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Previously:
Two levels of Binah: Binah and Tvunah.
Tvunah is the extension of the light of Binah as a result of the proper absorption of the concept in the brain to bring it to expression into different things in many different ways
Examples of the ‘separate things’ into which Tvunah can extend:
(a) analogies to explain the understanding of Binah to someone else
(b) a decision or ruling based on the understanding of Binah, as in a legal decision and
(c) a practical use for the understanding of Binah,
Midos within Binah
Midos within Tvunah
The man of Tvunah can bring to light the Midos of Tvunah from the Midos of Binah,
Yisroel Sabah and Tvunah are the Middos of Chochmah and Binah as they are COMING OUT of Chochmah and Binah rather than how these middos were actually part of Chochmah and Binah themselves.
And Malchus (Kingdom) of Tvunah is the aspect of the intellect that comes into conscious thought . This is the level of thought that the intellect is enclothed within and it is the external vessel of intelligent thought,
And now Chapter 2.06
In addition, from the level of Malchus of Tvunah comes the source of the letters of the thought itself, which is called ‘Leah’ etc. In other words two aspects of thought come out of Malchus of Tvunah, one: the content of the thought and two: the division of the letters, enclothing the thought into particular words of a particular language, which takes place even when one is not thinking an intellectual idea, but just how one feels or even the lyrics of a song, etc.. This level of Malchus of Tvunah is also represented by the large letter "Dallet" of the word "Echad" (One) in the verse "Hear O’ Israel Hashem is our G-d Hashem is One." In the script of a Torah scroll in a few places letters are written larger or some smaller than normal; and in each case this has special meaning. In general, however, the letters represent the level of the Midos, while large letters represent how the Midos are in their source, (in general, the Midos of Binah, or more specifically in Tvunah,) were it is more infinite and therefore, represented by a larger letter. In our case the letter Dallet, which represents the Sfirah of Malchus, and which in turn corresponds to the power of speech, is large indicating the source of the power of speech, in the letters of thought, where they are spoken out of Malchus of Tvunah. All of these concepts including that of Leah, thought, and the significance of the word ‘One’ in the verse ‘Hear O’ Israel’ will all be explained further in subsequent chapters.)
This is also why Tvunah is called "Ben U’Bas" (Son and Daughter i.e. the emotions) (The letters of Tvunah when rearranged are Ben U'Bas), as is known.
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