Adir BaMurom — Chapter 20: The Ma'amar of the Seven Havalin — The Seven Kings; The Complete Tikkun Source: https://ajew.org/reader/ramchal-adir-bamuroam/1/20 Segment 1 HE: לאחרים ,ונמצא כל העולם חסר ידיעה זאת .לכן אמר :ולא אתנו יודע EN: The Ramchal now draws all the threads together. The TZADDIK = YESOD — the sefirah whose entire existence is only for the sake of the Nukva, to bring the influence to her. His name is MASHKIL [one who enlightens/guides the Shechina], for he is the illuminator of the Shechina. And David, who inherited this quality of Shaul, is also called mashkil. And the SIMCHAS HA-TORAH [joy of Torah] = the flaming of the letters against each other — "Psalms of the Living Creatures" [the niggunim of the Chayos] — when the lights illuminate Yisroel with great illumination, this joy of Torah was found. And now in the end of exile Torah comes in concealment [be-chasha'i] — each one receives from his own level, and no one reaches the illumination of the Yesod that makes a true Zivug with the Shechina. Yet this — precisely this — is the main tikkun, called la'asos nachas ruach le-yotzro [to make nachas-ruach for one's Creator]: one who learns for himself makes nachas-ruach for himself; but one who reveals Torah to others and they rejoice — causes the illumination of Torah's source to reach the Tzaddik and burst forth in the flaming of the lights toward the Shechina. Segment 2 HE: עד מה ,כי מה שיש אתנו ,אין יש יודע עד מה ,כי אין נקרא שיודעץ EN: And the SUFFERING OF THE RIGHTEOUS: Mashiach as the folding Vav descends into the place of the Acharonim [later-generation souls] and completes on their behalf — hence he has many sufferings that the Rishonim did not have, for he must pay their debt. And: "achen cholayenu hu nasa" [Isaiah 53:4] — the suffering of Mashiach is the price of the illumination that must reach into the lower garment to complete the fold. And: "ve-hu mechulal mi-pesha'enu u-ve-chavuraso nirpa lanu" [Isaiah 53:5] — for the light had to illuminate within him in the mode of Shurek-within-Vav, and then in the places needing concealment it became CHIRIQ [below the Vav, not within]. And: the CHIRIQ will return to SHUREK at the end — "ashrika lahem" [Zechariah 10:8]. And then: SHUREK rises to CHOLAM — for what was Yud becomes Hod — completing the ascent of the Shechina as crown on the King's head, and this is the return of evil to good specifically through HOD. Segment 3 HE: כלום .ובאמת כל זה נמשך מהארת האורות בסיתום ,או בפתיחה .כי EN: And YERUSHALAYIM: it is the IR HA-TZEDEK [City of Tzedek] — for Tzedek is the SHIRUTHA [bare beginning] of the governance of Malchus, the stark Din without mitigation. And then MISHPAT [judgment/law] sweetens Tzedek and gives it walls and boundaries [chomot] — for: "ir peratzah ein chomah — asher ein ma'atzor le-rucho" [Proverbs 25:28] — a city without walls is a man with no restraint over his spirit. And: "tivneh chomot Yerushalayim" [Psalms 51:20] — only when Mishpat is joined to Tzedek do Yerushalayim's walls stand. And: TZEDEK + YaK = HADAR [numerically] — so Hadar is the complete tikkun of the Mouth, the joining of TZEDEK and TZEDAKAH, the completion of ZU"N, the governance of Malchus as it was always meant to be. Segment 4 HE: דק בימי רשב״י זללה״ה ,אחרי י״ג שנה אשר היה במערה נפתחו שערי EN: And then the Idra closes. Rabbi Shimon and his holy companions departed from their learning together in the field among the trees. And there — in the open air, in the field — the Idra was completed. The Ramchal notes: all the highest secrets of Creation were revealed not in a closed chamber but be-sadeh [in the field] — in the sacred space that the blessed Holy One prepared for this revelation. The field is the Shechina. The trees are the Tzaddikim. And among them — Rashbi's teachings, like the voice of a great Shofar, illuminated all the paths and fields. Segment 5 HE: החכמה עליו להאיר לכל ישראל עד קץ הימין ,ועוד אודיעך מזה דברים EN: And the Ramchal closes: what has been taught throughout these pages — Chapters 1 through 7 — is a commentary on the supreme depth of the holy Zohar, whose root is in the Roots of all the sefirot, and whose governance is from the governance of the single Master who guides His world, may His Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. The student who has followed this path has tasted something of the great sea — and may be privileged to