Editing The Name Elokim (section)

== Its Place in Sefiros ==

==== In Gevurah ====
The name Elokim in gevurah is the concept of "gevurah within chesed," and see its meaning in the previous paragraph.

==== In Malchus ====
The five letters of the name Elokim are the "five gevuros of mantzepach" that divide the breath of the heart into the 22 letters of speech. That is, just as physically the simple voice (coming from the breath of the heart) is divided into syllables and letters through the five outlets of the mouth, so too spiritually: the creation of the world is done through the sefirah of malchus which is the divine "power of speech." The source of speech is "the breath of the supreme heart," the power that divides it into letters is the "five gevuros of mantzepach," and speech itself is the ten utterances with which the world was created.

==== In Binah ====
The name Elokim in binah is the source of the name Elokim in malchus. That is, just as the five gevuros of mantzepach in malchus divide the breath of the heart into the letters of speech, so too these five gevuros themselves in binah divide intellectual understanding into the letters of thought.

==== In Atik ====
In Atik, the name Elokim and the name Havaya are truly one thing. The concept is that "there is no left in this Atik," meaning that gevurah in Atik is not opposite from chesed in it, but they are truly one thing. This can be understood through an analogy: the power of giving in the hand is only possible because the end of the hand is divided into five fingers. In order to grasp a coin and give it to a poor person, it's impossible without dividing the hand into fingers – meaning, specifically through constriction and division into details is giving made possible.

These five gevuros (mantzepach) as they are in the inner dimension of Keser (Atik) are also called "botzina d'kardonisa," and they are what fell from the source not through the measuring line in an orderly fashion but through striking. Like the analogy of a person who suddenly receives wisdom completely beyond his level. The analogy for this is the sparks that fly in all directions from hot iron when the blacksmith strikes it with a hammer, or the sparks that emerge from concealment to revelation when striking a rock with a hammer – in this there is the aspect of "the power that divides" (the striking hand) and "the power that is divided" (the sparks that came out from concealment to revelation).

The analogue: in order to combine letters into words (for the purpose of creating the world), the five letters of mantzepach are both the dividing power (that "brings out" the letters from concealment, taking one letter from the throat and a second letter from the tongue, etc.) and also makes and combines them into words and sentences.