Chapter Twenty-Six (פֶּרֶק עֶשְׂרִים וְשִׁשָּׁה)

The secret of the windpipe and the esophagus (סוֹד הַקָּנֶה וְהַוֶּשֶׁט), know (דַּע), that the three hundred and twenty judgments are in the Upper Imma (כִּי הַש״ך דִּינִים הֵם בְּאִמָּא עִלָּאָה), and they are made within her from the secret of the thirty-two Elohim within her (וְנַעֲשִׂים בָּהּ מִסּוֹד ל״ב אֱלֹהִים שֶׁבָּהּ), which are made from the thirty-two Paths of Chokhmah (הַנַּעֲשִׂים מִל״ב נְתִיבוֹת חָכְמָה), and each one is included of ten (וְכָל אֶחָד כָּלוּל מֵעֶשֶׂר), behold, there are three hundred and twenty judgments (הֲרֵי ש״ך דִּינִים). And Binah is called Shofar (וְהִנֵּה בִּינָה נִקְרֵאת שׁוֹפָר), and Shin-Vav with the fourteen sections holding the Shofar (וְש״ו עִם הַי״ד פְּרָקִים הָאוֹחֲזִים בַּשּׁוֹפָר), are the secret of the three hundred and twenty judgments (הֵם סוֹד הַש״ך דִּינִים), which are “the voice of Hashem upon the waters” (שֶׁהֵם קוֹל י־י עַל הַמָּיִם) (Psalms 29:3), which are the inwardness of the Mochin of Ze’ir Anpin and Nukvah (שֶׁהֵם פְּנִימִיּוּת מוֹחִין זו״ן). And concerning this windpipe of Binah it is said (וְלְסוֹד קָנֶה זֶה שֶׁל הַבִּינָה נֶאֱמַר עָלָיו): “The World to Come has neither eating nor drinking” (הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא אֵין בּוֹ לֹא אֲכִילָה וְלֹא שְׁתִיָּה) (Berakhot 17a), for there they are only in the secret of seven voices (כִּי שָׁם הֵם בְּסוֹד ז׳ קוֹלוֹת לְבַד). However, the esophagus extends downward (אָמְנָם הַוֶּשֶׁט נִמְשָׁךְ לְמַטָּה), for the windpipe extends only as far as the lung (כִּי הַקָּנֶה אֵינוֹ נִמְשָׁךְ רַק עַד הָרֵיאָה), from where it brings forth the seven voices from the thought of Abba and Imma (שֶׁמִשָּׁם מוֹצִיא ז׳ קוֹלוֹת מֵהַמַּחֲשָׁבָה שֶׁל אַבָּא וְאִמָּא), and from there it extends to speech, which is the Nukvah of Ze’ir Anpin (וּמִשָּׁם מִתְפַּשֵּׁט אֶל הַדִּבּוּר שֶׁהִיא נוּקְבֵיהּ דְז״א), but the esophagus extends to the intestines (אַךְ הַוֶּשֶׁט מִתְפַּשֵּׁט עַד בְּנֵי־הַמֵּעַיִם), and from there food and drink emerge and enter through it (וּמִשָּׁם יוֹצֵא הַמַּאֲכָל וְהַשְּׁתִיָּה וּבוֹ נִכְנָס). And it corresponds to this world, in which there is eating and drinking (וְהוּא כְּנֶגֶד הָעוֹלָם הַזֶּה שֶׁיֵּשׁ בּוֹ אֲכִילָה וּשְׁתִיָּה), and it corresponds to the externality of Ze’ir Anpin and Nukvah (וְהוּא כְּנֶגֶד הַחִיצוֹנִיּוּת דְז״א וְנוּקְבֵיהּ), therefore the verse says, “The people roamed and gathered” (וְלָכֵן אָמַר הַפָּסוּק שָׁטוּ הָעָם וְלָקְטוּ) (Numbers 11:8), and they are certainly three hundred and fifteen judgments (וְהֵם בְּוַדַּאי שט״ו דִּינִים), and together with the Heh of Binah itself they are three hundred and twenty judgments (וְעִם ה׳ שֶׁל בִּינָה עַצְמָהּ הֵם ש״ך דִּינִים), and three hundred and fifteen is numerically equal to seven times Adam (וְשט״ו הֵם בְּגִימַטְרִיָּא ז׳ פְּעָמִים אָדָם), which are the seven kings that were nullified (שֶׁהֵם ז׳ מְלָכִים שֶׁנִּתְבַּטְּלוּ), and this is the secret of “The people roamed and gathered” (וְזֶהוּ סוֹד שָׁטוּ הָעָם וְלָקְטוּ).