The
Tree
of
Knowledge
and
Shet
211.
“And
begot
a
son
in
his
image,
after
his
own
likeness,
and
named
him
Seth
[Shet].”
Others
were
not
in
his
image.
Shet
was
in
his
image,
after
his
own
likeness,
which
was
done
in
the
correction
of
the
body,
the
correction
of
the
soul,
in
an
upright
manner,
as
it
should
be.
The
serpent
cast
filth
in
Eve,
and
the
filth
was
tumultuous
in
her
abdomen
and
could
not
be
depicted.
212.
Before
Adam
sinned,
the
letters
Aleph-Bet
established
in
him
and
depicted
in
him
in
this
world.
When
he
reached
Kaf,
that
the
man
was
established
in
the
garden
in
male
and
female
in
affection
and
high
angels
before
them,
the
matter
immediately
upset
Sam
in
the
firmament,
and
he
went
down
riding
a
strong
serpent
and
appeared
before
him.
Promptly,
the
letters
became
mixed.
213.
At
that
time,
Sam
connected
to
the
serpent
and
they
became
one.
They
took
the
letters
and
from
then
on
made
bad
craft
with
the
letters
of
“hunting
game,”
with
the
letters
Tzadi
[and
final]
Tzadi.
They
hunted
them
with
evil
enticement
and
made
excessive
craft
with
the
letters
Kof
Reish,
a
craft
of
falsehood
since
they
returned
to
invert
the
letters
with
an
evil
craft.
The
Kof
could
not
stand
since
she
has
no
legs,
like
a
Kof
[monkey]
before
a
man
has
no
existence.
Reish,
did
Ra
[evil].
These
were
inverted
with
evil
craft
until
Adam
and
his
woman
fell.
214.
They
bore
children
with
the
letters
Kof-Reish,
but
they
were
not
sustainable.
This
is
the
filth
that
was
swallowed
in
Eve.
Cain
was
born
from
that
filth,
and
this
is
why
he
became
a
murderer,
since
the
craft
of
the
serpent
is
murdering.
And
the
letters
were
detained
up
to
here.
215.
When
Adam
repented
and
retuned
to
copulating
with
his
Nukva
as
before,
it
is
written,
“And
he
begot
in
his
image,
after
his
own
likeness.”
This
is
because
it
is
from
the
correction
of
the
body
and
the
spirit
as
it
should
be.
It
is
also
written,
“There
is
Hevel
[breath
vapor/Abel]
that
is
done
on
the
earth,”
and
the
letters
returned
to
the
beginning
of
Shin
Tav,
as
it
is
written,
“For
God
has
Shat
[appointed]
for
me
another
seed
instead
of
Abel.”
Shet
was
in
the
first
image
and
likeness;
Cain
and
Abel
were
not.
From
here,
the
world
was
built
in
a
different
manner
of
Aleph-Bet.
Keynan,
Mehalelel,
Yared.
The
letter
Nun
was
added
over
Cain
for
Keynan,
in
order
to
correct
what
is
twisted
in
Cain.
Image
and
likeness
are
garments
of
Mochin
received
from
ZA
and
Malchut.
The
likeness
is
for
the
correction
of
the
lights
Nefesh-Ruach,
which
are
received
from
ZA,
and
the
image
is
for
the
correction
of
the
body,
which
is
received
from
Malchut.
For
this
reason,
Shet
in
his
image,
after
his
own
likeness,
was
made
in
the
correction
of
the
body,
which
is
the
image,
and
in
the
correction
of
the
soul,
the
likeness,
in
an
upright
manner,
in
the
middle
line,
which
does
not
lean
to
the
right
or
to
the
left,
but
is
rather
straight.
As
there
are
male
and
female
in
holiness,
so
there
are
male
and
female
in
the
Sitra
Achra.
The
male
in
the
Sitra
Achra
is
called
Sam,
and
the
female
is
called
“serpent.”
The
difference
between
them
is
that
the
whole
matter
of
the
Sitra
Achra
is
to
grip
the
illumination
of
Hochma
from
Malchut
on
the
left,
and
draw
it
from
above
downward.
The
male,
Sam,
grips
the
light
but
does
not
draw
it
from
above
downward.
Rather,
after
Sam
has
gripped
the
light,
he
connects
with
his
female,
the
serpent,
who
draws
it
from
above
downward.
If
the
serpent
is
not
connected
with
Sam,
the
serpent
cannot
harm
at
all
since
it
has
nothing
to
draw
downward.
This
is
why
he
went
down
riding
a
strong
serpent,
for
if
Sam
were
not
connected
and
riding
the
serpent,
who
is
his
Nukva,
he
would
not
be
able
to
do
anything
since
he
cannot
bring
his
drawing
downwards.
Therefore,
Sam
connected
to
the
serpent
and
they
became
one,
and
then
they
could
draw
the
light
from
above
downward,
which
is
through
enticing
to
the
sin
of
the
tree
of
knowledge.
