כל ענין סוד סדריהם תלוי ונמשך מסוד חד”ר – ימין ושמאל ואמצע. מתחברים בהרכבות שונות, בבחינת סיתום וקמיצה, או פתיחה והתפשטות, והיינו קו ונקודה
The mystical import of these categories (of twenty-two letters) lies in and derives from the mystical concepts of Chessed (“kindness”), Din (“judgment”), and Rachamim (“compassion”), (which represent the) “right”, “left” and “center” (columns). They join in different combinations, (and appear in formations represented as being) “closed” and “compressed”, or “open” and “expanded” which is to say as a “line” or a “point”.
(c) 2011 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman
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