By Rabbi Edward Levi Nydle/Levi bar Ido

B’nai Avraham

This new teaching is entitled “The Seal and the Shadow” .The topic of the teaching is Hashanah Rabah, the seventh
day of the Feast of Sukkot. According to the Torah Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles (Booths), or the Season of our
joy is a seven day festival.

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spake unto Moses, saying, 34Speak unto the b’nai Yisrael, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh
month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto . 35On the first day shall be a holy convocation:
ye shall do no servile work therein. 36Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto : on the eighth
day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto : it is a solemn
assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. Vayiqra 23:33-36

Sukkot is not an eight day festival, it is a seven day festival with the eighth day, Shemini Atzeret added to it as a
separate feast. The eighth day is a Sabbath. Many people think Sukkot is an eight day feast but it is seven days. Then
we have Simhat Torah (in the land of Yisrael it is celebrated the same day as Shemini Atzeret but outside in the
Diaspora it is celebrated as a ninth day). Simhat Torah is the day we begin to read the Torah from the Beginning again.
It is a new beginning or a continuance. It begins a new feast cycle. I want you to understand that Shemini Atzeret is
not really considered a part of the Sukkot celebration.
We are going to look in the Brit Chadasha when Yahshua is celebrating Hashanah Rabah in the Beit HaMikdash. This
incident took place on Hashanah Rabah. The Last Great Day of Sukkot is Hashanah Rabah. To understand the context
you have to understand that this was took place during the water drawing ceremony in the Temple. They would have
been pouring out water from the pool of Siloam or the pool of sent and the people would have been waving the Lulav
(the four species).

• (37) On Hashanah Rabah, the last great day of the moed, Yahshua stood and cried. , Yahshua cried out with a
loud voice and he said. “If any man thirst, let him come to Me, and drink. (38) He that believes on Me, as the
Ketuvim have said, out of His belly, shall flow rivers of living water or mayim Chayim. “(39) and this He
spoke of the Ruach, which they that believe on Him would receive: for the Set-Apart Ruach was not yet
given; because Yahshua was not yet esteemed. Yochanan 7:37-39

In the Greek text this word is ammigal which corresponds to the Hebrew word Rabah. This is how we know it is
taking place on Hashanah Rabah. It was the last day of Sukkot when a Kohen went with a golden pitcher of water
from the pool of Siloam was poured into the basin at the foot of the altar and it was symbolic of the prayer for rain
which we recite on Shemini Atzeret. Rain in scripture is usually symbolic of Chesed, or mercy. Yisrael would begin to
pray for rain on the eighth day. The water drawing ceremony is connected with the verse in Yeshayahu 12:3 that we
recite every Shabbat. It says: “With joy you should draw waters from the wells of Salvation”. It is interesting that
today in Morocco the Yehudim pour water on each other as part of the Sukkot celebration. Concerning the loudness of
the celebration that took place at that time it is said: You have not seen joy unless you have experienced the joy of the
water drawing ceremony.
During Sukkot they would sing the Hallel which is Tehillim 1:13 through 118 and they would say: Hosanna The
same thing they said when Yahshua came into Yerushalayim and they were waving the palms leaves, the Lulav, and it
says they were stretching their garments we spread out before Him. Everybody pictures them throwing down their
garments and the donkeys walking on the garments. I do not believe that is what was taking place; I think they were
spreading their garments over Him as a chuppah as He came into Yerushalayim. They were waving the Lulav
because they knew He was the Messiah, the King of Yisrael.
They believe that it was the beginning of the Messianic reign. They would not have taken their four cornered garments
and let a donkey tread upon it. They would cry: “YHWH, please save us. YHWH, please prosper us.

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Baruch Haba B’shem YHWH, Blessed is He who comes in the Name of YHWH; we have blessed you out of the
House of YHWH. Elohim is YHWH and has given us Light”. (Tehillim 118:25-27).
Yahshua referenced this verse in Mattityahu 23 as He was looking over Yerushalayim.

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Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, the ones that kill the Nevi'im and stone those having been sent to you! How
often have I wanted to gather your yeladim, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you were not
willing! 38 Hinei! Look! KI LECHARBAHYIH'YEH HABEIT HAZEH (`for this House will become a ruin`
(i.e. churban), YIRMEYAH 22:5). 39For I say to you, by no means will you see me (Moshiach) from now
until you say, BARUCH HABA B' SHEM YHWH (`Blessed is the One who comes in the Name of YHWH).

