Ginzay Ramchal — Section 17: Pinat HaYirah — The Corner of Fear

File 3 — The Second Corner: *Yir'ah* (Awe) v2 — full audit

The Second Corner of the Chariot — *Yir'ah*

§ 1. "*A spirit lifted me up… and I heard the great quaking-voice*"

It is written: *"And a spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a great quaking-voice — **'Blessed is the Glory of Hashem from His place'**"* [Yechezkel 3:12]. **Come and see:** to draw down the Supernal Glory, that it shall spread to all the sides by way of the Supernal *Shirah* (song) which arouses the Throne unto the Glory. And no prophet is able to receive his prophecy except through the power of *shiros ve-tushbachos* (songs and praises). And the secret of this: *"And it shall be, as the musician plays, that the hand of Hashem came upon him"* [Melachim Beis 3:15]. And thus it is necessary that the prophet prepare himself with *shiros ve-tushbachos*, to arouse the Supernal *Shirah*, and then he may enter into the place fit to receive his prophecy.

§ 2. The Four Wings and the Name ***TZaMaRKa"D***

**There are four wings,** and they have awesome Names, spreading throughout the four winds of the world — and they have one Root, and its name is called ***TZaMaRKa"D*** [[צמרכ"ד]]. This is the Name of the Wing, certainly. These four wings, when they are joined together — *no'am ha-tehilah* (the pleasantness of praise) … — their name is called like His Name, and all are counted as *one* wing. And the secret of this: *"From the wing of the earth we heard songs: 'Tzvi la-Tzadik' (Beauty to the Righteous One)"* [Yeshayahu 24:16]. But before they say the *Rinah* (exulting), they have other Names, each one on its own. And the prophet needs to receive the power of the *Shirah* from so many [such] powers and praises. And through them, the soul of the prophet travels to all four winds of the Merkavah, and receives power from all of them. And of this is said: *"And I shall give you walkings between these ones who stand"* [Zechariah 3:7]. And the secret is: *"I shall walk before Hashem in the Lands of the Living"* [Tehillim 116:9], as I shall explain.

Printed edition's footnote: "*three dots in the manuscript*" — indicating an ellipsis in the manuscript original.

§ 3. The Letters of *KaNaF* — Crowning in *Tzadi*

**Four letters: מ ׳ כ ׳ נ ׳ פ** — they stand, hovering above, over the four sides, and they are the letters of ***KaNaF*** (כנף — "wing"). And at the moment when these wings lift up the *Rinah*, they join in the letter above them: the first wing in the **ם'** (Mem) which hovers over it from above, the second wing in the **כ'** (Kaf), the third in the **נ'** (Nun), the fourth in the **פ'** (Peh). And all of them are bound together as one. And then they are bound to the Supernal Root — which is the letter **צ'** (Tzadi) of the Name that I said, ***TZaMaRKa"D***. And the secret of this: *"Tzvi la-Tzadik"*, and they are all included in it.

§ 4. The Four Lands — *Elokim* = *Arak* = *Eretz*

They stand in one Name, which is ***Elokim* in the *milui alfin*** (*alef*-expansion: אלף למד הי יוד מם), which rises to the gematria of ***Ar"k*** (אר"ק — 301) [= אֶרֶץ, "land"]. And they are four wings, each one having one land — which is this Name I said. And these are made to draw down power to this Lower Earth, that she may receive the power of all these four lands. For *Adam* was created from the dust of the earth, and the Holy-One-Blessed-be-He gathered him up from all the four corners of the world. And it is necessary to raise up this *neshamah* of the prophet to a great rung, so that the dust — which is his body — shall not prevent [him] from receiving the Great Light. And when these four Names illuminate in four wings — they are called *Artzos HaChayim* (Lands of the Living) — *"I shall walk before Hashem in the Lands of the Living"*, certainly. And whoever wishes to attain great attainments — let him direct [his *kavanah*] in these four lands, that they be rectified through the *shiros* of the wings. And he shall intend that the body, which is compounded of four winds, is elevated by way of them. And let him recite the verse: *"And Elokim called the dry-land Earth (Eretz)"* [Bereishis 1:10], etc. And let him intend that the body — which is dry-land (*yabashah*) — shall be rectified through this Name *Elokim*, which equals the gematria of *Eretz*. This is one *kavanah* that any person may direct himself with.

