105. It is written, “Why have I come and there is no man?” How beloved are Israel by the Creator, for wherever they are, the Creator is among them, since He does not remove His love from them, as it is written, “And let them make Me a Temple, that I may dwell among them.” “Let them make Me a Temple,” any Temple, for any assembly house [synagogue] in the world is called a “Temple.” “That I may dwell among them,” since the Shechina [Divinity] comes first to the assembly house.
106. Happy is he who is among the first ten at the assembly house, for they complete the congregation, which is no less than ten, and they are the first to be sanctified by the Shechina. Also, there must be ten in the assembly house at the same time, and not come bit by bit, so as not to delay the wholeness of the organs, for all ten are as organs of a single body in which the Shechina is present, for man, the Creator made him at once, and established all his organs together.
107. Since all of the man’s organs were completed at that time, each organ was established in itself properly. Similarly, since the Shechina came to the assembly house first, ten must be there together, and then it is completed, since there is no congregation of less than ten, who correspond to the ten Sefirot of Malchut. As long as there are no ten there together, none of them is completed.
Afterwards, the correction of the whole congregation is performed, as it is written, “The king is glorified in the multitude of people.” For this reason, the people, who comes after the first ten, are all the correction of that body, meaning the correction of the congregation, since the multitude of the people increases the glory of the king.
108. When the Shechina comes first and people have not come together as it should be, the Creator calls out, “Why have I come and there is no man?” There is no man, for the organs have not been established and the body, called “congregation,” has not been completed. When the body is not complete, there is no man, for the particular organs that have already come are also not completed.
When the body is completed below, when there are ten together, the upper Kedusha [holiness] comes and enters that body, and the lower one becomes exactly like the ten Sefirot of above. At that time, everyone must avoid speaking of mundane matters, since Israel are now in the wholeness of the upper one and are sanctified by the upper Kedusha.
109. It is written, “If a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite [hermit].” “Special” means separating himself from the rest of the people of the world to be sanctified such as above and be found whole. When a person comes to be purified, he is purified. A person who comes to be sanctified, he is sanctified and the Kedusha of above is spread over him, the Kedusha with which the Creator is sanctified.