Synopsis
of
the
Explained
Thus
Far
regarding
Yod-Hey
Vav-Hey
165.
The
shape
of
the
Yod
of
HaVaYaH,
the
first
dot
that
came
in
the
thought,
in
Hochma,
and
was
concealed
in
AA,
in
the
HS
in
it,
is
not
known
in
AVI,
since
the
Yod
in
HaVaYaH
implies
AA
and
AVI.
That
dot
stands
in
the
blocking
of
the
thought,
since
it
does
not
expand
at
all
because
the
leg
of
the
Yod
is
short,
indicating
that
she
has
no
expansion
to
the
lower
ones,
and
it
is
not
known
to
which
way
it
is,
where
it
is
going,
where
it
came
from,
and
from
whom
it
comes
out.
Hence,
they
are
all
outside
that
dot
which
stands
in
the
will
of
the
thought
which
is
not
known
at
all,
that
everyone
is
outside
of
it
and
there
is
no
one
to
understand
it.
166.
The
Yod,
which
is
AVI,
is
a
dot
that
stands
and
bestows
in
the
first
Hey
of
HaVaYaH,
YESHSUT,
standing
on
all
nine
supporters
of
the
letter
Yod.
The
letter
Hey
has
five
Merkavot
[structures/chariots],
and
they
are
fifty
wonders.
This
is
why
it
is
called
“a
wonder,”
since
the
letter
Aleph,
which
has
the
letters
of
“wonder”
[in
Hebrew],
ascends
here
in
YESHSUT,
and
here,
it
is
all
a
letter
of
wonders,
wondrous
beyond
attainment.
167.
All
the
supports
and
all
the
Merkavot
that
bestow
illumination
of
Hochma
when
the
bottom
Hey
ascends
to
connect
in
the
Vav
during
the
coupling
of
ZA
and
Malchut,
at
that
time,
those
Merkavot
of
hers
are
spread
over
the
Nukva,
Malchut,
and
all
her
Merkavot
incorporated
in
the
upper
Merkavot
of
HGT
all
hover
around
the
Nukva,
Malchut.
They
bestow
upon
her
illumination
of
Hochma
around
her,
from
afar,
as
clothing.
168.
When
the
Nukva,
Malchut,
does
not
connect
to
the
male,
ZA,
but
suckles
from
the
left
of
Bina,
and
she
is
in
Hochma
without
Hassadim,
a
strong
shell
covers
her
and
blocks
her
light,
and
she
is
darkness
and
cannot
shine.
When
she
connects
to
the
male,
ZA,
and
receives
the
light
of
Hassadim
from
him,
all
those
upper
Merkavot
from
Yod-Hey-Vav,
and
the
lower
ones
from
Malchut,
cover
her,
and
they
are
a
holy
shell
that
covers
her.
They
repel
the
evil
shell
that
was
blocking
her,
and
she
dresses
in
them
because
they
became
a
clothing
to
her.
However,
she
connects
to
the
letter
Vav,
meaning
receives
from
her
Hassadim
that
are
covered
from
Hochma
as
in
the
illumination
of
ZA.
She
receives
the
illumination
of
Hochma
from
the
Merkavot
that
surround
her
from
the
outside,
which
became
clothing
to
her,
only
in
her
outer
vessels.
169.
Above,
in
the
Yod-Hey
of
HaVaYaH,
she
takes
the
illuminations
of
the
Merkavot
in
the
Hey,
YESHSUT,
for
the
top
dot,
upper
AVI,
is
concealed
within
her.
When
she
takes
the
illuminations
of
the
Merkavot
and
they
are
all
in
her,
as
well
as
the
illumination
of
Hassadim
from
the
top
dot,
they
all
become
like
this
[
],
where
one
side
blocks
the
top
dot
that
stands
in
the
middle,
which
is
the
Vav,
which
walks
in
a
circle
to
make
a
Guf
to
conceal
this
dot,
the
middle
one,
and
the
other
side
remains
open
for
a
coupling
with
the
top
dot,
AVI.
