בריכה - ברכה

And since YHV"H, Blessed, showers all types of flow and emanation in the name Adona"y and in it there are all the treasuries of the King and every type of His riches, and to it they will enter, they will assemble and they will hide, and from there they will extend to fill the needs of every creature, and it is a resemblance of a pool that a river continues into, and from the pool there is enough water to satisfy the watering of the garden and drinking and all the rest of the needs, we name in the Torah the name Adona"y as a nickname of blessing, because the word blessing (brachah ברכה) comes from the word pool (berichah בריכה). And this is the name with which our father Ya'akov, peace be upon him, blessed his sons, [the name which] he inherited from Yitzchak our father, and Yitzchak from Avraham. And Hashem, Blessed, passed this name to Avraham our father, peace be upon him, to open the gates of Adona"y and to give all that he and the rest of the children of the world need, and He passed to his hand this blessing ברכ"ה. And this is the secret of "And I will bless you and make your name great and you, be a blessing." (Genesis 12:2); and He did not say "and you will be blessed", rather, "you, be a blessing," because behold the blessing is given in your hand, get according to your desire for all the children of the world, and this is "and through you all the families of the land will be blessed" (Genesis 12:3). That is to say, whoever wants to take whatever it is from this blessing only takes from your hand, since it is handed over to you and it is yours. And therefore our sages of blessed memory said that the first one to call Y"Y, Blessed, Adona"y, was Avraham our father, peace be upon him, when he said: "Adona"y YHV"H what will You give me" (Genesis 15:2) because from it he asked his needs to the Great Name. And after Avraham, Yitzchak inherited it, and here it is: "And it was, after the death of Avraham, E-lohim blessed Yitzchak his son" (Genesis 35:11). And it was over this blessing that Esav and Yaakov fought among themselves, and this is the blessing of the firstborn [בכורה] that Esav sold Yaakov, and Yitzchak reviewed and maintained the transaction when he sent him to Padan-Aram, and here it is: "Get up, go towards Padan-Aram, and E-l Shadda"y will bless you and will give you the blessing of Avraham, to you and to your seed with you" (Genesis 28:2). Behold this blessing became one with the inheritance, [given] only to Yaakov and his seed, when he said: "to you and your seed with you." And therefore when Yaakov was about to separate from this world, he opened this blessing for the 12 tribes, so that each tribe would get its part of this blessing as inheritance, and this is the secret of "All these are the tribes of Israel, 12 in number, and this is what their father said to them and he blessed them, each according to his blessing he blessed them" (Genesis 49:28). What is "each according to his blessing"? Lest you say that he blessed each according to his [Ya'akov's] own ideas!? It is not so, rather, for each and every tribe he gave the appropriate portion from this pool, and it was not from his own awareness, rather from the awareness of the blessing itself. And Moshe our teacher, pbu"h, blessed Israel before they entered the land from this blessing, and this is the secret of "This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before he died" (Deuteronomy 33:1). And it is found that the name Adona"y is the secret of this blessing, and this is the blessing that enriches those who cling to it without sadness/toil or worry, and this is the secret of "the blessing of Y"Y enriches, and he will not add sadness to it" (Proverbs 10:22). And since the name Adona"y is a resemblance of a treasury to receive the flow of all the blessings and all types of emanation, and it is a resemblance of a pool and a receptacle, therefore it comes from the expression of the sockets [adney] of the enclosure, through which the posts enter (see Exodus 27: 10 and Exodus 38:31). And you find that 100 sockets were made for the Mishkan. as it is written "100 sockets to the 100 talents, a talent a socket" (Exodus 38:27). And these 100 sockets/adney that were in the Mishkan are the resemblance of the 100 pools that are filled from the Great Pool that is called Adona"y. Therefore a person is obligated to bless 100 blessings every day (Menachot 43b) in order to continue from each and every one, and because 100 blessings ברכות come from the name Adona"y from those בריכות pools and if one of those blessings are missing, the person injures and blemishes [oneself]. And the secret is dependent on the secret 1-10-100/2-20-200 [אי"ק בכ"ר a subtype of a gematria called atbash], which is the secret of kohen-levi-israel (added on the Ramat Hasefer edition: Israel gives 10 - ma'aser - to the Levi, who gives 1 to the Kohen - trumat hama'aser; so Israel is 100, Levi 10 and Kohen 1), which is the secret nefesh-ruach-neshamah. And according to this principle David said: "Bless, o my soul, Y"Y" (Psalms 103:1). He hung the blessings on the soul in the secret of the three Upper Arrangements, and the soul needs to bless 100 blessings , which corresponds to Israel, and from that 10, which are the tithe, to ruach which corresponds to Levi, and from the ten of ruach, Levi gives one to neshamah, which corresponds to Kohen. And so you have found that if the soul of a person does not bless 100 blessings every day, a blessing does not reach neshamah, since 10 do not make it to Ruach, which is the secret of Levi'im, which take ma'aser from Israel, and in turn give one to the Kohen from the ten that they took, and this is the secret of the portion of the tithes of Levites and Kohanim that is written in the Torah, and therefore it says: "and to the Levites you will say: 'When you receive from the Israelites their tithes, which I have assigned to you as your share, you shall set aside from them one-tenth of the tithe as a gift to Y"Y'" (Numbers 18:26). And the secret of one tenth of the tithe is the secret of אי"ק 1-10-100, if there is no 100, there is no 10 and there is no 1. And therefore a person needs to be quick to bless 100 blessings, and one that is lacking makes a defect. And those 100 blessings are the resemblance of the 100 sockets of silver through which the flow of Adona"y spreads to all sides, to 100 pools (blessings on the Ramat HaSefer edition).

