464. These appellations hang from this firmament and below, to cover the holy name with them. No appellations hang from this firmament and above, since the appellations shine in illumination of Hochma, and from the firmament and above, Hassadim that are covered from Hochma govern, as it is written, “And under the firmament, their wings spread out straight, one toward another,” in order to cover those high concealments in the secrets of the holy names with them.
465. Wings are covers to cover the names in concealment. In the days to come, the holy name will not be covered, and all the true righteous will know the Creator openly, and not through appellations, as it is written, “And your teachers shall no longer be covered, and your eyes shall see your teachers.”
There are two discernments in the appellations that are called wings: 1) they cover the names, diminishing their lights through the judgments in them, 2) they increase their lights and reveal the illumination of Hochma.
Wings are covers to cover the names in concealment, since from the judgments in them, they diminish the lights in the names and cover and conceal them. In the days to come, the holy name will not be covered, for then there will be no diminution in the names because of the appellations, and all the true righteous will know the Creator openly, and not through appellations.
At that time, they will not use appellations in order to reveal the holy name, since all the judgments in them will be canceled, and the holy names will be revealed by themselves, without the help of the appellations and the judgments in them, as it is written, “And your teachers shall no longer be covered, and your eyes shall see your teachers,” since the covers [wings] will be canceled.
466. It is written, “Each one had two which covered one side, and each one had two which covered the other side of the body,” two wings to each, to be covered with them. To the one in the right, he has one of the right, and one of the left. The one on the left has one of the left, and one of the right, so all are incorporated in one another to be covered with them.
467. “Each one had two which covered the other side of the body.” Their bodies are the secrets inside the wings, for the wings are the appellations, and their bodies are the holy names El, Elokim, HaVaYaH, from which there is the body of the animals on which the wings, the appellations, are clothed. This is so because the body of the animals is HGT, the three names, and the wings are the appellations. Nevertheless, these are like those, the wings are in covered Hassadim, like their body, as it is written, “And I heard the sound of their wings like a voice: El, Elokim, HaVaYaH. Their wings are the appellations of these names, and they are Great, Mighty, and Awesome.
Great is an appellation of El; Mighty is an appellation of Elokim; and Awesome is an appellation of the name HaVaYaH. The sound of their wings, which is Great, Mighty, and Awesome, is tantamount to the three names El, Elokim, HaVaYaH, the body of the animals. However, this is in the secrets above, from the firmament and above, where it is to hide everything in concealment, where the Hassadim that are covered from Hochma govern. For this reason, the appellations are also in covered Hassadim, like the names.
However, below, the wings stand in a mirror, in illumination of Hochma. Not in all the level of Hochma, but to the extent of five hundred parasangs, which are HGT NH, where each is in one hundred degrees. However, GAR of Hochma are missing in them since they were concealed through the middle line, and they are the wings that shine in a mirror.
468. There are five voices here, corresponding to the five upper ones that are concealed from Hochma, as it is written, “And I heard the sound of their wings as the sound of many waters, as the voice of Shaddai [God] as they walked, the sound of a flurry, like the sound of a camp.”
The voice of their wings is three appellations: Great, Mighty, and Awesome. “Like the sound of many waters,” since there is one name in these appellations, that name from among those names that are inside, and it is the name El. That name goes inside these appellations, the wings, and it is a name like the name of many waters, since many waters are Hesed, which is called “water,” and the name of the Hesed is El. From here, that name expands to the lower ones, to the appellations that shine from the Chazeh and below.
469. “As the voice of Shaddai” is the name Elokim, since the lower ones are also called by that name, since the arbiters are also called Elokim. It is sealed in the lower ones, Elokey [God of], as it is written, “the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor.” For this reason, it is also implied in the words “As the voice of Shaddai,” which is the Yesod.
“The sound of a flurry” is the name called Elokah [God]. This name is built in the courthouse of below, in the place where merit is present, in Malchut, and not from the side of the guilt in judgment in her, but from the side of innocence in judgment in her. “As the sound of a camp” is the name where Jacob is present, the name of the middle line, of which it is written, “this camp of God.”
470. The voice where Jacob is present, the middle line, the wings cover one body that contains right and left, to separate the dispute between right and left, in order to reveal the Hochma from the Daat and connect one body here, and one body here, as it is written, “two of each, one touched the other,” connecting a person, the body, in order to draw the Daat and separate the dispute from one another.
