A Glow to the Fire

407. “And a glow to the fire.” Noga [glow] is from the right side of ZA, and is incorporated in the left of ZA, and the left in the right, and a blazing fire, which is from the left that is incorporated in the right, glitters. The stone, Malchut, shines from Noga, and a mirror is placed in it, to look at her beauty.

408. Noga is a sparkling that sparkles like fire and illuminates the red in her, in Malchut, the illumination of Hochma in the left that is incorporated in Noga. Because ZA enters and makes a hole in that stone, in the second state, when he makes it into a receptacle and bestows Hassadim, she is of good looks, for then she has Hochma and Hassadim, from which there is the beauty.

409. This stone is seen and colored in two colors, since at first, Malchut was in the color of darkness, in the first state of Malchut. And when she was corrected to receive the light, in the second state of Malchut, the light awakened from the right side and she shone in the white, in Hassadim. Once she shone in white, like the white in the crystal stone, she no longer has the appearance of beauty to look at, until the left side of that Noga comes, red, and that left in Noga, illumination of Hochma, enters the Malchut, and then she is of good looks and beautiful to look at.

410. Now Malchut is a precious stone in wholeness in colors. Like a beautiful woman in a look of white and red, likewise, when Malchut has Hassadim and Hochma, which are called “white” and “red,” she is called “of good looks.” At that time, the letters, her Sefirot, glitter inside her, and from that glittering emerges a flash from an emerald, which shines briefly and promptly vanishes like lightning, white and red, where the red is incorporated in the white, and the white is incorporated in the red. It is written about it, “and there was a glow to the fire, and a flash came out of the fire.”

The illumination of Hochma shines only together with judgments and punishments for the wicked who draw the Hochma from above downward. This is as it is written, “a glow to the fire,” when the illumination of Hochma that Malchut receives from Noga glitters in the letters of Malchut like fire, in judgments.

Once the judgments with the Hochma have been revealed, lightning comes out of the fire, the judgments. That is, illumination of Hochma is revealed from them, which shines in haste like lightning, and promptly vanishes. The illumination of Hochma that Malchut received from Noga is called “emerald” since it is a female light, and none of it is revealed until the letter of Malchut glitter like fire, when the judgments with the Hochma are revealed. After the judgments are revealed, it is written, “and a flash came out of the fire.”

411. It is a holy matter to dye the rest of the stones from the precious stone called emerald, for because it is colored from the light of the lightning, it is named after it [in Hebrew], emerald. The precious stone, that upper gemstone, Malchut, was painted in twelve colors that shine in two—Hassadim and Hochma—and from within the glittering sparkling that she elicits, the twelve stones of Malchut are colored, where emerald is one of them, as it is written, “ruby, topaz, and emerald.” They are three orders, and as they were colored from her, so they are called by that very same name.

There are four colors: white, red, green, and black, three lines and Malchut who receives them. When they are incorporated in each other, there are three lines in each of the four colors, and they are twelve colors. For this reason, when Malchut receives from these four colors, twelve stones are dyed in her, the stones of the breastplate [of the High Priest] that are written in the Torah. Emerald is one of twelve stones, illumination of Hochma that Malchut receives from Noga. Since the twelve stones are incorporated with each other, you find that they are all incorporated with the emerald.