drink further from the wellsprings of Rashbi until the Mouth itself opens fully: "ki male'ah ha-aretz de'ah es Hashem ka-mayim la-yam mechasim" — for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of Hashem as waters cover the sea. Segment 6 HE: גדולים בם ״ד. EN: Chapter 7 of Adir BaMurom is the longest and most profound chapter in the entire work — the Ramchal's masterpiece: a complete systematic exposition of the second half of the Idra Rabba, from the continuation of the Eye of Arikh Anpin through the final closing of the Idra. It spans pages 116–488 of the printed text (373 pages) and covers seven major thematic arcs: Segment 7 HE: והנה עוד ענין אחד נכלל פה בזה העד מה ,והוא כי הידיעה האמתית EN: I. THE EYE OF ARIKH ANPIN (§§1–11b, pp. 116–340). The five senses as breaking-through points of light; the Reshimu as vessel and the Kav as light; the three white hues [chivorin]; how ZA's eye has no illumination except from AA's; the Mikveh's three aspects [40 Se'ah / 9 Kabin / 3 Lugin] as the sweetening of the Eye's Gevuros; wine becoming water; chachlili einayim mi-yayin; the double bonding of ZA with AA drawing Imma's milk to wash ZA's eyes; the third white hue sending illumination downward to all six extremities; tov ayin hu yivorach — the blessing going out from the goodly eye; yiras ha-romemus vs. yiras ha-onesh; hineh lo yanum ve-lo yishan shomer Yisroel — 60 letters of Birkas Kohanim as the protection of the All. Segment 8 HE: היא הידיעה בסוד דמות אד״ם .והיינו כי הלא כל הברואים ומשפטיהם EN: II. THE NAME OF ATIK AND THE GREAT TEACHING ON CREATION (§§12–12b, pp. 341–397). The Name of Atik Yomin is hidden throughout Torah except at the Akeidah, where bi nishba'ti ne'um Hashem reveals that Atik IS the inner secret of HVYH itself; the complete teaching on the Tzimtzum and the Kav; Torah preceded the world by 2000 years [= the YH before the VH]; the world first created with Din then with Rachamim; BEREISHIS = Torah; the Patriarchs as cosmic forces [Avraham = Kav = 248 = Chesed; Yitzchak = Reshimu rectified; Yaakov = lights breaking through]; Esav and Yishmael; Moshe = Shem MaH; the 70 nations from the Nikkudos; Mashiach ben Yosef and Mashiach ben Dovid; NACHASH = MASHIACH in gematria — Mashiach binds the klippos as head controls tail; the Nose of Arikh Anpin as Malchus of the head-tikkunim; the two breaths: one for ZA now, one reserved for Mashiach; the four lights of the Nose flaring into the Great Sea [Dikna]; the Four Kingdoms of Daniel [Bavel/Paras-Madai/Yavan/Edom]; Atik Yomin sitting on the Dikna of Arikh — "when Atik sits upon it, it is subdued; the one who rides controls." Segment 9 HE: סודם נכלל בדמות אדם ,תה כבר נתבאר בכמה מקומות . 10ומי שמשיג EN: III. THE RUACH OF MASHIACH, FREE CHOICE, AND THE SIN OF ADAM (§13, pp. 398–440). The Ruach of Mashiach was created before the world and all human tikkunim depend on it; everything Mashiach will do — Adam HaRishon could have done on the day he was created; his sin only lengthened the time; the two trees = two paths to the same ultimate point; the Tree of Life = immediate direct path; the Tree of Knowledge = the long path of exile and tikkun; the secret of Free Choice — G-d is the ultimate good and even evil must return to good; judgment by free choice enables this without coercion [= the shame of "bread not one's own"]; ROSH and SOFA [beginning and end] — the Unity of the Emitter is equally present in both; 7th millennium = revelation of Sofa; 8th millennium = equalization of Rosh and Sofa = "Hashem Echad u-Shemo Echad"; the Tzimtzum at the center of all infinite light — when its opposite [evil] is revealed as identical to the Blessed One, His unity is clarified completely; SHEM and KINUY: ELOHIM is the cognomen concealing HVYH — all evil is only a concealment that hides the inner good; nine Heichalos; the Pargod between Keter and Chochma; Gan Eden's plants = 613 commandments. Segment 10 HE: זה הדבר נקרא שיודע חכמה ,תהו מפנימיות החכמה ופנימיות התורה, EN: IV. THE PARGOD, THE NINE HEICHALOS, AND THE 42 PAIRINGS (§13b, pp. 441–460). The Pargod [brain membrane] is born from Chochma's pursuit of Keter — it is the root of all screens between all levels; its shape = the letter Aleph [two Yuds facing a Resh]; nine Heichalos as root of Atzilus; three illumination levels [Keter = sealed Kamatz; Chochma = Patzach = opened; Bina = the Mouth/Peh]; mati ve-lo mati — in the reaching aspect things are known; in the not-reaching aspect all gathers in Unity; the 42 pairings through the seven Heichalos of BIY"A; the Korbanos ascending from below, connecting Kavod to Atzilus and Atzilus to Ayn Sof. Segment 11 HE: בסוד :זאת התורה אד״ם (במדבר יט ,יד) .