Ginzay Ramchal — Section 21: Tefillah Beis — Prayer on Yirah

File 7 — Close of Prayer 1 & Prayer 2 [ב] v2 — full audit

§ 17. Close of First Prayer — The Three Shades and the Rainbow

**[Your Glory]... glorying in three shades (*gevanim*), their likeness one — in her the fourth letter of Your Holy Name**, and it is said of them: *"as the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so is the appearance of the Nogah* round about; this is the appearance of the Glory of Hashem" [Yechezkel 1:28].

§ 18. "*Lefanekha ani misnapel*" — Prostration and Supplication

**Before You I prostrate myself, mentioning in the pleasantness of Your praises, and in the force of Your great love that hangs on the first letter of Your Holy Name — *Yud*** — the Unique-One in all, the Complete in the abundance of His wonders, You[-Who] loves Your people. Unto You the humble and lowly shall seek — **for You dwell with the crushed and lowly of spirit** [Yeshayahu 57:15]. And who can declare the wonders of Your wisdom with which You arranged all these arrangements — in Your love with which You loved Yisrael unto eternity. **And thus may it be Your will to receive my prayer this day with love, for the sake of Your Name, Hashem G-d of Yisrael.** Save with Your right hand and answer me. *"May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before You, Hashem, my Rock and my Redeemer"* [Tehillim 19:15].

Second Prayer — [ב] (Prayer 2)

§ 19. Second Prayer — Opening: "*Ribon Kol Ha-Olamim*"

**Master of all the worlds — *E-l Elokim Hashem*, the Unified in the splendor of His majesty — unto You I prostrate, and before You I bow — in much humility and lowliness of heart, in a lowered spirit and a humble soul**, before the majesty of the strength of Your preciousness — the hidden, the exalted, the wondrous in the abundance of its beauty — Dweller-in-the-Cloud (*Yoshev ba-Shachak*), the Wonder-Worker, who gives understanding to the simple — Unique unto Your people, the One exalted in the splendor of the world, and who rules in might over His creatures. I have known, Hashem, Your Name unto generation and generation — are You not One from the beginning? And unto the end, Unique and Singular. **Blessed is Your Name and blessed is Your remembrance unto eternity and unto all eternities.**

§ 20. "*Barukh Atah*" — the Glory Above All Hidden Levels

**Blessed are You, and glorified is Your remembrance — from the head of [all] exaltations and the splendor of the level of the height of beauty of the glory of Your holiness — from the head of all the hidden and lofty levels.** **Can *sekhel* reach the end of Your wondrous *chochmah*? Can *Binah* contain Your designs? Can *De'ah* and *sekhel* muster strength to gaze with wisdom unto the height of Your wonders?**

§ 21. The Holy and Lofty Name — *AKaSRI-EL* (אכתריא"ל)

**Your Ru'ach is holy, and holy-ones serve You — full of power and might, issuing dread** — in the abundance of their mightinesses before You they praise — with the thundering of wings of songs: song and blessing, praise, thanksgiving, strength and *gevurah*. Before Hashem G-d of Yisrael they kneel and prostrate — ***AKaSRI-EL*** [[אֲכַתְרִיאֵ"ל] — the "Crowned G-d"; a classical Merkavah-Name from the *Heichalos* literature meaning "G-d of the Crown" (*Keter* + *E-l*); appears in Berachos 7a] **— splendor and awesomeness — who is filled with radiant light**, and from all beauty [he] thunders (*yir'ash*) before You in the abundance of Your pride. **And after him all the upright of heart — all the host on high — covering their faces from gazing upon the splendor of the glory of Your honor** — answering in dread and saying in awe a pure holiness before You, as the matter is said: *"And one called to another and said: Holy, holy, holy is Hashem of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory"* [Yeshayahu 6:3].

§ 22. "*Mi yesaper ha-Had*" — Fifteen Steps Rooted in *Y"K*

**Who can recount the echo (*had*) of Your Ru'ach which blew in their wings — rumbling one toward another, and covering all the levels [with] echo and roar.** **Fifteen steps are rooted in Your Holy Name *Y"K*** [[יק] = *Yah*; the 15 *Shir HaMa'alos* (Songs of Ascent, Tehillim 120-134), whose 15 correspond to Y=10 + H=5 = 15]. From them received all the masters of song and all the masters of melody — [standing] forever before You. And Your Holy Name they exalt — to receive from You added light and wondrous power of holiness, and strength, might, *gevurah*, and force to serve before You in the power of their holiness. **And from the Holy Ru'ach that issues from before You — all the worlds are filled with precious Name and wafting scent (*rei'ach nodef*)**, as the matter is said: *"for the scent of Your oils"* [Shir HaShirim 1:3]. ... **Unto You I prostrate and praise with abundant lauds — and with the Ru'ach from Your understanding answer me — to emanate from Your Ru'ach upon all Your people Beis Yisrael**, as the matter is said: *"And it shall be after this — I shall pour out My spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy"* [Yoel 3:1] and so forth. **You are Hashem, G-d of the gods and Lord of the lords — Wonder-Worker and Deliverer, bringing forth from constraint and distress, hastening salvation to all who take refuge.**

