The opening of the eyes

40. The eyes of the white head, THAT IS, KETER OF ARICH ANPIN, THAT IS CALLED THE SKULL are different from other eyes. There is no membrane cover and no eyelid over the eye. What is the reason? It is because it is written: "Behold, he who keeps Yisrael shall neither slumber nor sleep" (Tehilim 121:4), MEANING HE WHO KEEPS Yisrael above, WHICH IS ZEIR ANPIN, WHOM THE EYES OF ARICH ANPIN KEEP. It is written: "Your eyes are open" (Yirmeyah 32:19) WITHOUT A MEMBRANE COVER, and we learn that everything that descends upon us with compassion has no cover on the eye and has no eyelid over the eye. All the more so the white head that needs none.

41. Rabbi Shimon remarked to Rabbi Aba: What is this alluding to? He replied to him: To fish of the sea that have no eyelids or covering membranes. They do not sleep and require no protection over their eyes, BECAUSE MERCY FLOWS ON THEM. All the more so the most Ancient of all that requires no sentinel, since he is the one that takes care of everything, and all take their sustenance from him. He does not sleep. That is what is meant by: "Behold, he who keeps Yisrael shall neither slumber nor sleep," FOR IT GUARDS Yisrael above, WHICH IS ZEIR ANPIN.

42. It is written: "Behold, the eye of Hashem is upon those who fear him" (Tehilim 33:18), WHICH MEANS ONE EYE. It is written: "The eyes of Hashem, they rove to and fro through the whole earth" (Zechariah 4:10), WHICH MEANS TWO EYES. HE REPLIES: It is no contradiction. Here in Zeir Anpin, THERE ARE TWO EYES, but here in Arich Anpin, THERE IS ONE EYE. In spite of all this, there are two eyes that turn into one, which is white within the white, and the white is inclusive of all that is white.

43. The original whiteness illuminates, ascends and descends to look on THAT which is bounded in a bundle. We have learned that whiteness struck and lit three candles called glory, majesty and joy, and they all glow in perfect happiness.

44. The second whiteness illuminates. It ascends and ITS LIGHT descends. It stamps and produces three other candles called Netzach, Chesed and Tiferet which glow in perfect happiness.

45. The third whiteness glows and radiates light. It exits the cover of the brain, and it stamps the center candle in the seventh. It creates a path to ILLUMINATE to the lower brain, ZEIR ANPIN, and all candles below, IN ZEIR ANPIN, glow. Rabbi Shimon said: It is beautiful. May the Ancient of Days open His eyes over you when you need Him.

46. We have learned that of white is within white. The white includes all that is white. HE EXPLAINS: The first white shine, ascends and descends downward to the three candles on the left side. They glow and bathe in this white, as someone who bathes his body with good perfumes and pleasant fragrances to clean what he went through before.

47. The second white descends and ascends and illuminates to the three candles of the right side. They glow and bathe in the white OF THE RIGHT EYE as one that bathes himself in fine perfumes and fragrances, to cleanse what he went through before.

48. The third white illuminates rising and descending. THROUGH IT, white light emanates from the innermost part of the brain and beats on the black hair OF ZEIR ANPIN as needed, and also on the head and the brain in the head OF ZEIR ANPIN. It illuminates the remaining three Sfirot, WHICH ARE CHOCHMAH, BINAH AND DA'AT. UNTIL NOW, NOTHING IS REVEALED EXCEPT FOR CHESED, GVURAH, TIFERET, NETZACH, HOD AND YESOD. THEY BECOME REVEALED as revelation is necessary, if the concealed Atik wishes TO HAVE IT REVEALED.

49. We have learned that this eye OF ARICH ANPIN is not closed, and they are two EYES reconstituted into one. All of it is right and it contains no left, since it does not slumber or sleep and it requires no guarding. There is no one that is capable of shielding it. It keeps everyone else safe and watches over all. From the watchful guardianship of that eye, everyone is sustained.

50. We have learned that if that one eye OF ARICH ANPIN is closed for even a split second, no existence would be possible. Therefore, it is called an open eye, a supernal eye, a holy eye, an ever-attentive eye, an eye that does not slumber or sleep, an eye that is vigilant of everything, an eye that is the preservation of everything in existence. About this eye, it is written: "He that has a generous eye shall be blessed" (Mishlei 22:9). Do not read it as "shall be blessed," but rather 'shall bless,' since that is considered one of a goodly eye. From it, everyone gets blessed.

51. We have learned that there is no light to this lower eye OF ZEIR ANPIN to wash away the redness and blackness, except when it sees the white light of the upper eye OF ARICH ANPIN, which is referred to as one at a goodly eye. No one knows when this upper holy eye OF ARICH ANPIN illuminates and bathes the lower eye OF ZEIR ANPIN, except for it.

52. The righteous and the most meritorious will see in the future this EYE OF ARICH ANPIN with a spirit of wisdom. This is what is written: "For they shall see eye to eye" (Yeshayah 52:8). When WILL THIS HAPPEN? When "Hashem returns to Zion" (Ibid.). It is further written: "That you Hashem are seen eye to eye" (Bemidbar 14:14). If not for the uppermost good eye OF ARICH ANPIN that is ever-attentive and bathes the lower eye OF ZEIR ANPIN, the universe could not exist even for a moment.

53. We have learned in the hidden book that everything is illuminated from the ever-attentive watch of the lower eye, when the light of the above EYE is attentive to it and the light of the above EYE enters the lower EYE OF ZEIR ANPIN. This is what is written: "That you Hashem are seen eye to eye."