§ 5. The Unifying "*Tzvi la-Tzadik*" — and the *Eretz Tzvi*

**Come and see:** when the power strengthens, they are all included in the letter *Tzadi* that I said, and this is *"Tzvi la-Tzadik"*. And all the lands become one land, standing under the dominion of *Tzadi*, and she is called *Eretz Tzvi* (the Land of the Deer/Beauty). And therefore — only in Eretz Yisrael, which is *Eretz Tzvi*, does prophecy spread forth; for she stands ready for the revelation of this *Tzvi*. And this corresponds to *Gan Eden*, for after Adam's dust was gathered from the four wings of the earth, all of him was placed in Gan Eden. And the secret of this: "*Melech*" (King) equals the gematria of *Tzadi* [[מלך] = 90 = צ]. And *"But as for Me, I have set My king upon Tziyon, My holy mountain"* [Tehillim 2:6] — this is the *Tzadi* which is "My King", spreading over Mount Tziyon, certainly. And therefore is said: *"For from Tziyon shall Torah go forth, and the word of Hashem from Yerushalayim"* [Yeshayahu 2:3] — all in the secret of this *Tzadi*.

§ 6. "*Four Hundred Shekel of Silver*" — Gan Eden and Har Kadshi

When the prophet ascends through all these wings, there shine forth in him immediately **four hundred *shekel kesef*** (shekels of silver), which are the Light of the **four *Chavarsei*** of *[A"A]* (*Arich Anpin*) reaching into the Lower *Gan Eden* — and the secret of this: *kedushah* **M"A** (41), certainly [textual bracket — the editor has inserted "מָאָ"א" marking "מ..." as damaged; likely the letters indicate four "whitenings" of Arich Anpin's head]. And until he receives this power, it is impossible to receive prophecy from any side. And this power issues forth from Gan Eden and stands upon Mount Tziyon — and therefore it is called *"Har Kadshi"* (My Holy Mountain) — in the secret of this sanctification of the four hundred shekels of silver of *A"A*. *"But as for Me, I have set My king upon Tziyon, My holy mountain"* — *Melech* (King) and *Kodesh* (Holy) join together, **and their secret is ת"צ (490)**. *Melech* is צ (90); *Kodesh* is ת (400). And further, *Kodesh* [in full spelling קדש = 100+4+300] is ת"י (410) — and together with the צ (90) behold ת"ק (500), which is the walk of the *Etz HaChayim* — a 500-year journey. And then all this spreads down to the *Tzaddik* below — who is called *Etz HaChayim* (Tree of Life), of whom is said: *"And he shall be like a tree planted"* [Tehillim 1:3].

And therefore is said: *"And your people, all of them, are righteous"* [Yeshayahu 60:21] — for in truth, in the time-to-come all Yisrael shall be rectified in this letter *Tzadi*, and therefore *"shall inherit the land"*. This is *Eretz HaTzvi* — the place of ascent for receiving prophecy — the Land that is the totality of all four lands, and she immediately becomes a tree — *"as the days of the tree shall be the days of My people"* [Yeshayahu 65:22]. Therefore: *"a shoot of My plantings"* [Yeshayahu 60:21]. Immediately prophecy shall spread through all Yisrael — *"and your sons and daughters shall prophesy"* and so forth [Yoel 3:1]. And this is the letter *Tav* of the Name ***Tana"tz*** [[the printed edition has תגע"ץ], but per the Editor's Introduction (File 1) and Bris Menuchah tradition, the correct reading is תנע"ץ — Tana"tz, the four-letter atbash-Name of the Second Corner; ג/נ confusion is common in print] — which is *tehilah* (praise), in which stands the *Rinah* and *tis'halei* (it-shall-praise), to ascend to prophecy.

