135. The wicked are not watchful from the Einayim in the Rosh of ZA. Sometimes they are asleep, and sometimes they are not asleep. This is why they are called as it is written, “Your eyes are as doves,” and it is written, “Do not be fraudulent with each other,” from the word fraud. To the wicked ones, it seems as though they are asleep and are not watching over the world. This is why it is written, “And will not see the Lord and will not understand the God of Jacob,” and it is written, “He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see?”
The eyes of ZA are Providence in reward and punishment. At times, it is revealed and at times concealed, since when the lower ones improve their actions, they are rewarded with attaining His Providence, and he is awake, as it is written, “will neither sleep nor slumber.” If they worsen their actions, Providence is concealed and they say, “The Lord will not be seen,” which is regarded as sleep.
The wicked ones are watchful from the eyes in the Rosh of ZA, since when they worsen their actions, they make the left line prevail over the right, and then the eyes are hidden from them and they say, “The Lord shall not be seen.” This is why they do not guard themselves from them, for they are not afraid to sin.
The wicked ones excuse themselves through their eyes, for because of their sins, they are regarded for them as if asleep and are not watching over the world. This is a deceit, for only their actions have caused them this.
For this reason, they are called as it is written, “Your eyes are as doves,” at times asleep, and at times not asleep. For the wicked, they are asleep, as it is written, “And they said, ‘The Lord shall not be seen,’” and for the righteous, they are not asleep, as it is written, “He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see?”
136. The correction on the eye is the hairy hair at the end of the forehead above the eyes, to a complete measure. One thousand seven hundred watchers hang from those hairs to make war, and at that time, they all stand from their cascading, arresting their cascading on the eyes to cover them. The hairs are raised above the eyes, and the eyes open.
The place of the hairs is on the Galgalta, which is the Mem of Tzelem, for the Yod does not exit the Avir that is there. However, the Metzah, where the Lamed of Tzelem begins, where the Yod exits the Avir at the time of Gadlut, is part of the hairs. Nevertheless, the hairs above the eyes are kept in him, since these hairs from the judgments of the screen of Hirik of the middle line, by whose power he unites the right with the left, to open the illumination of Hochma through her incorporation with the right, therefore, they must remain.
The correction on the eye is the hairs that remain at the end of the forehead, the hairs that are measured in a complete measure. They operate at the time of wholeness, when the Hey has already come out from the Einayim [eyes] and the Hochma has been revealed. At that time, they operate to unite the Hochma with the Hassadim, for then the eyes open and can shine. However, before the middle line unites with these hairs Hochma and Hassadim with one another, they cannot shine and they are regarded as asleep and closed, since Hochma without Hassadim is darkness and not light.
One thousand seven hundred watchers hang from those hairs to make war. These hairs make war to sustain 1,700 watchers, since the illumination of the two lines exists through the screen of Hirik, but the right shines from above downward because it has GAR in it, and it is regarded as 1,000, where each Sefira consists of one hundred, and the left line is devoid of GAR because it shines from below upward. This is why it is only seven hundred, seven Sefirot, each of which consists of one hundred.
137. The eyebrows, small hairs, grip to the cover over the eyes. Both of them are called eyelids, or the cover of the eye. One thousand four hundred myriads shielded ones grip them, and they are called the “cover over the eyes.” All those who are called the “eyes of the Lord” are illumination of Hochma, called Einayim, Ozen, Hotem, Peh. All those who are called the “eyes of the Lord” do not open and do not awaken except when those covers of the eyebrows over the eyes divide the lower ones from the upper ones, when the bottom part is divided from the top part.
When the bottom eyebrows are divided from the top ones and give a place to watch, the eyes open and are seen as one who has awakened from his sleep. The eyes roll and see the open eye of AA, and bathe in his white. When they bathe in the white, the accusers of Israel surrender, and this is why it is written, “Awaken, why do You sleep, Lord?”
When the Yod exits the Avir, and Bina and TM that fell from the degree return to the degree, the left line emerges in the degree from the ten Sefirot KHB TM, the dot of Shuruk. At that time, the left does not want to unite with the right. Because of it, the cover that conceals the Hochma on the left continues, so it will not be able to shine, and this is the cover over the eyes. Before the light of Hochma, called “Einayim,” unites with the Hassadim, the cover lies on all ten Sefirot in the Einayim and covers it.
However, afterwards, after the coming of the middle line with the screen of Hirik in it, the left line forces it to unite with the Hassadim of the right by diminishing the left from GAR. At that time, the Hochma unites with the Hassadim and the eyes open. The diminution of GAR of the left, which is done by the middle line, also breaches the cover that covers the left, as the GAR of the cover that have risen up indicate the departure of GAR of Hochma of the left, and the VAK of the cover that remained below indicate VAK of Hochma that remained in the eyes, and this is the opening of the eyes.
