YHVH Elohim YHVH Elohenu

Grace and peace to you in Hayyah Yeshua!

If we look into Elohenu without the Vau as it occurs in Leviticus we find that it stands alone as a Name of God and is not joined to the Great Name, Yahweh; this spelling of Elohenu is interesting, for as you have said it is composed of the very same letters as Elohim, only there is a Nun in place of Mem.

Elohi translates as “my God,” and Elohenu translates as “your God,” and these Names of God indicate a personal relationship with God, a direct experience of nearness to God, and what is revealed and known of God to me, you and us. There is something of this in Elohim, for as we know Elohim is the immanent, revealed aspect of God in creation, and is the Name used thirty-two times in the story of creation, but in relationship to Elohi and Elohenu, Elohim is the God of all, the All-In-All; Elohim is the God of all creation, all that is revealed of God throughout space and time, and is the presence and power of God manifest as all. Thus, Elohim is a feminine noun with a masculine plural, indicating God as Mother and Father, encompassing and engendering all.

There is another Name of God that is connected, Eloah, which if often translated as “God,” like Elohim, and we may ponder the distinction between them. Like Elohi and Elohenu, Eloah indicates revealed aspects of God, and while Elohim indicates revealed aspects of God, Elohim also indicates hidden or concealed aspects of God, or the interplay of God and Godhead, God as revealed, immanent, and known to us, and God as known only to God, concealed, transcendent. This is also indicated by the combination of the feminine and masculine in Elohim, the Mother representing God revealed, immanent, and the Father representing God concealed, transcendent.

As we know, the root of Elohim corresponds with Binah and extends to Gevurah and Hod; likewise, as we know, at times Adonai, Malkut, is called Elohim. Binah as Elohim is God in the heavens and the Supernal Abode, and Malkut as Elohim is God revealed on earth and the material universe.

Another Name of God that we must mention is El, which also translates as “God,” and corresponds with Hesed-Mercy; this Name, as we have been taught indicates the Mercy and Love of God, but more so, God as the Infinite and Eternal, God beyond condition or measure.

El corresponds with Hesed-Mercy, Elohim corresponds with Judgment-Gevurah and Elohi, Eloah and Elohenu correspond with Tiferet-Beauty, or Rehamim-Compassion; hence, the entire Moral Triad extending from El through Elohim, and becoming manifest as Elohi, Eloah or Elohenu. Tiferet is the Sefirah of the Messiah, and therefore to Christian Mekubalim Elohi, Eloah and Elohenu all indicate the Messiah, or the revelation of God through the Messiah, and as we know and understand, the Spirit of the Messiah is Ruach Elohim. Very specifically in our Kabbalah Elohenu with, and without the Vau, indicate Melekh Messiah. As you have noted, when Elohenu ends with Nun, without the Vau, Nun equals 700, and as we know, the Secret Name of the Risen Messiah as the “Son of the Human One,” Seth (Shin-Tau), equals 700; thus, Nun final is taken to refer to the Messiah, God come down to live and walk among us, to speak and interact directly with us, and to uplift us into God (El, Elohim). Vau also indicates the Messiah, though, for as we know the Messiah is the power of Vau, the Six, and unites heaven and earth, and God and the human being; so either way Elohenu is taken to indicate the mystery of the Messiah, or the revelation and salvation of God that comes through the Messiah.

Here we must speak an open secret for greater knowledge and understand. Elohenu with a Vau indicates something more, for Vau is the Six, and Elohenu is a Name of God corresponding to the Lev Ha-Vau, the “Heart of the Six,” and the Six correspond with Zer Anpin, the “Little Face,” which is the source of the world of angels. Thus, Elohenu indicates the Messiah and the angels of God, and this is how God is revealed to, and interacts with, human beings, through the Spirit of God and the angels, and through them God becomes a person, and we are able to have a close and personal relationship with God, and know our God (Eloah).

In this light, we may contemplate the Name of God, Yahweh Elohenu, for it is the Name of Yahweh revealed through the Holy Shekinah, and specifically, through the Messiah, tzaddikim (“saints”) and maggidim (“angels”); and this gives us insight into the Blessed Name of the Messiah, Yeshua, the Name of Yahweh with the addition of the letter Shin.

Yahweh Elohim corresponds with Da’at, and corresponds with the “crown of the Messiah,” the knowledge of God in the Messiah, and Yahweh Elohenu corresponds with the “heart of the Messiah,” which is to say the knowledge and love of God the Messiah reveals and communicates.

Here it is given by the Holy Spirit that we can speak a secret mystery. The Name of God, and Name of the Messiah, in Apocalypse, Revelation, is Yahweh Elohim, Shaddai; in the fruition of the Second Coming of the Messiah, in the End-Of-Days and World-To-Come, then Adonai, Malkut, is called Elohim, all being drawn up in the Great Resurrection and Ascension.