Yahshua as Elohim stood over Yerushalayim and said: Many times have I wished to gather you under my Tallit under
and bring you under my Sukkah but you were not willing to do so, see your house is left to you desolate. Yahshua
quotes from Jeremiah 22:5.

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But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith , that this house shall become a desolation.

In Yochanan 7, there is a connection between having of the Ruach HaKodesh and some type of ecstasy or religious
joy, of which the water drawing ceremony is a symbol. This is nothing new, if you watch the Chasidim celebrate the
Feasts. The Encyclopedia Judaica speaks of the dancing, the singing, music that went on during the water drawing
ceremony. It states: “This was also considered a ceremony in which the participants, as it were, drew inspiration from
the Ruach HaKodesh itself which can only be possessed by those who’s heart are full of religious joy”.
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• Now on the last day of the festival, , Yahshua stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let
him keep coming to me and drinking! 38 Whoever puts his trust in Me, as the Scripture says, rivers of living
water will flow from his inmost being!” 39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who trusted in Him
were to receive later—the Spirit had not yet been given, because Yahshua had not yet been
glorified.)Yochanan 7:37-39

One important thing we learn from Yochanan 7 is this: Those who oppose the oral traditions of the Yehudim are
wrong in their opposition to all tradition.Yahshua and his talmidim observed at least portions of the Oral Torah and did
not reject it as the traditions of men, as many returning Ephraimite are doing. If our Master did not reject the Oral
Torah, and if our Master did not say that all traditions are of man and an addition to the Torah, then we cannot reject
them all. The water drawing ceremony can never be found in the Torah. I challenge you to find it any where in the
Torah. It’s not there, but it is in the Mishneh. We know then that Yahshua observed at least some of the oral traditions
and did not dismiss them all. Do not be so quick to say, “I just want to do the Torah.” Do not be so quick to dismiss
tradition because if our Master, whom you claim to follow and were commanded in 1st Yochanan to walk as he
walked, talk as he talked, do the Torah walk, then you too have to embrace some of the oral traditions.
That was Pashat, or the simple things we understand directly from the text. The seventh day of Sukkot is called
Hashanah Rabah. It is the only day within Sukkot, the season of our joy, in which there is a small portion of penitent
prayers that we would have uttered on Yom HaKippurim. You say, “I thought Yom HaKippurim was over, and this is
and asking for our sins to be forgiven. I will explain why, later in this teaching. I will explain the importance of
Hashanah Rabah and how on this day it will determine what will happen to you in the next year. Each one of the days
of Sukkot one of the seven siferot becomes manifest in our souls.
On Hashanah Rabah the final sefirot of Malkut, or the world of action, receives its influx from above. Corresponding
to this, they perform a circling of seven times around the bimah, which in the orthodox synagogues is in the center of
the room. These seven circuits are symbolic of the seven Sefirot. On the six other days of Sukkot, they go around the
bimah once, but on Hashanah Rabah they go around the bimah seven times.

The Seal

Hashanah Rabah is also called the seal, like you put a seal on the letter, or as you seal a bottle. This is why Hashanah
Rabah is so important. It’s called the seal because it is on this day that the heavenly edicts that were signed on Rosh
Hashanah and sealed on Yom HaKippurim are delivered into the hands of the angelic forces for their execution. Be it
the decree for life or death, blessings or curses for the next year, those edicts are being handed this day to the Malakim
for execution. That is the reason we are saying the penitential prayers.
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 Let us go to the Book of Revelation because this is what Revelation is talking about. As the seven seals are taken
from the scroll, judgments are given unto the Malakim to bring about the judgments upon the earth. Do you think it is a
coincidence in the book of Revelation that there are 7 seals on the scroll in Revelation? Each seal is symbolic of the
lower seven sefirot until it reaches the seventh seal, or Malkut.

