9. Come and see, It is written, "And Elohim spoke to Moses" (Shemot 6:1). THE NAME ELOHIM ALLUDES TO the decree of Judgment that is looming over him. It is written before, "And Moses returned to Hashem, and said, Adonai" (Shemot 5:22) spelled Aleph Dalet Nun Yud, WHICH IS THE NAME OF MALCHUT. See the strength of Moses, THAT AS SOON AS he started prophesying, his spirit did not rest at this place, WHICH IS MALCHUT. He said, "Adonai, why have You dealt ill with this people? why is it that You have sent me? for since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name he has done evil to this people; neither have You delivered your people at all" (Ibid. 22-23). Who CAN talk like this? Only Moses who knew that a another, higher level THAN MALCHUT was intended for him, BECAUSE HE WAS A CHARIOT TO ZEIR ANPIN, WHICH IS THE HUSBAND OF QUEEN.

10. Rabbi Yitzchak said, at first, the house, WHICH IS MALCHUT, was given to him, FOR BEING A CHARIOT TO ZEIR ANPIN, WHICH IS THE HUSBAND OF MALCHUT, HE MERITED THE LEVEL OF MALCHUT AS HIS HOUSE, AS IT IS A HOUSE FOR ZEIR ANPIN. THEREFORE, he commanded it like a man would command his household, and spoke whatever he wished to without fear. Moses too spoke to his household, WHICH IS MALCHUT, without fear.

11. Another explanation of, "And Elohim spoke": THIS IS the decree of Judgment, AS THE NAME ELOHIM IS JUDGMENT, NAMELY MALCHUT. "And said to him, 'I am Hashem'": This is a different grade, NAMELY, ZEIR ANPIN which is Mercy, and here everything is connected together, Judgment and Mercy TOGETHER, WHICH IS GREAT WHOLENESS. This is the meaning of, "And said to him, 'I am Hashem,'" WHICH IS THE ATTRIBUTE OF MERCY. Rabbi Shimon said, If it were written, "And Elohim spoke to Moses, 'I am Hashem,'" I would say THAT FOR HIM JUDGMENT AND MERCY WERE LINKED TOGETHER. But it is not written so. Rather, it is first written, "And Elohim spoke to Moses" and then, "And said to him, 'I am Hashem,'" which means they are a grade after another grade INSTEAD OF JUDGMENT AND MERCY LINKED TOGETHER.

12. Rabbi Yosi said, Had not Moses been the master of the house, AS IT IS WRITTEN ABOUT HIM, "A PRAYER BY MOSES, the man of Elohim" (Tehilim 90:1), he would have been punished for saying TO ADONAI, "WHY HAVE YOU DEALT ILL WITH THIS PEOPLE..." (SHEMOT 5:22). But since HE WAS THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE, he was not punished. THIS IS LIKENED TO a man who had a quarrel with his wife, WHO WAS THE KING'S DAUGHTER, and spoke to her IMPROPER words. She started to complain, but as soon as she started speaking, the king, who was present, took over the matter, and she became silent and stopped speaking. The king said TO HER HUSBAND, Don't you know that I am the king, and that it is in my presence that you spoke these words? Similarly, so to speak, with Moses, AS IT IS WRITTEN, "And Moses returned to Hashem and said 'Adonai, why have You dealt ill...'" Immediately "Elohim spoke to Moses," WHICH IS THE ATTRIBUTE OF JUDGMENT BECAUSE THE KING'S DAUGHTER started to complain. Immediately, the King took up the complaint, "And said to him 'I am Hashem.'" Did you not know that I am King, and it is in My presence that you spoke these words?

13. "And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob by, the name of El Shadai." Why did He use a different name than the names before, WHICH WERE ADONAI, YUD HEI VAV HEI ELOHIM, AND HERE HE SAID EL SHADAI. HE ANSWERS, THIS IS LIKENED to a king who had an unmarried daughter, and also a beloved friend. When the king wanted to speak with his beloved friend, he used to send his daughter to speak to him and thus the king spoke to him through his daughter. The time has come for his daughter to marry. On the day she married, the king said to her, precious queen, until now I spoke through you to whomever I wished to. From now on, I will tell your husband and he will speak with whomever it is necessary. After some time, the husband said HARSH words to her in the king's presence. Before she started to talk, the king took the cause and said to him, am I not the king? Until this day no person spoke to me except through my daughter. And I gave you my daughter, and I spoke to you openly, a thing I have not done for any other person.

