Tikunim Chadashim - Tikun 4

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

Theme: The left hand; the five fingers; the three spellings of the word Yad (Hand); combinations of the Divine Name; Redemption from Egypt vs. future Redemption; the fifty gates of Binah

I. The Three Aspects of the Hand

"The mighty hand" — this is the left hand. "The great awe" — its five fingers. "The great Hand" — ה' אלקינו ה'. "The mighty Hand" — כוזו במוכסז כוזו [a well-known substitution cipher for Havayah Elokeinu Havayah]. Furthermore: "the great Hand" — the full spelling of the word Yud-Vav-Dalet / Hei-Alef / Alef-Lamed-Peh [i.e., the spelled-out names of the letters]; "the mighty Hand" — the spelling of Vav-Alef-Vav / Hei-Alef / Alef-Lamed-Peh; "the raised Hand" — the spelling for the Name Havayah as יו"ד ק"א וא"ו ק"א.

When the Holy Name expands in its levels, it divides into three as stated. And when Imma [the Divine Mother, Binah] is revealed through Ze'eir Anpin, it is revealed in two: to the right in Chesed — יהוה אלקינו יהוה; to the left in Gevurah — כוזו etc. As it is written: "In Your hand are power and might" [Divrei HaYamim I 29:12] — the mighty Hand. "In Your hand it is to make great and to strengthen all" — the great Hand.

The Yud [Y] of Yad [Hand] — fourteen joints of the hand; the secret of them: "Seven and seven spouts" [Zechariah 4:2] — for Da'as [Knowledge] has seven above within it and extends with seven below — all of it is the Hand. From it, it divides into two hands as stated. But the root of all is Hei [H] — for seven maintain themselves to extend below to the Shechina who is Bas Sheva [daughter of seven]. The Hei — their source from the side of Imma. And these are the five fingers of the hand.

II. The Exodus from Egypt — Through the Strong Hand

Israel went out from Egypt through a mighty hand — for then the Gevurah of the left arm was given to them to save them. At first, all the lights were dark and did not shine, and Gevurah was not strengthened in this manner — until it was strengthened afterward. As it is written: "For with a strong hand" [Shemos 13:3] — the strengthening of the Hand. After it was strengthened, it redeemed Israel — as it is written: "For with a strong hand He brought you out" [Shemos 13:9].

Because they were redeemed through Gevurah, the redemption was with a loud proclamation. And therefore also after that redemption there was no exile — as it is written: "For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see them no more" [Shemos 14:13].

But the Babylonian redemption was from the side of the right — therefore [it was done] in a whisper, without raising the voice. What caused this? — The foreign women, as it is written: "And G-d separated between the light and the darkness" [Bereishis 1:4] — this is from the side of Gevurah. For Gevurah is the level that separates into two — Israel from within, and the nations from without. In it: "Is not Esav Yaakov's brother?" [Malachi 1:2]. Yet the separation is found between the one and the other.

Those [who intermixed with foreign women] — since they mixed one with the other, they removed that separation from its place. Therefore Gevurah was not appeased with them, and from the side of Chesed they went forth — and the redemption was not complete.

III. The Future Redemption — Through the Five Fingers

In the time to come: "As in the days of your going out from Egypt I will show you wonders" [Michah 7:15] — through a mighty hand. In Egypt they were redeemed from the side of the hand; but in the time to come from the side of the five fingers — "I will lift the cup of salvations" [Tehillim 116:13] — "the great awe."

Because in Egypt they were redeemed through the Hand whose secret is seven [the seven lower Sefirot] — therefore forty-nine gates of Binah were given to Moshe but not the fiftieth gate [cf. Rosh Hashanah 21b]. This secret: seven times seven is forty-nine. But in the time to come, from the side of the five [the fiftieth] — the essential aspect that ascends to fifty. Therefore Mashiach will also receive the fiftieth gate. And Moshe — after this mighty hand was transmitted to Israel — continuously returned to maintain that illumination and strength upon them, as it is written: "And Egypt will hear...who brought up from Egypt" [Bamidbar 14:13; Shemos 32:11]. The commandment is to remember the redemption from Egypt always — in order to draw this power always. From the day it was awakened it does not cease. And even in the time to come, the beginning of the Tikun starts from Egypt, and then is completed in its own [future] aspect.

Therefore Moshe too will come at the end of days with the two Mashiachs, to receive the fiftieth gate that was withheld from him — and then the redemption will be complete as is fitting.

IV. Elijah Speaks — The Twenty-Two Letters of the Firmament

Then Elijah the faithful Prophet descended and opened, saying: R' R' — "And the wise shall shine as the radiance of the firmament" — these are those who know how to combine the combinations of the Torah in supernal mysteries. For all [wisdom] emerged from that supernal firmament, of which it is written: "And the likeness over the heads of the living creatures was a firmament" [Yechezkel 1:22]. What are "the heads of the living creatures"? — Tiferes and Tzaddik. The firmament stands above them to govern all as is fitting. In this firmament stand the twenty-two supernal letters, and in them all the creatures of the world are included — as all is included in that lower well [Malchus] — for from there all truly emerged.

And many chariots serve those letters that are known in their levels. And according to the revolution of those letters, combinations [tzerufim] emerge of their kinds outside — and words stand in their existence as is fitting. Therefore all the combinations of the world emerge from this firmament. Therefore: "the wise shall shine as the radiance of the firmament" — for in it stand those twenty-two letters of which it is said: "Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons" [Yeshayahu 45:11] — for all is encompassed in those letters.

And twelve Havayahs stand on that middle pillar — six to the right and six to the left — through them the combinations revolve first, as they emerge from that firmament. Their secret: three Havayahs in which there are twelve letters — the encompassing totality of above, below, and middle. ה' מלך ה' מלך ה' ימלוך לעולם ועד — "Hashem reigns, Hashem has reigned, Hashem shall reign forever and ever." In them: "I am the first" — above; "I am the last" — below; "and besides Me there is no G-d" [Yeshayahu 44:6] — in the middle. For there is no combination in the Torah that does not emerge from these three. And CHaBaD [Chochma-Binah-Da'as] has its Havayah; ChaGaT [Chesed-Gevurah-Tiferes] its Havayah; NHY [Netzach-Hod-Yesod] its Havayah. The Shechina completes them all to Havayah — and in Her: "Hashem reigns"... Thus the combinations revolve in the Torah. Therefore: "the wise shall shine as the radiance of the firmament" — those who know how to combine combinations in their places as is fitting. "The mighty hand" — this is the Yud-Hei [י"ה] — and this is the [theme of the] next Tikun.