364. “Their leg was a straight leg, and their feet like the feet of a calf, and they sparkled like polished copper.” After he explained the bodies of the animals that are under the governance of Hassadim, he went down again to explain the legs and hooves of the animals that are under the governance of illumination of Hochma.
When the NHY of vessels are completed, GAR of lights come, and NHY are called “legs.” The NHY themselves are also divided into HBD HGT NHY, where the hooves are the NHY of the legs, and the revelation of the Hochma and the GAR depends on them.
365. The legs of the animals come up to the sparks of the HASHMAL. This is the HASHMAL on the outside, the four sparkles of the HASHMAL in the four sides, and bestow illumination of Hochma to them. This is so because others emerge from this HASHMAL, which are called HASHMALIM [pl. of HASHMAL], after the lights of HASHMAL, illuminations of the left line.
They all come out at the time when the animals aim their legs to be in straightness, in incorporation of the middle line, which shines in straightness and does not lean only to the right or only to the left. They come, bestow illumination of Hochma to the sparks of the HASHMAL, to the four sparkles of the HASHMAL.
At that time, these sparks blaze since the illumination of Hochma comes with judgments called “blazing fire.” They rise to receive their illumination from the legs of the animals, and descend to bestow upon Malchut, and then all those who are named after this HASHMAL emerge from them.
366. That HASHMAL surrounds the legs of the animals. For this reason, he receives his illumination from them. The sparks of the HASHMAL go down to the place called “small ground,” and there, all kinds of crystal stones, sparkling gems, and emeralds run.
367. When that light of HASHMAL sparkles and blazes, and ascends and descends, and those four sparkles on the four sides embrace one another, that small ground shines, and the stones run, and the gems rise up and reach the gate on the south. There are hidden treasures there, and there are 470 openings there, like the number of Karka [ground] (470 in Gematria). Angel Galitzur is appointed over them.
The HASHMAL shines in four sides, three lines and the Malchut who receives them. Although the three lines reveal the Hochma, the Hochma is not revealed in them, themselves, until they have bestowed the Hochma to Malchut, and then it is revealed in Malchut. Likewise, here in the HASHMAL, the place of revelation is in Malchut.
There are two states in Malchut: 1) From the time when she was in the two great lights, when she received Hochma from the left line of Bina and could not persist in it because Hochma does not shine without Hassadim, and therefore draws many judgments. 2) For this reason, she was diminished into a dot under Yesod of ZA, which is the diminution of the moon, and then she was rebuilt by ZA. In that state, although she is in it in all her completeness, in Hassadim and in Hochma, nothing is missing in her, she still cannot receive Hochma in her own vessels. Rather, she must receive Hochma in vessels from the first state, and from the first state, the Hochma shines to the second state.
It follows that after the HASHMAL received the illumination of Hochma from the legs of the animals, and his three lines want to bestow Hochma to Malchut, they must first bestow to Malchut in the first state, where the vessels of Hochma are ready, and afterwards, they will be able to bestow upon Malchut in the second state.
Malchut in the first state is called here “small ground,” since Malchut is called “ground,” and because she is with judgments in that state and cannot shine, it calls her “little,” although she is big.
Malchut in the second state is called “crimson ground,” since at that time, she receives the lights from the middle line, ZA, and has lights from all the sides in her, from right and from left, and the Hochma in her dresses in Hassadim, and the Hassadim are incorporated with Hochma. For this reason, she is as the color crimson, in which all the colors are included.
That HASHMAL encircles around, surrounding the legs of the animals and receiving from them illumination of Hochma. The sparks of the HASHMAL, his four sparkles, which are three lines and Malchut who receives them, go down to the place called “small ground,” to Malchut in the first state, who is called “small ground,” since only the posterior vessels of Malchut in the first state are suitable for reception of illumination of Hochma from the HASHMAL. All kinds of crystal stones, sparkling gemstones, and emeralds are running there.
The illumination of Hochma in Malchut in the first state is called “gemstones,” since the illumination of Hochma is received from the legs, NHY. Since the giver, the male, is called Regel [leg], the female is called Margalit [gemstone], since she receives from the Regel. Crystal stones and emeralds are called “stones” because Malchut in general is called “stone” and therefore, all the details in her are called “stones.”