And sometimes this aspect is called Shechinah, and it was dwelling [shochenet] with Israel from the time of the making of the Mishkan, always, as they said "and they will make Me a Mishkan and I will dwell in them" (Exodus 25:8). And you need to know a central principle. Know that in the beginning of creation the center of the Shechinah was the Lower ones, because the division of all the created was according to the order of level, High one corresponding to High ones and Lower ones corresponding to Lower ones. And therefore the Shechinah inhabited the Lower ones, and being the Shechinah below, heaven and earth were together as one, and this is the expression "and the heaven and earth were finished, and all their multitudes" (Genesis 2:1), that they completed one another, and filled each other, and there were the channels and the sources were acting in their completeness, and continued from below to high. It is found that Y"Y, Blessed, fills from high to low, and your sign [that this is true is] "the heaven is My throne and the land is My footstool" (Isaiah 66:1). It is found that Y"Y, blessed, was steeped exactly in the middle of the lower and higher ones. The First Human came and sinned, the chains were damaged and the channels were broken and the pools were stopped, and the Shechinah removed herself and the connection broke itself apart. Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya'akov, peace be upon them, came and began to continue her [the Shechinah] below, and fixed for her three thrones, and they continued her for a little continuation, and made their bodies thrones for the Shechinah, but the Shechinah did not continued in the world as in a fixed residence, rather, it was a temporary residence, and she was sitting on their backs. And this is the secret of "And E-lohim lifted from Avraham" (Genesis 17:22), that is to say truly from on top [מעל] of Avraham. And regarding Yaakov "And E-lohim lifted from him" (Genesis 35:13). And regarding this they said: the ancestors are the chariot (Bereshit Rabbah 47:6). We find that on their days the Shechinah was flying in the air, and had no rest for her foot on the land, as [she did have] at the beginning of Creation. Moshe Rabbeinu, peace be upon him, and all Israel along with him, came and made the Tabernacle and its vessels, and fixed the damage of the channels, and straightened the lines, and fixed the pools, and made living water continue [to flow] from the House of Drawing Water, and made the Shechinah dwell again among the Lower Ones, in the Tent, but not on land as it was on the beginning of Creation, and the secret of this is "And they will make Me a Tabernacle and I will dwell among them" (Exodus 25:8). And the Shechinah was found to be like a lodger/guest that goes from place to place, and regarding this it is said: "and I will dwell among them", and it is not said "and I will dwell below", rather "among them", as a lodger/guest. That is to say, to every place that Israel goes I will go with them and I will dwell among them, but not as a permanent home, and this is the secret of "As the Ark [Aro"n] travelled etc" (Numbers 10:35) and due to this secret way [of interpreting] David was pained and sought to make a permanent home to the Shechinah, and this is the secret of "that swore to Y"Y, made a vow to the Mighty One of Yaakov: I will not enter my house etc I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place for Y"Y, an abode for the Mighty One of Yaakov" (Psalms 132:2-5). And it is written: "For Y"Y wished for Zion; He has desired it for His seat. This is my resting-place for all time" (Psalms 132:13-14). And since David desired to make permanent a place for the resting of the Shechinah and said "Rise Y"Y to Your resting place, You and the Ark of Your strength" (Psalms 132:8), his thoughts were correct before the Shechinah, and He sent [a message] and Y"Y the Blessed One said to him, through the prophet Natan: Are you the one to build a house for Me to dwell in? From the day that I brought the people of Israel out of Egypt to this day I have not dwelt in a house, but have moved about in Tent and Tabernacle. As I moved about wherever the Israelites went, did I ever reproach any of the tribal leaders whom I appointed to care for My people Israel: Why have you not built Me a house of cedar? (II Samuel 7:5-7) And in a different place it is said "However, you shall not build the House; your son, the issue of your loins, he shall build the House for My name.’" (II Chronicles 6:9) What did King David do? He readied silver and gold, and copper and iron, wood and plenty of onyxes and aquamarines and embroideries and all sorts of precious