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This series is a continuation and should be read in order. If you are not familiar with previous posts you may have trouble understanding later ones.
And now Chapter 15 Part 1
The analog for all of the aforementioned analogies in
Chapter 14 is understood as applying to the reshimu that remains
within the aforementioned void and empty place formed by the first
tzimtzum (which this reshimu is the letter "Yud"
[
] of the name Sa"G [
] 63 as it is within the Upper Purity as is
stated in Aimek Ha’Mellech -This parenthetical reference is really meant to
be mostly a reference for what the Mittler Rebbe is explaining in the classical
Kabbalistic literature for those who would question the validity of what he is
explaining (for at the time of this books original publishing there were many
opponents of the Mittler Rebbe who wished to discredit him and one way of doing
this was to say that he was making up new concepts not found in or even opposed
to the Jewish tradition, G-d forbid) the Mittler Rebbe, therefore, brings
support for some of the more obscure concepts that he mentions. It is also,
obviously, a useful reference for those of his disciples who where proficient in
the Kabbalah aiding in understanding the correlation between classical
Kabbalistic literature and the teachings of Chassidus. Either way this is a
highly technical reference, nonetheless an attempt will be made at making it
understandable -
SKIP THIS NEXT PORTION IF YOU WANT - IT REQUIRES VERY ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTAND
The name Sa"G is one of the extended spellings of the
Tetragrammaton. In these extended spellings the name of each of the
Tetragrammaton’s four letters [
; Y-H-V-H] is
spelled out in full. (The letter 
should really be
replaced by the letter 
, however, out of reverence for the holiness of the name
of G-d it is not written in its normal manner, except in sacred texts that are
sure to be respected, such as prayer books and the Tanach. This is also
the reason why G-d is not spelled out in full throughout this book, nor is any
other similar term, referring to G-d.) There are 4 variant ways of spelling the
letters of the Tetragramaton and the name Sa"G represents one combination of
these variations [spelled like this 
;
Yud-Hy-Vav-Hy]. This name is called Sa"G because of its numerical value,
equaling 63, which is the Hebrew numerical system is represented by the two
letters , pronounced Sa"G. This name is
representative of the faculty of binah and the world of Briyah
(which correspond to each other) in general, however, here we are speaking about
the name Sa"G of the Upper Purity. Therefore, here this refers to the aspect of
the Upper Purity that resembles the faculty of binah and the world of
Briyah.
Now the distinctive property of binah and Briyah
is the creation of a new existence out of the spiritual light above it (in
binah this is the creation of letters to enclothe the conceptual point of
chochmah giving it a new, tangibly expressible existence). Here, this
corresponds to the glyph glyphu -the engraving of letters within the
Upper Purity - which is the estimation of what was to be revealed after the
tzimtzum. It is these very same letters that make up the reshimu,
only that in the reshimu all of the light has been removed from the
letters so that they remains as only a point. In the letters of the
Tetragrammaton the letter yud [Y] has the form of a
single point and so represents contraction or tzimtzum, the letter Hey
[H] has both a length and a width and so it
represents expansion and extension and the letter Vav 
[V] has the form of a line representing a lowering and
issuance of the divine light of creation. The last letter [H] represents the sfirah of malchus within each particular
name, this being the revelation of the light found within that name in its
unique letters, which express and expand the light as it is revealed. The
reshimu, therefore, corresponds to the last letter [y] of the name Sa"G, which is how the letters represented by the last
letter [H] are contracted to a single point. So
that, even though there is an expansion of the light of the Upper Purity into
letters as represented by the letter [H], however,
in this instance the letters are revealed in a contracted point-like manner and
so the letter [H] is spelled out with the point-like
letter [y] (instead of the letter 
[A] or [H] as it is spelled in
the other variant spellings of the Tetragrammaton).
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