The Se’arot that grip the cover of the eyes point to judgments of the screen of Hirik of the middle line that operate there in order to breach the cover and open the eyes. Fourteen hundred myriad protectors grip them, since three lines are three thousand myriads. Since the left controls without the right, there is only the left line there, with the left half of the middle line, which are fifteen hundred myriads. However, due to the deficiency of Malchut, since she rose and was incorporated in Bina, they are regarded as fourteen hundred myriads, and they are called the “cover of the eyes.” This control of the left side without the right, regarded fourteen hundred myriads, becomes the cover over the eyes to conceal the Hochma.
All those who are called the “eyes of the Lord,” who are illumination of Hochma, called “eyes,” do not open and do not awaken except when those covers of the eyebrows over the eyes divide the lower ones from the upper ones, where the bottom part is divided from the top part. The cover closes the eyes until the middle line comes and diminishes the GAR of the left by the force of the screen of Hirik, which is the hairs in the cover. With the departure of the GAR of Hochma of the left, the cover is breached and the GAR in it rise up, and the VAK in it go down.
At the time when the lower eyebrows are divided from the upper ones and give room to watch, since by diminishing the GAR of the left and the departure of the upper eyebrows, the departed upward and separated from the lower ones, Hochma is united with Hassadim, at that time, the illumination of Hochma called “eyes” watches over in the guidance. The eyes open and seem as though one has awakened from one’s sleep. When they open, they receive Hassadim from the open eye of Atik.
138. Four colors are seen in the eyes of ZA: white, red, green, and black, corresponding to HB TM. From them, the four chambers of the Tefillin shine in the spaces of the Moach: The portions are the Mochin and GAR, the chambers are the spaces of the Mochin and VAK. The illuminations of the Einayim are VAK, and therefore bestow upon the chambers.
There are seven that are called the “eyes of the Creator.” These are the seven Sefirot HGT NHY in the eye: White is Hesed, red is Gevura, green is Tifferet, which consists of NHY, and black is Malchut. The vision emerges from the black color in the eye, Malchut, as it is written, “on one stone, seven eyes.” They are colors that blaze from their own phase, where it is written about the seven phases HGT NHYM that come out from the black in the eye, “on one stone,” Malchut, “seven eyes,” seven phases of Malchut.
139. Seven other eyes, watchers of judgment, come out from the red color in the eyes. The red color is the left line, judgment. They are called “the eyes of the Lord roam throughout the land,” as it is written, “The Lord, His eyes roam throughout the land.” “Roam” is in female form [in Hebrew], and not roam in male form, since they are all judgment.
Seven other eyes emerge from the green color in the eye, which are poised to reveal man’s actions, whether good or bad, as it is written, “For His eyes are on the ways of a man.” These are called “the eyes of the Lord roam,” as it is written, “The Lord, His eyes roam throughout the land.” “Roam” is in male form [in Hebrew], and not “roam” in female form, since they are to both sides: to the good and to the bad. The green color is the middle line, which incorporates right and left, Hesed and judgment. This is why it is in male form, since Hesed shines in male light.
All the Rachamim [mercies] come out from the white color in the eye, and all that good that is in the world, to benefit Israel. At that time, all those three colors—red, green, black—bathe in the white color, Rachamim, to have mercy on them.
140. Those four colors mix with one another and adhere to one another, each lending of its color to the others, except for the white, in which all are incorporated when they need it, and it covers everything. All the colors below, the corporeal ones, all the people in the world cannot return the black and the red and the green to appear as white. But here, in one watching, all three colors—black, red, and green—unite and bathe in the white color, and return to being white, Hesed.
The three colors in the eye are three lines, white, red, and green. Malchut, who receives the three lines, appears as black. The three lines need one another since there is no wholeness to one without connection with the other, as without incorporation from the left, the right line is VAK without GAR, and the left line without the right is darkness and cannot shine at all. Both of them, right and left, cannot be incorporated in each other without incorporation from the middle line, which diminishes the GAR of the left and unifies it with the right, and the middle line has only the light of the right and the left that it receives by unifying them, so that the three come out from one, one is rewarded with the three of them.
Thus, each line borrows light from the other, to be incorporated in it, the white from the red, the red from the white, and both of them from the green. This is why it is said that these four colors mix with one another and adhere to one another, each lending to the other from its color, since there is no wholeness to one except by incorporating with the other. This is regarded as borrowing light from it in order to maintain its control.
However, a white appearance, the right line, is the main light that can shine without the other lines, at least in VAK. Conversely, the other lines are completely dark without the right line, Hesed. This is why it was said “except for the white color,” for everyone are incorporated in it, as they all need it, and it does not need them since it can nevertheless shine in VAK, without incorporation with others.
141. The eyebrows are quiet only when the white colors want to oversee, since the eyebrows give room to all the colors to oversee, and if they do not give room, no color can oversee and watch. The eyebrows do not stand in one place, and are not quiet for one whole hour. Rather, they open and close, close and open because of the overseeing eye that stands over them. This is why it is written, “And the animals ran back and forth.”
The eyebrows, the covers, come out with the emergence of the left line and cover the eyes, since the left cannot shine without the Hassadim from the right. Also, the emergence of the left line diminishes the GAR of the left, and along with it, the cover is breached, and its upper half rises up. At that time, the eyes open. If the eyebrows do not give room, no color can oversee and watch, for if the eyebrows are not opened through the middle line, the eyebrows cover the eyes and cannot oversee.
