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MEM — Numerical Value: 40 | The letter of water, of 40, of Moses | 81 source entries [Translator's Note] Mem is the largest section after Alef, Vov, and Ches. The 40 days of Moshe on Sinai, the 40 years in the desert, the waters (mayim) — all converge here. The great Moshe cluster (lines 63–72) is presented together. Many cross-references from earlier sections appear here as they are reached alphabetically. Hebrew EntryEnglish Translation & ExplanationSource מאה Gematria Me'ires (מאירת, "illuminating / enlightening") — first letters of ת׳וכו ר׳צוף א׳הבה מ׳בנות י׳רושלים: "its interior inlaid with love, by the daughters of Jerusalem" [Song of Songs 3:10]. Illumination comes from love inlaid within. Likutay Mooharan II:5; 16 מ'אמר נ'אמן — מן Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "a faithful utterance" (מ׳אמר נ׳אמן) spell מן (man, "manna"). [Cross-reference: Man → same, listed below.] Likutay Mooharan 56:7 מביחו Roshay Saveivos

One hundred (מאה = 101) = gematria of מ"ס (Mem-Samech = 40+60 = 100... see source for the precise kollel calculation). [The source cites lesson 7:5; the connection involves the gematria of specific Names as explained there.] Likutay Mooharan 7:5 מ'איגרא ר'מא ל'בירא ע'מיקתא Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "from a tall roof to a deep pit" (מ׳איגרא ר׳מא ל׳בירא ע׳מיקתא) [Aramaic saying, Shabbos 31b] spell לעמר (la'omer, "for the Omer"). [Cross-reference from Section 12.] Sefer HaMidos, "Sefiras HaOmer" 3 מאירת Roshay Saveivos Mah (מה = 45) = gematria of the Name Havayah spelled out with Alefs (יוד הא ואו הא = 45). [Cross-reference from Section 1.] Mah — 370 (ש"ע) [aspects/lights] — its letters spell מעשה (maaseh, "deed / action"). [Cross-reference: Maaseh → same, listed below.] Likutay Mooharan II:82; II:7; 13 מ'ה נ'מלצו ל'חכי א'מרתך Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "How sweet are Your words to my palate!" [Psalms 119:103] spell אלמן (almon, "widower"). [Cross-reference from Section 1.] Likutay Mooharan 199

Meviacho — first letters of ו׳נח מ׳צא ח׳ן ב׳עיני י׳י: "And Noach found favor in the eyes of Hashem". [Cross-reference from Section 6.] Chayay Mooharan §463 מ"ג ביצים / גם Gematria The measure of 43 eggs (מ"ג ביצים) — the measure of challah — corresponds to גם (gam, "also" = 43). [Cross-reference from Section 3.] Furthermore: the 43 words of the Psalm of Thanksgiving (Mizmor LeTodah, Psalms 100) correspond to this very measure — the psalm and the challah share 43. Likutay Mooharan 55:7; II:2; 6 מה Gematria מטר Roshay Saveivos Matar (מטר, "rain") — first letters of מ׳ראה ט׳עם ר׳יח: "sight, taste, smell" — the three most elevated senses through which divine pleasure is received. Rain feeds all three. Likutay Mooharan II:1; 12 מי — חמישים Gematria Mi (מי, "who? / water" = 50) = gematria of chamishim (חמישים, "fifty"). "Who?" and fifty are the same — the highest level of questioning and the number of Jubilee/liberation are one. [Cross-reference from Section 8.] Likutay Mooharan 45 מידד — מֵי דַד Notarikon

מ'ה ש'היה ה'וא — משה Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "That which was, it is" (מ׳ה ש׳היה ה׳וא) [Ecclesiastes 1:9] spell משה (Moshe). What was, is, and always shall be — that is Moshe. [Cross-reference: Moshe cluster below.] Likutay Mooharan 58:2; II:79 מה ש"ע — מעשה Tziroof Mah + 370 (מה ש"ע) — the letters of מ"ה (45) together with the 370 lights = the letters of מעשה (maaseh, "deed"). Action (maaseh) is the unification of the Name Mah (45) with the 370 lights. Likutay Mooharan II:7; 13 מה'ק'ם' מלכין — שם קמ"ה Notarikon Malapoum (מלאפום — the vowel cholam when written as a Vov) = מלא פום (mala pum, Aramaic: "fills the mouth") — the vowel that fills and rounds the mouth with its sound. It corresponds to the Yud-Vov letter-pair [cross-reference from Section 10]. Likutay Mooharan 8:9; 34:5 מלאך Multiple Malach (מלאך, "angel") yields three connections: (1) Tziroof Its letters are a permutation of כְּלָאֵם (kela'am, "He restrained them") [cross-reference from Section 11]; (2) Gematria Malach = gematria of סוכה (sukkah, "the festival booth" = 91);

