Part 5 · Chapter 26

The Ari's Text

We shall explain this matter that is written, that these phases are called, “For in Koh [Yod-Hey] is the Lord [HaVaYaH], an everlasting Rock.” This is the meaning of the verse, “Extol Him that rides upon the skies, whose name is in Koh.” We must be meticulous with this verse. He should have said, “His name is Yod-Hey, what is “His name is in Yod-Hey [Koh]”? The thing is that the entire name is contained in the Yod-Hey, and this is the meaning of, “whose name is in Koh.” The Yod-Hey in its fullest is Yod [comprised of the letters Yod-Vav-Dalet] He [comprised of the letters Hey-Aleph], twenty-six in Gematria, which is HaVaYaH. Thus, in Yod-Hey is the actual name HaVaYaH, and the name Yod-Hey in Keter indicates how the name HaVaYaH emerged from it containing all four letters HaVaYaH.

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1Thus, “בי”ה” is the actual name etc. It implies how the name HaVaYaH emerged from it containing all the four Otiot HaVaYaH. This is the meaning of the verse, “extol Him that rideth upon the skies (Heb: Aravot)”: Aravot implies Eruv (lit. mixture) of Midat ha Rachamim with Din. It begins in the Partzufim of Hitpashtut Bet and says, “whose name is the Lord (בי”ה).”(בי”ה) implies Keter where there is still no mixture. Hence, the HaVaYaH of Hitpashtut Bet extends from it and in all the other Partzufim until Olam ha Atzilut, where the mixture ends, and ten Kelimemerge.This is the entire reason for giving a good reward to the righteous, as it is written above (Part 4, Chap 1 item 4 in Ohr Pnimi). This is the meaning of the verse, “extol Him that rideth upon the skies,” who mixed and associated Midat ha Rachamim with Din. It came out of the meaning of “י”ה” His Name in Keter.This is the meaning of Hitpashtut and Histalkut and in that “exult ye before Him,” for in that was all the good reward prepared and concealed for the righteous.