SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA
BOOK OF THAT
WHICH IS CONCEALED
from the
Sefer HaZohar (Book of Splendor)
Copyright Daniel Feldman 2001 All rights reserved.
The Work of the Chariot translation originally published in 1972 is presented
here in its entirety. The five core chapters are followed by a substantial Appendix.
The first appendix is an extensive addition from the sixteenth century which
is intended to follow after the verse, "And Elohim said the waters will
swarm with movement of living-being," in Chapter Three. The second brief
appendix is an addition intended for the very end of the fifth chapter. The
text itself mixes citations from the Torah, the Writings and the Prophets with
the Zoharic commentary. To avoid confusion, the Torah quotes will
be "penned" in Bold Italic, the Writings and Prophets
will be just Bold, and the commentary in regular type.
PREFACE
The hooks and their pillars shall be made of silver. (Torah Shmoth
27:17)
Said Rabbi Yitzaq:
I presume that the hooks of the pillars symbolize all those who are attached
to the supernal unifying pillars,
And that all those who are below depend on them.
What is the significance of the word Vavim?
Six within six, all united and nourished by the Circle which is set over them.
And we have learned in the Sifra Detzniyutha this dictum:
"the supernal Vav and the inferior Vav ,"
All comprehended in ONE meaning and ONE Name,
Having one and the same significance.
Now, what is the Sifra Detzniyutha?
Said Rabbi Shimeon:
Five chapters which are comprised in a Great Hall and fill the whole Earth.
Said Rabbi Yehudah:
If they are so comprehensive, they are better than all!
Said Rabbi Shimeon:
Verily, it is so for him who enters and comes out;
And it is NOT for him who enters the NOT and comes out.
This is comparable to a person whose dwelling was among the mountains, and he
(she) knew no townsfolk. He used to sow wheat and ate the wheat grains as they
are. One day he entered the town. They offered him good bread.
Said that person, "What is this for?" They said, "It is bread
to eat." He ate and it was singularly pleasant to his taste. He said, "And
of what is this made?" They said, "Of wheat grains." Then they
offered him cakes kneaded in oil. He tasted of them. He said, "And these,
of what are they made?"
They said, "Of wheat grains." Then they offered him pastry prepared
for royalty, kneaded with honey and oil. He tasted them and said, "And
these, of what are they made?" They said,
"Of wheat grains." He said, "Surely I am the master of all of
these, for I eat the essence of all of these, which is wheat."
And because of this disposition he knew as NOT the delicacies of the world,
and they were lost to him. It is likewise for him who seizes the general principle
of wisdom,4 and knows as NOT all the pleasing delicacies that derive from the
general principle.
Sifra Detzniyutha
Chapter One
We learned:
The Book of THAT Which is Concealed is the book of the balancing in weight.
Until NOT (Lo) existed as weight, NOT existed as seeing Face to Face;
And the Primordial Kings died as their crowns were NOT found,
And the Earth was nullified,
Until the Head (Rosh) desired by all desires formed and communicated
the garments of splendor.
That weight arises from the place which is NOT Him.
Those who exist as NOT are weighed in YH.
In His body exists the weight.
NOT unites and NOT begins.
In YH have they ascended, and in YH do they ascend;
Who NOT are, and are, and will be.
The Hidden within the Hidden is formed and found in:
1) One skull,
2) which is filled with the Dew of Bdellium,
3) an envelope of clear and concealing air,
4) those that are pure wool are hanging even balanced,
5) the will of all wills that is revealed with the prayers of those below,
6) the Open Eye that does not slumber but watches constantly, the Eye below
is by means of the Eye of the supernal radiance,
7) the openings of the hollow pillar, from whence His Spirit rushes forth unto
all.
IT created six, IT created Elohim, the heaven and the Earth. (Torah
B'reshith 1:1)
Bara Shyt, IT created Six over them.
They are all below,
And they depend on the seven of the skull as far as the splendor of all splendors.
And the Earth,
That is, the second one, is NOT in the computation;
This was already said.