וכיון שלא יש מי שמשיג EN: V. THE EIGHT EDOMITE KINGS (§13b cont., pp. 460–488). Each of the eight Malchin Kadma'in [primordial kings] in Bereishis 36 corresponds to a stage in the world's governance: BELA = the sealed mouth of Bina / chesron ha-da'as / reward and punishment; YOVAV = the trembling voices [ro'esh] / Shevarim-Teruah / all worldly hardship; CHUSHAM = the senses / 2000 years of Tohu / materialist blindness to Providence; HADAD = Tiferes breaking / the domain of SA's unchecked power / ultimately destroyed; SAMLAH from MASREKAH = the nations as fallen garments of Jewish souls / Mashiach as the folding Vav completing for the later generations / Chirik→Shuruk→Cholam at redemption; SHAUL from RECHOVOS HA-NAHAR = Yesod / Torah-joy through revelation to others / David inheriting and completing this; BAAL-CHANAN = times of expansiveness vs. sealing of lights / the tzaddik-mouse and the evil-mouse; HADAR = the general tikkun of all the Breaking / ZU"N united / TZEDEK + YaK = HADAR / Ruach HaKodesh from Malchus — the final governance. Segment 12 HE: זה ,נאמר :ולא אתנו יודע עד מה ,שהוא שם מ״ה בסוד אד״ם. EN: VI. SOULS, GARMENTS, AND MASHIACH'S FOLDING (§§13b–14). Before Adam's sin, all souls were to be Israel and the nations only their outer garments; after the sin the garments fell; Mashiach stands at the "fold" between the earlier and later generations, completing for those who could not complete for themselves; the Tzaddik = Yesod = the giver to the Nukva; Torah-joy = the flaming of the 231 gates when Torah is revealed to others; Yerushalayim = City of Tzedek; Tzedek + YaK = Hadar = the final king = the final tikkun. Segment 13 HE: ועוד סוד נכלל בפסוק זה ,עמוק עמוק הוא מכל אשר פירשתי EN: VII. THE METAPHYSICS OF THE EMITTER (§§13–13b). Woven throughout the chapter's final arc: the Keter is the first emanation and may not be investigated [only from Chochma downward]; the sefirot are the Emitter's attributes as they relate to those below; there are nine upper Heichalos and seven lower Heichalos; the ultimate reward of souls is endless new comprehension of the Infinite; the blessed Emitter desired that even the evil of exile shall be revealed as good — so that in the end not merely "the illness passed" but the illness itself is transformed into the healing. Segment 14 HE: לך עד עתה .הנה כתיב :מה שמו ומה שם בנו כי תדע (משלי ל, EN: 1 The Pargod as the membrane of the brain: see Zohar Bereishis 15a; and see Eitz Chaim, Sha'ar ha-Tzimtzum. Segment 15 HE: . 10עי׳קל״ח פתח י׳׳ב .קנאת ה׳צבאות סי׳ט׳(דעת תבונות «מ׳שכ״ט). EN: 2 On the nine Heichalos as root of Atzilus: see Zohar Pekudei 259b; and Kla"ch Petach 136. Segment 16 HE: — עמוד 23 — EN: 3 On Mati ve-lo mati: see Kla"ch Pataich 93–94; Pischei Chochma ve-Da'as §9 (Sha'arei Ramchal p. 144). Segment 17 HE: ד) .הנה הספירות נחלקות לעצמות וכלים ,וכבר נתבאר זה במקומות EN: 4 On the 42 Zivugim = the seven Names in the Heichalos with 42 letters: see Kitzur ha-Kavanos p. 162; and Sha'ar ha-Zivugim. Segment 18 HE: רבים היטב" .והכלים הם הספירות המשתנות בפעולתם לפי צורך EN: 5 On Bereishis = Bra Shis: Zohar Bereishis 3b. On the seven Voices: Zohar 2:25b (parashas Va'era). Segment 19 HE: ההנהגה .אך העצמות הוא סוד חוט א״ס ב״ה המתפשט בכולם, EN: 6 On the Eight Edomite Kings = eight stages of Breaking and Tikkun: see Eitz Chaim, Sha'ar ha-Shvirah; and Maamar Sod ha-Yichud (Ginzei Ramchal p. 270). Segment 20 HE: שהוא סוד הקו אשר בקע את החלל ,שבו אין שינוי כלל ,והוא רק EN: 7 On the Vavs = garments of AK contracting to threads: see Eitz Chaim, Sha'ar ha-Klalim §3; and Kla"ch Petach 29 (p. 87). Segment 21 HE: חיות הספירות .תה נקרא גם כן שקיו דאילנא (תיקו״ז הקדמה ב׳) EN: 8 On Mashiach as the folding Vav: see Da'as Tevunos Part 2 (Ginzei Ramchal p. 48); Maamar Sod Demut ha-Adam (Ginzei Ramchal p. 263). Segment 22 HE: וסודו שם מ״ה סוד אד״ם .והמקבלים יכולים לקבל ,או מן הספירות EN: 9 On the Simchas Torah = flaming of the 231 gates: see Tamid 32b; and Kla"ch Petach 52. Segment 23 HE: לבד דהיינו מן הכלים ,או מן העצמות שבהם ,וההפרש פשוט שהוא EN: 10 On Tzedek + YaK = Hadar: Sha'arei Ramchal p. 386. And see Kla"ch Petach 58 on Malchus as Yesod.