For this reason, the voice where Jacob is present is called “the sound of a camp,” since the voice of Jacob, the middle line, separates between the right and the left, which cling to the dispute between them, and connects them to each other to be one, for by separating them, where the right line shines from above downward, and the left line shines from below upward, by this he can connect them into one body.
471. Two other wings cover the body, and all of them are engraved and decorated with letters of the holy name of forty-two letters under two stones above and below, to know the Creator in His name and in His honor, to be one.
There are thirty-two paths of wisdom, twenty-two letters of ZA, and ten Sefirot of YESHSUT, where by the two of them together, the Hochma is revealed. In other words, through the ascent of ZA to decide in the right and in the left of YESHSUT, the Hochma is revealed. This is regarded as illumination of VAK of Bina, since YESHSUT are only VAK of Bina.
There are forty-two letters there, when in addition to the thirty-two paths of wisdom, the ten Sefirot of Hassadim of AVI are revealed, the pure air, and ten with thirty-two are forty-two. At that time, GAR of Bina shine, and therefore, the name Mem-Bet [42] shines in the Rosh of ZA, since it receives them from the GAR of Bina, upper AVI, which are the Rosh. The thirty-two paths of wisdom shine in VAK of ZA, since they are received from YESHSUT, VAK of Bina, which are Guf [body].
However, the Guf of ZA, HGT NHY, is also divided into GAR and VAK, HGT from the Chazeh and above, GAR of the Guf. NHY from the Chazeh and below are VAK of the Guf. You find that NHY of ZA, VAK, receive illumination of Hochma from YESHSUT, from VAK of Bina, the thirty-two paths of Hochma. HGT of ZA receive from the ten Sefirot of Hassadim of AVI, in addition to the thirty-two of YESHSUT, the name Mem-Bet.
Hence, forty-two letters govern in HGT of ZA, the Hassadim of upper AVI, and the illumination of Hochma is covered with them. In NHY of ZA, Hochma of YESHSUT shines in thirty-two paths of wisdom [Hochma].
We could ask if because HGT of ZA receive from the ten Sefirot of Hassadim of upper AVI, they should not have been called “ten letters” and not forty-two letters, since before ZA receives the thirty-two paths of wisdom from YESHSUT, the Hassadim in him are regarded as VAK without a Rosh, and he cannot receive from AVI the Hassadim of the pure air, GAR, and preferable to Hochma. However, if so, he first receives the thirty-two paths of wisdom from YESHSUT, and when he is completed in Hochma [wisdom], he can rise further and receive the Hassadim of AVI, GAR and Rosh.
It follows that it is impossible to receive the ten of AVI unless he already has the thirty-two of YESHSUT; this is why the ten of AVI are named forty-two letters. However, if he receives the ten of AVI, they govern the thirty-two of YESHSUT, since they are GAR. For this reason, the Hochma is covered with HGT of ZA, and wherever the name Mem-Bet shines, Hochma is covered.
Two other wings cover the body, and all are engraved and decorated in letters of the holy name of forty-two letters, where all the aforesaid covers are engraved and decorated through the name “forty-two letters,” which are ten Sefirot of Hassadim of AVI that contain within them the thirty-two paths of wisdom.
The name Mem-Bet shines under two stones, above and below, where the stone above is Bina, and the stone below is Malchut. This is so because Bina is the upper throne, which HGTM, the animals of ZA, carry. The name “forty-two letters” shines in them. The stone below, Malchut, is the lower throne, which the animals of Malchut carry.
In these animals, too, the name Mem-Bet shines, as in the animals of ZA, for this name covers the Hochma, as it is written, “and two cover their bodies,” covering the illumination of Hochma in the body of the animals by the power of the name Mem-Bet that shines in them. In order to know the Creator in His name and in His honor, Malchut is called “name” and “honor,” to be one, in one illumination, since as the name Mem-Bet covers the Hochma in the animals of ZA, so it covers the Hochma in the animals of Malchut.
472. Forty-eight Merkavot [pl. of Merkava], covered in themselves, are covered from the side of the person sitting on the throne, ZA, in forty-eight letters. Two hundred other ones are engraved themselves, and together, they are 248, corresponding to the 248 organs of the body. All of them control the throne below, Malchut, like the number 248 commandments to-do in the Torah, which are “Remember!”