For it emerged from the one that was cursed,
As it is written,
From the ground which YHVH cursed. (Torah B'reshith
5:29)
...was unformed and empty and darkness AL (lit. Upon) -Face of the Deep,
and the Spirit of Elohim hovers AL-Face of the Waters. (Torah
B'reshith 1:2)
Thirteen depend from the thirteen of the splendor of splendors.
Six thousand years depend on the first ones.
The seventh above them is that ONE which alone is powerful,
And the whole was desolate for twelve hours,
As it is written,
...was unformed and empty...
The thirteenth raises up these through mercy,
And they are renewed as before
For thus it is written,
...IT created... (Torah B'reshith 1:1)
And thereafter it is written,
...IT was...
For surely IT had been.
And at the end of the unformed and confused and dark
The Lord alone shall be exalted in the Day of THAT. (Isaiah 2:17)
The engraving of all engravings appears as a long serpent,
And extends this way and that.
The tail is in the head.
The head goes around to the shoulders.
Passing and indignant, guarding and concealing,
Revealing itself in one of a thousand short days,
The receptacle in the bond, the fin in its part.
Its head is broken in the waters of the great sea,
As it is written,
You broke the heads of the serpents on the waters. (Psalms 74:14)
There had been two serpents, they were reduced to one.
TNYNM is written defective.
Heads, as it is written,
And over the heads of the Chayot there was the likeness of a Firmament.
(Ezekiel 1:22)
And Elohim said Light will be, and Light was. (Torah B'reshith
1:3)
This is what is written,
For HE spoke, and IT was. (Psalms 33:9)
HE is alone.
Then the line returns and becomes one YHV'Y YH'V V' v y"v v",
The latter (Yod) is the Shekhinah below,
Just as the Heh is found to be the Shekhinah.
And they are balanced in weight.
And the Chayot rush forth and return. (Ezekiel 1:14)
As it is written,
Elohim saw the Light as-good. (Torah B'reshith 1:4)
Call the righteous as-good. (Isaiah 3:10)
Therefore do they ascend in the weights.
IT was at first alone.
But all things return into the unity,
Sister and brother combined one in another,
In YH, like two lovers that embrace.
Six come out from the branch of the root of the body.
The tongue speaks great things. (Daniel 7:8)
This tongue is hidden between the Yod and the Heh,
As it is written,
That man shall say I am of the Lord YHVH . (Isaiah 44:5)
And that man shall be called by the name Ya'aqov.
And that man shall write with his hand: "I am of the Lord YHVH."
And by the name of Israel shall he call himself, indeed.
That man shall say, "I am of the Lord YHVH."
O YHVH -the Sister,
And all is withinYHV.
All are included in the tongue concealed in the Mother,
For it opens for that which egresses from it.
The Father dwells in the head, the Mother in the middle,
And there is a covering from this side and from that side.
And woe unto him that uncovers their nakedness.
And Elohim said Lights will be in the Firmament of Heaven.(Torah
Barashith 1:14)
The male rules over the female
As it is written,
The Righteous is the foundation forever. (Proverbs 10:25)
The Yod illumines both,
And It illumines and passes on into the Female.
The Yod sets itself apart, ascends by its level higher and higher,
And the Female is darkened.
And the Mother is illumined and is opened out into Her gates.
The key, which contains the six, comes and covers up Her gates,
And It is unified below, with this one and that one,
Woe unto him that uncovers Her gate.
Sifra Detzniyutha
Chapter Two
The Beard of Faith,
NOT,
Is mentioned because it is the most precious of all,
It egresses from the ears,
Round about the face,
The white locks ascending and descending,
Separating into thirteen
Of that most splendid of splendors, it is written:
NOT passes in it as Man, and NOT dwells as Adam there. (Jeremiah
2:6)
Adam to the Son is He (Hu).
Adam-NOT is included therein, especially man.
In these thirteen issue forth distinct fountains;
Four were kept separately, nine flow from the body.
1) The Splendid One begins to form itself near the opening of the ears.
2) It descends in beauty to the beginning of the lips.
It stands from this beginning to that beginning.
3) There is a path going forth beneath the two holes of the hollow pillar,
to pass over guilt, as it is written:
And it is His Beauty to pass over guilt. (Proverbs 19:11)
4) Beneath the lips the hairs go back to the other beginning
5) Another path goes forth beneath that one.