§ 7. The Great Fire — the *Chashmal*-Secret

**A great Fire blazes at that time,** when the *Rinah* [...of] the wings has already been made. And the secret of this is: ***Chashmal*** — *chayos aish memallelos* (speaking fire-living-creatures). **Come and see:** the wings are *mayim* (water), the secret of this: *"and I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters"* [Yechezkel 1:24]. And these waters make the *Tehilah*, and these are called *mei menuchos* (waters of rest) [Tehillim 23:2] — for the *neshamah* clings to them with very great pleasantness, until she almost separates from the body from the abundance of the *deveikus*. And then there is aroused ... [the Fire] that blazes in the secret of the *Chashmal*. **378 (*Sh"Ch*, שע"ח) species of flames** blaze forth from this Fire — which is the gematria of *Chashma"l* [[חשמ"ל] = ח(8)+ש(300)+מ(40)+ל(30) = 378]. And they blaze against the *neshamah* — to receive prophecy — and she is required to endure them all, and she cannot endure. And then pass ... [over her] many things in hard judgment, until the body becomes confused from the excess of the shaking, and falls like a madman upon the ground, and loses all the senses.

§ 8. "*Blessed is the Glory of Hashem from His place*"

Then a great power goes forth from above and above — from the elevations of the Glory that has been raised through the first *shiros*. And the secret of this: *"and I heard behind me a great quaking-voice"*. The quaking ... [is] the blazing-forth of these judgments. But a Spirit descends from above, from before the Glory ... and this is called *"Ru'ach Gevurah"* (Spirit of Might), and then he [the prophet] is strengthened upon his standing. And he is found in one instant standing above the quaking — and the quaking is behind him. Therefore: *"And a spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a quaking-voice"* — when that Spirit lifts him up, then the quaking was behind him — *"and I heard behind me a quaking-voice"*, certainly. And then many blessings are given to the Supernal Glory ... [in their] attaining in the secret of *"Where is the place of His Glory, to revere Him?"* [from the *Kedushah* liturgy].

[The] prophet stands and says a great song — it is the song that the Throne sings to the Glory every day. Immediately the Spirit strengthens and spreads forth in all the Holy Chayos, and in all the *Chashmalim*, and in all the hosts, upper and lower — and returns them to stand ... [in the order] and state that they all need to be at the time of that prophecy, according to what ... [it is]. And then is said: *"wherever the spirit would go to go, there they went"* [Yechezkel 1:12]. Behold here four ... [rectifications] have been rectified: earth first, and afterwards water — in the secret of "the sound of many waters"; and afterwards fire — in the secret of the Fire of the *Chashmal*; and afterwards spirit — in this secret.

§ 9. The Four Letters of *YKVK* Illuminate

**The four letters of the Holy Name *Havayah* blessed-be-He illuminate before him with great power** at that time, and he is strengthened with the *Ru'ach Gevurah* which ... the ג of the Name is in the ג of *Gevurah* [the source is damaged/elliptical here; the sense appears to be that the third letter (*Vav*) or the third-place letter of YKVK corresponds to the *Gevurah*-dimension that strengthens the prophet].

§ 10. The Prophet's Vision — Counsel in the Heart, and Ten Visions

This prophet stands at that time, and gazes at all that he sees. But he cannot understand, **until the four letters of the Name — which illuminate towards him (*likra'so*) — send forth one light,** and it gives counsel in his heart. And then he sees and understands. The secret of this: *"Many are the thoughts in a man's heart, but the counsel of Hashem — that shall stand"* [Mishlei 19:21].