• Revelation 5:1. . 1) And I saw in the right hand of Him that sat on the throne a scroll written within and on
the back side, sealed with seven seals. 2) And I saw a strong heavenly messenger, a Malach proclaiming with
a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the scroll, and to loose the seals of it? 3) And no man in shamayim, or in
the olam, neither under the olam, was able to open the scroll, neither to look at it. 4) And I wept much,
because no man was found worthy to open and to read the scroll, neither to look at it. 5) And one of the
zachanim, the elder said to me, weeps not: see, the Lion of the tribe of Yehudah, the Root of David, has
prevailed to open the scroll, and to loose its seven seals. 6) And I looked, and in the midst of the throne and of
the four beast, and in the midst of the zachanim, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and
seven eyes, which are the seven Ruachim or spirits of YHWH sent forth into all the olam. 7) And He came
and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. … 7:3 Saying, hurt not the olam,
neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the avadim, the servants of our Elohim in their foreheads. 4)
And I heard the number of those who were sealed.

This is a picture of what is taking place on Hashanah Rabah. Notice that they are waving the Lulav, standing before
the throne of Elohim in white robes. This takes place on Hashanah Rabah. Do you realize this is not some future
event, but it is what happens on Hashanah Rabah? On that day there is a sealing upon your forehead for protection for
the next year. This is not a future event. The book of Revelations is not future.
Hashanah Rabah is also referred to as the second or outer seal. Hashanah Rabah is called the second seal of Malkut,
or of this world. Hashanah Rabah is the date that Heaven ordains the edicts that were ordained on Yom HaKippurim.
You ask, “Why does it happen then?” If it has already happened on Yom HaKippurim at the closing of the gates why
wait until Hashanah Rabah in order to execute the judgments?
What is the connection with this second seal and its relationship to this world? Throughout Sukkot there has been
great rejoicing and it is a time that we are receiving divine mercy from above. During Sukkot the mercies from above
that have been concealed are being channeled or flowing from above to the Malkut. And each day there is a different
channeling or flow from one of the lower seven sefirot. The things that are in heaven are flowing down into this world
during Sukkot. It is on Hashanah Rabah, that Chesed is descending into Malkut. And on this day it is manifesting in
this world. Even though mercy is flowing down like oil or rain, it is also a day that the edicts issued on Yom
HaKippurim are given to the Malakim for execution. So, mercy is falling but it is also a day of judgment.
Everybody remembers the Neilah prayer of Yom HaKippurim. The Shekinah, which is the source of our soul, or the
divine manifestation of YHWH, is female. The Shekinah, the manifestation of the divine, is known as Our Mother
Rachel the Foundation of the home. So another name for the Shekinah would be Rachel. On Yom HaKippurim,
during Neilah or the closing prayer, our souls are ascending into spiritual realms to receive atonement.
It is on Yom HaKippurim we are declared pure. In the TaNaK is where they get this information on Rachel in Ruth
4: 11:

• All the people that were in the gate, and the zachanim or the elders, said, We are witnesses. YHWH makes the
woman that is come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build beit Yisrael.