6) It covers the offering of spices, to the upper beginning.
7) Two apples are beheld, to illumine the lamps.
8) The Fate of all hangs as far as the heart.
On it depend the upper and the lower ones.
9) Those that hang down, NOT shines from this one and from that one.
10) The short ones1 are AL-the-throat.
11) The long ones of the Splendid One, they are measured in perfect proportion.
12) The lips are bare from all sides.
13) In this Fate of all flow thirteen pure balsam oils,
All is found in this Fate, and IT is concealed.
At the time when Tishri, the seventh month, approaches,
These thirteen are found in the upper world,
And thirteen gates of compassion open.
Of that time:
Seek you the Lord YHVH while He can be found. (Isaiah 55:6)
It is written:
And Elohim said you, the Earth, will put forth grass, herb yielding seed,
fruit tree... (Torah B'reshith 1:11)
This is that which is written:
And you shall afflict yourselves in the ninth of the month at even.
(Torah Vayiqra 23:32)
Adonai , you have begun to show your servant Your greatness. (Torah
Doverim 3:24).
The Name is perfect on its sides.
And in causing this Earth to bring forth,
NOT is perfect,
YHY-NOT is written.
We read: a superior YV'D, an inferior YV'D.
VYYTZR: Yod superior, Yod inferior.
Y'H'Y, Yod superior, Yod inferior.
Heh in between them.
IT is perfect, and NOT for every side.
This name was uprooted from that place and transplanted elsewhere,
As it is written:
And the Lord Elohim planted... (Torah B'reshith 1:28)
The Heh between the Yods of YHY.
The breath of the hollow pillar of the Ancient One unto the Small Face.
Without the breath it exists as NOT.
In the Heh it is founded,
The Heh above, the Heh below,
As it is written:
AHH Adonai Elohim. (Jeremiah 1:6)
In the cohesion of the attached,
In the breath of the weights, isYHV.
The superior Yod is adorned with the wreath of the Ancient One,
The supernal envelop that is clear and concealing.
The superior Heh is adorned with the breath of the openings of the hollow pillar
that comes forth in order to animate.
The superior Vav,
The lamp of heavy darkness that is adorned by its sides.
The letters then extend and are included in the Small Face.
Just as they dwelled in the skull,
They are found to be extending into the whole body in order to establish all.
These letters are hanging in the pure wool.
When they are manifested unto the Small One, these letters settle inYH,
And so they are called in them,
The Yod of the Ancient One is concealed in its wreath,
Because the left is to be found.
The Heh is opened in another and is perforated by two holes,
And is found in its formations.
The Vav is opened in another, as it is written:
It goes smoothly for my Beloved, (Song of Songs 7)
In the lamp of the heavy darkness to conceal the opening.
The supernal Vav, the inferior Vav,
The supernal Heh, the inferior Heh,
The supernal Yod, and with Him NOT is associated;
NOT ascends in this, and NOT is in this sign;
When the Son is revealed, and united in one grade,
In one combination, in order that they may be explained,
The Vav Dalet are included with the Yod Vav Dalet.
Woe when this is removed and they are manifested,
They are the spices of the molds,
The reddish ones,
They pass as NOT, they tarry as NOT in ONE-Place.
And the Chayot run forth and return. (Ezekiel 1:14)
Flee unto your place. (Torah Doverim 24:11)
If you rise like an eagle, and if you will set your nest among the stars,
from there I shall bring you down. (Obadiah 1:4)
And you, the grass... were brought forth from the Earth. (Torah
B'reshith 1:11)
When?
When the Name (YHVH) was implanted.
And thus air came forth.
And a spark came to be.
1) One skull extends to its side.
Full of the dew of two colors over it.
2) Three cavities in which the marked letters are manifested as YHV.
3) Black ones, as a raven, hanging over the deep holes,
so that He hears right and left as NOT.
Here there is one slender path above.
4) The forehead that shines as NOT,
the discord of the world, except when His Will (Ratzon) has regard.