And then the Holy-One-Blessed-be-He reveals to him the secret He desires to reveal — and they are drawn as sealed matters, and the thing is pictured in his heart by the power of the counsel ... And then he sees the visions arranged according to the needed order. And when he sees in completeness, he sees **ten visions, one after another — and these are those mentioned in the Chariot of Yechezkel**. And he knows all in complete order. This is by the power of the **ten letters of the Name** blessed-be-He that illuminate in his heart — from each letter that illuminates in him, he understands and sees one vision. And the secret of this: *"and by the hand of the prophets I am likened"* [Hoshea 12:11].

**The Holy-One-Blessed-be-He speaks — and from each utterance an angel is made** — and of this is said: *"The angel that speaks with me"* [Zechariah 1:9, 14]. This angel brings him the vision that is to be brought, and the secret is one in a concealed way — according to the Supernal Light of *Ein Sof* blessed-be-He, ... [whose] essence is not grasped. And then the prophet's heart pictures the matter for him, so that he shall understand it in the imagination of prophecy — and not the essence itself, for it is not grasped except through the imagination of prophecy. And the secret of this: *"And I have multiplied vision, and by the hand of the prophets I am likened"* [Hoshea 12:11]. At that time the Holy-One-Blessed-be-He ... [ascends] upon the Throne of His Glory, and causes *rachamim* (mercies) to flow upon all Yisrael.

§ 11. The Covenant — "*My Spirit… My words… shall not depart*"

And this is what is said: *"'As for Me, this is My covenant with them,' says Hashem: 'My Spirit that is upon you, and My words that I have placed in your mouth — they shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, nor from the mouth of your seed's seed'"* [Yeshayahu 59:21]. For the prophecy is revealed to the prophet, and the Holy-One-Blessed-be-He makes a covenant with Yisrael. What is the Covenant? — this is ... [of which is said] *"as the appearance of the bow that shall be in the cloud on the day of rain"* [Yechezkel 1:28] — this is the sign of the Covenant, certainly. And its Name teaches the general joining that the Holy-One-Blessed-be-He desired to make between *Yesod* and *Malchus* — that upper and lower shall be bound as one. And this is expounded in three rungs, corresponding to Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. And the meaning is: *"And I shall remember My covenant, Yaakov"* and so forth [Vayikra 26:42]. And what is said: *"And My Spirit that is upon you [etc.] shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed"* — behold one; *"from the mouth of your seed"* — behold two; *"from the mouth of your seed's seed"* — behold three — as the appearance of the bow, certainly, three colors [corresponding to the three Avos] in *BN"R"Tz* [acronym in the source is damaged/uncertain], and in all the generations issuing from him — and the All is bound as one. *"But as for Me, I have set My king upon Tziyon, My holy mountain"*, *"and the Land I shall remember"* [Vayikra 26:42], certainly — and this is: *"from now and unto eternity"*.

§ 12. Five Lights of *Tzedakah* — Prophecy for All Yisrael

**Five Lights are revealed over *Nukva***, in whom the **five forms of darkness** (*ה' choshekh*) become *Tzedek de-okid alma bi-shalhavohi* (the Righteousness that kindles the world with its flames). And then in her these lights become *tzedakah*. And the secret of this: *"I speak in righteousness, mighty to save"* [Yeshayahu 63:1]. *Medaber* (I speak) — as it is said: *"And I have spoken to the prophets"* [Hoshea 12:11] — *nevu'os* (prophecies), certainly. For this rectification they were given — to be in the secret: all those who perform from *tzedek*, *tzedakah*. And the secret of this: *"And there shall arise for you who fear My Name the Sun of Righteousness"* [Malachi 3:20]. And she herself: *"and your sons shall prophesy"* [Yoel 3:1]. And this is the final letter of the Name — *Tzadi* of *Tzedakah*, certainly. For this [goal] the prophecies are given at the beginning — whatever is needful to bring the Redemption through them — and prophecies at the end to all Yisrael, in which is "mighty to save", certainly — in every opening with which [Hashem] opens His lips — to be the rectification unto eternity and unto the worlds of worlds.