The letters מ, ק, ם from the phrase מהקם מלכין ("who sets up kings" [Daniel 2:21]) embody the Divine Name קמ"ה (= 145). [Cross-reference from Section 6.] Likutay Mooharan 234 מזמור לתודה / מל Multiple The Mizmor LeTodah (מזמור לתודה, Psalm of Thanksgiving, Psalms 100) yields a rich cluster: (1) Roshay Saveivos Its first letters spell מל (mal, "circumcision / the letter Mem-Lamed"); Mamon (ממון, "money / wealth") — together with its letters = gematria of 140 voices (ק"מ קלין) [the 140 sounds associated with the giving of Torah]. Roshay Saveivos Mamon — first letters of מ׳שם נ׳תעשר מ׳שה: "from there Moshe became wealthy" [referring to the sapphire chips that fell from the Tablets — Moshe kept them and became wealthy]. The Vov in Mamon corresponds to the Tablets — whose length was 6 and whose width was 6. [Moshe's wealth came from the chips of the Sapphire Tablets — and the word for wealth (mamon) encodes his name. Money at its root is divine — the sparks of the Tablets that fell to earth became the wealth of the one most devoted to G-d.] Likutay Mooharan 23:1; 60:1

מן Notarikon Man (מן, "manna") = מ׳קוה של שער נ׳ון — "the reservoir of the Nun-gate" [a kabbalistic term for the 50th Gate of Understanding]. Roshay Saveivos Man — first letters of מ׳אמר נ׳אמן: "a faithful utterance." The manna that fell from heaven was a faithful utterance made edible. [Manna = the 50th Gate of Wisdom made tangible food. Every piece of manna was a word of faithful divine utterance given as nourishment. The people literally ate the speech of G-d.] Likutay Mooharan 56:7

מנצפ"ך — ורידין / ריו דין Gematria The five final letters (מנצפ"ך) = gematria of ורידין ("veins") and = gematria of ריו דין (216 + judgment). [Cross-references from Section 6.] Likutay Mooharan 37:6 מ"ס — מאה Gematria Mem-Samech (מ"ס = 100) = gematria of one hundred (מאה). [Cross-reference from Me'ah above.] Likutay Mooharan 7:5

מִסְפָּר — מִסֵּפֶר Notarikon Mispar (מִסְפָּר, "number") is read as misefer (מִסֵּפֶר, "from a book") — numbers come from the book. Counting is reading; quantity is text. Likutay Mooharan II:30 מעות — ו'אין ע'בירה מ'כבה ת'ורה Roshay Saveivos Ma'os (מעות, "coins / money") — first letters of ו׳אין ע׳בירה מ׳כבה ת׳ורה: "no sin extinguishes Torah." [Cross-reference from Section 6.] Likutay Mooharan 204; Sichos HaRan 136 מעט Gematria Me'at (מעט, "a little / few" = 119) = gematria of 119. [The source connects this to a specific teaching in Chayay Mooharan §556 about the significance of smallness and "a little."] Chayay Mooharan §556 מעקל — עמלק Tziroof Ma'kel (מעקל, "crooked / winding path") — its letters are a permutation of עמלק (Amalek). The crooked path is Amalek — the force that seeks to bend and distort the straight way. [The word for crookedness and the name of Israel's arch-enemy share the same letters. Amalek is the embodiment of the twisted path — the power that attacks the straight walk of Israel through the desert of life.] Likutay Mooharan II:5; 11

מערב Roshay Saveivos Ma'arav (מערב, "west / evening") — first letters of ר׳חל מ׳בכה ע׳ל ב׳ניה: "Rachel weeping for her children" [Jeremiah 31:14]. The west — where the sun descends — encodes Rachel's weeping, for she weeps as light fades into exile. Likutay Mooharan II:67 מ'מצרים ו'לא י'ראו פ'ני ר'יקם Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "from Egypt and they shall not see My face empty-handed" (מ׳מצרים ו׳לא י׳ראו פ׳ני ר׳יקם) spell פורים (Purim). The redemption from Egypt carries within its first letters the festival of hidden redemption. [Cross-reference from Section 6.] Likutay Mooharan II:74

