Part 7 · Chapter 34

The Ari's Text

Now you will thoroughly understand why there are tags over these thirteen letters, more than the other nine, why on seven of them that are SATNZ GTz, there are three tags on each and every letter of them, and on the other six, which are BDK HYH, there are no tags on them, but only one tag on each of their letters. The thing is that the SATNZ GTz are the seven kings of ZON, from whose dross the shells called STN AZ were made, hence the name SATNZ. It is a connection of STN AZ, as mentioned in The Zohar, indicating that through the fierce and strong judgment came out the SaTaN, which is the shells. It is also called GTz [a spark], to indicate what they said in The Book of Zohar, portion Pekudei, that these kings are the 320 sparks that were thrown, like that craftsman that hammered the iron and produced sparks. It is also as our sages said, “A spark that comes from under the hammer is SATNZ GTz.”

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1BDK HYH etc. being the Achoraim de AVI. This implies the Behinat exposed NHY, which are the Achor de AVI. BDK means correction, from words Badak (lit. Checked) the house. HYH means Ohr Hochma, since it is known that Ohr Hochma is called Haya. The entire merit of these NHY is the He’arat Hochma in them, hence they are implied in the name BDK HYH, meaning Tikun Hochma in Hassadim.There is yet another reason why they are implied in the Otiot BDK HYH. It is that these Achoraim de AVI fell in the place of ZON. Afterwards, at the time of the Tikun, ZA sorts scrutinies from these Achoraim and raises them for MAN to AVI.AVI mate Panim be Panim through these MAN, and dispense Mochin to ZA. Thus, all the Mochin de ZAare through the MAN that rise from these Achoraim. For this reason they are called BDK HYH, named after the Tikun of the Mochin de GAR of the ZA that comes through them. As we have said above, BDK means Tikun, and HYH is Ohr Hochma and Mochin.