You Asked

original: שאלת (She'alt). The large woodcut heading translates to "You asked," referring to the inquiry posed to the author that prompted the writing of this book.

...from me, beloved of my soul, to illuminate one of the inner understandings—to know in which way the light of the Lord original: ידוד. A common scribal substitution for the Tetragrammaton. proceeds regarding the matter of the Ten Sefirot.
Sefirot|The ten attributes or emanations in Kabbalah through which the Infinite (Ein Sof) reveals itself and interacts with the universe.
And behold, I have granted your request to fulfill your desires, and may God look upon you with favor. The beginning of the path for a person to enter into the unity of the Creator, blessed be He, is the knowledge of the "Gate." For do you not know that if a person wishes to see the face of the King and toils for many days, but after all that toil he has not merited to know the location of the gate, what benefit is there in all the labor he exerted and the entire journey he traveled? If he does not know the gate through which to enter to see the face of the King, his effort is in vain. In this same way, most of those who exert themselves to enter the Pardes
Pardes|Literally "orchard," referring here to the realm of mystical and esoteric study.
do not know and do not understand, walking in darkness; there is no benefit in their labor. Therefore, I have seen fit to illuminate a path before you, in the way...

...in which you shall walk and the gate through which you shall enter. Then you shall be desired and accepted before the Lord, blessed be He, and you shall be among those who merit "to behold the graciousness of the Lord and to visit His temple" (Psalm 27:4). "This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it" (Psalm 118:20). Know that the Lord, blessed be He, chose Israel when He divided all the languages during the Generation of Division,
original: דור הפלגה (Dor Ha-Pallagah). This refers to the biblical account of the Tower of Babel when humanity was split into different nations and languages.
each man to his own language, according to their families and their nations. He gave to every single nation a "Minister" and a ruler over them, and He also gave to every nation a portion of the land. In this manner, the nations and the lands were individualized, each to a known Minister. Concerning this it is said, "From these the maritime nations spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language" (Genesis 10:5). This is the secret of the matter of the Division: all seventy nations were left delivered into the hands of seventy Ministers above, and those seventy Ministers surround...

These characters likely represent gathering signatures for the printer, followed by a traditional Hebrew closing "Chazak" (Be Strong).