At
that
time,
it
is
considered
that
the
middle
dot
controls
the
four
of
the
Merkava.
The
illumination
of
the
top
dot
in
the
first
Hey,
in
the
middle
point
in
her,
is
Neshama,
whose
illumination
is
in
desiring
mercy,
and
not
in
Hochma
like
upper
AVI.
The
illumination
of
the
three
upper
lines
HGT
is
Guf,
in
which
the
illumination
of
Hochma
opens
up,
but
the
control
is
for
Hassadim.
The
Merkavot
of
NH
and
the
Merkavot
of
the
four
virgins
and
the
four
angels,
the
Hochma
is
revealed
in
them,
and
she
is
Levushim
[garments].
The
illumination
of
the
soul
[Neshama]
and
the
illumination
of
the
garments
are
two
opposites
that
contradict
one
another
because
the
Neshama
is
in
desiring
mercy
and
not
in
Hochma,
while
the
garments
desire
Hochma.
Although
the
Guf,
too,
is
slightly
contradictory
to
the
illumination
of
Neshama,
since
the
Guf
has
already
opened
the
light
of
Hochma
in
the
three
lines
in
it,
and
the
illumination
of
Neshama
is
in
desiring
mercy
and
not
in
Hochma,
but
since
only
Hassadim
have
governance
in
them,
the
illumination
of
Neshama
can
clothe
in
the
Guf
and
they
are
not
regarded
as
contradicting
one
another.
Only
the
Levushim
cannot
be
in
one
place
with
the
illumination
of
Neshama,
and
therefore
hover
from
afar,
from
outside.
Although
the
illumination
of
Neshama
can
clothe
in
the
Guf,
it
is
still
regarded
as
blocking
the
illumination
of
Neshama
because
the
illumination
Neshama
does
not
wish
even
to
open
the
illumination
of
Hochma.
This
is
why
it
was
said
above,
in
the
Yod-Hey
of
HaVaYaH,
“takes
the
illuminations
of
the
upper
Merkava,”
Guf,
in
Hey,
YESHSUT,
in
which
the
top
dot,
upper
AVI,
Yod
of
HaVaYaH,
is
concealed
within
her,
concealed
within
her
Guf.
Although
the
Guf
does
not
contradict
the
illumination
of
AVI,
it
nevertheless
blocks
it.
When
the
first
Hey
of
HaVaYaH,
YESHSUT,
takes
the
illumination
of
the
Merkavot,
HGTM,
her
Guf,
and
they
are
all
in
her—the
illumination
of
the
soul
as
well
as
the
illumination
of
the
body—they
all
become
like
this
[],
where
the
body
blocks
the
illumination
of
the
soul
that
is
within
the
middle
dot
in
the
first
Hey,
since
the
middle
dot
receives
the
illumination
of
the
top
dot.
Vav
walks
in
a
circle
to
make
a
Guf
to
block
that
dot,
the
middle
one,
since
the
Merkava
of
the
first
Hey,
which
is
her
Guf,
is
HGTM
of
ZA,
which
is
the
Guf
of
the
half-circle
that
encircles
the
middle
dot,
where
there
is
the
illumination
of
Neshama,
and
blocks
it.
However,
it
is
not
completely,
but
rather
half
a
circle
remains
open,
indicating
that
the
middle
dot
governs
and
does
not
leave
the
Guf
to
encircle
it
and
block
it
altogether
like
the
shape
of
a
closed
Mem
[ם].
That
open
side
is
the
place
of
the
coupling
with
her
male,
the
Yod
of
HaVaYaH,
upper
AVI,
who
are
called
“the
top
dot.”
170.