5) Eyes of three colors,
to cause fright before them,
they are washed with radiating milk.
It is written:
Your eyes shall see Jerusalem, a peaceful habitation. (Isaiah
33:20)
Righteousness dwells in Her. (Isaiah 1:21)
The peaceful habitation is the Ancient One who is hidden.
Thus the script is Oynk.
6) The nose of the face of the Small One,
In order to be known.
Three flames burn in its cavities.
A torturous flame to hear good and evil.
It is written I am , THAT (Hu) is my Name. (Isaiah 42:8)
And it is written I slay and I make alive. (Torah Doverim
32)
And as it is written I will lift and I will sustain.(Isaiah 46:4)
HE (Hu) has made us, but NOT we are. (Psalms 100:3)
And HE is of the Unity, and WHO (Mi) can turn Him. (Job 23:13)
He calls,
Who is concealed, and found as NOT.
He who is of NOT is removed from the eyes.
He who is of NOT is called by the Name.
Alef and NOT entirely,
V'V entirely,
Alef and NOT entirely,
Heh'Vav'Alef goes into the Alef.
Alef goes to YV'D.
YV'D goes into YV'D.
The most Hidden of Hidden is of NOT,
The V'D is attached inYH.
Woe when NOT is attached to Yod y , out of V'D.
When the Yod departs from the Vav'Dalet,
Because of the sins of the world,
The nakedness of them all is found, of this it is written:
The nakedness of your Father is NOT, She will be uncovered. (Torah
Vayiqra 18:7)
And when YV'D departs from H'A, O'D, it is written:
The nakedness of your Mother is NOT, She will be uncovered,
Your Mother is THAT-NOT, Her nakedness will be uncovered. (Torah
Vayiqra 18:7)
She is your Mother, surely,
For Understanding (Binah) you shall call Mother... (Proverbs 7:4)
Sifra Detzniyutha
Chapter Three
Nine precious formations were given over to the beard.
Whatever is hidden, and is manifested as NOT,
Is found to be supernal and precious,
Thus the writings have concealed IT.
1) Hairs upon hairs, from next to the opening of the ears
unto the beginning of the mouth.
2) IT is to be found from that beginning unto the other beginning.
3) Beneath the two openings a path so full that IT is seen as NOT.
4) The cheeks are covered from this side and from that side.
5) Among them are visible apples red like a rose.
6) In one tress hang the strong black ones, even unto the breast.
7) The lips, red as a rose, are bare.
8) Short ones descend over the throat, and cover the neck.
9) Long and short ones descend even-balanced.
He that is found in these is found to be strong and mighty.
It is written: Out of distress I called on YH. (Psalm 118:5)
David said nine up to
all nations compass me about (Psalm 118:10)
in order to surround and protect himself.
And you, the grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing
fruit,
that its seed is in it, after its kind, were brought forth from the Earth. (Torah
B'reshith 1:11)
These nine are evolved from the Perfect Name,
And afterwards were planted into the Perfect Name,
as it is written: and the Lord planted. (Torah B'reshith
1:28)
The formations of the beard are found to be thirteen,
That is the upper one.
In the lower one they are beheld in nine.
The twenty-two letters are formed in their colors.
Therefore he who sees in his dream that he holds
the beard of a supernal person in his hand--
He is at peace with his Master.
His enemies will be subjected to him,
Especially with regard to the superior beard that radiates into the lower one.
For the superior one is called abundant kindness, (Torah Shmoth
34:6)
Whereas in the Small One, IT is simply kindness, (Torah Shmoth
34:7)
Though when light is required,
IT will radiate,
And IT is called abundant kindness.
And Elohim said the waters will swarm with movement of living-being.
(Torah B'reshith 1:20)
Meaning to say YH,
The light of the one extended into the other,
All came forth at one time,
The good waters, the evil waters.
For He said: The waters will swarm
They were contained, one in the other.
The upper living-being, the lower living-being.
The good living-being. The evil living-being.
And Elohim said, "We will make ADAM..." (Torah
B'reshith 1:26)
This Adam-NOT is written on NOT-Adam in order to take away Adam of Above
who was made by the Perfect Name.
