חלק ב — תורה 82

“When you go out to war…” (Deuteronomy 21:10).

It is written: “Back and front You formed me” (Psalms 139:5)—this is the concept of order and disorder. “Front” is the concept of order, the aleph-bet in order. “Back” is the concept of TaShRaK, reverse order.

This also corresponds to Adam and Chavah, order and disorder. HaVaYaH filled in with the letter aleph has a numerical value of forty-five, ADaM. Chavah is the concept of “Malkhut, mouth—She is called Oral Torah” (Tikkuney Zohar, Introduction, p.17a). ChaVaH thus connotes speech, as it is written (Psalms 19:3), “and night to night yeChaVeH (speaks out) knowledge,” namely, “Malkhut, mouth.” Malkhut is called “speech,” because there is no king unless there are subjects. For the people do not know what he wants unless the king reveals his thoughts and desires via his words. It follows, that the primary execution of his kingship is through nothing but speech. This is the meaning of “Malkhut, mouth.”

We see that sometimes things go unorderly for a person. The perfection of all things is only when they are united with and bound to God. The reason is that the completion and fullness of a thing is its life-force. Thus, a limb from which the life-force has departed is then considered missing. And life-force is the mentalities and intellect, as it is written, “wisdom keeps alive…” (Ecclesiastes 7:12). ChoKhMaH (wisdom) is the concept of MaH—KoaCh MaH— “MeH is our life? MaH KoCheinu (is our strength)?” And MaH is ADaM, because there is no ADaM without an Aleph (Tikkuney Zohar, Introduction, p.7a)—i.e., HaVaYaH filled in with the letter aleph. In other words, the Blessed Holy One is the life-force of all things, as it is written, “You keep them all alive” (Nehemiah 9:6).

It follows, that when this concept of Malkhut /Chavah is bound to Adam, to the concept of MaH, i.e., the Blessed Holy One, She is then perfect. This is because through the intellect which the Blessed Holy One invests in the implementation of His Kingship He keeps Her alive, as it is written, “wisdom keeps alive.” This is also “The earth is to God, and all its fullness” (Psalms 24:1). When “the earth”—i.e., the concept of Chavah/ Malkhut—is bound “to God,” it is then in its fullness and is complete.

But whoever splits off the concept of Chavah/ MaLKhut for himself, by saying, “I eMLoKh (will rule)”—with this he splits off and separates Her from the Blessed Holy One, and She is then incomplete. For Her main life-force is MaH, namely, the intellect. This is “since among all the sages of the nations and in all their malkhut (kingdom) there is none like You” (Jeremiah 10:7). The explanation is: Their intellect is not great enough to keep their malkhut alive. Thus, when he splits off Malkhut for himself, things go unorderly for him because he is smack in the concept of disorder—i.e., Malkhut /Chavah/ TaShRaK. But when the concept of Chavah is bound to the Adam—i.e., the Blessed Holy One—things then go orderly for a person. This is because wherever the masculine is present, the feminine is not mentioned there (Zohar III, 183b). It follows, that the concept of Chavah/disorder is eliminated through the Adam/order.