, and are never happy due to the torments of the judgments of the left. Except when they engage in Torah and unite with the Creator, if they repent and adhere to the Torah and the Creator, the middle line.
If there are elements and roots from ancestral merit in that person, that his ancestral merit works in his favor, that branch which comes out of Shabtai, the strong force of judgment of the lock, sometimes prevails over the person and grips him, prevailing over him and repelling the Hochma from him. The force of the judgment of the branch, although at first, the two spirits govern him, in the end, he nevertheless prevails and governs them and revokes the Hochma from them. At that time, the person is saved from the suffering of Shabtai, since upon the cancelation of the Hochma, the torments extended from it are canceled.
However, there is benefit to the black inscription, even though he falls into Katnut because of it. For this reason, he must be corrected further, and these two spirits, Korkfny and Shamriron, expand from the branch and go to the hole in the rock, for because the branch of Shabtai won and repelled the Hochma, the two spirits fell into Katnut, even though they did not want to receive the Katnut into them because of the judgment of the lock.
Hence, they expanded from the branch in which there is the force of the lock, and came to the hole in the rock, the Katnut [smallness/infancy] of the key, since “rock” is Malchut that is sweetened in Bina, and the hole in it is the judgments of Katnut. They gained by this since the Katnut that comes because of a lock is unfit to return to Gadlut [greatness/adulthood], but Katnut of the key is always fit to receive Gadlut.
All the bare spirits of people who do not enter the presence of the king gather in the hole of the rock. A bare soul is a soul from the seven Sefirot of the posterior of Malchut, in which there are sparks of GAR of Hochma, and the person who drew her did not correct her with the middle line. For this reason, when she passes away from the world, she cannot come in the presence of the king, the middle line. All those bare spirits and souls gather into that hole in the rock on the day of Shabbat.
They, the spirits, are bare in this world; they have no garments from Torah and commandments, since being from the seven Sefirot of the posterior, which are Hochma without clothing of Hassadim, therefore, those bare souls, too, are without clothing of Hassadim. The person who drew that bare soul should have corrected her and drawn for her clothing of Hassadim through the middle line, but he did not correct her.
Hence, when they leave this world, they wander in order to enter that world, and the gates are locked before them, for because the soul is bare from clothing of Hassadim, she has no place in the next world.
For this reason, they exit that world and wander in this world to find some person in which to dwell and clothe, and through him, they draw sparks of Hochma in the visions of the night. When they clothe in some person, they become neighbors to the soul of the person himself, and it is considered as though the soul of that person has obtained for herself a neighbor who dwells with her in the man’s body.
On the day of Shabbat, when the day is sanctified, when all the forces of judgment and posterior pass from the world, we should ask, “Where do they go?” Since they are extended from the posterior, and they have sparks of GAR of Hochma of the left in them, what becomes of them on the day of Shabbat? They go into the hole of some rock, outside the garden walls.
Behind Malchut, who is called “a garden,” there is a hole—judgments of the screen of Malchut—in the rock that is in the mountains, and all the forces of the left are pushed into that hole, which diminishes any Hochma and any GAR of the left. By this, they are chained, so they cannot draw and awaken an illumination from the lights of the left and the judgments in them throughout the day of Shabbat.
The bare souls also enter there on the day of Shabbat, and become diminished, and are there throughout the day of Shabbat. After Shabbat, they come out and roam the world, for after Shabbat, they are freed from their shackles and become fit for drawing from the GAR of the left as before. For this reason, they return to roaming the world, find a person to clothe in, and announce things to people in the visons of the night, meaning they clothe in people, and through them draw sparks of Hochma, which are called “visions of the night,” and they notify them.
Once the branch of Shabtai has prevailed over that person, these two spirits go to that hole in the rock and remain there until the end of Shabbat. During the day of Shabbat, these two spirits of Shabtai adhere to bare souls to be with them in one adobe.