When THIS is perfected, THAT is perfected.
Male and female were perfected in order to perfect everything.
The Lord is the side of the male.
Elohim is the side of the female.
Therefore was the male extended, and formed with His members,
As it were, regenerative power.
The Kings that were nullified are here sustained,
The judgments of the male are severe in the beginning, mild in the end.
Those of the female are vice versa.
VY'H
The channels of connection are shrouded beneath His covering.
Yod small
In this very form He is found.
But if judgments are to be mitigated,
Necessarily the Ancient One is required.
The serpent came upon the female
And a nest of impurity was formed within her,
Establishing a dwelling for evil.
Thus it is written:
And she conceived, and she gave birth to Qain, (Torah B'reshith
4:1)
The nest of the dwelling of the evil spirits, storms and demons,
And blows to Qain withinYH.
He formed in that Adam,
By twos,
By the general principle and the particular,
Which are contained in the particular and the general,
Legs and arms,
Right and left.
It divides at its sides.
Male and female were established -YHV.
Yod male, Heh female.
Vav as it is written
Male and female created He them, and blessed them, (Torah
B'reshith 1:28) and called their name Adam.
The form and person of Adam was seated upon the throne,
as it is written:
And upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of
Adam
upon it from above. (Ezekiel 1:26)
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Sifra Detzniyutha
Chapter Four
The Ancient One is hidden and concealed.
The Small Face is manifested and NOT manifested,
The manifested is written in the letters.
The NOT on its level is hidden in the letters,
And HE, the NOT, is settled inYH,
The upper ones and the lower ones.
And Elohim said the Earth will bring forth living-being according to
its kind, cattle and every creeping thing. (Torah B'reshith 1:24)
This is that which is written
Adam and cattle You help, Lord YHVH. (Psalm 36:7)
ONE (Echad) is found in the principle of the other.
Cattle in the principle of Adam.
Adam who brings an offering to the Lord from the cattle. (Torah
Vayiqra 1:2)
Because animals are included in the general principle of Adam.
When Adam of Below descended in the supernal form,
There were found two spirits,
From two sides, for Adam includes both right and left,
Of the right, the Neshamah,
Of the left, the Nefesh Chayah.
When Adam sinned, the left side did expand.
And those that are the form of NOT were expanded,
When these became attached, the one in the other,
They give birth like unto that living-being that
gives birth unto many at one time.
Twenty-two letters that are concealed,
Twenty-two letters that are manifest.
A concealed Yod, a manifest Yod.
The concealed and the manifest are balanced in weight,
Over the weighing of the Yod came forth male and female V'D.
In this place Vav male , Dalet is female.
Therefore this D'V is two,
D'V male and female.
D'V two pillars, two.
Yod is by itself, male.
Heh female.
Heh at first was Dalet, but after it was impregnated in Yod,
It brought forth the Vav.
(Thus, as in the Heh there is D'V, and in the Yod is H'H, hence YHV.)
Thus the YV'D is seen in its general appearance of YHV.
Once the YV'D has emitted that which is male and female,
She is then settled,
And He covers the Mother.
And the sons of Elohim saw the daughters of Adam. (Torah
B'reshith 6:2)
This is that which is written
Two men, spies, secretly saying. ((Joshua 2:1)
What is "daughters of Adam"?
As it is written
Then came two women, harlots, unto the king. (I Kings 3)
On their account it is written
For they saw the wisdom of Elohim is in him.
Then came, (I Kings 3)
And NOT in the beginning.
In the wreath of the union of the fountains,
There were two embracers from above in V'V,
These descended from above, and occupied the earth.
They lost the good part, which was in H'V,
The wreath of compassion,
And were wreathed with a cluster of grapes.
And the Lord YHVH said to Mosheh: Why do you cry to Me? (Torah
Shmoth 14:15)
Explicitly stating to Me.
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they move forward. (Torah
Shmoth 14:15)
Explicitly stating that they move forward.
It depended on Fate.
For He wished to honor the beard.
And what is right in His eyes you will do,
And you will hearken unto His commandments,
And you will keep all His statutes, (Torah Shmoth 15:26)
Up to here,
For I am the Lord YHVH, your Healer. (Torah Shmoth
15:26)
Exclusively for this.