מצחק Roshay Saveivos Metzachek (מצחק, "one who laughs / plays") — first letters of ח׳זה צ׳יון ק׳רית מ׳ועדנו: "See Zion, the city of our appointed times." [Cross-reference from Section 8.] Likutay Mooharan (end of story of the humble king) מצר — צמר Tziroof Metzar (מצר, "distress / narrow strait") — its letters are a permutation of צמר (tzemer, "wool"). The narrow straits of suffering contain within them the warmth and softness of wool — comfort is hidden within distress. Likutay Mooharan 29:10 מצרימה' את' יעקב' איש' וביתו' Sofay Saveivos

(2) Gematria Mal (= 70) corresponds to the 70 birth-cries of a woman in labor — the Psalm of Thanksgiving corresponds to the ultimate thanksgiving after birth; (3) The Psalm has 43 words [see Gam above]; (4) In Atbash cipher, chesed = 168 = the number of letters in this Psalm. [The Psalm of Thanksgiving (Psalms 100) was sung in the Temple when bringing the todah offering. Its 43 words = the measure of challah; its 168 letters = chesed in Atbash; its first letters = mal (circumcision). A single Psalm encodes bread, lovingkindness, and the covenant of circumcision.] Likutay Mooharan II:2; 6; marginal gloss to 19 מ'חלוקת ש'מאי ה'לל — משה Roshay Saveivos The final letters of "to Egypt, Yaakov, each man and his household" (מצרימה את יעקב איש וביתו) [Exodus 1:1] spell תשובה (teshuvah, "repentance / return"). The very verse describing the descent into Egypt — the beginning of exile — contains in its final letters the word for return. Exile carries within it the seed of return. [One of the most beautiful teachings of the section: the final letters of the verse announcing the descent into Egypt spell teshuvah — the ultimate return. Exile is not the end; it is a vessel containing its own remedy.] Likutay Mooharan II:73 מצת Roshay Saveivos Matzas (מצת, "[he] sucked / drew out") — first letters of צ׳דקה ת׳ציל מ׳מות: "charity saves from death" [Proverbs 10:2]. Drawing forth life through charity saves from death. Likutay Mooharan 201

מקל — ואו Shape / Form Makel (מקל, "staff") has the shape of the letter Vov (ואו). [Cross-reference from Section 6.] Likutay Mooharan 1 מִקֵּץ — קָמַץ Tziroof Mikeitz (מִקֵּץ, "at the end of" [Genesis 41:1 — Yosef's dream interpretation after two years]) — its letters are a permutation of קָמַץ (kamatz — the vowel-sign below the letter, the broadest and most open vowel). The "end" (keitz) contains the full open vowel — the moment of redemption is the most fully-open divine utterance. Likutay Mooharan 54:6 מר דרור / מרדכי Notarikon The first letters of "the dispute between Shammai and Hillel" (מ׳חלוקת ש׳מאי ה׳לל) spell משה (Moshe). The great debates of the Talmud are the continuation of Moshe's Torah. [Cross-reference: Moshe cluster below.] Likutay Mooharan 56:8 מחקק Gematria Mechokek (מחקק, "lawgiver / engraver" = 248) = gematria of Avraham (248) [cross-reference from Section 1]. The lawgiver and Avraham are numerically one — Avraham is the first lawgiver. Likutay Mooharan II:26; 72; Sefer HaMidos "Drunkenness" 3, 4 מחשבה — חשוב מה Tziroof Mar Deror (מר דרור, "pure myrrh" [Exodus 30:23] — the first spice of the holy anointing oil) is an aspect of Mordechai (מרדכי) — for Mordechai is the Aramaic translation of Mar Deror. Mordechai (מרדכי) = gematria of ורב חסד ("and abundant in lovingkindness" [Exodus 34:6]). Mordechai embodies divine lovingkindness. Likutay Mooharan 10:8; 56:2; 60:9 מ'ראה ט'עם ר'יח — מטר Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "sight, taste, smell" spell מטר (matar, "rain"). [Cross-reference from Matar above.] Likutay Mooharan II:1; 12

