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Nun sha’arei Binah
נ׳ שערי בינה
The fifty gates of Binah (nun sha’arei Binah) · also: שער החמשים
The fifty levels of Binah’s contemplation of G‑d’s greatness: forty-nine, the seven middos each including seven, counted in the Omer; and a fiftieth that includes them all and joins them to their Source.
Where it’s explained
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 11, ¶10The fifty gates are the revelation of the Or Ein Sof as contemplation of His greatness: forty-nine, the seven supernal middos of “Yours, Havayah, is the greatness,” each including seven. The fiftieth includes all forty-nine as one and joins them to the Emanator; through it “Anochi” is revealed, and so the Omer is counted toward Shavuos.
נ׳ שערי בינה שהוא ענין גילוי אור א״ס ב״ה להיות בחי׳ התבוננות בגדולת א״ס ב״ה הם מ״ט בחינות
- Likkutei Torah, Matos 5, ¶1Contemplation that stays in the mind is called the mind of Binah, not its gates; when its light opens outward and the heart too grasps it, it is called the gates of Binah, like a gate opened to go out. The forty-nine match the seven middos because the middos dwell in the heart.
ולכן נק׳ ג״כ נ׳ שערי בינה שיוצא האור מן מוחו לחוץ לתבונת לבו כמו ד״מ שער נפתח
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 14, ¶3In the Maggid’s name: the fiftieth gate is the intermediary between Chochmah (ayin) and Binah (yesh), so to those above it seems below and to those below it seems above. Moshe grasped the forty-nine gates in his lifetime; the fiftieth was not given to him until his passing.
כי שער החמשים דבינה הוא הממוצע בין חכמה לבינה כי חכמה היא בחי׳ אין ובינה נק׳ יש
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 14, ¶10The fiftieth gate has two aspects: the lower, which includes the forty-nine and is drawn down little by little through the counting of the Omer; and the higher, above their root, which we cannot draw down at all and which is revealed of itself on Shavuos, the lowest level of the Emanator.
אבל הבחי׳ העליונה שבו שלמעלה משרש המ״ט שערים זה אין בכחנו להמשיך כלל
- Torah Ohr, Yisro 5, ¶3The forty-nine days of counting come from the seven Names that may not be erased, an expansion with above and below, head and foot. The fiftieth gate, revealed on Shavuos, encompasses all levels with no above and below; in it the Torah was given, drawing the Or Ein Sof into physical action.
אבל שער החמשים הוא הכולל ומקיף כל הבחי׳ ואין שם בחי׳ מעלה ומטה כלל
Stated differently
What the fiftieth gate is: Keser, Binah itself, or the upper third of Tiferes of Binah
כ״ע איהו שלימו דחמשין שערי בינהCiting the Tikkunim: Keser Elyon is the completion of the fifty gates of Binah; the fiftieth is the gate that joins all forty-nine to their Emanator.
שער החמשים היא בינה בעצמה ומ״ט שערי בינה הם בשבעת ימי הבניןAccording to the Pardes, the fiftieth gate is Binah itself, and the forty-nine gates are in the seven Sefiros of building.
גם בחי׳ שער החמשים דבינה איתא בכתבי האריז״ל שהוא בשליש עליון של תפארת דבינהIn the writings of the Arizal, the fiftieth gate of Binah is in the upper third of Tiferes of Binah (Tiferes of Imma, which becomes the Keser of Z”A and Nukva).
Main sources
Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 11, ¶10Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 11, ¶11Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 14, ¶1Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 14, ¶3Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 14, ¶10Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 14, ¶12Likkutei Torah, Matos 5, ¶1Torah Ohr, Yisro 5, ¶3
Where it appears
In 36 paragraphs of 21 maamarim.
- Likkutei Torah, Matos 5 ¶1
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 23 ¶4
- Likkutei Torah, V’Zos HaBerachah 4 ¶5 ¶10
- Torah Ohr, Yisro 5 ¶3 ¶4 ¶10
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 14 ¶1 ¶2 ¶3 ¶4 ¶6 ¶7 ¶8 ¶9 ¶10 ¶11 ¶12
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 19 ¶33
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 39 ¶5
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 42 ¶8
- Likkutei Torah, Pekudei 1 ¶53
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 27 ¶5
- Likkutei Torah, Balak 1 ¶28
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 11 ¶10 ¶11
- Likkutei Torah, Behaaloscha 6 ¶14
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 19 ¶16
- Likkutei Torah, Shelach 7 ¶9
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 13 ¶14 ¶16
- Likkutei Torah, Sukkos 2 ¶2
- Likkutei Torah, Emor 6 ¶30
- Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar 16 ¶19
- Likkutei Torah, Tzav 12 ¶19
- Likkutei Torah, Bechukosai 7 ¶7
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