Tikunim Chadashim - Tikun 17

"And for all the mighty hand and for all the great awe..." [Devarim 34:12]

Theme: The supernal arm; the Shechina in exile holding up the worlds; the Nun kefufah becoming straight; Moshe's preservation of the worlds

I. The Supernal Arm in Exile

"The mighty hand" — this is the supernal arm. "The great awe" — this is the Shechina bound to it, spreading and strengthening in all worlds. For the feet are bowed upward — the right hand has turned backward — as it is written: "He turned back His right hand"... [Eichah 2:3]. Therefore through the left She was strengthened — and through the left She held all worlds — and all was received through Gevurah [Strength].

"The mighty hand and the great awe" — truly. And had Moshe the Faithful Shepherd not prepared this Tikun from the beginning — the worlds would not have been sustained and Israel would not have existed — G-d forbid. The mystery: "I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you today"... [Devarim 4:26] — from the side of Netzach-Hod — the two witnesses truly. For at the time they ascend above, the worlds stand to be destroyed.

II. The Straight Nun — "He Raises All Who Are Bowed"

In the time to come: "Strengthen the weak hands" [Yeshayahu 35:3] — these two hands that are not so strengthened. Then: "and the stumbling knees, make them firm" — to return them to their places. Then the bent Nun becomes the straight Nun — and "He raises all who are bowed." Then She is the Final Nun — the totality of Male and Female [Dukra ve-Nukvah] [cf. Zohar III:285a]. In Her: "and the crooked shall become straight" [Yeshayahu 40:4] — for there is no crooked serpent [nachash akaltzon] that twists Her. "Make straight in the desert a highway for our G-d" — the final Nun is the totality of Adam Male and Female — truly — for all to be established in a complete Tikun. And: "And His feet shall stand on that day on the Mount of Olives"... [Zechariah 14:4] — two feet — the upper and lower feet in one joining. And in every place the masculine is the essence and the ruler — but one without the other is not found — and all returns to the Tikun as is fitting.