Eating
the
tree
of
knowledge
gave
Sam
the
strength
to
grip
the
illumination
of
Hochma
on
the
left
in
Malchut,
which
the
serpent
promptly
drew
from
above
downward.
By
this,
he
blemished
the
tree
of
life,
the
middle
line,
which
guards
the
illumination
of
Hochma
on
the
left
so
it
is
not
drawn
downward.
By
this
he
caused
the
death,
since
the
separation
of
the
tree
of
life
from
Malchut
caused
death
to
the
world.
The
serpent
cast
filth
in
Eve
since
the
serpent
that
drew
the
light
from
above
downward,
in
separation
from
the
tree
of
life,
cast
filth
in
the
light,
in
the
fruit
of
the
tree
of
knowledge,
causing
death
through
his
drawing
from
above
downward.
The
filth
was
tumultuous
in
her
abdomen
and
could
not
be
depicted
since
after
the
filth
of
the
serpent
was
swallowed
in
her,
she
could
no
longer
be
impregnated
with
a
sustainable
seed,
since
the
form
of
the
soul
of
life
could
not
be
depicted
in
her
abdomen
because
that
cause
of
death
was
tumultuous
in
her
abdomen.
The
twenty-two
letters
in
each
degree
are
twenty-two
lights
in
special
shapes,
where
from
them
and
from
their
combinations
all
the
kinds
of
light
in
that
degree
emerge
and
become
revealed.
Similar
to
the
twenty-two
letters
in
the
book
of
wisdom,
where
all
the
concepts
presented
in
the
book
of
wisdom
are
revealed
only
through
combinations
of
twenty-two
letters,
and
twenty-two
letters
suffice
for
all
the
revelations
in
it,
so
are
the
twenty-two
spiritual
letters
in
the
upper
degrees.
Before
Adam
sinned,
the
letters
of
the
Aleph-Bet
were
established
in
him
and
depicted
in
him
in
this
world.
Before
he
sinned
in
the
tree
of
knowledge,
the
twenty-two
spiritual
letters
in
the
illumination
of
his
soul
were
corrected
in
him,
to
be
joined
and
depicted
in
all
kinds
of
revelations,
to
shine
for
him
in
this
world.
When
he
reached
Kaf,
it
is
written,
“one
gold
spoon
of
ten
shekels,
full
of
incense,”
where
through
works
and
raising
of
MAN,
he
drew
the
receptacle,
called
“spoon,”
to
Malchut.
After
Malchut
acquires
that
receptacle,
she
returns
to
being
face-to-face
with
ZA,
and
everything
that
the
lower
one
causes
in
the
upper
one,
the
lower
one
is
also
rewarded
with
it.
Hence,
Adam,
too,
who
was
two
Partzufim
with
eve,
adhered
to
one
another,
have
now
been
rewarded
with
parting
from
one
another,
from
the
adhesion
of
the
posterior,
and
have
become
and
were
made
into
two
Partzufim
that
could
make
a
coupling
face-to-face.
This
is
why
when
he
got
to
Kaf,
in
which
Adam
was
corrected
in
the
garden
in
male
and
female
with
affection,
meaning
that
by
the
man’s
causing
a
Kaf
for
the
Nukva
of
ZA
through
his
actions,
and
to
return
her
to
face-to-face
with
ZA,
he,
too,
was
rewarded
with
being
corrected
alone
with
Eve,
to
be
male
and
female
face-to-face
in
love
and
affection.
Since
Malchut
connected
with
ZA
face-to-face,
the
suckling
of
the
Sitra
Achra
from
Malchut
stopped.
Promptly,
the
matter
upset
Sam
in
the
firmament
because
his
suckling
from
Malchut
had
stopped,
and
he
descended
riding
a
strong
serpent
and
appeared
before
him.
Immediately,
the
letters
were
mixed.
As
soon
as
Adam
saw
them,
the
corrected
combinations
of
holiness
of
letters
became
mixed
and
spoiled.
By
this,
it
tells
us
a
profound
matter:
The
Sitra
Achra
does
not
come
in
a
place
of
holiness.
Also,
holiness
does
not
come
in
a
place
of
the
Sitra
Achra.
Hence,
how
could
Sam
and
the
serpent
come
to
Adam
and
his
woman,
who
were
in
holiness,
and
seduce
them?
However,
it
said
“appeared
before
him,”
meaning
that
at
first,
they
could
not
approach
him,
but
were
seen
by
him.
And
since
Adam
did
not
reject
them
right
away
but
looked
at
them,
the
holiness
departed
from
him.
Promptly,
the
letters
became
mixed,
meaning
that
the
combinations
of
letters
on
which
the
holiness
was
revealed
had
departed
from
him,
and
then
Sam
and
the
serpent
could
approach
him
and
clothe
in
him,
and
entice
him
into
eating
the
tree
of
knowledge.
