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The Torah like the human body is broken up into four divisions: legs, torso, head plus an all encompassing soul; a replica of the Ten Sefirot derived from the Four Letter Name YHVH which was the original configuration engraved into the middle of the OreAinSof/LightWithoutEnd to make place for creation. Within the bubble of creation all things can be broken down into four elements: fire, air, water and earth corresponding to the four varieties of life found in the world: inanimate (earth), growing (water), breathing (air) and free will (fire).

In a sense, everything in creation has a body of four components divided three and one; the atom with proton, neutron and electron and the encompassing glue that holds it all together until the very universe which convincing divides our solar system from galaxies, stars, quasars, black holes reflect the divisions of four throughout nature. In the same way that nature is divided between the hard reality of gravity and the three ephemeral energies of electro-magnetic, weak and strong force, the Torah is also divided into the Written Torah and three parts of the Oral Torah: Talmud, Midrash and Zohar.

Speech is unique to the human being; the ability to translate ideas into articulated thoughts commanding a world where everything makes noise according to its nature. The human being brings new light into the world through the virtue of speech. The mouth of the Torah, Malchut the tenth of the Ten Sefirot, is the lips that pronounce the words of the 24 books of the Written Torah. According to the law, in order to perform the commandment of learning the Written Torah the words must emanate from the mouth in an audible sound.

The lowest and the highest are connected by virtue of the circle which holds everything within like the skin covers the body or the light of the soul surrounds and infuses the body with life. The circle made from the lips of the mouth indicative of the primordial dot from which language arose is signified as woman; it is language which distinguishes the human being from the animal and why the human being is able to command the world. Woman is the connector between generations, between heaven and earth, between God and creation.

The Cabala teaches that the mouth is composed of five parts: lips, teeth, and tongue which are visible and the pallet and throat which are hidden. The three revealed parts of the Oral Torah are: Talmud-Book of Law, Midrash-Book of Metaphor, and Zohar-Book of Secret; the two hidden aspects of Torah will be brought to the world by Moshiach. These three revealed disciplines were all written down at the time the Temple was destroyed 2000 years ago by the Roman Empire.

During this time when the Talmud, Midrash and Zohar were composed, great plagues killed many students who let these disputes turn into acrimonious discontent and eventually they were lost in a plague of hatred. Those who understood the meaning of the law knew it was not about right or wrong, but about boundaries and differences reflecting the diversity of creation. The Talmud is the legs of the Torah bringing the law down to the ground.

The Midrash-Book of Metaphor goes beyond the law and what to do; the story of creation is about what comes from the heart. The laws of action are muted by the intentions of the heart. The Cabala states, though no mind can comprehend the existence of God, but the heart has an understanding that goes beyond logic—it is through the heart that God is grasped by creation. Avraham, the father to Arab, Jewish and Roman Peoples said in the Sefer Yitzira/Book of Form that creation was a product of the writer, the book and the story.

The Zohar-Book of Secret corresponds to the brain where a river of celestial thoughts is unending; the brain of the Torah as reflected in the Zohar is a compilation of ephemeral thoughts strung together like pearls on an invisible string that extends out to infinity. It is from the Zohar that all things make sense, her voice is calm, there is no argument as the Zohar often says: Cha Chazi/Come and See.

The Mishchon-Tent of Dwelling was built in the desert by Moshe and the first generation of the Jewish nation after leaving slavery for the purpose of housing the Ten Commandments implicit with the three Oral Traditions and the promise of Moshiach. The Mischon-Tent of Dwelling was first conceived by Moshe from the inside out beginning with the Ten Commandments; but, Betzalel who oversaw the building of the Mishchon-Tent of Dwelling began from the outside and went in. In this way the Mishchon-Tent of Dwelling was both male and female reflecting the essence of the form in each human body that God creates, “Male and female and blessed them.”