Hence, when Shabbat has ended and they are free from their shackles and the sparks of Hochma shine in them once more, these souls, the bare spirits, come out, and these two spirits from the branch of Shabtai are with them, and they connect together. As they connected together in the hole of the rock on the day of Shabbat, so they come out connected at the end of Shabbat.
Then come these two spirits and one soul, from the root of that person, from the seventy degrees back, for these two spirits of Shabtai are connected with the bare soul, the soul of a person which was drawn from seven degrees of the posterior of Malchut, since each of the seven Sefirot of the posterior of Malchut consists of ten, and they are seventy degrees of the posterior.
The two spirits and that soul come and are present on the person who was born in the governance of the branch of Shabtai, spirit after spirit, clothing in him spirit after spirit, with the bare soul, and notify him matters in the world, matters that are in concealment, Hochma.
We should know that through the connection of the bare soul with the two spirits of Shabtai, the sparks of GAR of Hochma of the left from which come all the suffering and judgments are canceled, and she remains with only VAK of Hochma of the left. It is considered that that soul has found rest for herself from the torments and the judgments through her connection with the two spirits, since the yeast of the judgments of the lock were mixed inside the two spirits, and especially in the spirit called Shamriron.
Although the two spirits were not meticulous with those yeast, and are as the shells, nevertheless, since the soul is from holiness, she is meticulous with the yeast and is diminished by them from GAR of Hochma of the left. Through it, she is rid of the judgments of the left. You find that the soul has found rest through her connection with the two spirits.
Some of them are not true from the perspective of these two spirits, since they are mixed with the yeast of the judgments. Nevertheless, they ignore them and draw Hochma, since such is the conduct of the shells. Sometimes, the spirits notify him true matters for a short while, for they, too, draw only VAK of Hochma of the left. However, this is for a short while, and after some time, they revert to their conduct.
This is a soul that did not find redemption from the seventy degrees back. The bare soul that did not find deliverance from the seven degrees of the posterior extended from them, and therefore Planet Shabtai [Saturn] drew these two spirits to this world in order to correct her. Finally, Planet Shabtai drew his two spirits to this world, to connect with the bare soul, and then the soul finds deliverance and rest from the judgments of the posterior in her.
However, since the man has already been defeated by the branch of Shabtai and united with the force of the lock in it, by which the man was repelled from the Hochma of the left and was rid and rested from the judgments that come with her, thus, how can he now receive Hochma from the spirits and the soul, since the force of the lock in him repels the Hochma?
As those two spirits have the power to control the branch and quiet the force of the lock in him, hence, they, too, have the power to quiet the force of the lock in the person and awaken in him the Hochma of the left.
However, once the person has been defeated by the lock, and rested from the judgments and the torments he had had, why did he not fear and was not shaken by the return of the torments, and came to adhere once more to the Hochma of the left of the two spirits?
Because of the bare soul that comes together with the two spirits, a person is not afraid and is not shaken when the two spirits are on him. Because of the bare soul, which has already found rest through her adhesion with the two spirits, the person is not afraid of the two spirits, that he might return to judgments and torments through them, as before.
This is so because now he is adhered to the soul that is connected to the two spirits. She is at rest from the judgments because she receives only VAK of Hochma, and then the person, too, is guaranteed to be at rest. For this reason, now he is not afraid from the illumination of Hochma of the left in the spirits.
299. If the nose is crooked, and the crookedness is leaning to the right, it is a person who is inscribed in the letter Hey, and sometimes in the letter Reish, which do not connect together. This is a person who speaks softly.
300. If there is one big line in his forehead, and four small lines, and they are thin, and not so much, and they invert into a red vision, his hair is hanging and slightly smooth, he had a great lineage, meaning that there was a great righteous among his forefathers, and he hangs on him; he has help. He is loyal; he is successful in his actions.
He has a flaw from a blemish; he is naturally infertile, infertile from birth. Or, an intestine is hanging in his scrotum and he does not ejaculate semen as it should be. In his left hand, he has a small finger, creased and not stretching out.