7. It is written, “And you will behold from the whole people.” He will behold in six phases, in the hair of the Rosh [head], which is set on the Oznayim [ears], in the Metzah [forehead] and in the lines of the Metzah, in the Eynaim [eyes] and in the hairs over the Eynaim, in the Panim [face/anterior] and in the shape of the Panim, in the Hotem that is established directly over the mouth, in the body, in its height and in its measure to each side, to the four sides, and above and below. This is the correction of the man.
8. Sometimes, the Creator is called “a lion,” sometimes He is the face of an ox, and sometimes, He is the face of an eagle.
9. Since He is the unification of the Creator in the Sefirot, why is He called in the face of a man, in the face of a lion, in the face of an ox, and in the face of an eagle?
10. When He wishes to perform His operation and lead Israel who are called by the sign “man,” He dresses in the shape of that animal called “man,” and He is called “man.” When He wishes to lead Israel to those who are called by the sign “lion,” He dresses in the shape of that animal called “lion.” It is likewise in the animal called “ox,” and likewise in the animal called “eagle,” and in this way is His Shechina [Divinity].
11. For this reason, the Creator is called by these names: lion, ox, eagle, man. All their armies, the angels, there is no place and no being in the world over which the name of the Creator, the name HaVaYaH, does not govern, and they are called by His name. It is likewise with the shape of a man; Yod is in his head, two letters Hey in ten fingers, Vav in his body. In the eagle, Yod is on his head, two letters Hey on his wings, Vav on his body, and so it is in each of the four animals and in each angel.
12. There is not a hair in the head in which the name HaVaYaH is not present, and there is no herb in which the name of the Creator is not present. Like the rose, there is Yod in her apple, and Vav in her scepter, with the five petals on the outside, and with the five inside, there are two letters Hey, to show that there is not even an herb that was not created in the name HaVaYaH, so it will not be said that another God created them.
13. There is no creation in the upper ones and lower ones that is not inscribed in His name, and similarly, everyone is inscribed in the Shechina. This is why the Shechina is called a rose, and she is called an eagle, a red cow, a doe, a dove, a bird. There is no creation that is not called by His name, when He dresses in it to perform His operation.
14. For this reason, the Shechina is called Maase Merkava [making a composition/structure], when she rides in the animal called eagle, or ox, or lion, or man. And the best among all the creations He has created is man, who is a form that incorporates the whole world, and all the creations that exist in the world. For this reason, He is more fond of him than of all creations.
15. Several people are in the shape of a man in their internality, and on the outside, they have only an eagle or a lion or an ox in them, or an animal from among those signs that are called people. Others are to the contrary: They have the shape of a man on the outside, and are not so on the inside. We learn about this that anyone whose interior is not as his exterior must not enter the seminary; one in whose face there is the shape of a man, but on the inside, he is an evil animal.
16. For this reason, the Creator said to Moses, “And you will behold from the whole people able men,” from the side of Abraham, Hesed, “God fearing,” from the side of Isaac, Gevura, “men of truth,” from the side of Jacob, Tifferet, “who hate greed,” from the side of David, Malchut, the fourth leg of the upper throne, to Bina, for HGT of ZA are three legs, and Malchut is the fourth leg, and HaVaYaH is on them, for Abraham, Isaac, Jacob are Yod-Hey-Vav, and David is the bottom Hey.
17. “And place over them ministers of thousands,” from the side of the letter Aleph in ADNI, ministers of hundreds, from the side of the letter Dalet in ADNI, which are four hundred years of the exile in Egypt. The Nun in ADNI is ministers of fifty; the Yod in ADNI is ministers of tens.
The four letters ADNI are HB TM, where the Sefirot in the Hochma are thousands, which is why the Aleph of ADNI implies the ministers of thousands. Bina is hundreds, which is why the Dalet implies the ministers of hundreds, and the Sefirot of Tifferet, who is ZA, are tens, and his HGT NH are fifty. For this reason, the Nun implies the ministers of fifty. The Sefirot of Malchut are units, and her ten Sefirot are ten. This is why she implies the ministers of tens.
18. We will interpret the Guf [body] with these eight corrections, with the four letters HaVaYaH, and with the four letters ADNI, since they have a basis in the verse, “And you will behold.”
19. These are the eight corrections: The first manner: “And you will behold from the whole people able men.” In seeing, in the eyes and in the hairs above the eyes. In their colors, in the depth, in their length, and in their creasing. Here the animal is lion, Hesed operates in it, and a lion is Michael, and lion is seeing.
20. The second manner: “God fearing,” in the hearing of the ears, and in the hairs of the head hanging over them. Hearing is the animal called ox. Hairs is judgment, and several hairs are hanging on it, which is the army of heaven that stands over the great courthouse, which is Gevura to the left, whose operation is in the animal ox, and it is Gabriel.