These two mothers, Rachel and Leah, are they who build beit Yisrael. This word, to build, is banah; it not only means
to build but also to rebuild. It is the Shekinah which is called Rachel, the foundation of the beit, which is rebuilding
the House of Yisrael. In fact, Brown Driver and Briggs define this Hebrew word as: the establishment of the restored
exiled. Yisrael is defines by Strong’s as “He who rules as Elohim”. It is the Shekinah, the source of our souls, which
is female, that is called Rachel the foundation of the house, and it is the Shekinah that is rebuilding, reestablishing the
exile of the Yisrael who are destined, purposed, chosen, and called to rule as Elohim.
But why if we have gone through Yom HaKippurim and our souls are lofty and pure, then why is it the Day of
Judgment?
We have something in this world called Klipot or forces of evil. Klipot in Hebrew means husk. A husk conceals
something within it. These forces of evil or forces of darkness, called Klipot, do not know that our souls have reached
this lofty state during Yom HaKippurim and their purpose is to conceal the light. What the klipot do notice is that our
souls, since they have reached this lofty height during Yom HaKippurim, are full of spiritual energy.
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 The Klipot feed off that energy because they need it. They are like spiritual vampires. They sense it, they need it, you
have it, and they want it. It is their means of their continued existence.They are parasites that feed off spiritual energy.
That is where they get their strength and power over you.
This may help you in Luke (which means light) 15:16, in the Aggadah or the parable that Yahshua is telling of the
prodigal son. The son had squandered his inheritance, and he joined himself to someone in a far country. The man sent
him into the fields to feed his pigs. The boy was longing to fill his belly with the husks, or the pods that the swine were
eating. Could it be that Yahshua is saying when this young man went into the world and began his downward descent,
that the husks are symbolic of these Klipot The Klipot was attaching themselves to this young man.
These Klipot seek to steal from us, any way they can, this spiritual energy. The minute that the gates close on Yom
HaKippurim, the Klipot are searching the world for spiritual energy to feed upon and to cause you to descend. They go
all over the world to find that spiritual energy that they, as spiritual vampires, can suck out of you so that they can be
strong. If they cause us to fall or to sin, that energy within us diminishes and descends with us.
As our energy descends upward with us, but because of our sin, it is brought into the realms of the Klipot, where they
can feed off of it. Notice this young man went into a far country and joined himself to someone from the nations, so he
spiritually descended. That is what happens when we sin, the spiritual energy that we achieve on Yom HaKippurim
diminishes and falls into the lower realm where the Klipot can feed off of it, and become stronger. That is why it is so
important to watch our thoughts, speech, and actions because the klipot are just waiting for you to fall. The minute you
do transgress the Torah, your spiritual energy diminishes a little and they can pounce upon that spiritual energy and
feed off of it. The klipot are thieves and robbers. They are just waiting around for you to trip and fall, to make a
mistake and the spiritual energy to decrease a little bit so they can feed off you.
Then it sounds hopeless after Yom HaKippurim.No that is not true. You think YHWH is aware that this may happen,
and in His mercy has built a safety net for you. He has devised a way to protect us from this onslaught of the klipot
after Yom HaKippurim. In order to protect this spiritual energy within us, after Yom HaKippurim, He places a seal
around you. What is a seal? A seal is something that seals something in order to stop it from escaping. If you vacuum
seal something nothing can get in or out. This seal is so powerful, that the Klipot cannot get in. They approach you,
and if that seal is there, they cannot penetrate it. It is like a force field. This seal that YHWH places around this
spiritual energy is placed up on the foundation or yesod. Yesod serves as a mediator or a filter between this world and
the other worlds. It is your foundation. This seal that YHWH places around you, comes from binah, or understanding.
The foundation or the yesod is one of the Sefirot that is the life force energy or creativity.
Metaphorically, in the human body, it is your reproduction organs, because that is where the creativity of your life-
force comes. Inside of you that is where this seal is put. Binah or understanding is female. It corresponds to the left
part of your brain that functions as rational, logical thinking. This is the source of the seal. It represents to us the
ability to think clearly, with discernment, logic, and reasoning. The seal that is placed around the yesod from binah is
a clear, lucid thinking that enables us to understand how the Klipot work. Our souls have this great spiritual energy
from Yom HaKippurim, and it places a seal around yesod, your foundation and all of a sudden we have great
discernment around us. We can understand the workings of the Klipot or the evil forces.
Reading from the Zohar, Book 1, 33A, speaks about this seal. The Zohar is a commentary on the deeper levels of
PRDS.

• “Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit tree bearing fruit after its kind“. By fruit tree, it is
meant the tree of knowledge of good and evil which puts forth blossoms and fruit. Bearing fruit is the Tzadik,
the basis of the world. After its kind means that all human beings that have in them the spirit of holiness,
which is the blossom of that tree are stamped as being of its kind. This stamp is the covenant of holiness, the
covenant of peace, and the faithful enter into that kind and do not part from it. The Tzadik or the righteous one
generates and the tree conceives and brings forth fruit after its kind. I.e. after the kind of it’s producer, so as to
be like him. Blessed he that resembles this mother and his father. The holy seal is therefore set upon him on
the eighth day that he may resemble his mother who is the eighth grade and the flesh is turned back to show
the holy seal in order that he may resemble the father. By fruit tree, we understand, the mother, by producing
the father, by fruit, the holy covenant, and by its kind, the resemblance of the father. On the eighth day when a
child receives circumcision, it says, he not only resembles his mother but then the flesh is peeled back to
reveal the crown on the male member and he resembles his father.

