The Book of Formation

Introduction of the Ra'avad, of blessed memory

And behold, in the surrounding of the souls, it is as if they have become like clay; arriving at the Seventh House of stumbling and the Ninth House of death, and so it is for all of them. Sometimes there will be a lightening of the soul’s burden, Heaven forbid, due to a transformation original: "חלוף" — a change or substitution in spiritual status on account of the Glory of the Lord and the order of its transmigration gilgul: the cycle of reincarnation or the "rolling" of souls through different lives. And one who has become liable for spiritual excision karet: a punishment where the soul is "cut off" from its divine source shall be cut off from the House of Life, and this is the "Excision of Death." This is the secret of the verse, Let them live and their vision is for her A mystical reading of Job; for in her merit the matter depends, and "the matter does not depend on luck" original: "לא במזלא תליא מילתא" — a reference to the Talmudic debate on whether stars/fate (mazal) or merit (zechut) governs Jewish life. And in the inner chamber, when the decree of his death was decided, the spiritual excision of the year was due to a debt of the past that was missing from his stroke.

And the requirement of death refers to those "Life-forces" mentioned, which are drawn from the Explicit Name original: "שם המפורש" — the specialized, potent Name of God used in Kabbalistic meditation for all the fragments, and from the natures to the transformations, and from the depths to the depths, and from the voices—and it is drawn between the extended power and the Sefirot Sefirot: the ten divine emanations through which God interacts with the world. They shall strike the power of the one who cleanses them toward the changes; if one is lacking, he dies, and to the dead, one is lacking for judgment. This is because of the change regarding the illness of Hezekiah The Biblical King Hezekiah, whose life was extended by fifteen years after he prayed (Isaiah 38), according to the way I kept his paths, for I transgressed in my suffering.

And a portion was made alive and cut off, and the liberation of the lives of the transformations went into the "Gates of the Dance" original: "שערי מחול". The explanation is: the foundation of the transformation of lives—meaning, toward the transformations—is lacking as in a dance. And as our Sages of blessed memory received: "I was visited through the Crown (Atarah) Atarah: another name for the Sefirah of Malchut (Kingdom) and his fear and his merit." And I considered the connection from the twelve of the Crown (Atarah) and from the Lord, blessed be He, in Beauty (Tiferet) Tiferet: the Sefirah of Beauty or Balance. He calculated his attribute for a change, and the Lord's mouth was like a burning anger (Atarah). The liability (Tiferet) teaches that all the dead are cut off, and this is the secret...

...one who is lacking in the burning anger (Atarah). The liability (Tiferet) belongs to the new vessel (Tiferet). Furthermore, the Crown shall be added to one hundred and thirty-four (Atarah). If not for the one who was struck and stolen from me in the "Dance of Thoughts"—the explanation is: the transmigrations of the lines of my life were lacking. It was for my life, for my silver, and my mercies have already been stirred. And behold, the transmigrations of my lives passed, the generations of the Kingdom of the Torah original: "מלכות תורה" (and this is from the language of "returning" to the Assembly).

He was hidden and stolen through a "stumbling of my life" under the Higher Solution in my life, in all my foundations (Atarah) and there. And it shall be upon his pressure, and now it is stolen and made known, and he shall rest outside of me. The explanation: it left me in the "Dance of Thoughts." Our Sages of blessed memory said: "I was a cow" A metaphor for the animal soul or a specific talmudic reference, because it was almost as if my soul was silenced, for he is the "wickedness of death" upon the solution of the ladder of the light.

And in the transmigration, as in the "Impulse of the Chapter," I doubled the lines of the wisdom in the liability, for it was set in the liability of the flight. As it is written: It is better that my name be like a curtain—so are the lives for the solution of the flight. The soul of every living creature is at ease in the excision. And the mountain—for when the days were finished, the days of my nest were like clay. From me, it was excised from a distance; I did not see good. And in this uniqueness, for the opening ceases from all the "Heel of Thought" and the like, and transmigration, and Might, and Power, and Glory. And the "Higher Explanation" and the "Repair of the Crown" below, as the days of his life stood like clay, he shall be cut off from the Living Creatures upon the Small Impulse.

And in this arrangement, I was careful regarding the impulse of the lines of the "Dripping" original: "דלף" — possibly referring to the 'dripping' of divine grace or the 'leakage' of the soul, and in its suffering from day until night. You make an end of me original: "תפלומיכי" — a corruption or variant of the biblical "תשלימני" (tashlimeni) from Isaiah 38:13. The explanation: from the place called "Dripping" (Atarah), and it is the Crown. "From day until night You make an end of me" — the explanation: to seal the acceptance and the forgiveness of my days, and I have already been circumcised. Is it that I became liable for good to be visited? The "Opening of the Chapter" regarding the princes because of the sin of the refuge in the middle of the law of my graves, to the House of the Lord (to Atarah) I was until morning. Just so, He will break all my bones; "from day until night You make an end of me," and all the escaped and stirred essence and life and the existence in that span. And so it is in the transformations: twelve types of transformations, even though the Sukkot The festival of Booths, but here likely referring to "coverings" or "spiritual canopies" have lives and transformations for them, as follows. Nevertheless, you must understand that there are twelve types of souls for the ears.

(Thus further, our drawing-down is like the Crown, and further from its supply is like the "Hairy Goat" original: "שעיר המרי" — possibly a reference to the scapegoat or a demonic force in the wilderness. And for every place, a new face for you for a moment. And yes, all below is like the Hairy Goat, and it is consumed and struck and strangled and added to the courtyard. Behold, lives are upon him, and from the strike and the cloud of his end, and he was a living creature original: "חיה". Now they are judged, changed, and overturned. By the law of their transformation, and sin upon sin, and a "change" below from the Kingdom. And all that is revealed upon you... they sit in the Gates of Death and in the Shadow of Death, meaning at the entrances of Gehenna Purgatory/Hell. And for every one of them, there are judgments and a place to receive.)