14. Similarly, "And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of El Shadai," WHICH IS THE NAME OF MALCHUT BEFORE SHE UNITED WITH ZEIR ANPIN FACE TO FACE. THIS MEANS, I APPEARED TO THE PATRIARCHS BY THE NAME OF EL SHADAI, WHICH IS MALCHUT when she was unmarried in My house. I was not spoken to face to face as I did with you, and you, at the beginning of your speech, said to My daughter in My presence such words. Therefore, IT IS WRITTEN, "And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of El Shadai, but by My name, Hashem, I was not known to them," THAT IS, to speak to them in the grade in which I spoke to you.

15. Rabbi Yosi opened the discussion saying, "A psalm of David. The earth is Hashem's and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell in it" (Tehilim 24:1). The earth refers to the Holy land of Yisrael that is the first to be blessed by Him and watered by Him, BY HASHEM. Afterwards, the whole world is watered from it. "The world, and they that dwell in it" refers to the rest of the lands that drink from it. How do we know this? From the words, "And He will judge the world in righteousness" (Tehilim 9:9).

16. "For He has founded it upon seas" (Tehilim 24:2). There are seven pillars, WHICH ARE SEVEN SFIROT - CHESED, GVURAH, TIFERET, NETZACH, HOD, YESOD AND MALCHUT OF ZEIR ANPIN, on which the earth supports itself, and which are seven seas. The Sea of Kineret (Galilee), WHICH IS MALCHUT, rules over them. Rabbi Yehuda said, Do not say it rules over them BECAUSE MALCHUT DOES NOT RULE OVER THE SEVEN SFIROT OF ZEIR ANPIN, but THE SEA OF KINERET is filled from them, BECAUSE MALCHUT RECEIVES FROM THEM, "And established it on the rivers" (Ibid.) HE ASKS, Which rivers are being referred to? AND HE ANSWERS, It is written, "The floods have lifted up, Hashem, the floods (lit. 'rivers') have lifted up their voice" (Tehilim 93:3), WHICH ARE THE SFIROT OF YESOD OF ZEIR ANPIN WHICH IS CALLED RIVER, as it is written, "And a river went out from Eden to water the garden" (Beresheet 2:10). Therefore, IT IS WRITTEN, "He established it on the rivers."

17. Come and see, this land, WHICH IS MALCHUT, is called BY THE NAME the land of Yisrael WHEN FACE TO FACE WITH ZEIR ANPIN THAT IS CALLED YISRAEL. HE ASKS, Why does not Jacob, who is Israel, rule over it like Moses? FOR HE IS ALSO A CHARIOT TO ZEIR ANPIN, WHICH IS CALLED YISRAEL. For it is written, "And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of El Shadai", WHICH IS THE NAME OF THE NUKVA, BEFORE SHE UNITES WITH ZEIR ANPIN, and no more.

18. HE ANSWERS, We have already established that Jacob took the terrestrial house, THAT IS, IN THIS WORLD. Therefore, he lost the celestial house, WHICH IS MALCHUT, but with the terrestrial house, THAT IS, THE FOUR WIVES, he reestablished the celestial house, WHICH IS MALCHUT, with twelve tribes, with seventy branches REFERRING TO ITS SEVENTY NAMES, WHICH IS THE MEANING OF THE SEVENTY SOULS WHO CAME TO EGYPT. And we have already established that Moses took the celestial house, WHICH IS MALCHUT, and forsook the terrestrial house BECAUSE HE SEPARATED FROM HIS WIFE. Therefore, it is written of Jacob: "By the name of El Shadai," AS MENTIONED. BECAUSE ONLY by the name El Shadai did the Holy One, blessed be He, speak to him and no more THAN THIS. "But by My name, Hashem, I was not known to them," MEANING to speak to them in this level OF YUD HEI VAV HEI, which is superior.