The Chariot of Metatron

Synopsis

We hear the esoteric explanation of the chariot below Zeir Anpin, that is Metatron, who is also known as the small man. This includes a description of the great and powerful flow of the waters of Chochmah that run from the sea of Torah, and from which three of the four rabbis were unable to emerge in peace. Lastly, it is shown how the first nine letters of the alphabet correspond to the nine Sfirot.

Relevance

Much supernal wisdom is distilled here. The forces of judgment that reside in water (which gives water the potential to destroy through flood or drowning) are extracted from this sacred liquid. Water, the lifeblood of Earth and humanity, is now restored to its original state of healing and rejuvenation.

The spiritual influences of water arise to cleanse, purify, and renew us. The name of Metatron arouses immortality and reversal of the aging process, for Metatron embodies eternal youth. Thus, the waters in our cells are purified, causing our cells to regenerate and flourish.

Ben Zoma Chariot Elisha Flow Metatron Peace Rabbi Akiva Rivers Seas Torah Waters Zeir Anpin

198. And there is a Chariot below NETZACH, HOD and YESOD OF Zeir Anpin, which is Metatron, ALSO KNOWN AS the small man. And in his Chariot, which is an orchard (Heb. pardes), the water of the Torah rush, LIKE A RIVER WHOSE WATERS ARE FLOWING WITH GREAT SPEED AND FORCE TOWARDS THE SEA, flowing out of his orchard, to the three of the four, about whom it was said that four entered the orchard, NAMELY: BEN AZZAI AND BEN ZOMA, ELISHA BEN ABUYAH AND RABBI AKIVA. THE FIRST THREE WERE INJURED BY THE FORCE OF THE FLOW OF THE WATERS OF CHOCHMAH, WHICH ARE CALLED 'AN ORCHARD,' AND ONLY RABBI AKIVA ENTERED IN PEACE AND LEFT IN PEACE. And we have already learned this.

198. וְאִית מֶרְכָּבָה לְתַתָּא מִזְּעֵיר אַנְפִּין, דְּאִיהוּ מְטַ"טְרוֹן. אָדָם הַקָּטָן. דְּבַמֶּרְכָּבָה דִּילֵיהּ דְּאִיהוּ פַּרְדֵּס, רְדִיפֵי מַיָּא דְּאוֹרַיְיתָא, דְּנָפִיק מִגּוֹ פַּרְדֵּס דִּילֵיהּ, לִתְלַת מֵאַרְבַּע, דְּאִתְּמַר עָלַיְיהוּ, אַרְבָּעָה נִכְנְסוּ לַפַּרְדֵס. וְהָא אִתְּמַר.

Birds Flow Head Heavens Judgment Metatron Seas Torah Waters Zeir Anpin

199. For he, METATRON, is the bird who was seen by Raba bar bar Channah on the beach of the sea of the Torah when the sea, WHICH IS THE SECRET OF MALCHUT, ROSE AND reached his ankles, NAMELY TO THE END OF HIS NETZACH AND HOD, CALLED 'ANKLES,' and his head reached to the top of the heavens, WHICH IS ZEIR ANPIN. AND THE THREE OF THEM THAT WERE FAULTED IN IT, THE SECRET OF THE PARDES, AS ABOVE: these three did not fail by it because it contains much waters OF CHOCHMAH, but because of the force of the flow of the waters OF CHOCHMAH IN IT. THAT IS TO SAY THAT THEY ARE SHARP AND FORCEFUL WITH JUDGMENTS, and so we have learned.

199. דְּאִיהוּ צִפָּרָא דְּחָזָא רַבָּה בַּר בַּר חַנָּה, לְכֵיף יַמָּא דְּאוֹרַיְיתָא, דְּיַמָּא מָטֵי עַד קוֹרְסוּלוֹי. וְרֵישֵׁיהּ מָטֵי עַד צֵית שְׁמַיָא, וְלָא אַכְשִׁילוּ תְּלַת בֵּיהּ, מִשּׁוּם דִּנְפִישֵׁי מַיָּא דִּילֵיהּ, אֶלָּא מִשּׁוּם דִּרְדִּיפֵי מַיָּא וְאוֹקְמוּהָ.

Alphabet Chariot Hebrew Alphabet Hebrew Letters Metatron Throne

Adonai Curtain Female Firmaments Form Hebrew Letters Male Metatron Tetragrammaton Water Waters Yud Hei Vav Hei (YHVH) Zeir Anpin

201. The two Yud's in THE SHAPE OF the Aleph א: THE UPPER YUD STANDS FOR the upper waters, WHICH IS THE SECRET OF ZEIR ANPIN, and THE LOWER YUD FOR the lower waters, WHICH IS THE SECRET OF MALCHUT, between them is but a hairsbreadth, which is Vav WRITTEN LIKE THE LINE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ALEPH. It is a slant line between THE TWO. YUD IS IN THE SECRET OF the firmament WHICH IS THE SECRET OF THE CURTAIN that "divide water from water" (Beresheet 1:6). Thus there should be a division between female and male, and that is why IT IS WRITTEN "and let it divide..." (Idib.). And the inner meaning of the matter is the permutation YUD HEI VAV HEI AND ADONAI, Yud-Aleph-Hei-Dalet -Vav Nun-Hei-Yud WHICH IS A COMBINATION OF THE TWO NAMES. The upper Yud OF THE COMBINATION is the upper, male waters and the lower Yud OF THE COMBINATION is the lower, female waters. The six letters ALEPH HEI DALET VAV NUN HEI, which come between THE TWO YUD'S have the same are numerical value as Vav (= 6), who is THE SECRET OF Metatron, which is THE VAV between THE TWO YUD'S IN THE FORM OF the Aleph.