מראה Roshay Saveivos Mareh (מראה, "vision / appearance") — first letters of ר׳שע מ׳כתיר א׳ת ה׳צדיק: "the wicked surrounds the righteous" [Habakkuk 1:4]. The vision of the wicked surrounding the righteous is itself a kind of appearance — the distorted vision of evil masking holiness. Likutay Mooharan II:5; 11 מרים יוכבד — נא רפא Gematria Miriam and Yocheved (מרים יוכבד — Moshe's sister and mother, the two great women of the Exodus) together = gematria of נא רפא ("please heal" [Numbers 12:13 — Moshe's prayer for Miriam when she was stricken with leprosy]). The women who saved Moshe's life contain within their names his prayer for their healing. Likutay Mooharan 174

משה Multiple Moshe (משה) — the great cluster of Moshe's gematria and acronym connections: (1) Tziroof The letters of Moshe = ש׳ מה — "the Shin of Mah" [the 300 of the letter Shin + the Name Mah (45)]; (2) Gematria Moshe (345) = gematria of חרון אף (charon af, "burning anger") [cross-reference from Section 8] — Moshe stands in the breach of divine anger; (3) Moshe (345) = gematria of שילה (Shiloh — the Divine Name and place associated with Yosef's descendants);

Machshavah (מחשבה, "thought") — its letters contain חשוב מה (chashov mah, "reckon what [is above you]"). True thought is the reckoning of that which transcends — a reminder always to consider what is above. [Cross-reference from Section 8.] [The Mishnah's ethical formula: "Know from where you came, where you are going, and before Whom you will give account" — the word for "thought" itself contains the imperative to "reckon what" lies above. True thinking is always oriented upward.] Likutay Mooharan II:82 מ'ט"ט ש'ר ה'פנים — משה Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "Metatron, Prince of the Face" (מ׳ט"ט ש׳ר ה׳פנים) spell משה (Moshe). Moshe is the human embodiment of Metatron, the angel of the divine face. [Cross-reference: Moshe cluster below.] Likutay Mooharan 13:3 (4) Moshe (345) = gematria of שכה (a name/word in the source = 325... see source for precise value); (5) Moshe stands numerically between שמד (shemad, "destruction / forced apostasy" = 344) and רצון (ratzon, "will / favor" = 346) — Moshe mediates between the extremes of destruction and divine will; (6) Moshe Rabbeinu (משה רבינו, "Moshe our Teacher") = gematria of תרי"ג (613 — the number of commandments). Moshe our Teacher = the 613 commandments; (7–10) Roshay Saveivos Moshe appears as the first letters of four different phrases:

— מ׳ה ש׳היה ה׳וא: "That which was, it is" [Ecclesiastes 1:9]; — מ׳חלוקת ש׳מאי ה׳לל: "the dispute of Shammai and Hillel"; — מ׳ט"ט ש׳ר ה׳פנים: "Metatron, Prince of the Face"; — מ׳תוקה ש׳נת ה׳עובד: "Sweet is the sleep of the laborer" [Ecclesiastes 5:11]. [Moshe is the mediator of all opposites: between destruction and favor; between the eternal past and the eternal present; between the highest angelic prince and the sweetest sleep of the common laborer. His name contains multitudes.] Likutay Mooharan 4:9; 215; 6:7; 9:4; 13:3; 36:2; 56:8; 58:2; II:79; II:5:15

Meidad (מידד — one of the two elders who prophesied in the camp [Numbers 11:26]) is read as מֵי דַד — "waters of the breast [nourishment]." The prophet draws from the nourishing waters of wisdom. [Compare Eldad = El Dad, "G-d of the breast," in Section 1.] Likutay Mooharan 97 מיכל Roshay Saveivos Michal (מיכל) — first letters of כ׳י מ׳לאכיו י׳צוה ל׳ך: "For He will command His angels for you". [Cross-reference from Section 11.] Chayay Mooharan §456 מלאפום Notarikon משהו Roshay Saveivos Mashehu (משהו, "a tiny something") — first letters of ו׳היה מ׳עשה ה׳צדקה ש׳לום. [Cross-reference from Section 6.] Likutay Mooharan 57:8 מֶך — מִש"ך דינים Notarikon Mech (מֶך, "lowly / diminished one") = מִש"ך דינים (mishach dinim, "drawing of judgments") — the diminished one draws judgments upon himself through his low state. [The word for "lowly / oppressed" contains within it the concept of the drawing-down of harsh judgments — poverty and diminishment are spiritually associated with the harsh forces. The remedy is elevation through Torah and joy.]

