תחילת השערים והמפתחותAdonai, Gate and Treasury

techillat ha-she'arim ve-ha-mafte'chotIn Gamatria ↗

A full storehouse, and a man starving at the wrong door.

Adonai (Malkhut, the tenth sefirah) is the first name reached from below and the last of the divine levels counted from above. It is the first of the gates and keys, and there is no way into the King's presence except through it. Gikatilla gives a parable: a treasury has many rooms, one for jewels, one for silver, one for food, one for clothing. A man who doesn't know which room holds bread can starve beside a full storehouse. Adonai is that treasury and the palace (heikhal) where YHVH dwells, and every flow from above is stored in it and handed out to all creatures.

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