When the light of HASHMAL sparkles and blazes and ascends and descends, and these four sparkles on the four sides embrace one another, after the three lines of HASHMAL unite with one another, and all of them with Malchut, that Malchut, which previously had only the left line without the right and because of it, all the judgments operated in her, which are called crystal and emerald, now, after they received illumination from all three lines in the HASHMAL, those crystal stones and emeralds are corrected into being vessels, and cause the illumination of Hochma. And those gemstones, illuminations of Hochma, that were in her in left without right, now rise to the south gate, right, and clothe in Hassadim, and are completed in all their brightness and grandeur.
At that time, that small ground shines due to the illuminations of the three lines of HASHMAL that they received, and the stones of crystal and emerald run to reveal the Hochma, since so they were now corrected through the three lines of HASHMAL. And the gemstones, the illuminations of Hochma themselves, rise, shining from below upward in a manner of ascent until they reach the gate in the south, the right line, Hassadim, and the illuminations of Hochma clothe in these Hassadim and are completed. There are hidden treasures there, and 470 openings are there, as the number [in Gematria] of “ground.”
This indicates that not all five Sefirot KHB TM in Malchut, where each consists of one hundred, which is five hundred, shine in her. Rather, the fifth Sefira, Malchut of Malchut, Malchut of the quality of judgment, lacks GAR, and has only seventy and not one hundred, and they are 470 openings.
The reason is the concealing of the lock, Malchut of the quality of judgment. As a result, she has only the first nine from Malchut of Malchut up to the Chazeh, which is why half the Partzuf from the Chazeh and below, which is NHY of vessels and GAR of lights, is missing in Malchut of Malchut. For this reason, there are only seventy Sefirot there, lacking GAR, and they are only 470 and not five hundred.
368. When the HASHMAL shines sparks to the four directions—south, north, east, and west, the three lines and Malchut who receives them—a voice emerges from above, awakening from between the wings of the animals when they clap each other. These are the wings that make a sound, as it is written, “And I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters,” and then that sound consists of four sounds, since when the sound comes out, it meets these four sparkles of the HASHMAL and is divided into four voices.
369. One voice goes to Galitzur, and the light of HASHMAL awakens in that voice, and one speech is made of it. In that speech, another, hidden speech awakens in a whisper. When it comes to Galitzur, 214 high secrets are revealed to him, which were revealed.
The three lines of HASHMAL shine for Malchut, who is small ground, the first state of Malchut. The right line is made from the ascent of Malchut to Bina, where the judgments of Malchut diminish the GAR of Bina, in the matter of the Yod that entered the light of Bina and the light descended into the phase of air, VAK without GAR. The left line is made after the upper illumination took Malchut out from Bina once again, and returned her to her place, when the Yod went out from the air and returned to being light of GAR, as before, and the GAR of Hochma shine in her again, and it is the left line.
The middle line is done by a coupling that is made on the screen of Hirik, for since a dispute occurs between right and left, and they quench one another, a coupling by striking comes out on the screen of phase one, which is the screen of Hirik of ZA, which diminishes the GAR of Hochma from the left line and connects it with the Hassadim of the right. At that time, peace is made between them and they both shine in all their wholeness.
At a time when HASHMAL shines sparks to the four directions—south, north, east, and west, three lines and Malchut who receives them—a voice comes out from above. That voice is the emergence of the right line when the Yod enters the light of Bina and it becomes air. The voice that awakens between the wings of the animals when they clap each other, since the right wing, Bina, and the left one, Malchut, when they clap each other, they mix the force of Malchut with Bina, and the Yod enters the light and it becomes air, VAK without GAR, the right line.
At that time, that sound consists of four voices, since when the voice comes out, it meets these four sparkles of the HASHMAL and is divided into four voices. That is, after the sound that came out from the wings of the animals meets the four directions in the HASHMAL, it, too, is completed in four directions like the HASHMAL, which is three lines and the Malchut who receives them, for the right line has already emerged in him, and now the left line must emerge in him.
And one voice, one illumination, goes to Galitzur, to the small ground, where the appointee is Galitzur, and awakens the light of HASHMAL with that voice, for the left line of HASHMAL, in which the Yod went out from the air, and the GAR of Hochma returned to shine in him, shines to that voice, which is VAK without GAR, and takes out the Malchut from Bina in it, too, and returns it to illumination of GAR of Hochma.
Speech is made from it, since Hochma is called “speech,” and that sound, which was deficient of Hochma with the exit of the right line, has now, upon the emergence of the left line, become speech, revelation of the Hochma.