§ 13. The *Ta"tz* of the Name — the *Soles* of the Minchah

**The [*ת*]"ץ (490) of this Name is the *soles* (fine flour) of the Minchah** [[סלת] = 60+30+400 = 490 = ת"ץ]. In it: *"and all flesh shall see together that the mouth of Hashem has spoken"* [Yeshayahu 40:5]. **Come and see:** there is in man that which issues forth from the Supernal Mouth — for all was created through *Ma'amar* (utterance) — and added to it is the life-force of the lower dust ... [in which] the Ma'amar was garbed and became flesh. **32 (*Lamed-Beis*) supernal Lights** descended below, and were garbed within this flesh. And the meaning is: upon their reaching the dust they were garbed in her, and there was sealed one [Name] which is ***AHU"D***. And then the dust received all the powers belonging to it, and the body of man was made. And the secret of this: *"Lev Tov"* (a good heart) — ***Lev*** is these 32 (*Lamed-Beis*) Lights; ***Tov*** — this is the Name ***AHU"H*** [[אהו"ה] = 1+5+6+5 = **17** = טוב (9+6+2) ✓]. And its secret: "with all your heart" — with both your inclinations, for even the *yetzer ha-ra* shall be good — and this is from the side of the *lev basar* (heart of flesh). **But when a person sins — the *Tov* departs, and the heart becomes a *lev even* (heart of stone), and the flesh becomes broken.** And in the time-to-come, the *Lev Tov* shall rule, and then there will no longer be *itzavon* (sorrow), of which is said: *"and He grieved unto His heart"* [Bereishis 6:6] — *etzev* (sorrow) that was covering over the heart. And its secret: ***kash*** (straw), ***teven*** (chaff), and ***subin*** (bran) — which cover over the *soles*. And at the end, it is necessary for the *soles* to overpower, so that the Supernal Influx can flow upon the flesh. And the secret of this: *"and the Glory of Hashem shall be revealed"* [Yeshayahu 40:5] — ***Kavod* is *Lamed-Beis* (32)**, which is the *Ma'amar* (utterance) that issues from the mouth. And then: *"and all flesh shall see together that the mouth of Hashem has spoken"* — and no thing shall impede.

**Come and see: *Lev Tov* ... is מ"ט (49)** [[לב טוב] = 32 + 17 = 49]. **And in its being elevated in the secret of *Heh-Yud* — which is "a hammer that shatters the rock" [Yirmiyahu 23:29] — it becomes ת"ץ (490)**. And its secret is: the ***Tzadi* of *Tzvi*** (90) and the ***Tav* of *Kadosh*** (400). And the secret of this: *soles*, certainly — *soles* which ascends

§ 14. The *Ta"tz*-*Soles* Rising in Man — Prophecy from *Binah*

**ת"ץ (490) — this is the *soles* which is ת"ץ, overpowering in man, [in order] that he be a prophet — that the prophecy be from the side of *Binah*, which is *ha-lev mevin* (the heart that understands).** And then: *"and he shall pour upon it oil"* [Vayikra 2:1] — ***Shemen* is *Ruach HaKodesh***, the influx given into the *neshamah* to strengthen her more than she is strengthened at the time she is within the body, according to the normal order. And then there goes forth yet a new *Ru'ach* coming from *Ima* (Supernal Mother, *Binah*) — revealing the matters according to the needed vision — and this is the *Levonah*.

