Pardes - The Mystical Orchard
"The Torah possesses seventy faces. This means that there are seventy valid angles of interpretation to any Torah teaching. This is true of each of the four levels of the Pardes. It emerges that there exist seventy times four - a total of two hundred and forty interpretations of the Torah!"
"In the writings of the Arizal, however, these four levels of interpretation correspond to the chain of four spiritual worlds of (from lowest to highest) Asiyah (Action), Yetzirah (Formation), Beriah (Creation), and Atzilus (Emanation) respectively."
"The four parshiyos (sections; sing. parsha) of the Head Tefillin correspond to the three cognitive Sefiros: Chochmah, Binah, and Da'as. Da'as contains the two Sefiros of Chessed and Gevurah and is therefore represented by two parshiyos."
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"Since the Tallis encompasses the body, it corresponds to the highest of the Sefiros, Kesser ("crown"). The thirty two threads of Tzitzis correspond to the "thirty two pathways of wisdom" that consist of the ten Sefiros and the twenty two channels that connect them together. The blue thread, known as techeiles, corresponds to Malchus for blue reminds us of the sea. The sea represents Malchus, as the verse states, "All rivers flow to the sea," alluding to the flow of all the upper Sefiros into Malchus."