54. It is written: "Behold, the eye of Hashem is upon those who fear him" (Tehilim 33:18) and it is also written: "The eyes of Hashem, they rove to and fro through the whole earth" (Zechariah 4:10). MEANING: If they merit, "the eye of Hashem is upon those who fear him:" that is, the upper eye OF ARICH ANPIN. If they have no merit, "the eyes of Hashem, they rove to and fro:" THAT IS the lower eye OF ZEIR ANPIN.

55. We have learned that the reason Joseph merited that no evil eye would have any domination over him is because he gained the merit to be watched by the upper good eye OF ARICH ANPIN. This is what it means in, "Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well" (Beresheet 49:22), MEANING why is he "a fruitful bough?" BECAUSE NO EVIL EYE WAS DOMINATING HIM BECAUSE OF "a well (Heb. ayin)," meaning to say due to the eye (Heb. ayin) OF THE HIGH ONE OF ARICH ANPIN that was watchful of him.

56. It is written: "He that has a generous eye shall be blessed." What is the reason? "For he gives of his bread to the poor" (Mishlei 22:9). He further inquires: What is the reason that it is referred to as one EYE? IT DID NOT SAY, 'HE THAT HAS GENEROUS EYES SHALL BE BLESSED.' HE RESPONDS: Come and see, in the lower eye OF ZEIR ANPIN, there exists a right eye and a left eye. They are two, in two SPECIFIC senses, THE RIGHT BEING CHASSADIM AND THE LEFT BEING THE ILLUMINATION OF CHOCHMAH. However, here IN ARICH ANPIN, there exists no left eye. Both are considered in one level, everything being right, THE MEANING OF WHITE WITHIN WHITE. Therefore, IT IS WRITTEN AS one eye: "GENEROUS EYE SHALL BE BLESSED" and not two, BECAUSE HE WHO "GIVES OF HIS BREAD TO THE POOR" MERITS THE BLESSING OF THE UPPER EYE OF ARICH ANPIN, WHICH IS ONE EYE.

57. We have learned that this eye OF ARICH ANPIN, the ever-attentive eye, is always open, always smiling, always happy. That is not the case below, IN ZEIR ANPIN, that ARE combined in red, black, and white, in three colors. They are not continuously open, since it has eyelids over the eyes that cover the eye. Therefore, it is written: "Awake, why sleep you, Hashem?" (Tehilim 44:24). "Open, Hashem, your eyes, and see" (II Melachim 19:16), WHICH MEANS THEY ARE NOT ALWAYS OPEN.

58. When THE EYES OF ZEIR ANPIN opened, there were some upon whom the eyes opened for good and some upon whom the eyes did not open for good. Woe to the one TO WHOM THE EYES opened and the eye is blended with red, WHICH IS THE COLOR OF JUDGMENT. This red appears before him and covers the eye. Who could be saved from it? MEANING TO SAY THAT WHOEVER HAS NO MERIT, THE LEFT ILLUMINATES UPON HIM WITHOUT THE RIGHT, THE SECRET MEANING OF THE RED COLOR, DURING WHICH TIME ALL HARSH JUDGMENTS ARE DRAWN FROM IT. However, the Ancient of Days, MEANING ARICH ANPIN, has a good eye that is white within white, and a white containing all whites. Praiseworthy is the lot of the person who has one of the whites watchful over him. About this, it is most certainly written: "He that has a generous eye shall be blessed." It is also written: "O house of Jacob, come, and let us continue to go in the light of Hashem" (Yeshayah 2:5), MEANING, LET US WALK UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LIGHT OF HASHEM, WHO IS OF A BENEFICENT EYE, AS MENTIONED.

59. We have learned that the name of Atik THAT IS ARICH ANPIN IS the most concealed of all, and is not mentioned openly in the Torah except for one place, that Zeir Anpin swore to Abraham, as it is written: "By Myself have I sworn, says Hashem" (Beresheet 22:16). That is the speech of Zeir Anpin, WHEN SWEARING BY ATIK. It is also written: "By You shall Yisrael bless" (Beresheet 48:20), meaning Yisrael of above. IF SO, "BY YOU SHALL YISRAEL BLESS" IS ADDRESSED TO ATIK THAT IS ARICH ANPIN. It is also written: "Yisrael, in whom I will be glorified" (Yeshayah 49:3). He said this to Yisrael and we learn that Ancient of Days said this TO ZEIR ANPIN, WHO IS YISRAEL ABOVE. Both are good, SINCE BOTH EXPLANATIONS HOLD TRUE.

60. We have learned that it is written: "As I looked, thrones were placed, and an ancient of days did sit" (Daniel 7:9). HE ASKS: What is the meaning of "thrones were placed?" He told Rabbi Yehuda: Rise in your place and prepare this throne.

61. Rabbi Yehuda said, It is written: "His throne was fiery flames" (Ibid.) and ancient of days did sit upon this throne. What is the reason THAT HE SITS ON A FIERY THRONE? We have learned if Atik Yomin (Ancient of Days) would not have been sitting on this throne, the world would have no possibility of existence because of this throne. When Atik Yomin (Ancient of Days) sits on it, this throne is subdued and whoever rides it reigns. During the periods that He leaves this throne and sits on another throne, the first throne gets discarded, since dominion is only to the throne upon which Atik Yomin (Ancient of Days) rides. Rabbi Shimon told Rabbi Yehuda: Let your path be readied and let THE ILLUMINATION OF ATIK YOMIN (ANCIENT OF DAYS) enter you.