§ 23. "*Mi ya'amod lefanekha*" — Fire from the Mouth; the 378 = *Chashmal* = *be-Shalom*

**Who can stand before You? — for Your utterance is flames of fire, and behold from Your mouth goes forth a consuming fire. Before You drip streams of flames, and rivers of torches of holiness and purity** — all the worlds thunder before You. And they tremble from Your dread — mighty *Chashmalim*, masters of holiness — and in the radiance of the pleasantness of Your majesty they issue the utterance from their mouths. They hasten in the burning of their fire — consuming fire and burning flame — glorying in the shades of their forms — **378 (*Sha"Ch*) shades they have — as the gematria of *Chashma"l*** [[חשמל] = 8+300+40+30 = 378; שע"ח = 300+70+8 = 378] — blazing and burning, casting dread upon all around them. And You are the G-d Good and Benefactor, showing mercy upon Your people Beis Yisrael, and giving them strength and might, as the matter is said: *"Hashem shall give strength to His people"* [Tehillim 29:11]. **Bless us with Your peace — G-d exalted in the abundance of His majesty — in 378 kinds of blessing and peace — as the gematria of "*be-shalom*"** [[בשלום] = 2+300+30+6+40 = 378] — **with which You clothe the *neshamos* of Your pious ones**, that they not be burned in the flames of these Your servants — who hasten to cast their dread upon the corners of the earth.

§ 24. "*Atah Echad*" — the Four Letters of *ADoN"i* and the Name *YAAA*

**You are One, Hashem is One and His Name is One, One Unique and Singular — Wonder-Worker with all Your people Beis Yisrael, in the great love and force of Your longing with which You longed for them.** Unique are You, One G-d, our Father, our Redeemer — from of old is Your Name — to generation and generation [is] Your splendor — Your kingdom is the kingdom of all worlds, and Your rulership in every generation. **Who placed the *Chayos* encircling Your Throne — and Your lordship in them is *ADoNa"i*** [[אדנ"י] — the 4-letter Name of Mastery; corresponds to *Malchus*/immanent rulership] **— spread among them in their four letters**. And after them all the camps are led by the four banners of Your Glory. And Your Holy Name is engraved in Your Throne — awesome and exalted — splendor of all pure ones — refuge and trust for the *tzadikim*. There the heads of Yisrael Your people are cleaved — and Yaakov, the whole-man, is crowned upon their head. And at the hour that the *neshamah* arrives there, and cleaves to Your Throne of Glory from which she was hewn — who can tell the force of the splendor of her tumult and her beauty? — for she is filled with joy and gladness, and sings before You a pleasing and praised song. And all Your Holy *Chayos* that are lifted with her are included in Your Throne. **There is seen the splendor of Your pure Holy Name — the appearance of the Name of the union of Your Love and the might of Your wonders — joined in one joining: *YAAA*** [[יָאאָא] — a four-letter composite Name: Yud + three Alefs — a specific *yichud*-Name of Merkavah tradition, possibly representing the unity of multiple Alef-beginning Names (*Adonai*, *AKaSRI-EL*, *Echad*, *Ehyeh*) gathered under the primary *Yud* of YHVH].

§ 25. "*Mi yagid rov tehilasekha*" — Thirty-Two Sides of *KaVoD*

**Who can declare the abundance of Your praise, in [the Holy Name's] emanation — pure and clean — from before the splendor of Your Holy Name — showing the mighty works of Your wonders, likening the form to its Former — giving counsel and design to the heart of Your holy prophets?** **It is the *Me'or ha-Kaved* (the Heavy Light of the Glory) — the appearance of the likeness of the Glory of Hashem — sparkling in shades of 32 sides — as the gematria of *KaVoD*** [[כבוד] (when spelled fully with *vav*) = 20+2+6+4 = **32** = the 32 paths of Wisdom of *Sefer Yetzirah* 1:1; the source printed כבד (without *vav*) which is the defective spelling of the same word. The 32 sides correspond to the 32 paths through which the Glory sparkles to the prophet] **— encompassing all the images as one — and showing to the heart of the prophet the wondrous *chochmah* that You placed to make known to Your people**, as the matter is said: *"For Hashem G-d does not do a thing [without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets]"* [Amos 3:7] and so forth. **And the *Binah* strengthens to give understanding in the heart — to understand and become wise and make known the wonders of the height of Your holinesses — in the lightnings of *Nogah* sparkling like polished copper** — and they fill the prophet from before You [with] power and *gevurah* to go in every errand of Yours — as one of the angels who serve before You — flying on the wings of the wind from one end of the earth to the other. In them You ride to watch over Your world with great and wondrous watchfulness, as it is said: *"And He rode upon a keruv* and flew, and He came upon the wings of the wind" [Shmuel II 22:11 / Tehillim 18:11].

