A
Small
city,
and
a
Great
King
Comes
to
It
452.
It
is
written,
“A
small
city
with
few
people
in
it.”
The
Yod,
in
which
there
is
no
white
of
another
place,
to
be
incorporated
and
let
others
into
her,
this
is
why
there
are
few
people
in
her.
A
great
king
came
to
her,
the
letter
Lamed,
which
is
a
tower
floating
in
the
pure
air
that
is
perceived,
YESHSUT.
There
is
another
air,
which
is
completely
imperceptible
and
unknown;
it
is
upper
AVI.
Hence,
The
Zohar
makes
the
precision
of
saying
“air
that
is
perceived,”
which
is
YESHSUT.
Air
is
the
level
of
Ruach,
which
was
made
in
AVI
and
in
YESHSUT
due
to
the
ascent
of
Malchut,
Yod,
into
their
light,
and
their
light
was
diminished
into
air,
VAK,
and
the
GAR
disappeared.
There
is
a
difference
between
the
level
of
the
air
of
AVI
and
the
level
of
the
air
of
YESHSUT,
since
the
air
of
AVI
is
never
perceived,
meaning
that
GAR
never
return
on
them.
VAK
without
GAR
are
regarded
as
imperceptible,
but
the
air
of
YESHSUT
is
perceptible,
for
in
them,
the
Yod
exits
the
air
once
more,
and
they
return
to
being
the
light
of
GAR.
For
this
reason,
their
air
is
perceptible.
A
great
king
came
to
her,
the
letter
Lamed,
who
is
a
tower
floating
in
the
pure
air,
which
is
perceived,
Bina,
whose
GAR
are
upper
AVI,
and
whose
VAK
are
YESHSUT.
Due
to
the
ascent
of
Malchut,
the
Yod,
to
her
light,
the
light
became
air,
and
this
is
why
she
is
called
“a
tower
floating
in
the
air.”
In
order
for
you
not
to
be
mistaken
that
the
intention
is
for
upper
AVI,
it
was
said
“in
the
pure
air,
which
is
perceived,”
for
at
the
time
of
Gadlut,
the
Yod
exits
the
air,
and
the
air
is
perceived
and
returns
to
GAR,
and
this
is
applied
in
YESHSUT.
453.
Although
the
letter
Lamed,
Bina,
is
king
over
all
the
letters,
since
the
letters
come
out
from
Bina,
he
enters
into
the
Yod,
Malchut,
the
tiny
black
letter
in
which
there
is
no
white
from
another
place,
and
collects
her
into
her
and
incorporates
her,
and
surrounds
her
with
one
letter,
Tet.
Tet
was
a
Lamed,
and
by
that
circling
that
he
encircles
round
and
round,
the
Tet
is
made,
in
a
circle.
In
the
first
state,
Malchut
is
adhered
and
receives
Hochma
from
the
left
line
of
Bina.
Hence,
at
that
time,
she
was
as
big
as
ZA,
as
both
received
from
one
source.
Afterwards,
she
came
to
the
second
state,
when
she
diminished
herself
and
descended
below
Yesod
of
ZA,
and
she
has
only
what
she
receives
from
Yesod
of
ZA.
For
this
reason,
although
the
letter
Lamed
is
king
over
all
the
letters,
a
great
king,
YESHSUT,
he
enters
the
Yod,
Malchut
in
the
first
state,
who
was
adhered
and
received
Hochma
from
the
left
line
of
YESHSUT,
and
surrounds
her
with
one
letter,
Tet.
That
is,
in
the
second
state,
when
she
was
diminished
into
a
dot
under
Yesod
of
ZA,
where
Yesod
of
ZA
is
the
letter
Tet,
Yesod
bestowed
in
her
Hochma
and
Hassadim.
Tet
was
Lamed,
and
in
the
circling
that
he
circled,
she
became
a
Tet,
in
a
circle.
In
the
beginning,
in
the
first
state,
the
Mochin
of
Malchut
were
from
the
letter
Lamed,
YESHSUT,
and
in
the
circling
that
he
encircled
until
Malchut
came
to
the
second
state,
the
Mochin
of
Lamed
diminished
from
Malchut,
and
instead
of
her,
the
Mochin
of
the
letter
Tet
were
made,
Yesod
of
ZA.
