Idra Raba: Chapter 3

The most ancient among the ancients

Synopsis

Rabbi Shimon tells what the Hidden Book revealed about the most ancient among the ancients, and of how the illuminating light of the whiteness of the skull in the head of Arich Anpin is the legacy of the righteous in the World to Come.

Atika Kadisha Beard Correction Hidden Book (Safra De'tzniuta) Throne White

14. We have learned from Tz'niuta Desifra (the hidden book) about the most ancient among the ancient, the most concealed of concealed, the most hidden of the hidden, who in his Corrections (formations) was corrected and came, like the oldest among the old, most ancient of the ancients, the most hidden of the hidden, who in his constructions is known yet unknown. He is dressed in white and has a radiant WHITE countenance. HE resides on the throne of fiery sparks, in order to subdue them.

14. תָּאנָא בִּצְנִיעוּתָא דְּסִפְרָא, עַתִּיקָא דְּעַתִּיקִין, סִתְרָא דְּסִתְרִין טָמִיר דִּטְמִירִין, אִתְתְּקַּן וְאִזְדְּמַן, כְּחַד סָבָא דְּסָבִין, עַתִּיק מֵעַתִּיקִין, טָמִיר מִטְּמִירִין, וּבְתִּיקוּנוֹי יְדִיעַ וְלָא יְדִיעַ. מָארֵי דְּחִוָּור כְּסוּ, וְחֵיזוּ בּוּסִיטָא דְּאַנְפּוֹי, יָתִיב עַל כּוּרְסְיָיא דִּשְׁבִיבִין, לְאַכְפְּיָיא לוֹן.

Beard Head Hundred Light Righteous Shekels Silver World to Come, The

15. Throughout 400,000 worlds, the whiteness of the skull in the head, ARICH ANPIN, spreads. The illuminating light of this whiteness is the legacy of the righteous in the World to Come, consisting of four hundred worlds. This is what is written: "four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant" (Beresheet 23:16).

15. אַרְבַּע מְאָה אַלְפֵי עָלְמִין, אִתְפְּשָׁט חִוָּורָא דְּגוּלְגַּלְתָּא דְּרֵישׁוֹי. וּמִנְהִירוּ דְּהַאי חִיוָּורָא, יַרְתֵּי צַדִּיקַיָּיא לְעָלְמָא דְּאָתֵי, ד' מְאָה עָלְמִין, הה"ד אַרְבַּע מֵאוֹת שֶׁקֶל כֶּסֶף עוֹבֵר לַסּוֹחֵר.

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