§ 26. "*Yehi Ratzon*" — Petition for a Pure Heart

**May it be Your will from before You to fill our hearts with purity and holiness and strength to serve before You.** *"A pure heart create for me, G-d; and a right spirit renew within me"* [Tehillim 51:12].

§ 27. The Exalted G-d — the Hidden Tent; the 72 Lights of the Revolving *Rakia*

**The G-d exalted in the mystery of His strength — hidden in the purity of His tent — who spread a *Rakia* above the heads of the *Chayah* — He is the one who shines in pleasant joy, and fills all the *Heichalos* with love and holiness** — clear and clean Light — **satisfying the souls, and strengthening the bones of those who cleave to You**, as the matter is said: *"And He shall satisfy with clarities your soul, and your bones He shall strengthen"* [Yeshayahu 58:11]. **Seventy-two Lights shine forth from the revolution of the *Rakia*** [72 = the *Sha"v* Name of 72 triplets derived from Shemos 14:19-21] — **stretched in dread like the appearance of the awesome Ice, moving all the luminaries with great power, and revolving them upon the will of the hidden Unique-One.**

§ 28. The Threefold Torah-Light on the Avos and the 72 Names on David

**There is the Threefold (*Telisah*) Light of Your Torah, sparkling in three Lights, blazing upon the heads of Your servants Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yisrael.** And in the standing of these three Lights in their force and splendor — **there David Your servant strengthens in Your life[-force]** — and upon him [are] the **72 Names of Yours**, illuminating trebled in their letters [in abundance of] light and splendor. And in their illuminating upon Tzion the mountain of Your holiness — from there would issue the light and blessing for the entire world.

§ 29. "*Yehi Ratzon*" — Petition for the Rebuilt Sanctuary and the Davidic Kingship

**May it be Your will from before You, Hashem G-d of Yisrael — to restore Your Sanctuary, established at the head of the mountains, and David Your servant as King over Your people Beis Yisrael.** And You shall be to them for G-d — and shine Your Light upon us — and place the Light of Your Torah in our hearts, and Your word in our mouths, as the matter is said: *"For from Tzion shall Torah go forth, and the word of Hashem from Yerushalayim"* [Yeshayahu 2:3 / Micha 4:2]. *"And I have appointed My king upon Tzion, the mountain of My holiness"* [Tehillim 2:6].

§ 30. "*Atah Echad*" — The Ten Letters of *YUD-KA VAV-KA*

**You are One, Unique, and Singular — whose arrangement of hosts is wondrous wisdom — [they] standing at their post, keeping their watch in faithfulness, revealing the Light of Your wonders and the praise of Your marvels — in ten letters of Your Great, Mighty, and Awesome Holy Name — *YUD-KA VAV-KA*** [[יוֹד קָא וָאו קָא] — the full *Ma"h*-spelling of YHVH (with Kof for Heh reverent-substitution), comprising exactly **10 letters**: יוד(3) + קא(2) + ואו(3) + קא(2) = 10. Gematria = 20+6+13+6 = **45** = *Ma"h*, the *partzuf* of *Ze'ir Anpin* (see File 6 §8)]. And what shall man dare before You? — dust from the earth, like dry grass and a wilting flower — are not all the mighty ones as nothing before You, and the men of name as if they were not? — for Your exaltations are above all the exalted, and Your pride is above all the high — the way is whole and awesome. And the Crown of Your kingdom is holy upon us — to fear before You, and to tremble from the splendor of the majesty of the strength of Your holiness — in love and in awe.

§ 31. "*Yehi Ratzon*" — Petition for the Gates of Wonders

**May it be Your will from before You — to crown us with Your Light, and to open for us the gates of wonders — *chochmah*, grace and *chesed*, intellect and purity. For You are holy and sanctifier of holy-ones.** Blessed are You, and blessed is Your remembrance in every generation.

§ 32. The Three Letters of *YH"V* — Calling upon the Letter *Heh*

**Who can recount the completeness of Your Glory in the three letters of Your Holy Name *YH"V*** [[יק"ו] = with Kof-substitution decoding to יה"ו = **Yud-Heh-Vav**, the **first three letters of YHVH** (not *Y"K*/Yah of §22). The final *Heh* is held in reserve — see §18 where the first letter *Yud* was invoked, and here §32 where the second letter *Heh* is called upon — the prayer walks sequentially through the letters of YHVH] **— spreading from before You in the abundance of power and might — not weary, not wearying — and there is no searching-out of His understanding. Ruler from one end of the earth to the other** — shining-going in all the worlds — and His splendor is above all the levels. **Bequeathing *menuchah* to Your people in holiness and purity**. You are holy and Your Name is holy, and holy-ones every day praise You, selah. **Unto You I call with the letter *Heh* — the second letter of Your Holy Name — and with all her offspring — that You open the entrances of Your holiness, and the gates of Your Holy Ru'ach...**

[The Second Prayer continues into p. 340 — to be addressed in File 8.]