Sifra Detzniyutha
Chapter Five
WOE
People of Sin,
Congregation heavy with iniquity,
Seed of evildoers,
Children... (Isaiah 1:4)
Seven grades:
YV'D H'H V'H V'H H'Y V'V emits D
H'H HV'Y H'H emits V'V D'V
The Son (Bar) conceals Adam who is male and female,
Which are D'V.
And it is written:
Children that deal corruptly. (Isaiah 1:4)
IT Created Six (B'reshith), IT Created (Bara). (Torah B'reshith
1:1)
IT Created Six is the Word.
IT Created is half a Word.
Father and Son.
The Hidden and the Manifest.
The Eden of Above is hidden and concealed.
The lower Eden comes forth in its strides and is revealed
YHVH YH ELOHIM.
AT (Torah B'reshith 1:1)
Adonai Ehyeh
Right and Left
Into ONE united.
The Heavens and (Torah B'reshith 1:1)
As it is written: And the Beauty and the Victory.. (I Chronicles 29:11).
Into One united.
The Earth (Torah B'reshith 1:1)
As it is written
How mighty is your Name in all the Earth, (Psalms 8:2)
The whole Earth is full of your Glory. (Isaiah 6:3)
IT was a firmament in the midst of the waters. (Torah B'reshith
1:6)
In order to distinguish between the Holy and the Holy of Holies.
The Ancient One unto the Small One expands and adheres,
If NOT adheres
The mouth speaks great things. (Daniel 7:8)
IT engages itself
And wreathes itself with the small crowns,
With the five kinds of water,
And thus it is written
And He shall put from above Living Water. (Torah Doverim
19:17)
He is the Living Elohim (Elohim Chayim) and the King forever. (Jeremiah
10:10)
I shall go before the Face of the Lord in the lands of life. (Psalms
116:9)
And shall be the body of Adonai bound up... (I Samuel 25:29)
And the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden. (Torah
B'reshith 2:9)
Y'H YV'D H'A AHY'Y
Between the waters and the waters. (Torah B'reshith 1:6)
Waters perfect and waters of NOT, perfect;
Compassion perfect and compassion of NOT, perfect.
And said the Lord : My Spirit will contend NOT with Adam of Forever,
seeing that He (Hu) is flesh. (Torah B'reshith 6:3)
And said the Lord
When vested in the Small One,
From here He spoke in the Name of the Speaker,
For the Ancient Concealed One had said
My Spirit will contend NOT with Adam of Above.
For by that Spirit that blows from the two holes of the hollow pillars,
He causes a flow unto the lower ones,
And that is why it is written
And his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. (Torah B'reshith
6:3)
Y'VD is perfect and NOT is perfect.
Yod y on its own is one hundred.
And if two letters are put, twice reckoned
And his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Yod, on its own, when manifest in the Small One, extends into 10,000 years.
Thus it is written
And You have placed upon me Your Hand. (Psalms 139:5)
The giants were in the earth. (Torah B'reshith
6:4)
This is that which is written:
And from there IT was parted and became four heads. (Torah
B'reshith 2:10)
From the place whence the garden was parted, it is called
The giants,
As it is written: And from there IT was parted.
They were in the earth in those days. (Torah B'reshith
6:4)
But NOT afterwards.
When Yehoshua came.
And the Sons of Elohim were hidden, (Joshua 2:4)
When Solomon came,
And the daughters of Adam were contained. (Ecclesiastes 2:8)
Thus it is written: And the delights of
Reading Tonlot (not reading Tonlym).
The sons of Adam
That were cast out,
From these were other spirits of NOT,
Contained in the supernal wisdom,
Thus it is written: And the Lord gave wisdom to Solomon. (I Kings
5:26)
And it is written: And He was wise unto all of Adam... (I Kings
5:26)
From IT-was-named, that he was benefited,
NOT is contained in Adam.
And the Lord YHVH gave wisdom
The Heh above.
And he was wise
From that he became wise below.