In that speech, another, hidden speech awakens in a whisper, the middle line, for because this speech, the left line, cannot shine due to the dispute with the right, another speech comes out, the quality of Hochma of the middle line, and diminishes the GAR of Hochma and leaves only VAK of Hochma. Unlike the previous speech, where the GAR of Hochma were revealed, this speech of the middle line is hidden and in a whisper, since GAR of Hochma were hidden in this speech, and it is also in a whisper, without making a sound, which is VAK of Hochma, which shine in this speech.
Once the voice is completed through the speech, it is considered a male, whose illumination is from above downward, since the male light always shines from above downward. And speech without making a sound is female light, whose illumination is from below upward.
Hence, the first speech, the left line, which shines in GAR of Hochma, is a speech with making a sound, where the voice operates and the speech operates, and there is male light in it, which shines from above downward. The second speech, in the correction of the middle line, which corrects it to shine only from below upward, is speech without making a sound. And since the voice does not operate in it, it has only female light, which is from below upward.
When it reaches Galitzur, 214 upper secrets are revealed to him, for now it has been revealed to Galitzur that the descent of the light in the first state was due to the absence of unification with the right, and now that the left has been unified with the right, everything is completed. The 214 secrets are the secrets of the descent, since 214 [in Gematria] is the letters of “descent” [in Hebrew].
370. The second voice, the second illumination of the voice, goes to Angel Anael, the great appointee over 18,000 myriad [10,000] camps that operate in a different ground, in the illuminations of all the colors—white, red, and green—and is called “crimson ground,” which shines in all kinds of lights that come out from that HASHMAL. There, in that ground, 12,000 myriad high gemstones are sunken.
371. When the four sparkles of the HASHMAL rise and come into one another, all those gemstones that were sunken in that ground rise and reach the east gate, where six thousand thousands of gates are open, and the great appointee Anael is in them.
The first voice that went to Galitzur, the small ground, although it was divided into four—three lines and Malchut—it was under the governance of the left line. For this reason, it was suitable for clothing only in vessels of the small ground, the first state of Malchut.
The second voice, which goes to Anael, the crimson ground, Malchut in the second state, is under the governance of the middle line, since Malchut of the second state is in the middle line.
The second voice, the second illumination of the voice, goes to Angel Anael, the great appointee over 18,000 myriad camps, which operate in a different ground, in the illuminations of all the colors, for since it is discerned as the middle line, it consists of all the colors—white, red, and green—like the middle line. Conversely, the small ground had only the red color in it, like the left line.
Hence, the appointee over the crimson ground is the great appointee over 18,000 myriad camps, since eighteen indicates Yesod, the middle line, which bestows upon Malchut in the second state. One thousand is bestowal of Hochma; myriad is bestowal of Hassadim, which clothe the Hochma, and the lights proliferate immeasurably.
Anael means Edut El [God’s testimony] since Ana is Edut, from the verse, “Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.” It is called so because the bestowal of VAK of Hochma that is applied in the middle line is called Edut [testimony]. The appointee over the first state, called “small ground,” is called Galitzur, which means that the Tzur [rock] revealed, since the place of the revelation of Hochma is mainly in the first state of Malchut, and Malchut of the second state receives form her. This is why he is called Galitzur.
The main merit of Malchut of the second state is because she receives twelve combinations of HaVaYaH from ZA, and in that ground, 12,000 myriad high gemstones are sunken, meaning there is preparation for 12,000 myriad gemstones to be revealed in it, from the twelve combinations of HaVaYaH of ZA. They are a thousand because of the Hochma in them, and myriad because of the Hassadim in them.
It is revealed when the four sparkles of the HASHMAL—the three lines and Malchut who receives them—rise and incorporate in one another. At that time, each one is incorporated with the four sparkles in three lines, and four times three is twelve, and they shine to the crimson ground. At that time, all those gemstones rise, which are the 12,000 myriads that were sunken in that ground and were ready to emerge from it and reach the east gate, the middle line, ZA, east, and come under his governance to receive from the twelve combinations of HaVaYaH in him.
It is known that the middle line hides the GAR of Hochma and corrects only the VAK of Hochma, where six thousand thousands gates are open. A thousand thousands are the Hochma, as it is written, “And I will teach you wisdom.” Six is VAK, HGT NHY, since only HGT NHY of Hochma are open to shine there, but not the GAR of Hochma, which are concealed and covered.
372. When the voice awakens from above, from between the wings of the Cherubim, the light of that HASHMAL strikes it, and speech is made of it, and in that speech, another, hidden speech awakens: the second illumination of the voice, which emerged from the wings of the animals in the order of three lines one at a time.
