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the zohar [1:7b] that his fatherhad originally inscribed on him 335 flew away from him alphabet he died. Now that Elisha embraced him, he inscribed on him all those when of the seventy-two names. The letters of these seventy-two engraved letters are 216 letters, 336 all of which Elisha inscribed with his breath to restore names YGYC a name fulfilling all sides: fulfilling embracings, as explained, and (Ḥavaqquq), fulfilling the mystery of the 216 letters of the holy name. 337 The Book of King Solomon One of 332. many volumes housed in the real or im- the library of the author of the Zohar. aginary 1:13b, 33b, 225b; Matt, Zohar, 25; and the See on this passage by Shim'on Lavi, comment `Àll such books mentioned in the Zo- KP: ...have been lost in the wanderings of har is left of them except what exile....Nothing mentioned in the Zohar.'' is He inscribed on him Elisha in- 333. on Habakkuk, the son of the Shunammitscribed woman. engraved name of seventy-two 334. The divine name derived from the names of the splitting of the Red Sea: description 14:19±21. Each of these three verses Exodus seventy-two letters. The name is composed contains of seventy-two triads (or ``words''), to the following pattern: the first according the first verse, the last letterof the letterof verse, the first letter of the third second (forming the first triad); the second verse the first verse, the penultimate letterof letterof the second verse, the second letterof third verse (the second triad); etc. the by means of a divine name recalls Revival legend of the Golem, according to which the could be animated by the recitation of dust names, and in fact Abraham Abulafia magical notes that the seventy-two-lettername the Golem. See Idel, Golem, 98±101; animates in Kiryat Sefer 63 (1990±91): 1318±21. Liebes, to a magical text (British Museum According 107a), Elisha used the forty-two-letter 752:17, (see Scholem). Sefer Ḥasidim Shunamite Wistinetzki, par. 219) states that Elisha (ed. punished with illness forusing the fortytwo-lettername was of God to curse a group of who had insulted him by calling children ``Baldhead'' (2 Kings 2:23±24). As a result him his curse, forty-two of the children were of by two she-bears. killed the seventy-two-lettername, see Leqaḥ On Exodus 14:21; Bereshit Rabbah 44:19; Tov, Rabbah 23:2; Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah Vayiqra 2:2; Hai Gaon, Otsar ha-Ge'onim, Ḥagi- on 23; Rashi on BT Sukkah 45a, s.v. ani; Ibn gah, on Exodus 14:19; Bahir 79 (110); Zohar Ezra 2:51b, 132b, 270a; 3:150b±151a; Trachtenberg, 1:17a; Jewish Magic and Superstition, 95±97; Torah Shelemah, 14:67, 284±86. Kasher, letters ...that his father... Habak- 335. the son of the Shunamite, was born kuk, the power of the letters of the al- through but not the particular combination phabet, seventy-two triads of letters that Elisha of employed. 216 letters The total numberof 336. in the seventy-two triads derived letters the three verses (Exodus 14:19±21). from 216. with words The seventy-two 338. whose greater spiritual potency is required triads, for the restoration of the spirit. with letters The 216 individual 339. whose potency suffices to restore letters, have discovered in The Book of King Solomon: 332 He inscribed on him 333 `Ì words the engraved name of seventy-two names. 334 in Forthe letters of the him to life through the letters of the seventy-two names. He called him I He was revived with words, 338 restoring his spirit, and with letters, 339 reviving his entire body 48 I GYC Y 337. (Ḥavaqquq)...216 letters... I GYC Y has a numerical value of The name the body. name of God to revive the son of the
So he was called Habakkuk; it was he who said, `YHVH, I heard enduringly. You made heard; I am awed. I heard what happened to me, my tasting of what world, 340 and I am frightened.' He began begging for compassion for his that exclaiming, `YHVH, Your action that You did forme, in the midst of years soul, GKK its life. 341 Whoeveris bound to those primordial years, 342 life is bound (ḥayyav): him. Convey it in the midst of years (ibid.)ÐConvey it to that level that has to life at all.'' 343 no Shim'on wept and said, ``From what I have heard, I, too, am afraid of Rabbi blessed Holy One.'' the his hands above his head, he exclaimed: ``What a privilege that Raising saw Rav Hamnuna Sava, radiance of Torah, face-to-face! I was not so you privileged.'' fell on his face and saw him 344 uprooting mountains, 345 kindling lights in He palace of King Messiah. 346 He said to him, 347 ``Rabbi, in that world you will the neighbors, empowered masters in the presence of the blessed Holy One.'' be Face of God, as is said: For I have seen God face-to-face (Peni'el), 32:31). 348 (Genesis Ḥiyya opened, ``The beginning Rabbi wisdom is awe of YHVH; all who of it gain good insight. His actualize endures forever (Psalms 111:10). The beginning of wisdomÐthis verse praise my tasting of that world My brief 340. of death. experience it. Rabbi Shim'on reads this last word revive as a verb but as a noun: its life. not those primordial years See Malachi 342. 3:4. Here the phrase refers to the sefirot Ḥesed through Yesod, flowing into Shekhinah. from SeeZohar 1:238b; 2:105b; 3:134b, 138b They are also the six primordial days (IR). the week culminating in the Sabbath of of Shekhinah. that level that has no life at all 343. who has nothing of Herown and Shekhinah, dependent on the flow from above. is uprooting mountains In BT Berakhot 345. 64a, Rabbah son of Naḥamani is called of Mountains,'' based on his `Ùprooter mind. sharp palace of King Messiah Also 346. in the Zoharas ``the bird's nest'' known Cf. 3:164b; Seder Gan Eden (Beit (2:7b±8b). 3:132). ha-Midrash, He said to him Rav Hamnuna said 347. Rabbi Shim'on. to For I have seen God face-to-face 348. verse continues: and my life has been The Aftersurviving his wrestling match saved. the angel, Jacob names the site Peni'el. with here the name is understood in the Perhaps Penei El, Faces of God, referring to plural: Haqdamat Sefer ha-Zohar [1:7b] G (ḥayyehu), may its life be' (Habakkuk, ibid.). I FKK G (Ḥayyehu), like I FKKI 49 From that day on, he called Rabbi El'azar, his son, and Rabbi Abba N BKRV \ (Be-reshit), In the beginning. K[BZC should read The end of wisdom is awe of YHVH, because awe of YHVH is really 341. Your action...in the midst of years G FKK The verse concludes: I (ḥayyehu), ... 344. him Rav Hamnuna Sava. both rabbis.
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