The Book of Formation

12. This is the living one, this is the way where light dwells. original: "חי זה הדרך ישכון אור" — a play on Job 38:19 13. And from there to his place. 14. Blue and birth... 16. and birth of hail... 17. The living one, this is the way light is divided. 18. Set apart to drip... 18. And a way for the lightning of the thunder. 19. Has the rain a father? 20. The living one, who has begotten the drops of dew? 21. From whose womb came the ice? From whose womb came the ice? 22. And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth? 23. Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades? 24. Or loose the bands of Orion? 25. Can you bring forth the constellations in their season? 26. Or can you guide Arcturus with his sons? 27. Know you the ordinances of heaven? 28. Can you lift up your voice to the clouds? 29. Can you send lightnings, that they may go? 30. Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? 31. The living one, who has given understanding to the rooster? 32. Who can number the clouds in wisdom? 33. Or who can stay the bottles of heaven? 34. Will you hunt the prey for the lion? 35. And fill the appetite of the young lions? 36. Who provides for the raven his food? 37. Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? 38. Can you mark when the hinds do calve? 39. Who has sent out the wild donkey free? 40. Or who has loosed the bands of the wild donkey? 41. Will the wild ox be willing to serve you? 42. Can you bind the wild ox with his band in the furrow? 43. Will you trust him, because his strength is great? 44. Will you believe him, that he will bring home your seed? 45. Gave you the goodly wings unto the peacocks? 46. Have you given the horse strength? 47. Can you make him afraid as a grasshopper? 48. He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. 49. Does the eagle mount up at your command? 50. Does he make his nest on high? B. Who has laid its measures?

Know that after it was clarified that in every Hephah original: "חיפה" — likely a technical or geographical reference used as a mnemonic here there is purity and a platform for the place of contemplation, as it is said, "Hephah is the secret of his friend." And because it is required by necessity for the Sabbath of my rest and the cause of rest for all those who rest, the one occupied with it found Hephah to be his cause. For the word Hephah is a compound of two words: Chai Peh Literally "Living Mouth". "Chai" (Living) is the sustenance of power, more than the "Saphah" (Lip) from the language of the "Cheyk" (Bosom). And the word "Peh" (Mouth) is interpreted from the language of "Leko Peh" (Go here), a praise. And behold, Hephah is written with the letter He and not with a Chet, to hint at the explanation of the Rabbi R.L. Resh-Lamed: Likely "Rabbi Levi" or "Our Rabbis of blessed memory" who said that through the power of the heart and wisdom, which are called "Chai" (Wisdom) together with the "Peh" (The Crown/Malchut), your sukkah was established. From there, grace and knowledge are drawn out and extended, for knowledge (Beauty/Tiferet) is drawn from Understanding (Binah). For all those who are filled are sprung from that name.

He returned and asked, Who set its measures? Job 38:5 to create the "chariots" The celestial structures that inherit what is needed for the limit and definition of every single species of the upper and lower inhabitants and what is between them. Furthermore, even the lives of every species require a known limit, for the life of the multitude inherits its boundary. For their spiritual essence is mixed—Simeon, Levi, and Judah—none of them are like their fellow, not in length, nor in width, nor in thickness. Furthermore, every single member of a living species is distinct from another in length, width, and thickness. For the punishment likely "measure" or "limit" here of the small joint of the little finger is not equal to the measure adjacent to it, nor is its limit in length, nor in width, nor in thickness. Rather, each one of them is different from the other, and so it is in every species.

He explained and said that this comes from the level called Mi Literally "Who" — in Kabbalah, this refers to the Sephirah of Binah (Understanding), as it is written: "Whom did He consult, and who instructed Him?" Isaiah 40:14. In my opinion, the essence and the generator require an explanation of the power of change through judgment, in the power of exchange and scattering. The power of change is simply awesome, and the "destruction" of the whole comes from the power of the "Houn." By the voice of the "Cheyk," it is "destruction." The explanation: it is called "destruction" because it is hidden from us. In reality, it is the power of existence, for existence is the opposite of destruction. It is what prepares the Golem Prime matter/Formless substance from the life of this species to the life of that species, until it is fit to receive "Form." This is the secret of "Sabin and Pang" and "Tarachma" and "Zasonchol," who understand everything through His wisdom. For Understanding (Binah) contemplates Wisdom (Chokhmah), and from there comes the entire drop of the Golem, which is Understanding, and it is And there for her is the company of the hind and around the rest (?)? ready to receive the decree. And the daughter who gives intelligence to all senses, all species, and all individuals is called the "Mistress of the World."
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