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Tikkunei dikna
י״ג תיקוני דיקנא
The thirteen tikkunim of the beard (tikkunei dikna)
The thirteen tikkunim (“arrangements”) of Arich Anpin’s beard: a contracted flow, like hair from the brain, by which Abba and Imma draw from Keser; inwardly lit from Atik; the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy.
Where it’s explained
- Likkutei Torah, Nitzavim 7, ¶6Hair is only the surplus of the brain, a drawing in great contraction and not the essence of the mind, like the idle talk of a scholar; this is how Abba (Chochmah) draws from Keser, “nursing from the eighth mazal.” Even so there is a level where hairs are supernal holiness: the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy, called tikkunei dikna.
ואעפ״כ הנה יש בחי׳ ומדרגה ששערות הן קדושה עליונה שי״ג מדה״ר נק׳ תיקוני דיקנא
- Likkutei Torah, Nitzavim 7, ¶21The thirteen tikkunim are yuds and vavs: the hairs are vavs and the light inside each hair is a yud. That inner light is drawn from Atik, Malchus of Ein Sof, above Arich Anpin, which is why the tikkunim, though only hairs, can mend flaws in the mitzvos, whose root is the Gulgalta of Arich Anpin.
שהשערות הן בחי׳ ווי״ן והאור שבתוך השערה הוא בחי׳ יו״ד
- Likkutei Torah, Tzav 4, ¶5Chochmah and Binah are drawn from the beard of Arich Anpin: Abba nurses from the eighth mazal (tikkun) and Imma from the thirteenth. Hence “zaken (elder) is one who acquired wisdom”: wisdom comes into being through the beard.
ומקור המשכת חו״ב הוא מדיקנא דא״א אבא יונק ממזל השמיני ואימא ממזל הי״ג
- Likkutei Torah, Eikev 2, ¶20As Chochmah Ila’ah is drawn from Arich Anpin’s “upper mazal,” the thirteen tikkunim, so the lower Chochmah (Malchus) is drawn from Z’eir Anpin through its Yesod, also called mazal. This is the “lower beard,” circumcision, over which thirteen covenants were made, matching the thirteen of the upper beard.
שכמו שיש י״ג ת״ד בדיקנא עילאה דא״א כך הוא ג״כ בדיקנא תתאה בבחינת יסוד
- Torah Ohr, Mikeitz 14, ¶16The High Priest above is “the great priest,” abundant kindness (rav chesed), in the thirteen tikkunim, the beard of the great priest, whose source is Mocha Stima’ah. “Kel rachum v’chanun” are the thirteen tikkunim; they begin from Kel and are drawn from “Havayah, Havayah,” the two sidelocks (pe’os).
וכה״ג הוא כהנא רבא רב חסד שהוא בי״ג ת״ד דיקנא דכהנא רבא
Stated differently
What the beard’s hairs are rooted in: Mocha Stima’ah, or the Gulgalta (the whiteness, Chesed of Atik)
ולכך הדיקנא דאריך ששרשה ממו״ס שהיא למעלה מאו״א דאצי׳ היא דוקא שנעשית לבוש לאו״אThe beard of Arich Anpin is rooted in Mocha Stima’ah, above Abba and Imma, and so becomes a garment for them (likewise Masei 5:10; Tzav 4:6 adds: only from the seven lower levels of Mocha Stima’ah).
ומקור שרשן הוא בחי׳ גלגלתא לבנונית חסד דעתיק ומשם נמשך הארת שערותThe hairs from which Abba nurses have their root source in the Gulgalta, the whiteness, Chesed of Atik; as in a person the white skull surrounds the brain and hair grows from it.
וגם המשכת השערות ויניקתן מח״ס הוא ע״י בחי׳ גלגלתא שמכסה על מו״סThe hairs draw from Chochmah Stima’ah, but by way of the Gulgalta, the will, which covers Mocha Stima’ah, so that only a hair is drawn.
Main sources
Likkutei Torah, Nitzavim 7, ¶6Likkutei Torah, Nitzavim 7, ¶21Likkutei Torah, Masei 5, ¶10Likkutei Torah, Acharei 4, ¶6Likkutei Torah, Acharei 4, ¶12Likkutei Torah, Tzav 4, ¶5Likkutei Torah, Tzav 4, ¶6Torah Ohr, Mikeitz 14, ¶16
Where it appears
In 49 paragraphs of 31 maamarim.
- Likkutei Torah, Eikev 1 ¶4 ¶5
- Likkutei Torah, Eikev 2 ¶19 ¶20 ¶24
- Likkutei Torah, Nasso 2 ¶29
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 8 ¶21 ¶24 ¶25 ¶27 ¶41 ¶49 ¶50 ¶51
- Likkutei Torah, Acharei 4 ¶6 ¶12 ¶13
- Likkutei Torah, Masei 5 ¶10 ¶15 ¶22
- Likkutei Torah, Shelach 4 ¶9
- Likkutei Torah, Shelach 17 ¶1 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 39 ¶6
- Likkutei Torah, V’Zos HaBerachah 3 ¶10
- Torah Ohr, Mikeitz 13 ¶28
- Likkutei Torah, Masei 3 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Chukas 4 ¶3
- Likkutei Torah, Ki Savo 2 ¶1
- Likkutei Torah, Nitzavim 7 ¶6 ¶21
- Likkutei Torah, Behaaloscha 1 ¶11
- Likkutei Torah, Re’eh 6 ¶22
- Likkutei Torah, Va’eschanan 1 ¶4
- Likkutei Torah, Yom Kippur 3 ¶26
- Torah Ohr, Mikeitz 14 ¶16
- Likkutei Torah, Korach 1 ¶33
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 3 ¶6
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 37 ¶9
- Likkutei Torah, Tzav 4 ¶5 ¶6 ¶8
- Torah Ohr, Beshalach 6 ¶18
- Torah Ohr, Mikeitz 6 ¶23
- Torah Ohr, Noach 4 ¶6
- Torah Ohr, Tetzaveh 2 ¶7
- Likkutei Torah, Behaaloscha 4 ¶4
- Likkutei Torah, Nasso 4 ¶16
- Likkutei Torah, Shir HaShirim 17 ¶25
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