The
Middle
Line
of
Vav
of
HaVaYaH
76.
The
beginning
on
the
middle
side,
the
middle
line
of
the
Vav,
Tifferet,
is
in
the
eastern
opening,
since
the
eastern
opening
stands
in
the
middle
because
Tifferet,
which
is
called
“the
east
side”
and
is
the
middle
line,
takes
two
sides
to
correct
them
with
bars
and
doors
on
this
side
and
on
that
side.
A
door,
the
darkness
on
the
left,
because
of
its
dispute
with
the
right
line,
all
the
lights
in
the
left
were
locked
and
it
became
dark.
However,
the
left
still
did
not
want
to
surrender
and
unite
with
the
right
until
the
middle
line
came
and
diminished
the
GAR
of
the
left
with
the
screen
of
Hirik
in
it,
and
then
the
left
surrendered
and
united
with
the
right,
as
it
is
written,
“If
she
is
a
door,
we
will
enclose
her
with
panels
of
cedar.”
This
is
so
because
the
door
itself
is
not
enough
to
unite
the
left
with
the
right.
Rather,
it
also
requires
a
panel
of
cedar,
which
is
the
screen
of
Hirik
that
diminishes
the
GAR
of
the
left.
It
is
also
called
a
bar
because
it
resembles
are
bar
that
holds
the
door
so
it
is
not
broken
into,
since
the
door
alone
is
too
weak
to
guard
the
house.
The
door
is
on
the
left
line,
and
the
bar
is
in
the
middle
line.
After
the
three
lines
are
incorporated
in
one
another,
the
door
and
the
bar
are
in
all
of
them.
The
eastern
opening
stands
in
the
middle,
it
is
the
middle
line,
and
it
takes
the
two
sies
right
and
left,
to
correct
them
with
bars
and
doors,
since
through
the
middle
line,
the
bar
on
the
door
is
set,
and
through
the
incorporation
with
each
other,
there
are
a
door
and
a
bar
on
the
left,
as
well
as
on
the
right,
since
they
are
incorporated
in
one
another.
77.
That
door
consists
of
all
those
Merkavot
in
the
right
and
left
lines
in
the
letter
Vav.
It
stands
on
the
upper
Merkava,
the
Merkava
that
stands
in
the
letter
Vav,
the
individual
middle
line
in
the
Vav,
ZA.
This
is
so
because
Vav
is
the
whole
of
the
three
lines
HGT
in
her,
and
stands
in
all
six
upper
sides
HGT
NHY.
That
Vav
stands
on
one
Merkava,
three
lines,
on
the
right
and
on
the
left,
HG
and
her
own
phase,
Tifferet,
which
emerge
from
the
candle,
Bina.
How
do
the
three
lines
in
the
Vav,
ZA,
Ruach,
come
out
from
Bina?
When
the
wind
[Ruach],
ZA,
which
blows
in
twelve
winds
of
perfumes,
in
twelve
combinations
of
HaVaYaH,
rises
to
Bina,
when
the
right
and
left
of
Bina
emit
a
scent,
and
do
not
emit,
then
that
Ruach
comes
and
shines
with
its
light,
determining
and
correcting
the
right
and
the
left
of
Bina,
uniting
them
with
one
another.
That
Ruach
is
peace,
and
it
is
called
“peace”
since
it
makes
peace
between
the
right
and
left
of
Bina.
By
correcting
the
lines
of
Bina,
the
Vav,
too,
is
rewarded
with
those
three
lines,
and
then
parts
from
Bina
and
comes
to
its
place.
78.
When
Ruach,
ZA,
which
corrected
the
lines
in
Bina,
parts
from
Bina
and
comes
to
its
place,
it
is
divided
into
three
colors,
three
lines,
for
it,
too,
obtained
three
colors
like
Bina,
which
blaze
in
fire,
wind,
and
water.
Fire
is
the
left
line,
wind
[Ruach]
is
the
middle
line,
and
water
is
the
right
line.
When
it
is
divided
into
three
colors,
each
one
blazes
in
its
place,
in
ZA,
and
gives
strengthening
to
the
three
lines
in
Bina,
where
each
line
that
emerges
in
ZA
is
because
it
gave
strengthening
to
its
corresponding
line
in
Bina.
79.
That
illumination
which
expands
from
that
Ruach
to
each
of
its
individual
three
lines,
the
three
lines
in
the
middle
line
of
the
Vav,
one
color
blazes
in
the
fire
and
strengthens
it,
which
is
the
left
line.
Another
color
blazes
in
water
and
puts
it
out,
the
right
line.
A
third
color
blazes
in
Ruach,
the
middle
line,
and
shines
for
it
as
purple,
blazing
in
two
sides,
in
the
right
and
in
the
left.
These
three
colors
are
one
Merkava,
the
letter
Vav,
meaning
they
are
a
Merkava
to
the
middle
line
of
the
Vav.
The
individual
middle
line
of
the
Vav
is
also
called
Vav,
like
the
Vav
in
the
name
HaVaYaH,
since
any
middle
line,
wherever
it
is,
is
Vav.
80.
