"Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains"
Rabbi Yosi opens this discussion by saying the ten curtains are the ten Sfirot. He goes on to show the unity of the tabernacle even though it has ten limbs, then the unity of a person even though he has many external and internal limbs, and lastly the unity of the Torah even though it has many precepts. The precepts of the Torah, we learn, are one in the secret of Adam, which is male and female, Zeir Anpin and Nukva. Someone who diminishes even one precept in the Torah diminishes the image of the Faith, Malchut. In closing, Rabbi Yosi says that the children of Yisrael are likewise one in that they are one nation.
Scientists have for a long time been studying subatomic particles, observing by way of instruments their births and movements and deaths, the seemingly random nature of their appearance and disappearance, and the mysterious linking of pairs of charged particles. A reading of this section awakens our awareness of unity in diversity, an inner understanding of the mystery of the Many-in-One, the union of the parts, and the order that underlies chaos. The Light generated here induces this awareness in the collective consciousness of all mankind, banishing the barriers that cause disunity and chaos. Everyday, everywhere, people the world over feel a new-sprung sense of compassion, love, and unconditional unity with their neighbor, unprecedented in human history.
664. He opened the discussion saying, "Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains... " (Shemot 26:1). Here is the mystery of union, BECAUSE THE TEN CURTAINS CORRESPOND TO THE TEN SFIROT. The perfection of the Tabernacle is made of numerous grades, as it is written, "That the Tabernacle shall be one" (Ibid. 6), in order to show that all the limbs of the body of the Tabernacle are the secret of one body.
664. פָּתַח וְאָמַר וְאֶת הַמִּשְׁכָּן תַּעֲשֶׂה עֶשֶׂר יְרִיעוֹת וְגוֹ,' הָא הָכָא רָזָא דְּיִחוּדָא, דְּהָא תִּקּוּנָא דְּמַשְׁכְּנָא מִכַּמָּה דַּרְגִּין אִיהוּ, דִּכְתִּיב בֵּיהּ וְהָיָה הַמִּשְׁכָּן אֶחָד. לְאִתְחֲזָאָה דְּכָל שַׁיְיפִין דְּגוּפָא, כֻּלְּהוּ רָזָא דְּגוּפָא חַד.
665. SIMILAR in a person that has many limbs, some superior and some lower ones, some are internal and others are visible externally, but they are all called 'one body.' And he is considered 'one person with one connection.' So it is with the tabernacle that all the limbs are similar to the above, and when they are all connected as one, it is written, "that the Tabernacle shall be one."
665. בְּבַר נָשׁ אִית בֵּיהּ כַּמָה שַׁיְיפִין עִלָּאִין וְתַתָּאִין, אִלֵּין פְּנִימָאִין לְגוֹ, וְאִלֵּין בְּאִתְגַּלְּיָא לְבַר, וְכֻלְּהוּ אִקְרוּן גּוּפָא חֲדָא, וְאִקְרֵי בַּר נָשׁ חַד, בְּחִבּוּרָא חֲדָא. אוּף הָכִי מַשְׁכְּנָא, כֻּלְּהוּ שַׁיְיפִין כְּגַוְונָא דִּלְעֵילָּא, וְכַד אִתְחַבְּרוּ כֹּלָּא כַּחֲדָא, כְּדֵין כְּתִיב וְהָיָה הַמִּשְׁכָּן אֶחָד.
666. The precepts of the Torah are all parts and limbs by a supernal secret, and when they all connect and become one, they all amount to be one place. The secret of the Tabernacle is that it is limbs and organs that all amount to the secret of man, like the precepts of the Torah because the precepts of the Torah are all in the secret of man, WHICH MEANS male and female, WHICH ARE ZEIR ANPIN AND NUKVA. When they join together, they are one in the secret of man, WHO IS THE SECRET OF YUD HEI VAV HEI SPELLED FULLY WITH ALEPH'S, WHICH IS THE NUMERICAL VALUE OF 'ADAM.' Someone who diminishes even one precept in the Torah, it is as though he has diminished the image of the Faith, WHICH IS MALCHUT, for all the limbs are together in the secret of man. Therefore, everything amounts to the secret of unity.
666. פִּקּוּדֵי אוֹרַיְיתָא, כֹּלָּא שַׁיְיפִין וְאֵבָרִין, בְּרָזָא דִּלְעֵילָּא. וְכַד מִתְחַבְּרִין כֻּלְּהוּ כְּחַד, כְּדֵין כֻּלְּהוּ סַלְקָן לְרָזָא חַד. רָזָא דְּמַשְׁכְּנָא, דְּאִיהוּ אֵבָרִין וְשַׁיְיפִין, כֻּלְּהוּ סַלְּקִין לְרָזָא דְּאָדָם, כְּגַוְונָא דְּפִקוּדֵי אוֹרַיְיתָא, דְּהָא פִּקּוּדֵי אוֹרַיְיתָא, כֻּלְּהוּ בְּרָזָא דְּאָדָם, דְּכַר וְנוּקְבָּא, דְּכַד מִתְחַבְּרָן כַּחֲדָא, אִינּוּן חַד, רָזָא דְּאָדָם. מַאן דְּגָרַע אֲפִילּוּ פִּקּוּדָא חֲדָא דְּאוֹרַיְיתָא, כְּאִלּוּ גָּרַע דִּיּוּקְנָא דִּמְהֵימְנוּתָא, דְּהָא כֻּלְּהוּ שַׁיְיפִין וְאֵבָרִין בְּדִיּוּקְנָא דְּאָדָם, וּבְגִין כַּךְ כֹּלָּא סַלְּקָא בְּרָזָא דְּיִחוּדָא.
667. Therefore, the children of Yisrael are all one nation, for it is written about them, "But you My flock, the flock of My pasture, are men (lit. 'man')" (Yechezkel 34:31) and "And what one nation in the earth is like Your people" (II Shmuel 7:23).
667. וְעַל דָּא, יִשְׂרָאֵל אִינּוּן גּוֹי אֶחָד, דִּכְתִּיב וְאַתֵּן צֹאנִי צֹאן מַרְעִיתִי אָדָם אַתֶּם. וּכְתִיב מִי כְעַמְּךָ כְּיִשְׂרָאֵל וְגוֹ.'