There is some deeper truth in that section concerning Shemini Atzeret. Because we have been given this seal over
yesod, we have this ability during these days of Sukkot to recognize how these forces of evil might want us to
misdirect our creative or sexual ability and pervert them to their own ends.
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 During these days of Sukkot, after Yom HaKippurim, we have been immunized from their attack- if we choose to
embrace it. From Yom HaKippurim until Hashanah Rabah, this seal is firmly in place, yet, just as the seal is providing
to you great spiritual discernment and insight into the workings of the Klipot for protection, if you choose to accept it.
It can also withhold and block the spiritual protection for those who reject it, for example; those who did not do true
Teshuvah on Yom HaKippurim. This is the nature of that seal.
What does the seal do? Let us review for a moment. A seal stops things from coming in or going out. On Yom
HaKippurim this seal is placed upon yesod, your foundation. We all know that yesod; your foundation is not a part of
the Malkut or of this world. It is above it, the next sefirot up.
Even though this seal is not in the Malkut, it is still a part of the spiritual world, it has not yet physically manifested on
the earth. You are experiencing this protection unconsciously or in the spiritual realm but not consciously. You are
just not aware of it being there for you. Those that understand some of the deeper spiritual realize that it takes time for
things to manifest from the spiritual world to this world. Spiritual thing take time to manifest physically.

• Ephesians 1:10 10) That in the administration of the fullness of times He might gather together in one all
things in ha Moshiach, both that are in the Shamayim, the heavens, and which are on the earth; even in Him.
11) In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who
works all things after the council of His own teeter will; 12) That we should be the tehillah of His Tifereth,
who were the first to trust in ha Moshiach. 13) In whom you also trusted, after you heard the word of emet,
the besarot good news of your salvation; in whom also, after you believed, were then sealed with the Ruach
Hakodesh of promise, 14) Who is the pledge, or down payment, or earnest money from YHWH of our future
inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, our bodies, to the tehillah of His Tifereth.

Rav Shaul speaks of the seal of the Ruach HaKodesh that was placed upon you when you believed in the Messiah.
We know this seal is scriptural, and that it is a reality.

• The Zohar: There went a man from the house of Levi, Rabbi Yosi discoursed him here on the verse, my
beloved has gone down into his garden into the beds of spices from Shir HaShirim Song of Songs. He said
the words into his garden refer to the community of Yisrael, so the garden is the community of Yisrael. She is
a bed of spices filled with a savor of the world to come. In the hour when the holy one descends into this
garden the souls of all the righteous are crowned there to emit their perfume as it said how much better is the
smell of thine ointment and all spices. Shir HaShirim these are they whom Rabbi Isaac said all the souls of the
righteous that have lived in this world and all the souls shall someday be sent to dwell there, all these dwell in
the earthly paradise in that shape which was or shall be their likeness on the earth. This is a mystery which
has been transmitted to the y the spirit which enters into the children of men and which emanates from the
female makes an impression after the fashion of a seal. That is to say the form of a human body in this world
is projected outward and takes its impress of the spirit from within.

You look like your spirit. When the spirit separates itself from the body, it returns to the earthly garden in the actual
form and pattern of the body that was its garment during its sojourn in this earth and upon which it acted like a seal.
Shaul speaks of the seal of the Ruach HaKodesh and the purchasing of the possession of your body. The seal presses
from within and mark of it appears outwards, so the spirit acts upon the body. When we go into Hashanah Rabah
which corresponds to Malkut, the second seal is formed. This second seal then brings down to this earth the edicts that
were previously sealed or stopped from manifesting in this world. The seal is over Yesod, the world above this one.
This seal on Yesod, over Malkut, is like a Sukkah.This sea, was placed over this physical world so that the edicts that
came forth on Yom HaKippurim cannot manifest here. But on Hashanah Rabah this second seal brings to earth or
allows to come through the edicts of Yom HaKippurim. Those who are sealed within are written in the book of life.
Those outside the seal are written in the book of death. This is in Revelations 20:12.
On Hashanah Rabah the day of Malkut, that which has been ordained in the heavens, finally reaches the earth for
execution, be it for blessing or for cursing, life or death. The seal is opening up to allow these edicts to come down
and those who have not been sealed within are facing judgment. This is the great secret of Hashanah Rabah. This is
why on this day; we offer these penitent prayers of Yom HaKippurim. Maybe our teshuvah on Yom HaKippurim was
not really sincere, maybe it was just a show, or it was just something religious. Perhaps we really did not confess our
sins when we recited alchet, all sins. Maybe the sins that we did not confess in true emunah have placed us outside this
seal.

