191. To you, people, the wise, the judicious, a voice calls out: Who among you has become wise and knows when the white Rosh [head], Keter, established a second Rosh, Hochma, which is inscribed from above downward and from below upward, established the north side, meaning the left line in Bina, in a crown of a water digging. The depth of the upper abyss is inscribed in it, the depth of Bina, who ascends and descends within it. One degree disappears, descended fifteen hundred records in fifteen hundred worlds.
There is an all-inclusive, comprehensive, yet very succinct explanation here from the Rosh of Atzilut to the revival of the dead. At first, it explains KHB, ZA, and Malchut of Atzilut, that when the white Rosh, Keter of Atzilut, established a second Rosh, inscribed from above downward and from below upward, the Hochma of Atzilut, it established the north side, Bina of Atzilut. “Established” means the middle line of Bina, which corrects the right and left lines, unites them with each other, and the Hochma in the left dresses in the Hassadim in the right.
Established the north side means that the middle line established the left line in a crown of water digging, that it is crowned with a lake of water, with the many Hassadim in the right line. With this correction of the middle line, it inscribed the measure of concealment, called “depth,” which is in Bina, who is called the “upper abyss.” It established that the light of the left line would shine from above downward, and the light of the right line would shine from below upward inside Bina.
From the light of Bina, one hidden degree descended, ZA, in which the Hochma is concealed and hidden. In fifteen hundred records are Hochma and Hesed of Daat, which are inscribed in ZA. In fifteen hundred worlds are Bina and Gevura of Daat that are hidden in it and do not shine, since they are the left of the Rosh where the concealed illumination of Hochma in ZA, which shines only in Hassadim, which is Hochma and Hesed in the right of the Rosh.
It follows that the right, which is Hochma and Hesed in Daat, are inscribed in it and shine, and the left, Bina and Gevura of Daat, are regarded as worlds that are hidden. The reason they are called by the number fifteen hundred indicates a line and a half in the Rosh, since the three lines in the Rosh, which are called HBD, have the number 3,000 because the Sefirot in the Mochin are numbered in thousands, and you find that a line and a half are fifteen hundred. The right line and the right half of the middle line, Hochma and Hesed of Daat, have the number fifteen hundred, and the left line and the left half of the middle line are fifteen hundred.
192. Under ZA, there roams one animal of the field, Malchut, which has ten horns, ten lights, since a horn [Hebrew: Keren (ray)] is the word for brightness and light]. The animal has eyes like the eyes of a human being. Hochma is called “eyes.” Malchut is a human’s face, for Hochma shines only in her. Hence, the eyes in her are attributed to the eyes of a person. And a mouth that speaks greatness, giving Mochin of Gadlut [greatness/adulthood], since speech is bestowal.
When she ascends, she walks by day and hides by night. When she descends, she hides by day and walks by night. When she travels, four fans that she holds in her hands are rattled, and sixty tribes of fire travel with her, each one with a sword at his thigh.
Hochma is concealed in ZA, in which she is in fifteen hundred worlds. The place of revealing of Hochma is in Malchut. This is why there are three degrees in Malchut: 1) Malchut ascends, makes a coupling with ZA, becomes incorporated in him, and then, from this phase, walks and bestows by day, and hides by night, does not bestow.
2) Malchut descends into her own authority, hides by day and walks by night. Her own phase is Hochma, and in the day, she is incorporated in the coupling of ZA and bestows only Hassadim, which is the degree of ZA, while her own phase, Hochma, is revealed at night, as it is written, “She rises while it is still night.”
3) Malchut travels in three lines that she receives from ZA one after the other in three places. At that time, the Hochma is revealed with harsh judgments. Because of the judgments revealed with Hochma, four fans are rattled, gripping her hands, which are HG TM in her, and sixty tribes of fire travel with her, HGT NHY that are incorporated in the left line, each of whom consists of ten, and they are sixty. It is written about it, “Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage, sixty mighty ones around it … each with his sword at his thigh, against terror by night.” Each one with a sharp sword at his thigh.
Sixty tribes of fire are sixty mighty ones who guard Solomon’s bed. Malchut is called a “bed.” It is guarded during the illumination of Hochma, so the external ones cannot suckle from it. A sharp sword are the harsh judgments. “At his thigh,” Yesod, from which they emerge and are revealed.
