50) The Shechina go down to Egypt with Jacob, as it is written, “I will go down with you.” The Shechina went down with Jacob, and 600,000 holy Merkavot [plural of Merkava] with her, as it is written, “About six hundred thousand men on foot.” 600,000 holy Merkavot went down to Egypt with Jacob, and all rose from there when Israel came out of Egypt. It is written, “And the children of Israel journeyed from Ramses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot.” It is not written, “six hundred thousand,” but “About six hundred thousand.” This implies that as 600,000 below came out, 600,000 holy Merkavot that were with them came out above.
51) When those holy Merkavot and holy camps came out, Israel saw and knew that they were detained from coming out because of them, because they were not coming out, and all of Israel’s rush was for them, as it is written, “And could not delay.” It should have said, “Did not want to delay,” but it says that they could not because of the camps of angels for whom they were delayed.
It is known that all the children of Israel of the firmament are angels. It is written, “Who come to Egypt with Jacob.” It is not written, “These are the names of the children of Israel who come to Egypt with him,” but “These are the names of the children of Israel who come to Egypt with Jacob,” meaning the angels who come to Egypt first. And with whom did they come? with Jacob.
52) When Jacob was saved from Laban and Jacob walked away, the angels of God met him. And when he went down to Egypt the Creator said, “I will go down with you to Egypt.” And if the Master went down, it is not judgment, meaning His servants will certainly go down with Him, as it is written, “Who come to Egypt with Jacob,” and it is not written, “With him.” Who are the children of Israel here? They are the tribes, which are called the actual sons of Israel.”
53) “Come, behold the works of the Lord, who has made desolations in the earth.” Do not pronounce it Shamot [desolations], with a Shin with Patach, but rather Shemot [names] with a Shin with Tzereh. As the Creator did in heaven, He did on earth. There are the holy names in the firmament, and there are the holy names on earth, meaning the names of the tribes. It is written about them, “These are the names of the children of Israel who come to Egypt.”
54) On the day when Jacob went down to Egypt, 600,000 high angels went down with him, as it is written, “Behold, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty mighty men are around it from the mighty men of Israel.” These are locks that are carved according to the key. The keys turn in the place of the lock. The locks are on the seventh Sefira, Malchut, and they are carved in the sixth Sefira, Yesod, as it is written, “Mighty men are around it.”
Malchut has only HGT NHY, she ends in Yesod, called key, and she lacks the Malchut of Malchut. The locks, Malchut, which are carved according to the key, turn in the place of the key—Yesod.
The essence of the lock is Malchut, which consists of seven Sefirot HGT NHYM. Thus, it should have said that Solomon’s bed, which is Malchut, has seventy mighty men around it, seven Sefirot, each of which consists of ten. However, they end in Yesod, the key, and there is only HGT NHY in her, which are six Sefirot, each of which consists of ten, which are sixty, as it is written, “Sixty might men around it,” and not seventy.
55) “Behold, it is the bed.” The Shechina is called “bed.” “Of Solomon” means of the king that Shalom [peace/wholeness] is his, meaning ZA, middle line, which makes peace between right and left. Sixty mighty men around it are 600,000 high angels that are from the army of the Shechina that descended to Egypt with Jacob. And the reason why they are sixty is that the Shechina is written with a key.
“Of the mighty men of Israel” means the upper Israel, ZA, to whom Gevura is extended from him, as it is written, “These are the names of the children of Israel who come to Egypt with Jacob, they came each man with his household,” they and their ways, for “his household” means his costumes and ways, since each angel has a specific operation after which it is named.
56) If the people of the world knew Jacob’s great honor when the Creator told him, “I will go down with you to Egypt,” they would lick the ground around his grave and for three parasangs [approximately 8 miles] away. It is written, “And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law.” They interpret that Aaron saw that Moses went out, and he went out with him, and Elazar and the elderly presidents went out with him, and the heads of the fathers and the leaders of the people, and all of Israel went out with them. It turns out that all of Israel went out to meet Jethro.
For who would see Moses going out and would not go out with him? And who would see Aaron and the presidents go out and would not go out? It turns out that everyone went out because of Moses.
And if this was so because of Moses, it was even more so for the Creator, when He said, “I will go down with you to Egypt,” that the whole of the upper household would go down with Him. In other words, He alone, and then, “These are the names of the children of Israel,” meaning the whole of the upper household, because it is written about Moses, “And Moses went out,” and all of Israel went out with him.