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Until Hashanah Rabah, we have the opportunity to open the seal that has been placed on Yesod and slip into it. Do
not think physically. The seal was never opened, it was never breached, but somehow miraculously YHWH lifts up
our soul and places it into the seal without disturbing the seal, I do not know how He does it, but, somehow, we have
been sealed.
We have been taught by tradition that these edicts that have been ordained in the heavens arrive at midnight on
Hashanah Rabah. This is the hour when the moon, symbolic of the Shekinah, is the brightest in the sky, at midnight.
That is one of the great secrets of Hashanah Rabah.
The Shadow Knows!

Now, let us discuss about the shadow on this night.

• Tehillim 17:8 - Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me under the shadow of Your wings.
• Shir HaShirim, Song of Songs 2:3-As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is My Beloved among
the sons. I sat down under His shadow with great delight, and His fruit was sweet to my taste.
• Yeshayahu 4:6- And there shall be a sukkah for a shadow in the daytime from the heat.
• Mark 4:22- For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was anything kept secret, but that
is should come abroad.
• Acts 5:15- So that they brought out the sick into the streets, and laid them on mats and couches, that at the
least the shadow of Kepha passing by might overshadow some of them.

According to the Torah, in Bereshith, we are created in the image of Elohim. The Hebrew word for image is Tzelem,
The word Tzelem is related in Hebrew to the word Tzel which means shadow. Thus ones shadow, Tzel, can be seen as
a reflection of your Tzelem, your image. This means that ones spiritual eye can be seen reflected in ones shadow an
aspect about your spiritual connection to Elohim that they refer to as ones zelim.
This is how they could be healed by just standing in the shadow of Kepha, because his zelim, which is called the
divine image imprinted on ones soul, was being cast in his Tzel. That is how it happened.

• Bereshith 1:26, And Elohim said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness:

This is the word Tzelem; there is something very interesting in this verse in the Hebrew. Literally it reads: The man,
Ha Adam, in Our image, after Our likeness or Let us make aleph tav Ha Adam. Let us make the aleph and tav the
man. Adam was the son of Elohim. Tzelem means: a shade, a phantom, an illusion, a resemblance, a representative of.
This brings us to the name of the man who carried out the design of the Mishkan or the tabernacle called B’tzal’el,
meaning in the shadow of El. If we are the tabernacle, then guess who is Betzalel? Who is to make all the implements
of the tabernacle within you? Since you were created in the image of Elohim, then you are the shadow of Elohim.
You are B’tzal’el. It is a code word. The name in Hebrew is composed of bzel El. In the shadow of EL. The sages
connect that to that verse we just read in:

• Shir HaShirim 2:3: As an apple tree among the trees in the wood, under its shadow I delighted to sit.

The words: under its shadow, b-tzel are an illusion or a hidden reference in the Shir HaShirim to B’tzal’el who made
the tabernacle. Which is where we sit, a delightful place to sit and give delight to Yisrael. And when they went into
the tabernacle, they sat under the shadow of Elohim. He was the son of Uriel, the son of Hur. The name of Uriel means
the son of primeval light, or urie, my light, which YHWH created at creation, in the son of her, means the son of
absolute freedom. The word freedom in Hebrew is Herook, or we could say the son of the whitest of all colors which
is bright light. No matter how you say it, B’tzal’el is the Son of light.
We are made in the image of Elohim but we read in Bereshith something interesting and in Shemot we read about
B’tzal’el. How does this relate to us today? When one is written in the book of death at Yom HaKippurim, YHWH
removes from that man’s soul, His Tzelem image. Without the removal of this Tzelem, the angel of death could not
have any power to remove the soul from the body. Traditionally, on the night of Hashanah Rabah, from midnight on, it
is said that if you go out into the moon light and gaze upon your shadow, your Tzel, and if the image of the shadow is
complete then we know that next year will be one of Chayyim, one of life for you.

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 But, if you cannot, in the light of the moon, see the reflection of ones head (Yahshua is the Head of the Body) that
represents the image of Elohim that has been lifted from the soul of that man. If in the shadow you cannot see your
head, then it is a sign that you have been written in the book of death, and this could be your last year on earth.

• Zohar in book 2, 142A- On New Year’s Day, when the world is judged and the throne of judgment stands by
the Supernal King. Every soul, Nefesh not Neshamah, hovers about and intercedes for the living.

