Seventh chamber: Binah

Synopsis

This is the most hidden of all the chambers. All the others are connected to and crowned by this one. It is not a dwelling of souls, but a chamber to which they ascend on the way to their respective places.

Most of the turbulence and turmoil of life occurs within the darkness that is created from an absence of spiritual Light. As we scan the letters that tell the secrets of the seventh chambers, the verses bring the all-embracing Light of The Creator into our lives.

Chambers Colors Crowns Grades Red Soul, The White

27. And all those chambers are connected to and crowned by one chamber, which is the seventh chamber. This chamber is more hidden and remote than all the others. In the middle of this chamber stands a pillar of the colors green, white, red, and black. And when the souls NEED TO ascend TO A HIGHER LEVEL, they enter THE PILLAR THAT STANDS WITHIN this chamber. And whoever is suitable for one color OF THE PILLAR rises through it, and whoever is suitable for another color rises through it. Each and every SOUL ascends through the color most suitable to it.

27. וְכָל הָנֵי הֵיכָלִין, כָּלְהוֹ מִתְקַשְּׁרָן וּמִתְעַטְּרָן בְּחַד הֵיכָלָא דְּאִיהוּ הֵיכָלָא שְׁבִיעָאָה, וְהַאי הֵיכָלָא אִיהוּ גָּנִיז וְסָתִים מִכָּל שְׁאָר הֵיכָלִין. בְּאֶמְצָעִיתָא דְּהַאי הֵיכָלָא קָאֵים חַד עַמּוּדָא, דְּאִיהוּ בִּגְוָונִין סַגִּיאִין: יָרוֹק, חִוָּור, סוּמָק, אוּכָם. וְכַד נִשְׁמָתִין סָלְקִין, אִינוּן עָאלִין גּוֹ הַאי הֵיכָלָא, מָאן דְּאִתְחַזֵּי לְהַאי גַּוָּון סָלֵיק בֵּיהּ, וּמָאן דְּאִתְחַזֵּי לְהַאי גַּוָון סָלֵיק בֵּיהּ. כָּל חַד וְחַד כִּדְקָא חָזֵי לֵיהּ.

Aram Chambers Creation Dwellings Grades Nukva Soul, The

28. The first six chambers are the dwellings OF THE SOULS, as we have said. This seventh CHAMBER, however, is not a dwelling place OF THE SOULS; IT IS ONLY A PLACE WHERE THE SOULS ASCEND THROUGH THE PILLAR CONTAINED THEREIN. And all six CHAMBERS are in the secret of six. And the fact that it is written: "Bara Sheet," BERESHEET ("IN THE BEGINNING) BEING AN ABBRVIATION OF THE WORDS BARA (ENG. 'CREATED') AND SHEET (ENG. 'SIX'), TEACHES US THAT THERE ARE six levels above WITHIN BINAH ITSELF, and six levels below. THESE ARE CHESED, GVURAH, TIFERET, NETZACH, HOD AND YESOD OF ZEIR ANPIN AND FEMALE PRINCIPLE. THESE LEVELS ARE CALLED THE SIX DAYS OF THE WEEK, and all are part of the same secret. THIS MEANS THAT WE CAN ONLY COMPREHEND THE SIX SFIROT OF THE LOWER LEVELS AND NOT THOSE OF THE TOP THREE SFIROT.