They are the mighty ones that are of Eternity... (Torah
B'reshith 6:4)
The Eternity of Above.
The men of the Name...(Torah B'reshith 6:4)
They who conduct themselves in the Name.
What is the Name?
The Holy Name,
They who conduct themselves inYH,
THAT NOT is the Holy Ones below,
And NOT-conduct themselves only in the Name.
The men of the Name... of perfection,
And NOT is the men of the Lord ,
Their NOT is concealed and is being concealed.
But IT is a diminutive while NOT being a diminutive.
The men of the Name... of perfection,
Come out from the principle of Adam.
As it is written:
Adam being in splendor, in NOT abides. (Psalms 49:13)
Adam being in splendor, in the splendor of the King.
In NOT abides, in the NOT-Spirit.
There are thirteen kings of war in seven.
Seven kings in earth appear as victors in war.
There are nine that ascend on the levels,
Who run according to their wish,
And there is none to prevent them.
Five kings exist in terror.
In the presence of four - NOT, they can stand.
Four kings come out before four,
They hang on them like grapes in a cluster,
Bound up in them are seven runners that give testimony,
And NOT do they remain in their places.
The Tree that mitigates is placed within.
Birds attach themselves and nest on its branches.
Below it shelters that Chayah (Living Being) that rules over this Tree,
Which has two paths to walk,
It is surrounded by seven pillars,
With the four Chayot (Living Beings) that are moved in the four directions,
The serpent turns swiftly with three hundred and seventy leaps,
Leaping over the mountains, skipping over the hills, (Song of Songs
2:8)
As it is written:
Leaping over the mountains, skipping over the hills.
Its tail is in its mouth, in its teeth.
He is pierced through on two sides,
When it moves, the body is transformed into three directions.
It is written:
And Chanokh walked with Elohim. (Torah B'reshith
5:24)
And it is written:
Give instruction to the Youth (Nar), the Face AL, His way.(Proverbs
22:6)
To the Youth, that is well known.
With Elohim and NOT with the Lord .
And He was NOT.
In the name This (Zeh).
For Elohim had taken him. (Torah B'reshith 5:24)
To be called by His Name.
There are three houses of judgments which are four,
Four houses of judgments that are above, four below,
Thus it is written:
You shall do NOT-evil in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, and in measure.
(Torah Vayiqra 19:35)
There is a judgment that is severe, and a judgment that is NOT-severe.
A judgment that is balanced, and a judgment that is NOT-balanced.
A judgment that is soft.
(A judgment) toward Over-the-Face,
NOT-THIS and NOT-THAT.
And IT was that the Adam of the great began in the AL-Face
of the ground. (Torah B'reshith 6:1)
The Adam of the great...
This is that which is written:
For also...
Adam of Above.
And it is written:
AL-Face of the ground.
And Mosheh knew THAT-NOT, the skin of his face shone. (Torah
Shmoth 34:29)
This is that which is written:
Garments of skin... (Torah B'reshith 3:21)
Horn...
As it is written:
And Samuel took the horn of oil. (I Samuel 16:13)
For there is no anointing except with the horn.
And in Your Name our horn is exalted. (Psalms 89:18)
The Name have I revealed upon the skin of David. (Psalms 132:17)
That is the tenth of the King.
And IT comes from that Jubilee which is the Mother,
As it is written:
For IT shall be when the horn of the Jubilee is sounded. (Joshua
6:5)
The horn is wreathed with the Jubilee, the tenth in the Mother.
The horn, IT takes the horn and the Spirit to restore the Spirit inYH.
And this horn is of the Jubilee, Heh.
And the Jubilee is Heh.
And the Heh is the blower of the Spirit unto all.
And all return to their place,
Thus it is written:
AHH YHVH Elohim. (Jeremiah 1:6)
When Heh appears unto Heh ,
YHVH Elohim,
The perfect Name from NOT
And it is written
The Lord YHVH alone shall be exalted in the Day of THAT. (Isaiah
2:11)
Up to here is the hidden and adorned Concealment of the King,
This is the Book of THAT Which is Concealed,
Happy is he that (enters and) comes out, and knows ITs paths and ways.