21. In the prayer, the hair should be moved to behind the ears so as not to cover the gate of hearing, so that the prayer will enter them. Otherwise, the verse, “Then they will call on me and I will not answer” will come true. When the hearing is cleared from these judgments, “Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer” comes true in it.
22. The third manner, “men of truth,” in the shape of the Hotem, which is the holy spirit, Tifferet. Hotem comes from the word Hotam [seal], the seal of truth, which is the complete Jacob, Tifferet. He has two faces corresponding to the two Malchuts of ZA, which, above the Chazeh, is called Leah, and below the Chazeh, Rachel.
Also, in the Rosh [head], the seal corresponding to Jacob, ZA. The face on the right corresponds to Leah, and the left one corresponds to Rachel. This, too, is the face of mercy, which includes Hesed and judgment, white and red, the first face, Hesed, and the second face, Gevura.
23. The Metzah, which is Bina, is established on the two Panim and the Hotem. It is established with several creases that are made like lines on the Metzah, which are the ways of the sea of the Torah. It is written about them, “All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth.” Who is the one who makes these ways, which are the lines of the forehead? It is the Moach [brain], Hochma. These lines of the forehead are thirty-two paths of the sea of Torah, which is Bina.
24. The animal on which Tifferet, the Hotem, rides, is the eagle, as it is written, “The way of the eagle in the sky. This is Uriel. The brain and the forehead, HB, and the two faces, HG, are all on the Hotem, Tifferet, ZA, and they are the four chambers of the Tefillin on the head of Tifferet, the Hotem.
The Hotem is ZA, Tifferet, and his Tefillin, HB HG, are his four Mochin. The Moach [brain] and the Metzah are HB, and the two faces are HG.
25. It is written about the Hotem, Jacob, “and breathed in his nostrils the soul of life.” This is Bina, the letters of Ben [son of] Yod-Hey [the Lord]. ZA, Jacob, is called Ben Yod-Hey when he receives into him the soul of life, the light of Bina. Moses, the internality of Tifferet, is like the soul of life for the Hotem, for Jacob.
26. The thirty-two lines of the Metzah show thirty-two faces and wings of the four animals. The four faces, lion-ox-eagle-man, correspond to the four letters HaVaYaH, and the four wings each of these four animals has correspond to the four letters ADNI, and eight times four is thirty-two. Metzah is Bina, who bestows upon the four animals, and therefore incorporates them within her in the thirty-two lines of the Metzah.
27. The beard on the Panim [face] is hairs that have no end, and indicate the beard of beards, AA, the cause of causes, that the worlds hanging on it have no end.
28. The fourth manner are those who hate greed, the mouth, Malchut, her two lips, NH, the base of the tongue, which is called “the tongue of learning.”
29. They all walk in the measuring line, the line of straightness, the middle line in the straightness, which leans neither to the right nor to the left, between the eyes, between the face, between the ears, and the nose, and the forehead, and the lips. Those that are not corrected in the measuring line, who exit the line of straightness, are certainly not forms of above, and the name HaVaYaH is not on them.
30. This is why He said to Moses, “And you will behold from the whole people able men, God fearing, men of truth, who hate greed.” The mouth is the end of the man, Malchut. The animal that the mouth rides on is Raphael. He has the letters of Efer [ash] in him, which is the dust of the Temple, from which the man was taken, as it is written, “dust from the earth.” Efer [ash] is reversed letters from Pe’er [grandeur]. This is the meaning of what is written, “Wear your grandeur on you, implying Angel Raphael.
31. Here you have four corrections: sight, hearing, smell, speech, HB TM. Speech, Malchut, the prophets, who are the two lips, NH, take it from there, as it is written, “And I have spoken by the prophets.
32. The name HaVaYaH is on the four corrections. Yod is seeing, Hey is hearing, Vav is smell, the bottom Hey is speech. In its filling, it amounts to ten letters, Yod-Vav-Dalet Hey-Aleph Vav-Aleph-Vav Hey-Aleph, which are ten Sefirot that shine in the Moach, in the Metzah, in the Eynaim, in the Oznayim, in the Panim, in the Hotem, and in the Peh. The forehead and the brain are two, the eyes are two, the ears are two, his face is two, the nose and the mouth are two, thus ten.
33. There are four other manners, four corrections below the Rosh, in the Guf. They are ADNI: doing with the hands, moving the body, using the circumcision [the circumcised organ], walking with the legs. Here, there is a level, and it is necessary to repeat all eight manners, four corresponding to HaVaYaH, and four corresponding to ADNI.
34. “And you will behold from the whole people.” You should look, and not another, since you are the light of Torah, to uphold in you the verse, “Remember the law of My servant Moses.” “You will behold,” indeed, with your sight, with your eyes, since it is written, “The eyes of all look to You,” and you give them their food in its time, the food of Torah, since My name shines in your eyes and in all your corrections.