These
three
individual
lines
in
the
middle
line
of
the
Vav
are
appellations
by
which
the
Creator
is
called.
The
Creator
is
called
by
all
those
names
and
those
appellations
included
in
the
holy
name,
by
which
that
middle
side
is
called.
The
middle
line
of
the
Vav
is
called
HaVaYaH,
and
its
three
individual
lines
are
called
by
appellations.
Although
it
is
called
by
the
letter
Vav
only
in
the
middle
line
in
it,
it
nevertheless
takes
all
the
upper
and
lower
names,
and
all
four
letters
of
the
holy
name
HaVaYaH
are
gripped
to
it
since
it
takes
all
the
sides
above
and
below,
as
it
contains
HGT
of
above
and
NHY
of
below.
That
name,
Yod-Hey-Vav,
is
hanging
here.
81.
The
name
HaVaYaH,
ZA,
takes
two
letters
above,
Yod-Hey,
right
and
left,
HB.
It
takes
one
letter
below,
the
bottom
Hey
of
HaVaYaH,
and
stands
in
the
middle
between
above
and
below,
between
Yod-Hey
and
the
bottom
Hey,
and
between
the
two
sides
right
and
left,
which
is
the
middle
line
that
determines
between
right
and
left.
82.
The
Merkava
of
the
middle
line
of
the
Vav
is
called
“awesome.”
When
the
Merkava,
which
is
that
Ruach,
the
middle
line
of
the
Vav,
is
divided.
and
it
is
divided
into
three
lines,
its
three
individual
lines,
fire-water-Ruach,
they
are
called
“awesome,”
“truth,”
“treasuring
Hesed
[mercy].”
These
three
are
a
holy
Merkava
to
the
middle
line
of
the
Vav.
83.
These
three
colors,
which
are
a
holy
Merkava
to
the
middle
line
of
the
letter
Vav,
blaze
and
shine
below,
and
each
of
these
three
is
divided
into
two
other
lines
to
each
side
until
they
become
in
the
count
of
three-three
to
each
side,
which
are
nine
phases,
since
each
line
consists
of
the
three
of
them,
and
they
are
nine.
And
that
holy
name,
HaVaYaH,
which
governs
them,
completes
them
to
ten.
84.
Each
of
these
three
sides
in
the
letter
Vav,
which
are
the
right,
left,
and
middle
in
the
Vav,
its
Merkavot
are
ten
in
number,
since
everything
above
and
below
is
in
one
completion
of
ten
Sefirot,
ten
utterances,
and
all
those
Merkavot
that
stand
in
that
side
that
governs
them
are
called
ten
Sefirot,
ten
utterances.
For
this
reason,
each
of
these
sides
ascends
to
ten
Merkavot
to
each
side:
from
the
right,
from
the
left,
and
from
the
middle
of
the
Vav,
until
they
each
rise
to
a
great
account.
When
all
those
Merkavot
expand
in
their
side,
they
are
all
called
by
the
name
that
governs
them.
If
they
are
from
the
Merkavot
of
the
right,
they
are
called
El,
and
if
from
the
left,
they
are
called
Elokim,
and
if
from
the
middle,
they
are
called
HaVaYaH.
In
the
particular
letter,
they
are
called
when
they
shine
downward.
If
the
Merkava
is
from
the
right
line
on
the
right,
it
is
called
“great”
below,
if
from
the
left
line
on
the
left,
it
is
called
arbiter
below.
85.
Two
come
out
from
one
dot,
from
the
right
in
the
three
lines
in
the
middle
line
in
the
Vav.
One
is
called
“forgiving
iniquity,”
and
one
is
called
“passing
over
a
crime.”
They
are
from
that
same
color
in
which
water
grew
strong,
from
the
right
in
the
three
lines
in
the
Vav.
Two
come
out
from
the
color
in
which
the
fire
grew
strong,
from
the
left
in
the
three
lines
of
the
Vav.
One
is
called
“height,”
and
one
is
called
“high.”
86.
The
names
“height”
and
“high”
are
incorporated
in
the
next
world,
Bina.
Here,
on
the
left
side
in
the
three
lines
of
the
Vav,
one
is
called
“examining
hearts,”
and
one
is
called
“height,”
as
it
is
written,
“Your
judgments
are
far
above,”
concerning
ZA.
It
is
also
written,
“The
Lord
on
high.”
Although
the
name
stands
in
the
next
world,
Bina,
it
is
written
“height”
in
ZA,
too.
Over
this,
the
next
world
connected
in
all
the
Merkavot
of
the
left,
and
thus
Bina
is
called
Elokim,
like
the
colors
of
the
left
in
the
Vav,
since
Bina
connected
with
the
left
of
ZA.
87.
The
third
color,
in
which
the
Ruach
grew
strong,
the
middle
line
of
the
Vav,
these
two
that
emerge
from
it,
one
is
called
“forever
dwelling,”
and
one
is
called
“holy.”
From
these,
the
lights
expand
downward.
They
are
all
Merkavot
to
one
another,
and
they
are
all
appellations
by
which
the
Creator
is
named,
and
they
are
all
recognized
according
to
the
side
that
governs
them.