Also, Hochma shines only during the journeying of the three lines, when they come out to control one after the other: first the right line, then the left line, and then the middle line, and so forth. However, if they are resting, the Hochma stops and they bestow only Hassadim.
The eyebrows do not stand in one place and are not quiet for one whole hour, since the illumination of Hochma is called “seeing of the eyes,” which shines only during the journeying of the three lines. For this reason, when the emergence of the left line begins, the cover is drawn and covers the eyes. When the middle line comes out, it breaches the cover and lifts half of it up, and so on and so forth.
When the time of the emergence of the left line comes, the eyes are covered and they close. Afterwards, when the time of the emergence of the middle line comes, they reopen. It is likewise throughout the time of the illumination of Hochma: The three lines travel one after the other and so forth. If they rest, the Hochma, called “seeing of the eyes,” stops, and the light of Hassadim begins.
The eyebrows do not stand in one place and are not quiet for one whole hour. Rather, they open and close, close and open because of the overseeing eye that stands over them. In other words, as long as the overseeing eye stands over them to bestow seeing in them, they open and close, close and open by the journeying of the three lines, which does not stop during the illumination of Hochma.
The eyebrows are quiet only when the white colors want to oversee, since throughout the time of the illumination of Hochma, the journeying of the three lines does not stop, except when wanting to bestow the white color, Hassadim. Then the journeying stops. They are not quiet for one whole hour, to stand in one line, only on the left or only on the right, since three lines are called “three hours.”
142. It is written, “Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet home,” and it is written, “The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.” This is so because Jerusalem, Malchut, must have the Creator’s eyes on it, since the place of disclosure of Hochma is in Malchut, in the bottom Hochma, as it is written, “Justice lodges in it,” and justice is judgments extended from the illumination of Hochma of the left, which shines in Malchut.
This is why it is written Jerusalem and not Zion, since Zion is the internality of Malchut, illumination of Hassadim, as it is written, “Zion will be redeemed by sentence.” Everything is mercy, for justice is the judgment of the left, and is applied in Jerusalem, and sentence is Rachamim of ZA and is applied in Zion.
143. “Your eye will see Jerusalem.” It is written “your eye,” in singular form [in Hebrew], indicating the eye of the holy Atik, the most concealed of all, whose both eyes return to one, since they are white within white. This will be in the future [end of correction].
But now, it is written, “The eyes of the Lord are on it,” both eyes, which are for better and for worse, as it should be. For this reason, they do not always exist this way, in a perpetual existence, but in the future, they will return to being one eye, since then, “Your eyes will see Jerusalem,” one eye [in Hebrew], which is all for better, entirely in mercy, the eye of Atik, as it is written, “But with great mercies I will gather you.”
144. “The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year.” It is written “from the beginning” without an Aleph [in Hebrew]. “Beginning” without an Aleph is the bottom Hey, Malchut, since Resheet [beginning] is from the words Rash and Dal [both mean poor].
It is written above, “He cast down from heaven to the earth, the glory [Tifferet] of Israel.” What is the reason that He cast from heaven to earth? That is, what is the reason that Malchut, who is called “earth,” was cast from ZA, who is called “heaven”? It is because it is written, “I clothe the heavens with blackness.” The eyes are in blackness, covered in black color. At that time, Malchut is separated from ZA since she has nothing to receive from him.
145. From which place do these eyes of the Lord look at Jerusalem? From the beginning of the year, from Bina, who is called “beginning” without an Aleph, since she is judgment, since judgment grips from her left side, although she is not actually judgment, and until the end of the year, the Malchut.
146. Aleph in itself is called “first” [one], male, since what is not known is concealed in Aleph. When this Aleph connects in another place, the place is called Resheet [beginning]. It is not that it connected, but that it is revealed in it and shines in it, and then it is called Resheet. Even that Beresheet [in the beginning] does not oversee in Jerusalem, since if she received from this Resheet, she would always shine and her coupling would not stop. However, it is written, “from the beginning,” without an Aleph, which is why her coupling stops. For the next world, it is written, “The first time I said to Zion, ‘Look, there they are!’” Aleph, called “first,” will shine to Zion, Malchut.
There are three kinds of Hochma in Atzilut: 1) HS of AA, which was concealed and does not shine to the lower ones from herself, 2) Hochma of the right, upper AVI, who receive from HS. They are called Resheet to indicate that the Aleph shines in them. HS is called “first,” “male,” and AVI are called Resheet, female, who receives from him. First and Resheet are male and Nukva, and it is known that AVI, too, are concealed and do not shine to the lower ones. 3) Bina that returned to Hochma, Bina and TM that came out from the Rosh, from Hochma, and returned to the Rosh. At that time, her left line becomes Hochma, and she is the Hochma that shines to ZA and Malchut. However, the first two Hochmot [pl. of Hochma], who are called First and Beresheet, do not shine. Since Hochma of the left has judgments in her, she is called Resheet without an Aleph, indicating that the illumination of HS, which is called Aleph, is absent in her.