Teil 7 · Kapitel 9

The thing is that these seven kings are the Gevurot that emerged in the world first, as it is written, “In the beginning God created.” Afterwards, He associated the quality of mercy with it “in the day that the Lord God made,” so that the world could exist and not return to Tohu veBohu [chaos], as it is written, “Now the earth was unformed and void.” After he says, “In the beginning God created,” which are the seven kings, there are seven words corresponding to them in the verse “In the beginning.” The name HaVaYaH is the Hassadim, and is the eighth king, called Hadar, which is the upper Hesed, as mentioned in the Idra, and this is the name MA. It is known that the name MA is in Hassadim, and the name BON in Gevurot. They are all harsh and strong judgments from whose dross the shells came out through their death and fall as the dust of the upper Earth. That dust that will be in the ground of the tabernacle, the world of Beria, where they were sorted as in a man in the grave. This is because Beria under the tabernacle is Malchut of Atzilut, and these strong sparks are thrown there, as it is written in the portion Pekudei, “Throws sparks in every direction and sorted the waste from within the thought.” Thus, throwing these sparks down to Beria is to sort out the waste and the shells that were in potential in the upper thought, and have now been executed. As the sparks that the craftsman beats with his hammer instantly quench, so those sparks quenched and died and returned to the dust, and then they were sorted.