473. The person sitting on the throne took all those 248 commandments and all those secrets of the 248 organs of the body, and sat their secret into the holy throne, and in them, the throne ascended by 365 other commandments not-to-do, which are “Keep!”
The 248 commandments to-do draw covered Hassadim since they come from HGT of ZA, which are covered Hassadim. They are divided according to the three lines in ZA, where two Sefirot HG are two lines right and left, extended to him from Bina, are two hundred, since the Sefirot of Bina are hundreds, and the Sefira Tifferet, the middle line, ZA himself, who corrects the two lines of Bina, is regarded as forty-eight, since he has twelve combinations of HaVaYaH in him, with four letters in each, which are forty-eight.
From here comes the number 248: two hundred from HG, and forty-eight from Tifferet. They are also called the 248 organs of the body because ZA is called “body,” who is essentially the three Sefirot HGT, in which there are 248 phases.
The forty-eight Merkavot in which the Hochma is covered and concealed, are covered from the side of the person sitting on the throne, ZA, the middle line, and covered Hassadim control him in forty-eight letters from the twelve combinations of HaVaYaH in the middle line. Two hundred other ones are engraved in themselves, HG, the two lines that ZA takes from Bina, each one is one hundred, and they are two hundred, and together 248, corresponding to the 248 organs of the body.
All of them govern the throne below, where the 248 phases of covered Hassadim in HGT of ZA control Malchut, who is called a “throne,” to diminish the GAR of Hochma in Malchut so she shines only from below upward, VAK of Hochma. During the coupling, they completely control her, returning Malchut to being covered Hassadim like the 248 of ZA, like the number 248 commandments to-do in the Torah, which are “Remember!” since ZA is Remember and Malchut is Keep, and the 248 commandments to-do, to draw covered Hassadim, are from ZA, “Remember!”
The 365 not-to-do are 365 corrections to conceal the GAR of Hochma of the left, which shine from above downward, and to draw illumination of Hochma in an ascent from below upward, VAK of Hochma. Hence, the 365 not-to-do are in “Keep!” in Malchut, or from the Chazeh and below of ZA, which is the place of illumination of Hochma from above downward, since from the Chazeh and below of ZA, too, it is regarded as Malchut, since they clothe in Malchut.
For this reason, they are in the number 365, since from the Chazeh and below, there are three and a half Sefirot, which are half of Tifferet and NHY, where each one is one hundred, and they are 350 phases. Since they are the correction of the Hochma, GAR, Yod-Hey, fifteen is added to them, which is Yod-Hey in Gematria, and they are 365 phases. However, all the power of these 365 corrections to conceal the Hochma that is from above downward and to draw it only by way of ascent comes from HGT of ZA, where there is the middle line that does all these, and also the plentiful Hassadim.
The person sitting on the throne took all 248 commandments to-do to all those secrets of the 248 organs of the body and sat their secret into the holy throne, sitting their illumination inside the Malchut that is called a “throne.” In them, in the illumination of the 248 Hassadim that the throne receives, the throne rises in 365 commandments, for the illumination of the throne, Malchut, corrects so as to shine in a manner of ascent, from below upward, in 365 ways and corrections, 365 commandments not-to-do, which are “Keep!”
The 248 commandments to-do, which are covered Hassadim, their place is in HGT, the body of the animals that receive from HGT of ZA, which are covered Hassadim. Hence, they are Remember, ZA. The place of the 365 commandments not-to-do, in illumination of Hochma, is in Malchut, since illumination of Hochma is revealed only in Malchut, or in TNHYM from the Chazeh and below of ZA, which belong to Malchut. This is why they are Keep, Malchut.
It is said in several places in The Zohar that 365 are in GAR, and 248 are in VAK. This is so because “My name” with Yod-Hey is 365 in Gematria, and “My memorial” with Vav-Hey is 248 in Gematria. Thus, 365 is Yod-Hey, GAR, and 248 is Vav-Hey, VAK. However, the 365 [commandments] not-to-do are the corrections of Hochma, GAR; this is why they are Yod-Hey, and the 248 corrections of Hassadim, ZA, are Vav-Hey. However, the place of their illumination is reversed, since 248, which is covered Hassadim, shine in HGT, which is ZA and GAR of the Guf, and the 365, which are the corrections of Hochma, shine in TNHY of ZA and in Malchut, which are VAK of the Guf.