201. א י"י, מַיִם עֶלְיוֹנִים, וּמַיִם תַּחְתּוֹנִים. דְּלֵית בֵּינַיְיהוּ אֶלָּא כִּמְלֹא נִימָא, דְּאִיהוּ ו,' נָטוּי בֵּינַיְיהוּ, בָּרָקִיעַ דְּאִיהוּ מַבְדִּיל בֵּין מַיִם לָמַיִם, דִּיְהֵא הַבְדָּלָה בֵּין נוּקְבָּא לִדְכוּרָא. בג"ד וִיהִי מַבְדִּיל וְרָזָא דְּמִלָּה, יאהדונהי. מַיִם עֶלְיוֹנִים זְכָרִים י' עִלָּאָה, מַיִם תַּחְתּוֹנִים נְקֵבוֹת, י' תַּתָּאָה. שִׁית אַתְוָון בֵּינַיְיהוּ, כְּחוּשְׁבַּן ו,' דָּא מְטַטְרוֹן, דְּאִיהוּ בֵּין א.

Adam Beasts Chariot Directions Earth Ein Sof (Infinity) Heaven Heavens Hebrew Letters Infinity (Ein Sof) Pillar Point Tetragrammaton Throne Unity Wheel Yud Hei Vav Hei (YHVH) Zeir Anpin

202. Furthermore, Yud is a point, WHICH IS THE SECRET OF SUPERNAL CHOCHMAH. Vav is THE SECRET OF a wheel, WHICH REVOLVES IN THE SIX SFIROT: CHESED, GVURAH, TIFERET, NETZACH, HOD AND YESOD. And there is no movement in the wheel at the six extremities, as the numerical value of Vav, except at the point, FOR IT RECEIVES EVERYTHING THAT IS IN CHESED, GVURAH, TIFERET, NETZACH, HOD AND YESOD FROM THIS YUD. And this point is the unity of everything, and is witness to that unity, WHICH IS THE ENDLESS LIGHT, who has no second, and about whom the sages taught that one has to proclaim His unity in order to establish His kingship over the heavens and the earth and the four directions of the compass. THIS IS THE SECRET OF THE ALEPH (= 1). Bet (= 2) is THE SECRET OF heaven and earth, WHICH ARE ZEIR ANPIN AND MALCHUT. Gimel (= 3) is THE SECRET OF the pillar that bears them, WHICH IS THE SECRET OF YESOD. Dalet (= 4) is THE SECRET OF the four living creatures OF THE CHARIOT. Hei (= 5) is THE SECRET OF the throne , WHICH IS MALCHUT. Vav is THE SECRET OF the six steps up to the throne, WHICH ARE CHESED, GVURAH, TIFERET, NETZACH, HOD AND YESOD. Moreover, Aleph, Bet, Gimel, Dalet, Hei, Vav, Zayin, Chet, Tet are THE SECRET OF man, NAMELY THE FIRST NINE SFIROT OF ZEIR ANPIN. Yud is His Unity, NAMELY Malchut, WHICH IS the tenth SFIRAH of ZEIR ANPIN WHO IS CALLED 'Adam' (lit. 'man'). THIS IS THE SECRET OF THE YUD HEI VAV HEI, FULLY SPELLED WITH ALEPHS, MAKING THE NUMERICAL VALUE OF ADAM. The nine SFIROT OF ZEIR ANPIN correspond to the nine letters. Happy are those of Yisrael who know the secret of their Master!

202. וְעוֹד, יוֹד נְקוּדָה. ו' גַּלְגַּל. וְלֵית תְּנוּעָה בְּגַּלְגַּל בְּשִׁית סִטְרִין כְּחוּשְׁבַּן ו,' אֶלָּא בְּהַהִיא נְקוּדָה. וְהַהוּא נְקוּדָה אִיהוּ יִחוּדָא דְּכֹלָּא, וְאַסְהִידַת עַל הַהוּא יָחִיד, דְּלֵית לֵיהּ שֵׁנִי, דְּאוֹקְמוּהָ עָלֵיהּ רַבָּנָן, שֶׁצָרִיךְ לְיַחֲדוֹ כְּדֵי שֶׁתַּמְלִיכֵהוּ עַל הַשָּׁמַיִם וְעַל הָאָרֶץ, וְעַל ד' רוּחוֹת עָלְמָא. ב,' שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ. ג,' עַמּוּדָא סָבִיל לוֹן. ד,' אַרְבַּע חֵיוָן. ה' כֻּרְסְיָיא. ו,' שִׁית דַּרְגִּין לְכֻרְסְיָיא. וְעוֹד, א ב ג ד ה ו ז ח ט: אָדָם. י' יִיחוּד דִּילֵיהּ, מַלְכוּת, עֲשִׁירָאָה דְּאָדָם. תֵּשַׁע, אִיהוּ לָקֳבֵל תֵּשַׁע אַתְוָון. זַכָּאִין אִינּוּן יִשְׂרָאֵל, דְּיַדְעִין רָזָא דְּמָארֵיהוֹן.