The Lord Called unto Moses

There Are Places in Hell

275) Each sin has a place in Hell and an appointee over it. And Satan, his evil inclination, is appointed over all the sins, the places, and the appointees over them. If one repents, what does it say? “I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions,” meaning the registrations of each and every sin of the wicked has been erased from its place in Hell.

276) There are sins that are written above and not below in this world, and there are those that are written below and not above. And there are also those that are written above and below. If the sins are blotted out below in this world, since one repents, they are erased above after he repents. A wicked one—his iniquities are engraved on his bones; a righteous—his merits are engraved on his bones. This is so they will be registered among the transgressors, to recognize them. And a voice comes out over him, “This one is wicked! Let his bones burn in Hell!”

277) The souls of the wicked ones are the damagers in the world. Their sentence is that their souls are burnt and become dust under the feet of the righteous. With what are they burned? With the fire of the throne, the Malchut, as it is written, “His throne is sparks of fire, and His wheels are burning fire,” meaning in the fire of the four animals of fire that surrounds the throne of Din, which is ADNI, of which it was said, “For the judgment of Malchut is judgment.”

A River of Fire

279) From the fire of the animals of the throne of judgment [Din], a lion of fire would come down to eat and to burn the sacrifices and the appointees, since every organ with which one sins has a saboteur and an accuser appointed over it. If one commits a transgression, he acquires an accuser. As soon as fire of a high one comes down and burns the organs, the intestines, and the kidneys of the oxen and the sheep, the male goats and the female goats, this HaVaYaH comes down as a lion of fire to burn them. Their organs burn and the saboteurs appointed over the organs that sinned are burned and the iniquities of Israel—who are the organs of Divinity—are forgiven.

280) At that time, the animals appointed over merits—from the throne of Rachamim, which is repentance, upper Ima, Bina—draw nearer, meaning approach in the name HaVaYaH that enters them. This is the reason why it is an offering for HaVaYaH, for there is none who can bring the animals and the foundations closer, to bring peace between them, except the name HaVaYaH, ZA, the middle line. In His name, HaVaYaH, water approaches fire, the right line to the left line, and they do not put each other out. And the wind, too, meaning the middle line, approaches the dust, which is Malchut, and there is none who separates them.

The Six Combinations of Yod-Hey-Vav

282) The meaning of it as it is written in The Book of Creation, “Sealed the high and turned upwards,” in Yod-Hey-Vav to the right side, Hesed. This is the first combination. Hey-Vav-Yod to the left side, Gevura, is the second combination. Vav-Hey-Yod in the middle pillar, Tifferet, is the third combination. Yod-Vav-Hey in Netzah is the fourth combination. Hey-Yod-Vav in Hod is the fifth combination, and Vav-Yod-Hey in Yesod is the sixth combination.

The tree that holds all of them is Tifferet, since Tifferet contains the whole VAK [six edges], and it is a fruit-bearing tree. For this reason, the place where the tree falls will be Yod-Hey-Vav, implying that Tifferet is called by only three letters, Yod-Hey-Vav, and the bottom Hey is Malchut, which joins him. Hence, his VAK are discerned in six combinations of Yod-Hey-Vav. Also, in each HaVaYaH of the VAK there is a complete bottom Hey for HaVaYaH, meaning that the bottom Hey completes into HaVaYaH, and all the HaVaYot in VAK that cling to her. Thus, the Yod-Hey-Vav with the Hey is Yod-Hey Vav-Hey. Hey-Vav-Yod with Hey is HaVaYaH; Vav-Hey-Yod with Hey is VaHaYaH, and similarly with the rest of the HaVaYot.

283) These six combinations of Yod-Hey-Vav are eighteen letters of the six edges, HGT NHY, included in the “Righteous one who lives forever,” meaning Yesod de ZA. And with the Hey, Malchut, she becomes Haya. This is the Hey such as Noah’s ark, Malchut, in which every single king had gathered two-two, seven-seven for the offering. Two and two are four; seven and seven are fourteen, and together they are eighteen. The ark itself has the Hey, since it is the Malchut, and this completes the word Haya [Hey plus Het and Yod, which are eighteen in Gematria].

284) And Tzadik, Yesod, comprises six degrees, six edges. For this reason, they have set up bettering the dream in three peaces, three verses in which peace is mentioned, and three redemptions in three verses in which redemption is mentioned. The Yesod is Vav, and together they amount to six, corresponding to the six degrees of Yesod, since the bettering of the dream is through Yesod. This is the ladder in Jacob’s dream, which consists of six Sefirot. It is placed on the ground, meaning the lower Divinity, Malchut, called “earth,” and this is the bottom Hey. Its top is the Yod, in which there is the Tzadik, Yesod, the seventh one, since Yod is Hochma in Ima, and when beginning the count from Bina, Ima, Yesod is the seventh. It reaches the heavens, meaning upper Ima, first Hey, Bina in Bina, where from the side of the dream, left, the Hey rules over the Yod, the top of the ladder, which is the Yod from Elokim. This is why, “The angels of God ascending and descending,” and not “The angels of HaVaYaH [the Lord].”

285) In order, the letters are Yod-Hey Vav-Hey. They rise in the point of Holam, Keter, on the four letters whose expansion is from Hochma to the holy Malchut, since Hochma is Yod, Bina is Hey, the six Sefirot HGT NHY are Vav, and Malchut is the bottom Hey. Holam is the Keter above all the letters.