As
the
bottom
Hey,
Malchut,
makes
a
Guf
in
her
Merkavot,
in
the
four
angels,
and
she
is
a
dot
that
stands
on
them
in
the
middle,
and
then
she
is
called
Hey,
indicating
the
four
angels
and
the
middle
point,
so
it
is
here
in
the
first
Hey,
YESHSUT:
The
letter
Vav,
HGTM
of
ZA,
the
four
of
the
upper
Merkava
of
YESHSUT,
are
the
Guf
of
the
first
Hey,
and
stands
in
the
Guf,
open
to
illumination
of
Hochma.
That
dot
is
in
the
middle,
standing
on
the
four
of
HGTM,
and
then
the
middle
dot
of
the
Dalet
of
her
Merkava
is
called
Hey,
as
in
the
bottom
Hey.
For
this
reason,
it
is
all
one,
where
the
first
Hey
and
the
bottom
Hey
are
as
one,
and
the
top
dot,
Yod
of
HaVaYaH,
which
shines
in
the
middle
dot
of
YESHSUT
is
called
“upper
Hochma,”
and
the
bottom
dot,
the
middle
one
in
Malchut,
is
called
“bottom
Hochma,”
small
Hochma,
and
YESHSUT
is
Hey
and
Malchut
is
Hey,
and
there
is
no
division
between
them
except
that
the
top
dot
is
first
written
in
her
dot
in
YESHSUT.
This
is
so
because
YESHSUT
first
emerged
in
Hassadim,
which
they
received
from
upper
AVI
in
the
middle
dot
in
them.
Afterwards,
they
received
the
Merkava
of
the
three
lines
and
Malchut.
You
find
that
the
middle
dot
emerged
first,
and
then
the
four
of
the
Merkava,
and
she
became
the
number
five.
Malchut,
however,
first
received
the
illumination
of
Hochma,
the
four
of
her
Merkava,
and
then
received
the
middle
dot
by
mining
the
Yesod
of
ZA,
and
was
made
five,
in
the
number.
Both
are
called
Hey
[five]
since
the
middle
dot
rides
over
the
four
of
the
Merkava
and
is
made
in
the
number
five,
except
for
the
middle
dot
of
YESHSUT
which
is
first
inscribed
in
its
dot,
where
the
dot
emerged
first,
and
then
the
four
of
the
Merkava.
Conversely,
in
Malchut,
the
four
of
the
Merkava
emerged
first,
and
then
the
dot,
since
Malchut
is
the
beginning
of
her
emergence
from
the
left
line,
the
four
of
the
Merkava,
and
then,
through
mining
the
Yesod,
she
receives
the
middle
dot.
171.
Yod
of
HaVaYaH
is
one
top
dot
that
stands
on
nine
supporters.
These
are
not
called
by
names
except
in
these
Merkavot
of
theirs,
which
are
drawn
in
YESHSUT.
However,
these
nine
supporters
emerge
from
the
candle
and
were
inscribed
under
the
Yod.
172.
The
nine
supporters
are
the
nine
dots*:
Kamatz,
Patach,
Tzereh,
Segol,
Shva,
Holam,
Hirik,
Kubutz,
and
Shuruk,
which
expand
in
all
the
letters.
Because
all
the
letters
emerge
from
the
Yod
in
her
paths,
as
the
letters
emerge
from
the
Yod,
so
are
the
dots.
All
of
those
nine
dots
emerge
from
these
nine
supporters
of
the
Yod.
*
Pronunciation
marks
above,
within,
and
below
the
Hebrew
letters.
173.
Although
these
nine
supporters
are
under
the
Yod,
in
truth,
they
are
above
the
Yod,
since
the
illumination
of
HS
of
AA
shines
within
them,
which
is
Ein
Sof.
However,
they
support
the
Yod,
upper
AVI,
and
they
are
Merkavot
to
nine
other
ones,
the
nine
Sefirot
of
AA,
who
is
Ein
Sof.
They
all
sustain
the
Yod
because
Yod,
AVI,
is
regarded
as
never
having
left
the
Rosh
of
AA,
and
all
those
below,
the
nine
supporters,
were
blocked
from
attaining
them
and
returned
to
being
concealed
in
this
dot,
which
is
AVI.