When the voice awakens from above, the voice that emerges from between the wings of the animals, the emergence of the right line, the light of the HASHMAL strikes it and speech is made of it. This is the emergence of the left line, where by the illumination of the HASHMAL, the Yod went out from the air and the light of Hochma returned to the degree, since Hochma is called “speech.”
Afterwards, the middle line came out, where in that speech, another, hidden speech awakens. Because of the dispute that was in the open speech, the left line, the middle line awakened and diminished the GAR of Hochma, and corrected the VAK of Hochma in the left with the Hassadim in the right, and the speech became concealed from GAR of Hochma.
373. when that light reaches the appointee Anael, 365 high secrets are revealed, which are sunken in a ring that is the seal of truth. Then, with dread, tremor, quiver, and noise, songs and praises rise to the Master of all, and the light inscribed in the explicit name in forty-two engraved letters emerges from that greatest of ministers over all the camps, who is called Sandalphon. That light covers those two grounds, from the small ground to the crimson ground.
Each degree is divided into 365 and 248, which are Yod-Hey Vav-Hey, as it is written, “This is My name forever.” “My name” is 350; with Yod-Hey (15), they are 365, GAR. “And this is My memorial for all generations,” “My memorial” is 237, and with Vav-Hey (11), they are 248, VAK.
When this light reaches the appointee Anael, 365 high secrets are revealed, GAR, which are implied in 365. This is so in VAK of Hochma, and not in GAR of Hochma. Therefore, the 365 high secrets sunken in the ring, which is the seal of truth, the middle line which is called “the seal of truth,” corrects only the VAK of Hochma, and not the GAR.
However, as long as the Hochma shines, judgments are drawn with it. Then, due to the judgments that are revealed with the Hochma, dread, tremor, and quiver fall upon the receives. At that time, in order to quiet the judgments, the illumination of Hochma that is revealed must be covered, and this is done by Sandalphon.
The light that is inscribed in the explicit name in forty-two engraved letters, the light that covers and conceals the light of Hochma, emerges from that greatest of ministers called Sandalphon, and that light covers those two grounds. That light covers the light of Hochma that is revealed in both kingdoms, called “small ground” and “crimson ground,” and then the judgments quiet.
374. It is written, “covered with cedar from the ground to the ground,” since the cedar implies the light of Sandalphon, since Sandalphon is called Erez [cedar], from the word Raz [secret], since all the secrets of the high face enter him and are locked in him as in that sandal, which lets into it all the basis and root of the body, the feet of the body. Likewise, Sandalphon guards high secrets, and through his guarding, they can shine in their place from below upward.
375. This great appointee serves for the illumination of the face that is from within, since by his guarding, the light of the face can be revealed from within, from below upward, in a way that it is not drawn outside. In Sandalphon, the inscribed, engraved letters are engraved. They are protruding in that light that covers those grounds. When Sandalphon ties crowns to his master, the letters rise in that light and crown themselves in those crowns, and that covering light returns to its place, and the letters rise with those crowns in the holy name.
All the judgments mentioned in the three lines in Atzilut are not there in their place in Atzilut. Rather, they are in Beria, and Sandalphon, Malchut of Beria, is the carrier of those judgments. With respect to the judgments of the left line that are in him, the male judgments, he is called Sandalphon, with the letters of San Dal, meaning Sinaa [hatred] Dalut [meagerness], which are extended from the revelation of Hochma in the left line. With respect to the judgments of the middle line that are in him, the female judgments that are extended from the restricted Malchut, he is called Naal [shue].
It is known that when the left line governs, the letters of the name Elokim [God] are concealed, without light. In Sandalphon, the inscribed, engraved letters are engraved, where through the male judgments in him, the letters of the name Elokim are engraved, sunken without light. Also, through him, the letters of Elokim are protruding in that light which covers those grounds, where through that light that covers the illumination of Hochma in the two kingdoms, the light of Hassadim of the name Mem-Bet, the letters become protruding, opening through the clothing of Hassadim and shining in the protrusion.
When Sandalphon ties crowns to his master through the female judgments in him, which are called “shoe,” he draws Hassadim so as to clothe the Hochma. At that time, the GAR are tied to ZA and to Malchut. The letters rise in that light, for the letters clothe in the light of Hassadim and are crowned in these crowns, meaning receive GAR from those crowns that he tied in ZON.