At
that
time,
Sam
and
the
serpent
became
one,
and
took
the
letters
that
were
vessels
for
holiness
into
their
own
authority.
From
then
onward,
they
made
evil
craft,
drawing
the
Hochma
from
above
downward,
which
is
the
opposite
of
the
craft
of
holiness
of
the
middle
line,
who
corrected
so
that
Hochma
would
shine
only
from
below
upward.
In
the
letters
of
“hunted
game,”
with
the
letters
Tzadi
[final]
Tzadi,
the
two
letters
Tzadi
[final]-Tzadi
drew
for
the
words
“hunted
game,”
as
they
are
the
acronym
of
“hunted
game”
[in
Hebrew].
They
hunted
them
through
evil
luring
since
they
hunted
Adam
and
Eve
with
their
evil
enticement,
so
they
would
eat
from
the
tree
of
knowledge,
and
caught
them
in
their
net.
From
bad
craft,
which
is
drawing
of
Hochma
from
above
downward,
extends
a
craft
of
falsehood,
when
their
actions
are
lies
and
falsehood
since
the
light
is
not
drawn
from
them
downward,
as
they
promise,
because
the
light
that
is
drawn
from
above
downward
spoils
the
craft
of
the
middle
line,
which
unites
the
left
and
the
right
with
one
another,
and
since
the
left
has
parted
from
the
right,
its
lights
freeze
immediately
and
coolness
and
freezing
and
drawn
to
them.
It
follows
that
their
bad
craft
is
a
craft
of
falsehood,
that
they
did
not
do
anything
with
their
deeds.
The
inversion
of
the
light
into
freezing
is
implied
in
the
letter
Kof,
which
comes
from
the
word
Kipa’on
[freezing].
After
the
light
has
frozen,
evil
judgments
grip
it
and
put
the
sinner
to
death,
as
it
is
written,
“Sin
crouches
at
the
door.”
That
bad
is
implied
by
the
letter
Reish,
which
is
the
beginning
of
the
word
Ra
[bad].
They
made
excessive
craft
with
the
letters
Kof
Reish,
a
craft
of
falsehood,
which
makes
their
craft
extraneous,
turning
the
letters
of
the
alphabet
to
bad
with
the
two
letters
Kof
Reish,
for
the
Kof
implies
that
the
light
has
become
Kipa’on
[freezing],
and
the
Reish
implies
that
it
does
Ra
[evil].
You
find
that
their
craft
is
a
craft
of
falsehood,
that
all
their
actions
were
falsehood
and
lies.
That
was
because
they
returned
to
inverting
the
letters
with
a
bad
craft.
Because
they
did
bad
craft
of
drawing
the
light
from
above
downward
and
separating
the
left
from
the
right,
the
letters
Kof
Reish
became
freezing
and
bad.
Besides
this
one,
there
are
two
other
intimations
in
the
letter
Kof,
for
the
sinners.
The
first
intimation
is
that
it
only
has
one
leg
extended
downward.
This
indicates
that
there
is
no
validity
to
their
actions,
since
there
is
no
persistence
and
subsistence
on
one
leg.
The
second
intimation
is
that
Kof
[the
letter,
as
well
as
“monkey”]
implies
the
animal
called
“monkey,”
which
is
similar
to
the
face
of
a
person.
Also,
that
light
that
is
extended
from
above
downward,
from
left
without
right,
is
not
similar
to
the
real
light,
but
rather
like
the
similarity
between
the
monkey
and
a
human
face.
After
Adam
repented
and
was
purified
from
the
filth
of
the
serpent,
and
returned
to
copulating
with
his
Nukva
as
before,
it
is
written,
“and
begot
in
his
image,
after
his
own
likeness,”
meaning
that
the
upper
unification
of
right
and
left
through
the
middle
line
has
returned,
and
the
coupling
of
ZA
and
Malchut
has
returned,
and
then
he
drew
a
likeness
from
ZA,
which
is
the
correction
of
the
spirit,
and
drew
an
image
from
Malchut,
which
is
the
correction
of
the
body.
Likeness
and
image
correct
the
body
and
the
spirit
as
they
should
be,
so
they
are
sustainable.
It
is
written,
“There
is
Hevel
[mouth
vapor/nonsense]
which
is
done
upon
the
earth.”
Those
who
have
no
correction
of
the
spirit
are
mere
Hevel;
they
have
no
existence.
The
letters
returned
to
the
beginning
of
Shin
Tav
since
they
remained
and
were
not
blemished,
as
it
is
written,
“For
God
has
Shat
[appointed]
for
me
another
seed
instead
of
Abel.”
Shet
was
in
a
likeness
and
in
an
image,
and
the
first
ones,
Cain
and
Abel,
were
not
so.
From
here,
the
world
was
built
in
a
different
manner
of
the
alphabet,
in
the
order
Tav-Shin-Reish-Kof
[reversed
order],
which
is
Aleph-Bet
in
reverse.