Part 12 · Chapter 254

It thus follows that now, in the nursing, a mouth and speech were renewed for him, unlike in the pregnancy, in which was fulfilled 'Or who makes a man mute?' But in the nursing was renewed in him 'Mi placed a mouth for man.' And the matter is that the man, who is ZA, is the aspect of the Name of Havayah in the filling with Alephs, which rises in gematria to 'Adam'. And this Adam, in the days of his pregnancy, became mute from the aspect of his Name of Havayah, which in its filling is MA and in its simple spelling is twenty-six. And in the joining of the two, they are in gematria the ilem of Elokim. And now, through the nursing, two letters were added to him, and it became Elokim, which is in gematria 'peh' (mouth) with the collector. And this is through the nursing with which his mother, called Mi, nurses him, as is known. And this is 'Mi placed a mouth for man.' And as we see by natural sense, that the infant, during the two years of nursing, begins to open his mouth little by little, until within the course of this time, through the nursing by which his brains are filled, the power of speech is completed in him, after the completion of these two years.