ספר שמות

And there is more to be explained regarding the Four Parshiot, Shekalim, Zachor, Parah and Ha Chodesh. It is hinted in the Sefer Yetzira "weighs [shaklan] and transmutes [hamiran] and combines and forms them" (Sefer Yetzirah 2:2) like a type of "mud and mire". The general idea: on Nisan the world was created, and truthfully, before the creation of the world, God and God's Name were One, and God weighed how to influence every single world, as they would be able to receive the Blessed One's Flow, meaning, the world of Seraphim according to their level, the world of Chayot according to their level, the world of the angels, the world of the spheres, and the lower world. Each and every one of those, the Holy Blessed Creator weighed how and with what they would be able to receive the pure and sparkling Flow from God, and so God created them, and influenced each of them. And this is hinted by our sages z"l: "All the acts of Creation were created with their full stature, were created with their full mental capacities; were created with their full form" (Rosh Hashanah 11a). And this is what the Sefer Yetzirah hints with "weighs them [shaklan]". And this is Parashat Shekalim. And after that, the Blessed Name flowed the influence from Godself to all created, and there is no end to the Blessed Creator, and there is an end to every created, and so one see that the Blessed Creator makes flow go from the Limitless to the limited, and this is a type of exchange, that is, from the Endless light was contracted to the created. And this is "transmutes" [hamiran], an expression of exchange [temurah], as explained, hinting towards what we explained before. And it is from the contraction that the husks came to this world, as it is known. And the root of the husks is Amalek, and we wise up to erase the memory Amalek every day. And we find that "transmutes" [hamiran] is [corresponding to] parashat Zachor, and after that we read "combines" [tzarfan] because the Blessed Holy Name gives strength to all created to return to the Endless [Ein], and the Flow which the worlds received is in the form of the Torah, and the Torah is the letters, and one finds that the Flow has Flowed to the worlds, through aleph, bet, gimel, dalet until tav, and when the worlds go back to the Ein, then the letters go back to the root from tav to aleph. And behold, this that the letters return to the Ein, from this [we understand] that it is the combination of letters, meaning, tav returns to the root through all the letters until aleph, and makes from that a combination of the word ET, and so too the tav goes through all the letters until bet, and makes the combination BAT, and so with all the letters, and through this that they return to the Ein, a combination of words is made. The general idea from our words is that the Holy Blessed One gives strength to all creatures and creations and they are made to return to . And behold the creatures, as they pay attention to the Ein, then their life force is the Ein, and this aspect is called purity, and pure for the day, as we explained in our book elsewhere. And the Red Heifer is made towards purity. And this is "combines" [tzarfan]: the parashat Parah, and after that the worlds are renewed [mechudashim] by the Creator, as it is written "the One who renews through goodness". And this is parashat HaChodesh. And this is what the Sefer Yetzira brings, "mud and mire". Mud and mire are soft things, and anything that is soft is renewed, that is, the worlds are renewed from the Blessed Creator after they return to the Ein, as explained.