193. He desired to make man the ruler below, and established in this one animal, which is Malchut, fine dust, comprised of all the Sefirot. He blew into it and it dispersed into the four directions of the world, expanded into a body, and four pieces of the body rolled: one upward—Netzah, and one downward—Hod. These are the legs, called Netzah and Hod [NH]. One to the north—the left hand, Gevura, and one to the south—the right hand, Hesed.
The fine dust is Malchut that is so sweetened in Bina that the Malchut, which is called “dust,” is imperceptible, and is regarded as entirely Bina. For this reason, it is called “fine dust,” as it is written, “And the Lord God formed the man dust from the ground.”
The ground [Adamah] is Bina, called Edom. The dust is Malchut. The Creator formed the man with the dust that was taken from the ground, that all of it is in the form of ground, Bina, but it incorporates all ten Sefirot.
194. One big and strong tree, the tree of life, ZA, connected and made a coupling with one beautiful branch, Malchut, whose sight is the joy of everyone, as it is written, “Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth.” He made a coupling with it, and they elicited one hidden spirit and filled it with the dough of the dust, and the man arose to his feet. He crowned him over the whole world, and made him ruler of everything, as it is written, “You have given him dominion over the works of Your hands.”
He was commanded not to eat from that tree, the tree of knowledge, but he did not observe the commandments. The king returned the man’s spirit to Him, and that animal, Malchut, took the spirit from the man.
195. At that time, ZA and Malchut prepared a different vessel, a different body, and the man arose between them with a connection of Nefesh-Ruach that are engraved among holy angels that united in the depiction of the crowns of the angels. Prior to the sin, he had NRN from Atzilut and a Guf from the phase of Beria. After he sinned, he was given a different Guf [body], from this world, and NRN from the holy angels.
196. The generations after them were caught in their sin in the tree of knowledge and were decreed to death, that in the end, their spirit was plucked out from their vessel and clothing, the body, and the body dies, and then concealed in the dust among the clods of the brook, in the grave, as in the verse, “The clods of the brook are sweet to him.”
All the dead were hidden and concealed in one strong bone that remained from that vessel, the luz bone, which does not decay in the grave. It is also called Betuel the Aramaic.” They will be built from him at first, and will rise up camps over camps. They will awaken once more in the Land of Israel, for through the rolling of forgiveness, they will all come to the Land of Israel, and there, their revival will be completed.
197. The Creator will knead that prior dust of that vessel, which is the Guf that precedes the sin of the tree of knowledge, and instill into it extremely fine dough like that leaven in the dough. From that dough, which is purity of above, the complete vessel will be corrected and established, as it is written, “And a spring shall come forth from the house of the Lord, and it shall water the brook of acacias,” since that brook increases love in the world. When that holy spring comes forth and enters the brook of acacias, it will be established and corrected, and will not be in its corruption as in the beginning.
In the beginning, Adam’s Guf was created from the world of Beria, the phase of Bina. Although it is written, “And the Lord God formed the man dust from the ground,” and earth is Malchut, it is written, “from the ground, and “ground” is Bina, who is called Edom, meaning Malchut of Beria, where that Malchut is like Bina, and the dust that is there is imperceptible and indiscernible.
This is why it was said that He established in that animal, which is Malchut, fine dust, which was extremely fine to the point that it was completely imperceptible. For this reason, the body was eternal, as there was no grip to the shells in it.
However, after he sinned with the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he fell from his degree and his body was built from this world, which is extended from Malchut, who is also called “the tree of knowledge of good and evil” since there are two points in it: lock and key. The lock is the phase of Malchut of the quality of judgment, which is not sweetened in Bina, and on which lies the first restriction and the screen so as not to receive from the upper light. The key is the Malchut that is mixed and sweetened in Bina, which is fit to receive all the upper lights like Bina. Malchut is built from those two points, and so is the body of Adam.
If a person merits, the point of the lock is concealed and the point of the key controls Malchut. At that time, a person is worthy of receiving all the upper lights, according to his degree. If a person does not merit, the lock is revealed, and it becomes revealed that she is the restricted Malchut, and all the lights flee from the person. This is why Malchut is called “the tree of knowledge of good and evil,” since if he merits, it is good; if he is does not merit, it is bad.
For this reason, with the eating from the tree of knowledge, they fell to the degree of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and Adam and his generations were decreed to death, since the body descended to the phase of Malchut of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which are the vessels of the point of the key, which receives from Malchut. They are extended from her seven Sefirot, where each consists of ten, and they are seventy Sefirot, from which seventy years are extended to man.