§ 15. The Angels as "*Bnei Aharon*" — the *Yichud* of Prophecy

**Come and see:** at the time when a person is rectified in all these rectifications, there are many angels, and they are called ***Bnei Aharon*** (sons of Aharon) — because they come through *Michael* the Great Prince, who offers the sacrifices of Yisrael, in the secret of *tefillos* and *avodos*. And these *Bnei Aharon* offer up the *neshamah* ... [this one], for her to be joined in the Supernal Unity — for there is no prophecy without a *yichud*. Through the coupling (*ziwug*), the lights go forth, and the *neshamah* clings to them, and through the *hisdabbekus* she sees what she sees. Immediately: *"and he shall take a handful ( ve-kamatz*) from there, the fullness of his handful" [Vayikra 2:2] — this is one Light descending from *A"A* (*Arich Anpin*), *Kadosh*, certainly, in the secret of the *Kamatz* in the word *Kadosh*. And this brings all the matters in holiness, such that the *Sitra Achra* distances from there. And the secret of this: *"and we shall be distinguished, I and Your people"* [Shemos 33:16] — through the **Supernal *Pele*** (Wonder). And then the Great Light that encompasses in its power all the lights is aroused, and raises them up above unto *Ein Sof* blessed-be-He — the one Who returns all to the general completion — and it is the vowel ***Cholam*** — the ***Vav* in *Kedushah***. This *Vav* is pointed with the dot [of *Cholam*]; she lifts upwards in the secret of *one Line* all the Supernal Lights, and this is the vowelization *Cholam* that rises above the letters — and she is the particular rulership of Yisrael. And therefore is said: *"upon every sacrifice of yours you shall offer salt"* [Vayikra 2:13]. And she is the *Cholam*, and she is the sign of the Holy Covenant (*Os Bris Kodesh*), raising all Creation to the complete rulership.

§ 16. The Eschatology — Prophecy to All Yisrael

**And this is the reason why prophecy shall be revealed in the time-to-come to all Yisrael** — for through it all the matters ascend up to this rectification, to return all to the Supernal Unity. And at first it is done through individuals — and they are the first Roots of Yisrael; and at the end of all, all the Roots need to [ascend] to this — and this is the ***Vav* that rises to 600,000** [*sheishim ribo* — the number of souls of Yisrael]. And then: *"and the Kohen shall burn its memorial-offering"* [Vayikra 2:2], and afterwards all the angels also receive from there, and bring the proclamations throughout all the firmaments. For at first the matters reach Yisrael, and afterwards the angels — of whom is said for the time-to-come: *"As at this time it shall be said to Yaakov and to Yisrael: 'what has God wrought!'"* [Bamidbar 23:23] — to Yisrael, certainly. **For all Yisrael shall be at this rung — and this is: *"and the remainder [shall be] for Aharon and his sons"*** — these are those angels who receive afterwards, *Kodesh Kadashim*, certainly. All in the secret of ... [*Kadosh*] ... [in that which] is offered upon the Supernal Altar in the secret of the bond of Unity. And upon that time is said: *"You are entirely beautiful, My beloved, and there is no blemish in you"* [Shir HaShirim 4:7].

§ 17. The *Shechinah* as *Eretz HaChayim*

**The *Shechinah* is *Eretz HaChayim* (the Land of the Living),** and all her branches — who are Yisrael — all of them shall be bound to her, to receive the prophecy from the Land of the Living — *"kulach"* ("all of you"), certainly. *"And your people, all of them, are righteous,"* as I said. *"Fair"* — the secret of this in her: her darkness that was kindled (*de-okidu*) becomes fair (*yafeh*) in the *Heh* of Light, and becomes *Tzedek*. And then — *"My beloved"* — all are bound in one *Yichud*, to ascend and be bound in the Supernal *Yichud*. *"And there is no blemish in you"* — the *lev even* (heart of stone) becomes *lev basar* (heart of flesh), *lev tov* (good heart), as I said. *"And there is no blemish in you"* — rather, *"and your sons shall prophesy… I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh"* [Yoel 3:1] — that this flesh shall be rectified. *"You are entirely fair, My beloved, and there is no blemish in you,"* certainly. And then — *"How fair and how pleasant you are, O Ahavah in delights!"* [Shir HaShirim 7:7] — for

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