You
find
that
the
Mochin
of
the
letter
Tet,
which
Malchut
receives
now,
were
at
first
the
Mochin
of
the
letter
Lamed.
454.
It
is
written,
“and
built
great
snares
around
it,”
in
order
to
catch
anyone
she
wants
with
her
snare.
It
is
written,
“who
is
snares
and
nets.”
He
built
on
her,
for
her,
for
her
honor,
to
give
her
dominion
over
several
who
were
sentenced
to
courthouse
deaths,
and
over
several
who
were
sentenced
to
fines,
and
several
who
were
sentenced
to
punishments.
One
who
entered
and
desecrated
that
dot
will
be
punished
a
harsh
punishment
for
that
dot.
455.
Because
of
this
dot,
Solomon
lost
his
kingdom
and
it
was
torn
and
given
to
others,
although
it
is
smaller
than
all
the
letters,
and
she
is
only
one
dot.
456.
At
that
time,
when
the
Yod
rose
before
the
holy
king,
she
said
to
him,
“Behold,
king
Solomon
is
making
me
into
a
lie,”
as
she
is
the
Yod
from
the
verse,
“But
he
shall
not
multiply
horses
to
himself
…
Neither
shall
he
multiply
women
for
himself
…
nor
shall
he
greatly
multiply
silver
and
gold
for
himself.”
The
Creator
said
to
her,
“Solomon
will
perish,
and
a
thousand
others,
but
you
will
not
be
uprooted
from
your
place.”
457.
At
that
time,
the
Kof
went
out
from
before
the
Creator,
drove
him
out
of
his
kingdom,
and
he
wandered
in
the
world
as
one
who
is
contemptible.
He
declared
and
said
of
the
letter
Kof,
“I
am
Ecclesiastes;
I
was
king
over
Israel
in
Jerusalem.”
Yod,
the
middle
point
that
rides
on
the
Dalet
and
became
a
Hey,
is
the
carrier
of
the
screen
of
Hirik
of
ZA
after
she
descended
under
the
Chazeh
of
ZA.
Hence,
she
rules
over
the
Hochma
of
the
left
line
so
it
will
not
be
drawn
from
above
downward
to
spoil
the
correction
of
the
middle
line.
It
is
written,
“and
built
great
snares
around
it,”
to
give
her
dominion
over
several
who
were
sentenced
to
courthouse
deaths.
By
the
force
of
the
judgments
of
the
screen
of
Hirik
that
she
carries,
she
punishes
he
who
blemishes
her,
he
who
draws
the
Hochma
from
above
downward,
with
all
kinds
of
punishments.
One
who
enters
and
desecrates
that
dot
will
be
punished
a
harsh
punishment.
One
who
enters
her
to
desecrate
her,
desecrates
her
boundary.
There
are
three
lines
on
the
left
line,
since
each
of
the
three
lines
is
incorporated
with
all
of
them.
Her
right
line
is
women;
her
left
line
is
horses,
and
the
middle
line,
which
contains
both,
is
silver
and
gold,
silver
from
the
right,
and
gold
from
the
left.
Accordingly,
there
is
a
measure
in
those
three,
to
draw
in
them
only
from
below
upward
and
not
from
above
downward.
These
are
the
three
letters
Yod,
the
carriers
of
the
screen
of
Hirik
that
warns
and
punishes
for
their
excessive
proliferation.
Since
king
Solomon
breached
them,
the
Yod
came
up
before
the
king,
the
Yod
from
the
verse,
“But
he
shall
not
multiply
horses
to
himself,”
since
he
blemished
the
quality
of
the
Yod
and
proliferated
excessively.
The
Creator
told
her,
“Solomon
will
perish
and
a
thousand
others,
but
you
will
not
be
uprooted
from
your
place,”
since
the
correction
in
her
will
not
be
canceled,
and
he
was
given
the
punishment.
The
letter
Kof
implies
the
shell
that
draws
Hochma
from
above
downward.
This
is
the
leg
of
the
Kof,
which
comes
out
and
is
stretched
below
the
line.
Therefore,
that
Kof,
in
whose
net
he
was
caught,
punished
him
and
drove
him
out
from
his
kingdom.
