The Book of Formation

Introduction of the Ra'avad, of blessed memory

The path of life leads upward for the wise A quote from Proverbs 15:24, for there is no excuse when you are taken to your border and when you understand your house as if you are inside it, to see the shrouds for the pure and the destruction of the congealed memories of the heathens. Know that for him, there is a birth and the number of your days is great. The knowledge of God is thus found in the generations, and the count of your days is like streams. It is known that you have sustained a portion of the fire; a "portion of the face" An idiom for personal attention or favor in your eyes is like yesterday. If so, these days are seventeen thousand years original: "iz alapim". All of this is hinted at in the "exalted" letters of the calculation of eighty-two, and the number of your days is two hundred and nine Based on Gematria, the Hebrew system of assigning numerical values to letters. Up to three hundred and sixty, they equal the GematriaThe kabbalistic method of interpreting words based on their numerical value. of one thousand and twelve—meaning twelve thousand years of the cycles of Snow original: "SLG" (Sheleg). In this mystical context, snow represents the cooling or crystallization of divine energy. to make known that even in the Attribute of Mercy original: "Midat HaChesed" — the divine quality of benevolence there is a mixture of Judgment original: "Din" — the divine quality of severity and law, for it has the cycles of Snow.

Know that there are sixty types of Snow. One of them is the "division of every tree," and we shall remove the burdens and they shall be dismantled... and they were the ascent of the congealed as our kings, and their motion is like congealed milk. There is "lacking snow" which is like the appearance of the points of the sunrise and from the forces of the horn... in the place of lack, and they shall be sanctified. There are some of them that return to establish the "Pered" original: "Pered" (mule/division) — perhaps a reference to the four levels of interpretation: Peshat, Remez, Derash, Sod, and some that return to deviate as Snow. All of them rise from the earth to the canopy in the air, covering all the Mercy that acts upon them. Outside the Land, the vapors rising from the water and the earth are like the clouds called "Great All," and they themselves are acted upon to be the storehouses of Snow and the cycles of Hail original: "KLD" (Barad). Hail represents a more severe, solidified form of Judgment than snow..

With these, the Holy One, blessed be He, takes vengeance upon the wicked, as when He "withholds His covering for the time of distress, for the day of battle and war" A reference to Job 38:23. For with stones of hail original: "Avnei Barad" He took vengeance against Pharaoh, and against the kings of the Land of Israel in the days of Joshua. So too, every single day, there is payment from the wicked, from "Halem" a mystical term to Snow and from "Haleg" to "them." Thus, the exchanges shall be cut off and the clouds shall end. They shall return to be as the book of Amos says: "under the soles of the feet" of the congealed foundations. For when their wickedness is upon them, they shall be "ashes under the soles of the feet" of the congealed. For it is reversed, and "the clay becomes as the seal" A reference to Job 38:14.

And the sound of the Snow beneath the Throne of Glory original: "Kise HaKavod" comes from the powers of the cycles of Snow and the cycles of Hail. This is the offspring, and later it is written: "this is the translation," and the clay is for the Mercy of the world... "He sends forth His snow like wool" original: "kurtolei talga"; "He scatters the frost like ashes" original: "kedra tachmei". And in His cold, the cycles of Hail are the "mortgage" A legal/mystical term for a debt or guarantee, in the language of the wise...