stones, and organized all the sets and the temple and all of its houses and archives and ascents and rooms, the courtyard and the vestibules of the halls, and all the rest of the plans of the temple, and the court and the chambers - all of which he received by Divine inspiration - and the format of every one of those places, and the mount of silver, gold, precious stones, and all the rest that was needed for it, in weight, quantity and measure. All of it organized accordingly into sets and with the needs of the Shechinah, as it is written: "David gave his son Solomon the plan of the porch and its houses, its storerooms and its upper chambers and inner chambers and of the place of the Ark-cover; and the plan of all that he had by the spirit: of the courts of the House of Ad-nai and all its surrounding chambers, and of the treasuries of the House of God and of the treasuries of the holy things; the divisions of priests and Levites for all the work of the service of the House of Ad-nai and all the vessels of the service of the House of Ad-nai, and gold, the weight of gold for vessels of every sort of use; silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all the vessels of every kind of service; the weight of the gold lampstands and their gold lamps, and the weight of the silver lampstands, each lampstand and its silver lamps, according to the use of every lampstand; and the weight of gold for the tables of the rows of bread, for each table, and of silver for the silver tables; and of the pure gold for the forks and the basins and the jars; and the weight of the gold bowls, every bowl; and the weight of the silver bowls, each and every bowl; he weight of refined gold for the incense altar and the gold for the figure of the chariot—the cherubs—those with outspread wings screening the Ark of the Covenant of Ad-nai. “All this that Ad-nai made me understand by His hand on me, I give you in writing—the plan of all the works.”" (I Chronicles 28:11-19). Behold you see that David, peace be upon him, organized all the format of the temple and all its needs according to Y"Y, Blessed, and all of it is the format of the Higher Chariot, the Throne and Abode of the Shechinah. And after this came Shlomo and built the House and organized all the sets and shapes, according to what his father David, peace be upon him, and then the Shechinah came down and dwelled in the House of the Worlds. And this is what is written: "then Solomon declared: Y"Y has chosen to abide in a thick cloud, I have now built for You a stately house" (I Kings 8:12) And it is also written “Now, therefore, O God of Israel, let the promise that You made to Your servant my father David be fulfilled. “But will God really dwell with people on earth? Behold, the heavens and their uttermost heavens cannot contain You, how much less this House that I have built, etc (I Chron. 6:17-18) "And now, advance, Y”Y Elohim, to your resting-place, You and the Ark of Your might, [Your priests, are clothed in triumph; Your loyal ones will rejoice in [Your] goodness.] Y”Y Elohim do not reject Your anointed one; remember the loyalty of Your servant David.” (I Chron. 6:41-42). “And when Shlomo finished praying and the fire came down from heavens, and consumend the Olah and the Zevachim, and the Glory of Y”Y filled the House” (I Chron. 7:1). The Shechinah was found having come back to Her resting place, in the land, in the Eternal House, and the channels and hatchways all went back to empting blessing again into the Beit Hamikdash, and so it is written: ‘like the dew of Hermon that falls upon the mountains of Zion, there Y”Y ordained blessing, everlasting life” (Ps. 133:3) and it is written: “From Zion, perfect in beauty, Elohim appeared” (Ps. 50:2). And from the Beit Hamikdash all the channels continued to all the lands, to the seventy families, corresponding to the seventy gates, and from Yerushalayim they received a reward, as it is written “and on you all the families of the earth will be blessed” (Gen. 12:3). And because Shlomo knew the way of continuing the Flow from Yerushalayim to all places, he said: “I laid out gardens and groves, in which I planted every kind of fruit tree” (Ecclesiastes 2:5). And is it possible to have one place in which all types of trees of the world grow? Rather, he knew what tendon extended to Cush, and planted on it peppers; and so in every side and side, and this is what is written “From Zion, perfect in beauty, God appeared” (Psalms 50:2). “From Zion” – from the basis of the world, and if so, the Shechinah is found sending blessings according to their appropriate measure to all the countries of the world from the Beit Hamikdash.