This
is
what
that
Kof
implied
in
the
book
Ecclesiastes,
when
he
said,
“I
am
Ecclesiastes;
I
was
king
over
Israel
in
Jerusalem,”
meaning
that
now
he
is
not
a
king.
The
letter
Kof
implied
this,
as
he
declared
and
said
in
the
letter
Kof,
“I
am
Kohelet,”
declaring
that
the
Kof
caused
the
descent
from
his
kingship.
458.
It
is
written
about
that,
“And
built
great
snares
around
it,”
to
catch
the
people
of
the
world
for
her
in
their
sins.
If
this
were
so
for
Solomon,
that
he
was
caught
in
those
snares,
it
is
much
more
so
for
the
rest
of
the
people.
This
is
why
she
said,
“I
am
black.”
“Do
not
see
me”;
you
will
not
be
able
to
look
at
me
and
enter
me
since
I
am
dark.
459.
She
also
said,
“my
mother’s
sons
were
angry
with
me,”
afflicted
me
in
that
dot,
so
another
will
not
enter
me.
They
expanded
and
were
established
in
their
correction
properly.
They
expanded
and
were
established
in
the
letter
Vav,
which
emerges
from
the
top
dot,
and
were
corrected
in
their
corrections
properly.
They
were
corrected
and
expanded
and
were
engraved
in
the
letter
Shin,
which
emerges
from
there.
460.
They
were
corrected
and
expanded
and
were
engraved
in
the
letter
final
Nun.
They
were
corrected
and
expanded
and
were
engraved
in
the
letter
Tzadi,
and
I
have
no
expansion
to
a
side
in
the
world,
and
they
did
not
leave
for
me
another
place
to
incorporate
you.
Yod
contains
both
diminutions
within
her—the
diminution
of
the
first
state,
when
she
was
devoid
of
Hassadim,
and
the
diminution
of
the
second
state,
when
because
she
went
below
the
Chazeh
of
ZA,
the
force
of
the
screen
of
Hirik
in
the
Chazeh
of
ZA
governs
her,
and
she
was
diminished
from
reception
of
Hochma,
as
well.
From
the
first
state,
she
calls
HGT
of
ZA
“my
mother’s
sons,”
for
then
she
was
clothing
the
left
line
of
Ima,
and
HGT
of
ZA
were
clothing
the
right
line
of
Ima.
HGT
of
ZA,
who
are
the
sons
of
the
mother
of
Malchut,
are
the
ones
who
constrained
her
and
made
her
into
a
dot
in
both
diminutions.
This
is
so
because
when
she
was
in
the
first
state,
they
did
not
give
her
Hassadim.
Afterwards,
in
the
second
state,
they
established
the
screen
of
Hirik
that
is
in
their
Chazeh,
at
the
same
point,
and
she
was
diminished
from
Hochma,
as
well.
Another
can
no
longer
enter
me
because
I
have
neither
Hochma
nor
Hassadim.
Through
the
screen
of
Hirik
that
she
now
carries,
all
the
letters
expanded
properly.
They
expanded
and
were
corrected
in
the
letter
Vav,
which
emerges
from
the
top
dot,
since
the
letter
Vav
expanded
only
in
Hassadim
that
she
receives
from
the
top
dot,
Bina.
They
were
established
in
the
letter
Shin,
which
is
an
expansion
of
three
lines,
like
the
shape
of
the
Shin,
in
which
there
is
also
incorporation
of
Hochma
of
the
left.
In
this
way,
she
brings
two
letters
that
indicate
the
coupling
of
male
and
female
together.
They
were
established
in
the
letter
final
Nun,
which
is
expansion
of
Hassadim
from
the
letter
Vav,
male
and
female
together.
They
were
established
in
the
letter
Tzadi,
indicating
the
incorporation
of
male
and
female,
Yod
Nun
back-to-back
due
to
the
incorporation
with
illumination
of
Hochma.
And
I
have
no
expansion
to
any
side,
neither
to
Hassadim
on
the
right
side,
nor
to
Hochma
on
the
left
side,
since
she
was
diminished
from
both,
and
she
has
nothing
of
her
own.
And
HGT
of
ZA
left
me
no
place
to
incorporate
you,
for
I
have
nothing.