As we know, Yeshua Messiah speaks in the Holy Name of Eheieh (“I Am”), and therefore all of the Names of the Middle Pillar are in the Messiah, or we may say all of the powers of these Names of God are in the Blessed Name of Yeshua Messiah. Such is the great power of God in the Blessed Name, and this is indicated by the Name, Yahweh Elohenu.

Listen and hear, and understand! Elsewhere in our discussion about Ma’on as the “teaching realm” we spoke of the Name of Yahweh Eloah Ve-Da’at and Yahweh Elohenu, and there I taught a mystery concerning the first part of the First Commandment, Anoki Yahweh Elohenu, “I am the Lord your God.” I taught that it is a positive commandment to know the Lord our God, or to seek knowledge (da’at) of God. As we have said, Yahweh Elohenu is the revelation and knowledge of God through the Messiah and angels, and as such this is understood as a commandment to receive the Messiah, and have faith in the Messiah, and to cleave to the Messiah who comes with the full power and glory of the Holy Shekinah and angels of God – supernal angels.

The full First Commandment reads, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:2-3). In the Christian Kabbalah, while this is one of the Ten Commandments of the Life Divine, so is it understood as a prophecy of the Great Exodus that comes to pass through the Risen Messiah, who manifests the true kingdom of heaven on earth and who opens the way of the Great Ascension, the true deliverance from bondage, the true salvation.

The esoteric gospel entitled “Pistis Sophia” indicates this directly, speaking of God, the True Light, as the “First Commandment,” and Christ as the emanation of the First Commandment; hence, as the emanation of Anoki Yahweh Elohenu.

If we understand this phrase in the First Commandment as a commandment to seek knowledge of God, or Da’at of Yahweh, and we understand that this knowledge is acquired through Supernal or Messianic Consciousness, then this is a commandment to seek to embody the Spirit of the Messiah, and to seek the dawn of Messianic Consciousness, an actual self-realization in the Messiah; it is this enlightenment (Mochin Gadlut) that is true salvation, the Great Liberation. As Gnostics of the Second Coming this is exactly how we read the First Commandment.

Now, concerning tikkunin and tikkunim, really this is the same action from two different perspectives. On one hand there is tikkunin, which indicates an arrayal, order or configuration of emanation, creation, formation and making as it is in the Holy One, according to the Divine Intention (Ratzon Elyon); hence tikkunin indicates the realization of the innate perfection of our soul and all creation as it is in the Holy One of Being. On the other hand there is tikkunim, which indicates the process of rectification, mending or healing of fractured and shattered vessels and souls, or a reordering of things in disarray, disorder or disfiguration. In other words, it is the play of tikkune from the perspective of who we are in God and who we are in ourselves; one and the same tikkune, in heaven and on earth, or the eternal realm and space-time, respectively.

These two aspects correspond with being and becoming, Yichud and Perud, and they are inseparable from one another; both aspects are in the Messiah.

Look and see, and understand! In the Risen Messiah we behold our innate perfection and completion as we are in God, the True Light, and our salvation, our enlightenment and liberation, is accomplished; yet, receiving the Spirit of the Messiah, we co-labor for a full embodiment of the Spirit of the Messiah and Messianic Consciousness, we strive for the fruition of our salvation in the Messiah – we live the Life Divine. On one hand our tikkune is accomplished in the Risen Messiah, but on the other hand we co-labor with the Spirit of the Messiah for the tikkune of all creation and us. Tikkunin indicates the knowledge or awareness of the proper arrayal, the Divine Order, and tikkunim indicates the restoration or realization of that arrayal, the Divine Order, based upon that knowledge or awareness.

The state of creation fallen, and in need of tikkune, corresponds with the natural order of generation, the state of creation redeemed, or the tikkune of creation being accomplished, corresponds with the Order of Regeneration in the Risen Messiah; the Order of Regeneration is the new heaven, new earth and new humanity established according to the Divine Order, Divine Intention, in right arrayal, right configuration.

Just as tikkunin and tikkunim are aspects of one and the same tikkune, so Elohim and Elohenu are aspects of the One God; there is One God, the True Light, with many Divine Attributes, or Emanations.

With regards to the Sefirot, the Divine Emanations, tikkunin is their proper arrayal as they are in El Elyon, and tikkunim is the process of arraying them in that way, according to Ratzon Elyon.

This knowledge and action corresponds with Yahweh Elohenu, and with Yahweh Eloah Ve-Da’at; and our empowerment for this tikkune is in the Blessed Name of Adonai Yeshua Messiah.

Here I’m inclined to pause, abiding, waiting upon the Spirit of the Lord.

O Adonai, we pray, open the Way before us and lead us in the Way, and empower us to draw others with us in the Great Ascension, the Great Exodus; we pray for the salvation of all, all as ordained and arrayed in You (Atoh). Amen.

God bless you and God keep you!
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Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

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