Sifra Detzniyutha
APPENDIX I
In Chapter Three, after the verse:
And Elohim said the waters will swarm with movement of living being.
(Torah B'reshith 1:20)
There is an extensive addition from the sixteenth century CE, 5300's Jewish
Era:
(Another interpretation)
the waters will swarm with movement
translated
with movement
Meaning to say when his lips move with words of prayer,
in merit and clarity of mind,
For when man wishes to order his prayer to his Master,
And his lips move in such a way from below upwards--
To raise the honor of his Master to the place of irrigation of the deep well
that flows and comes out.
Then it will flow to draw forth from above downwards,
From that irrigation of the river-bed to every level and level,
(down) to the last level,
In order to elicit a freewill offering from above downwards.
Afterwards he needs to bind a knot in all,
The bond of the intention of the faith,
And all his requests shall come about--
Whether they be communal requests or individual requests.
The prayer that man should request of his Master is arranged in nine ways:
1) there is according to the alphabet; and,
2) there is by way of mentioning the attributes of the Holy One,
blessed be He e.g. compassionate, gracious, etc;
3) there is according to the precious Names of the Holy One, blessed be He,
like:
Ehyeh (I will be), YH, YHV, , El, Elohim, Tzuhvaoth (Host), Shadhai (Almighty),
Adonai (My Master);
4) there is according to the ten Sefiroth, like:
Malkuth, Yesod, Hod, Netzah, Tifareth, Gevurah, Gedulah, Binah, Hochmah, Keter;
5) there is by mentioning the righteous ones, like the Patriarchs, and the Prophets,
and the Kings;
6) there is the form of songs and praises (for which there is a true tradition),
and higher than these;
7) there is he who knows to prepare adornments unto his Master, in a becoming
fashion;
8) there is (the prayer) with the knowledge how to ascend from below upwards;
9) there is the he who knows to elicit the abundance from above downwards.
And for all these nine ways is required great intention.
For without that, about such there is a verse, as it is written:
And they that despise Me shall be lightly esteemed. (I Samuel
2:30)
And in the intention of Amen (is) that it compounds two Names: YHVH and ADONAI.
The one conceals its goodness and its blessing in a treasure that is called
"Hall."
This is indicated in the verse:
And the Lord YHVH is in His holy Hall, keep silence before Him. (Habakuk
2:20)
Our sages, of blessed memory, alluded to this (when stating that)
all the good of a man is in his house, as it is said:
In all my house he is faithful. (Torah Doverim 12:7)
And it is translated: In all that is with Me. (Psalms 24:7)
And when (man) has intention in every one of the nine ways as behooves,
He is the human being that honors the Master, the Holy Name.
And of him it is written:
For they that honor Me I will honor, and they that despise me
shall be lightly esteemed. (I Samuel 2:30)
I will honor. (I Samuel 2:30)
In this world, to fulfill and to bring about all his needs,
And all the nations of the earth will see that the name of Elohim
is called upon him, and will fear him.
And in the world to come he will merit to stand in the division of the pious,
even though he did not study sufficiently.
For he merited to mind the knowledge of his Master
and had the proper intention thereto.
What is:
And they that despise Me shall be lightly esteemed? (I Samuel 2:30)
It refers to him that does not know to unify the Holy Name
And to bind the knot of the faith
And to draw forth to that place that is in need,
And to honor the Name of his Master.
The more so with regard to he who has no intention,
Amen.
Thus, whoever moves his lips with purity of heart,
In the waters that purify,
What is written of him?
And Elohim said: Let Us make Adam. (Torah B'reshith 1:7)
Meaning to say (Let Us make) because of man,
(He) who knows to unify the image and the likeness as behooves,
And they will have dominion over the fish of the sea. (Torah
B'reshith 1:26)
APPENDIX II
There is another addition at the very end of the Sifra Detzniyutha:
When the one Heh is turned towards the other Heh , and Yod is taken away, then
comes vengeance into the universe; and except for that Adam who is called [by
the Name], the universe would NOT exist; but all things would be destroyed.
Hence it is written:
And the Lord alone shall be exalted in the Day of THAT. (Isaiah
2:11)