Then that covering light returns to its place, meaning the light that covers the Hochma so it is not drawn from above downward returns to cover the Hochma, and the letters of Elokim rise in those crowns in the holy name, and through the GAR they receive from the crowns, they open into being the five letters of the holy name Elokim.
376. “And their leg was a straight leg.” It should have written “And their legs were straight legs.” However, the legs join together and are as one leg to walk on the straight path, with a feeling of unity, in straightness, together, and their legs in straightness. This is why they are present before the eyes of the prophet in known degrees.
The legs of the animals are the illumination of Hochma, whose place is in NHY, called “legs.” For this reason, there is fear of the grip of the external ones, that they might draw the illumination of Hochma from above downward in a manner of left without right. For this reason, they are guarded so as to always be under the middle line which connects the right and the left to be one, in a manner that leans neither to the right nor to the left, but rather walks straight without deviation.
They are as one leg to walk on the straight path, meaning that the two legs right and left become one leg, to walk in the governance of the middle line, a straight line that leans neither to the right nor to the left. The illumination of Hochma that is revealed from them emerges from the feeling of connection of right and left together. For this reason, their legs are in straightness, and are not in the right or in the left, but rather in straightness, in the middle line.
377. All the degrees below them are called “the legs of the animals. They have the appearance of the legs in the body of the animals, in the order that it arranges, and it is all in the measure.
Although all the degrees that are drawn from the legs of the animals are below them, their appearance is as the legs of the animals, whose illumination is as the illumination of the legs of the animals, which are arranged under the middle line. They have the appearance of the legs in the body, where through the illumination of those degrees that are drawn from the legs of the animals, it is as the illumination of the legs of the animals, under the control of the body, the middle line. In that order which the middle line arranges, where the right shines from above downward and the left from below upward, it is all in the measure that shines in that measure of the left line, meaning only in VAK of Hochma.
378. “Their feet like the feet of a calf,” in the connection of that side of the left line, since the face of an ox is from the left. They do not have toes down in the feet since the toes show other forces in a different way. Hence, man’s toes point to other forces up in the hands, and point to other forces down in the legs. Other forces of the other side are not inscribed in the legs of the animals; this is why they are called “straight leg,” which conceals to that side. They are one foot, which is why it is written, “And their leg.”
The division of the toes indicates the division of the sides to right and left. Since the legs of the animals are guarded so as to always be connected in the middle line in straightness, without leaning to the right or to the left, they have no toes in their legs.
The words, “And their feet like the feet of a calf,” does not mean that the left side is seen in them, since a calf is left. Rather, it means in the connection of that side of the left line, where being in the middle line in straightness, they have in them a connection from the leg of a calf, since the middle line is a connection of left and right together, and not from the left line alone.
They do not have toes in the legs since the toes show other forces in a different way, indicating right and left that are divided from each other. This is a different form than the right and left are in connection together in the middle line, since then the Sitra Achra has the power to suckle.
Also, the Sitra Achra has the power to grip man’s legs. In man’s fingers, the fingers indicate the forces of HG, that there is no grip to the Sitra Achra when they are above the Chazeh. The toes, however, indicate the forces of NH, in which there is a grip to the Sitra Achra since they are below the Chazeh.
There are no other forces, of the left side, inscribed in the legs of the animals, since they have no toes, which point to the division of right and left. Rather, they are connected together in the middle line. This is why they are called “straight leg,” since they conceal the left side through its connection in the middle line, where the left side is not apparent, and they are one pan, the middle line.
379. Although they are not divided in the division of the toes, in other forces of the Sitra Achra, the left, but are rather in the middle line, in which there is no division, they have one inscription in them, to make room for the other side, inscription, the left, since below, it seems like a calf’s foot, which is from the left side. However, it is not a foot, actually diverting to the left side. Although they are the leg of a calf, it is still straight, the middle line, in straightness, which never leans to the left, and shows the calf, which is seen there out of the connection in the middle line.
380. In the feeling in the connection in straightness, a sparkling of light comes out, and a flame of fire to the left side, to under the governance of the left. The sparkling and the flame, right and left, connect together in the middle line and glitter to four sides: south, north, east, and west, three lines and Malchut who receives them. Armies and camps of angels are made from them, and they are all called the legs of the animals since they emerge from those legs of the animals. They all walk under the mission from the Creator and roam the world, to clothe in a shape of a body below. They seem to people like those other angels that are seen to people when they do a mission in the world, and they return in the evening and at night to their place and sanctify their lord there in singing.