The Lines on the Forehead – 1

189. The lines on the forehead, some of them are five lines to the width [], and in the star, in Malchut, they are like this [].

Some of them are like ו ו ו ו, which are four lines [four letters Vav]. In that star, it is like [], and they are in the letter Dalet.

Some of them are six lines like this [], and in that star, they are like this [].

Some of them are seven, seven lines. In the star, they are like this []

Some of them are eight, like this [], וווווווו, which is eight [Vavs], to the conductor over the eighth, and this is Bina.

190. The one who writes everything is Yod Vav, which are their measuring line, and with them, they add up to thirty-two. It is all four stars. There are three counted stars among them, like the count of three letters Yod, Yod-Yod-Yod, and they are three months of the moon, Malchut, in which it is written, “And the woman conceived and bore a son, and saw that he was good, she hid him for three months.” These three months of the holy moon, Malchut, are three patriarchs, HGT.

The number of Sefirot that emerge from the middle line have five manners in them, which are five, and four, and six, and seven, and eight.

The root of everything is four, three lines corrected through the middle line, and Malchut who receives them, and they are called HGTM.

The second manner are the five Sefirot HGT NH, where the middle line, Tifferet, elicits two lines above it, HG, and two lines below it, NH.

The third manner is six Sefirot, five HGT NH, and with the one that includes them, Yesod, they are six.

The fourth manner, seven Sefirot, are HGT NHY, and with the Malchut who receives them, they are seven.

The fifth manner, eight Sefirot, is seven Sefirot HGT NHYM with Bina, from whom they receive their abundance.

Thus, they are five phases in which there are thirty Sefirot, four HGTM, five HGT NH, six HGT NHY, seven HGT NHYM, eight, Bina and HGT NHYM. All of these thirty Sefirot are inscribed on the forehead.

Since all the phases are made by the middle line, called “the measuring line,” Vav that went out from the measure, which is Yod, they are multiplied into two times thirty, since from the side of the Vav, there are thirty lines on the forehead, and from the side of the Yod, Malchut, who is called “star,” there are thirty stars.

The lines on the forehead, some of them are five lines to the width. The lines on the forehead, which indicate the order of the Sefirot that emerge from the middle line, are five lines to the width, HGT NH, since Tifferet receives by raising MAN to Bina, two lines right and left, HG, and corresponding to them, he elicits two lines right and left from his Chazeh and below, NH. With Tifferet, they are five Sefirot, and they come out from the sixth in the measuring line. Hence, they are five lines. In the star, in the Yod in the measuring line, which is Malchut, called “star,” they are five stars HGT NH.

Some of them are four lines, three lines HGT and Malchut who receives them. This order is the root of everything. They emerge from the Vav in the measuring line, and are therefore four lines. In that star, in the Yod in the measuring line, Malchut called “star,” they are four stars.

Some of them are six lines corresponding to HGT NHY, where the Sefira Yesod has been added to HGT NH, the one who contains them. At that time, they are six lines, which emerge from the line in the measuring line. In that star, in the Yod in the measuring line, they are six stars.

Some of them are seven lines, corresponding to the seven Sefirot HGT NHYM, for Malchut has been added to the six Sefirot. They emerge from the Vav in the measuring line, and in the star, in the Yod in the measuring line, they are seven stars.

Some of them are eight lines corresponding to eight Sefirot, Bina, HGT NHYM, for the root of the three lines, Bina, has been added to the seven Sefirot HGT NHYM, and for this reason, they are eight lines that emerge from the Vav in the measuring line, and in the Yod in the measuring line, they are eight stars. This is “eight to the conductor on the eighth,” and this is Bina, for Bina, the eighth Sefira from below upward, has been added to the seven Sefirot HGT NHY, and they are eight.

The one who writes everything is Yod-Vav, who are their measuring line. The one who writes everything is the middle line, the measuring line that emerges from the measure, which is Yod, and with them, they add up to thirty-two because when connecting all the numbers that come out from the measuring line, four, and five, and six, and seven, and eight, they are thirty, and with the Vav-Yod in the measuring line, which are their root, they add up to thirty-two, corresponding to the thirty-two paths of wisdom.

It is all four stars, for the origin of all thirty is four stars, which are three lines and Malchut who receives them. They are the origin of all these orders, since when Tifferet rises for MAN to Bina, in the middle line, and subdues and unites the two lines of Bina with each other, Tifferet, too, obtains three lines. Thus, these three lines are the roots, and they are bestowed upon Malchut.

All the other orders emerge from the order of these four, since a second order emerges from it, the five Sefirot HGT NH, since Tifferet extends two lines once more, also below the Chazeh, which are NH, and then they are five.

From them, a third order that has been added to them includes one, Yesod. At that time, they are six. From them there is a fourth order, when Malchut has been added to them, and then they are seven, and from them there is a fifth order, where Bina has been added to them, which bestows everything, and then they are eight. Thus, all these orders emerge from the original, first order, which is the four Sefirot HGT and Malchut.

There are thirty counted ones among them, like the amount of three letters Yod, where in each of the five orders—four, five, six, seven, eight—there are thirty counted ones. They correspond to the three letters Yod, three lines that shine in Malchut, where each line consists of ten, and they are thirty. And three letters Yod are three months, three patriarchs, HGT.

191. It is written about Jacob, Tifferet, “on the third month,” since three months are HGT, in which that good is hidden, the Torah, of which it is written, “The law of Your mouth is better to me [than thousands of gold and silver],” which is the middle line, as it is written, “Remember the law of My servant Moses.” Moses is the middle line, the internality of Tifferet, since Jacob is Tifferet, and Moses is Daat that spreads in Tifferet from within. For this reason, it is the good that is hidden in Jacob.

192. It is written about that good, the Torah [law], Daat that spreads in Tifferet, in Jacob, who is Tifferet—“And the sun shone for him.” It is also written about it, “And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, and behold there were noises and lightnings,” since Tifferet is the third day.