Two out of a hundred

Synopsis

Here Rabbi Chiya explains the meaning of "heave-offering," that is the tithing of two parts out of one hundred. Each of the ten Sfirot includes ten Sfirot, so this makes one hundred. To lift Malchut, she must be raised with her husband Yesod, so these two Sfirot are called a heave-offering.

106. I also heard from the holy luminary: what is heave-offering (Heb. trumah)? It is like we explained ABOUT SETTING ASIDE THE CONTRIBUTION TO THE PRIEST, TO WIT, two (Aramaic tri) PARTS out of hundred (Aramaic me'ah) PARTS. Come and see, all those sacred grades that are part of the Faith, in which the Holy One, blessed be He, is revealed, are ten grades, which are ten sayings, NAMELY, THE TEN SFIROT, like we said. And these ten amount to a hundred, BECAUSE EACH SFIRAH INCLUDES TEN SFIROT. And when we have to lift this lower point, MALCHUT, we must not take her by herself, but with her husband YESOD; and these are two SFIROT, YESOD AND MALCHUT, out of the said hundred. For she must never be separated, but united with her husband. Therefore she is called a heave-offering, an inclusive term, A COMBINATION OF YESOD AND MALCHUT.

106. תּוּ שְׁמַעְנָא מִבּוּצִינָא קַדִּישָׁא. תְּרוּמָה. מַהוּ תְּרוּמָה. כְּמָה דְּאוֹקִימְנָא, תְּרֵי מִמֵּאָה. ת"ח, כָּל אִינּוּן דַּרְגִּין קַדִּישִׁין, דִּי בְּרָזָא דִּמְהֵימְנוּתָא, דְּקוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא אִתְגְּלֵי בְּהוֹן, אִינּוּן עֲשַׂר דַּרְגִּין, וְאִינּוּן עֶשֶׂר אֲמִירָן, כְּמָה דְּאוּקְמוּהָ. וְאִלֵּין עֲשַׂר סַלְּקִין לַמְּאָה, וְכַד אִצְטְרִיךְ לָן לְהַאי נְקוּדָה תַּתָּאָה לְאַרְמָא לָהּ, אָסִיר לָן לְנַטְלָא לָהּ בִּלְחוֹדָהָא. אֶלָּא לָהּ וּלְבַעְלָהּ. וְאִינּוּן תְּרֵי מֵאִינּוּן מֵאָה דְּקָאָמַרָן, בְּגִין דְּלָא אִצְטְרִיךְ לְאַפְרְשָׁא לוֹן כְּלָל, אֶלָּא לְיַחֲדָא לָהּ וּלְבַעְלָהּ. וְעַל דָּא אִתְקְרֵי תְּרוּמָה בִּכְלָלָא חֲדָא.