(3) Roshay Saveivos First letters of כ׳י א׳ין מ׳חסור ל׳יראיו and of כ׳י ל׳אלקים מ׳גיני א׳רץ [cross-references from Section 11]. [Angel = Sukkah in gematria: both equal 91. The angel and the booth of Sukkos share a numerical identity — the booth is the angel's embrace, the divine protection that surrounds us on all sides during the festival.] Likutay Mooharan II:1; 7; II:5; 14 מלבוש — בשלום / חשמל Tziroof Malbush (מלבוש, "garment") — its letters are a permutation of בשלום (beshalom, "in peace") [cross-reference from Section 2] and = gematria of חשמל (chashmal) [cross-reference from Section 8]. Likutay Mooharan 35:6; 41 Likutay Mooharan 277 מַכִּיל / מְכֵּל Notarikon Makhil (מַכִּיל, "one who contains / provides for") — its opposite is mekhel (מְכֵּל, "he who withholds / diminishes"). The generous one who provides and the one who withholds are mirror images of each other — containing and diminishing, the same letters in different vowels. Likutay Mooharan 205 מ'שם נ'תעשר מ'שה — ממון Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "from there Moshe became wealthy" spell ממון (mamon, "wealth"). [Cross-reference from Mamon above.] Likutay Mooharan 60:1

מלוה Roshay Saveivos Milveh (מלוה, "a loan") — first letters of ו׳צבא ה׳שמים ל׳ך מ׳שתחוים. [Cross-reference from Section 6.] Likutay Mooharan II:1; 13 מם סתומה — שני דלתין Shape / Form The closed Mem (מם סתומה — the final form ם) has the shape of two Dalets joined together. [Cross-reference from Section 4.] Likutay Mooharan 135 ממון Gematria מש'ם רוע'ה אב'ן ישרא'ל Sofay Saveivos The final letters of "from there is the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel" (משם רועה אבן ישראל) [Genesis 49:24 — Yaakov's blessing of Yosef] spell נמלה (nemalah, "ant"). The Shepherd of Israel — the divine sustainer — contains in his verse's final letters the humble ant: the smallest creature that gathers its food with patience and wisdom teaches the great shepherd. [The ant appears in Proverbs 6:6 as the model of wise preparation. That the verse about the divine Shepherd of Israel contains in its final letters the ant teaches that the greatest divine sustenance operates through the humblest channels.] Sefer HaMidos: Introduction; "Pride" 2:4; "Diligence" 1; Chayay Mooharan §77 מ'שפיל ר'שעים ע'די א'רץ Roshay Saveivos

The first letters of "He brings the wicked down to the dust" [Psalms 147:6] = first letters of א׳ש ר׳וח מ׳ים ע׳פר — "fire, wind, water, earth." [Cross-reference from Section 1.] Likutay Mooharan 8:5 מתאבל — ל'א ת'בערו Roshay Saveivos Mis'abel (מתאבל, "one who mourns") — first letters of ל׳א ת׳בערו א׳ש ב׳כל מ׳ושבותיכם. [Cross-reference from Section 12.] Likutay Mooharan II:67 מתה ויבאש Roshay Saveivos "She died and became foul" (מתה ויבאש) — the first letters of the names of the five women who died [a specific list in the source's context]: ש׳רה א׳סתר ב׳ת י׳הודית ו׳י מתה — Sarah, Esther, daughter of Yehudis, and [one who] died. [This entry appears after a story in Sichos and refers to a specific narrative context.] Sichos after the story מ'תוקה ש'נת ה'עובד — משה Roshay Saveivos The first letters of "Sweet is the sleep of the laboring man" (מ׳תוקה ש׳נת ה׳עובד) [Ecclesiastes 5:11] spell משה (Moshe). [Cross-reference from Moshe cluster above.] Likutay Mooharan II:5; 15 [Translator's Summary — Section 13, Mem — 81 source entries fully covered] The Mem section is the richest yet, anchored by the great Moshe cluster: ten separate connections revealing Moshe as the mediator between destruction and favor, as the 613 commandments, as Metatron, as the sweet sleep of the laborer. The final letters of the descent-into-Egypt verse spell teshuvah — exile contains its own remedy. Wool (tzemer) hidden in distress (metzar); the ant hidden in the verse of the divine Shepherd; Mordechai as pure myrrh and as divine lovingkindness. The Mizmor LeTodah cluster (43 words = challah measure, 168 letters = chesed in Atbash) is particularly exquisite.