474. The upper throne, Bina, elicited 613 lights from one hidden spring, whose controller has been concealed. No one knows that spring, and there is no one to look at it. It is written about it, “It is hidden from the eyes of all the living, and concealed from the birds of the air.”
This is so because the whole cause that corrects the three lines is the screen of Hirik of the middle line, which diminishes the GAR of Hochma and unites the right and the left, which reveal the Hassadim in the 248, and the Hochma in the 365. That screen draws its power from Malchut of the quality of judgment, which is concealed in upper Ima.
475. It is written, “The throne had six steps,” which are HGT and NHY incorporated in HGT, and they are from the Chazeh and above. There are six sides below, in Malchut, in the bottom throne, like the six sides above in Bina, in the upper throne. This is so because there are six steps to the upper throne, HGT of ZA, and NHY that are incorporated in HGT, and six steps to the bottom throne, HGT of the animals in Malchut, and NHY that are incorporated in these HGT.
These and those cannot look to know the honor of the throne that is on them, much less the one who is on the throne, that on the upper throne, there is Hochma, and on the bottom throne, there is ZA. They all stand under the throne in dread and fear, carrying the throne on them without knowing to which place the bodies connect, as it is written, “two wings of each, one touched the other,” in order to lift the throne. At that time, all the appellations that cover the holy names govern over their names, and the Creator is called by an appellation.
The bodies of the animals that carry the throne are the bodies of the animals that carry the upper throne, Bina, which are HGT of ZA, and they are the bodies of the animals that carry the bottom throne, Malchut. They are all in Hassadim that are covered from Hochma, and Hochma is revealed only in the legs of the animals, TNHY, or in their wings, which are also TNHY. Although we say that the bodies of the animals are HGT, NHY are nevertheless incorporated in them, and they are six Sefirot HGT NHY, but they are all above the Chazeh. For this reason, they are all covered with Hassadim.
There are six steps to the upper throne, HGT NHY in HGT, animals of ZA, and six steps to the lower throne, HGT NHY that are in HGT, and the animals of Malchut.
These and those cannot look to know the honor of the throne that is on them, much less who is on the throne, since they are in Hassadim that are covered from Hochma. They are all in dread and in fear of revealing the Hochma since HGT are GAR of the Guf, and if Hochma were to be revealed in them, the GAR of Hochma would be revealed, and the screen of Hirik of the middle line casts terror so as not to disclose them. And behold, when the right and left of the body unite into one body, they reveal Hochma, as it is written, “two of each, one touched the other.”
They do not know to which place the bodies connect, meaning the animals do not know how to connect the bodies and reveal the Hochma, as it is written, “two wings of each, one touched the other” in order to raise the throne, since only the wings connect one to the other so that Hochma will shine by way of ascension, which are appellations and not the holy names. But the bodies, the holy names, do not know them to connect them and discover Hochma, since the bodies of the animals are in covered Hassadim.
During the illumination of Hochma, there are changes that reveal Hochma, governing the holy names, for the leadership is according to the appellation and not according to the holy names. Also, during the illumination of Hochma, the Creator is called by an appellation and not by a name, since then the appellations govern and operate, and not the holy names.
476 When the throne stands in an appellation of joy, after the throne has received the appellation that reveals Hochma, meaning when Malchut, the throne, comes for a coupling with ZA, at which time she returns to covered Hassadim like ZA, and therefore the animals let their wings down, and no longer govern those appellations and wings that reveal Hochma.
Their joy at that time of coupling is that these appellations are as it is written, “they let their wings down,” so as not to control to reveal the Hochma, so they do not interrupt the coupling of ZA and Malchut, since then the Creator is called by the other upper holy names, since then the holy names operate and not the appellations.
477. “While they stood, they let down their wings,” when they stand on their existence, when they do not journey to reveal Hochma, since Hochma is revealed only in journeying, in the appearance of three lines one at a time. Rather, they stand and rejoice in the joy of holiness, and shine from the light of Hassadim that they take from the throne, from Malchut, which is then in a coupling with ZA. For this reason, “they let down their wings,” and the upper, holy names govern—El, Elokim, HaVaYaH—for then the Creator is called by them, and not by appellations.