At the end of the Malchut, the point of the lock awakens. Therefore, when that point awakens on a person, the lights of life promptly flee from him and he dies. For this reason, after seventy years, a man must die, when the time of revealing the lock arrives. However, if a person does not merit, the lock is revealed on him even before he has completed his seventy years, as we learn, “Cutting off [from life] and death are in the hands of heaven.”
He was commanded not to eat from that tree, the tree of knowledge, but he did not observe the commandments. The King returned the man’s spirit to Him. The Creator took from him that spirit of Atzilut, and then ZA and Malchut prepared another vessel, the body from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, in which there is a grip to the shell. Hence, if he merits, it is good; if he does not merit, it is bad. Also, he must die after seventy years.
At that time, ZA and Malchut prepared another vessel, another body, and the man arose between them in a connection of Nefesh-Ruach that are engraved among angels, where instead of the Ruach of Atzilut, they gave him Ruach from the place of the angels in the world of Yetzira.
All the generations after him, that came out from him, were caught in the iniquity of Adam and Eve, since being his offspring, they, too, received a body from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and they, too, were decreed to death, where eventually, the spirit leaves them and they die, and afterwards, they are concealed in the dust, among the clods of the brook, buried in the grave.
It is known that all the bones decay in the grave except for one hard bone that is called “luz,” or “Betuel the Aramaic,” who cannot stand the taste of the foods. That bone is the phase of the lock, whose root is concealed in Malchut throughout the seventy years of life. For this reason, she cannot receive food, and she is also unfit to receive foods since she is from Malchut that is restricted so as not to receive upper light.
For this reason, all the bones that are from the phase of the key and received foods from Malchut, at the time of death, it is revealed that they were unworthy of receiving foods; there is a grip to the shells in them and they must rot. Conversely, that bone, which was always in the phase of lock, and did not receive any food from Malchut, the shells have nothing by which to grip it, which is why it does not decay in the grave.
All the dead were hidden and concealed, meaning they were concealed in the grave, in one strong bone that remained from that vessel, the luz bone, so they will begin to be built from it and arise camps over camps. This will be at the end of correction, after Malchut of the first restriction is corrected, and Malchut becomes worthy of receiving light from her own phase, the phase of the lock. At that time, all the bodies that had died due to the revealing of the lock will be revived since now the lock, too, will be worthy of receiving light.
In the beginning, when they are revived, the whole body will be built only from the vessels of the lock, as then it will be worthy or receiving the upper light, like the vessels of Bina. However, nevertheless, they must draw holiness from Bina. For this reason, all the dead that will be revived, wherever they are, must come to the Land of Israel, where they receive completion from Bina, and will reawaken in the Land of Israel, for there they receive their last holiness.
The revival is that the Creator returns to kneading the first dust of the man, of that actual body that died, from the construction that was extended from the bone of the lock, which remained from that body, and to instill in it extremely fine dough, instilling in it the screen of the upper Bina, which will serve in building the body and strengthening it, to complete it, like the leaven in the dough, which is done in the Land of Israel. From that dough of Bina, which is the purity of the Bina of above, the complete vessel will be established and corrected, receiving its final correction.
The dead are destined to arise with their flaws, and then they will be healed and will be complete in everything. Then, as it is written, “In that day, the Lord will be one and His name one.” Although after the end of correction, the lock receives her full correction, nevertheless, since the lock is the great will to receive that was in Malchut of the first restriction, therefore, after its correction, it still has of that will to receive from which all the flaws in the body came.
The Creator is destined to knead that prior dust of that vessel along with all the flaws that he had in the first body due to the control of the will to receive, since the lock is the root of the roots of that will to receive. Afterwards, He will instill in it extremely fine dough, which is Bina. From that dough, which is the purity of above, He will establish and correct the complete vessel, and then it will be healed from all the flaws.
It is written, “And a spring shall come forth from the house of the Lord,” from Bina, “and it shall water the brook of acacias,” the bodies that were revived with all their flaws. He did not heal them prior to the revival because that spring increases love in the world, since that will to receive increases the fondness and the pleasure, since the measure of pleasure is according to the measure of the will to receive. However, it must be corrected so as to be reception in order to bestow. At that time, the will to receive will not be spoiled, as in the beginning, and by that it is healed from all the flaws that were in it.
198. Those who do not merit, will rise to be sentenced in the judgment of the upper King, as it is written, “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awaken, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt,” and then it is written, “‘For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me,’ says the Lord, ‘so shall your descendants and your name remain.’”