You say you do not believe that souls pray for the living! Well, you need to read in Revelation about the souls under
the altar crying out for justice.
On the night following the giving of judgment they roam about to discover what decisions have been made concerning
the fate of a man in the coming year. Sometimes they communicate their knowledge in the living form of a vision or a
dream. The soul puts its seal to words which it communicates to the son of man that he might receive instruction or
reproof. On the last night of the Feast of Tabernacles when the final edicts are issued from the king. And the shadow
is removed from the persons who are shortly to die.
The souls that have gone before are quite aware of what is about to take place and they tried to communicate it to you
in a vision or a dream. The head of one’s shadow is simply a code word or a metaphor for the inner divine spark. We
are not talking about the physical. If you go out tonight and look for your shadow and do not see your head, do not be
too concerned about it. This is not on the physical level. Those with ears to hear know that the looking is really
internal. If you do go out tonight, you must gaze on your image with spiritual insight in order to grasp something of
spiritual essence of your soul.
This Hashanah Rabah is a chance for us to stop those edicts. We have one last chance. Even though this is the day
that the edicts are allowed to come through that seal of Yesod, at the stroke of midnight they are ready to be executed.
There is still time to say those penitent prayers and plead for mercy. It is called Chesed. That is why on Shemini
Atzeret we are praying for rain. But it is still time on Hashanah Rabah to pray for mercy. And to those in Eretz
Yisrael who are of the mystical sect read the whole book of Devarim this night. Devarim is called the second law, the
second reading of the word. It corresponds in the sefirotic tree to the Sefirah of Malkut, or the lower world. That is
why they read the whole book of Devarim. In Hebrew the book of Devarim is called: Mishneh, or the second Torah.
As such, it corresponds to the second seal, the seal of Malkut that is revealed tonight. On Hashanah Rabah, they take
the Lulav and they strike it on the ground 5 times and say: “haveet, haveet, valo berech.” The purpose is to try to
neutralize the divine severity that is represented by the 5 final letters within the Hebrew alphabet. You strike the Lulav
on the ground, or Malkut and you recite those prayers in order to ground or to stop the severity of these judgments
coming into the Malkut. This is not only for your benefit, but for the benefit of others. When we shake the Lulav one
of the directions we shake it is down, Malkut, towards the earth.
Now, taking you back to the beginning, and the importance of Hashanah Rabah. That is why Yahshua stood up on
Hashanah Rabah, the last great day, during the water drawing ceremony and pleaded with them to believe in Him as
the Messiah so that they would not have to face the judgment coming on those that are not sealed with the Ruach
HaKodesh. He understood that if they believed on Him, He that: Out of your belly will flow rivers of living water, thus
he spoke of the Ruach HaKodesh. Yahshua was pleading with them to place upon themselves this seal to protect them
from judgment.
The day after Hashanah Rabah is Shemini Atzeret and is a feast called Hag HaAtzeret. This is the day of renewal.
This is the day that we celebrate because the final seal of our judgment was foretold. Now you can understand what
takes place after Revelation chapter 20. Everything previous to that is in Sukkot. Then you have to move forward into
Shemini Atzeret in the Book of Revelation chapters 21 and 22. Judgment is now over. There is nothing but rejoicing,
renewal, and restoration, to prove what started on Sukkot is coming to its fruition. And guess what? That is the day
when we turn back the Torah to the Beginning again. If we are in the Land, on Simchat Torah/Shemini Atzeret we
read: In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth. We start all over again with a time of renewal,
restoration, new beginnings, and judgment is over. It is time for the earth to once again start bearing tov, good as it
was in the beginning.
There are times, like the cycle of the feasts, in our relationship with YHWH we are close and sometimes we feel
distant. Picture your relationship with YHWH by the feast time cycle. It is like an orbit around the sun. There are
certain times, seasons, and feasts when it seems we are closer than at the other times. That are why they come in
cycles. With cycles there are always flow and movement. So it is with our souls, as we are moving and circling around
the feast cycle. Moving, moving, and moving, until that new beginning.
So I say, good feast. On Hashanah Rabah, I urge you that you are to continue in your introspection, because we know
that one by one, and the edicts are handed to the Malakim to go and execute the judgment.
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What has already been ordained for you for the next year is getting ready to be handed into the hands of the Malakim.
It is so important that we understand the importance of all these feasts that we observe. If you were not really serious
on Yom HaKippurim then you really need to look at your image, spiritually inside of yourself, to see what is going on
and what could possibly be coming to you for the next year.