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1 Chronicles 23: 1-6. "The Reign."

The Levites

23 When David was old and full of years, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

"When one matures one's relationship with beauty must yield to fairness."

David obviously had problems aroud things of beauty his son Solomon did not.

2 He also gathered together all the leaders of Israel, as well as the priests and Levites.

3 The Levites thirty years old or more were counted, and the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand.

Levites are "connected to God since birth." They do not fall prey to the wiles of the gods of Egypt, are never influenced by nonsense. They "know the way".

Levites 30 years old or more= "The inverted phoenix."

38,000= 3 + 8=11 * 1000 = the 11th Commandment, "Teach of these things to your children, generation after generation".

And G‑d spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: "Lift up the head of the sons of Kehot from amongst the sons of Levi, according to their families and their fathers' houses…." (Ibid. 4:1-2), and And G‑d spoke to Moses, saying: "Lift up the head of the sons of Gershon as well, according to their fathers' houses and their families…." (Ibid. 4:21-22)

Levites know just about everything, and keep the traditions alive from underneath the Organization. They are charged, in particular with keeping knowledge of the Sefirot alive within the practices of Judaism.

4 David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand are to be in charge of the work of the temple of the Lord and six thousand are to be officials and judges.

2+4= 6. The tenets and mysticism surrounding the number 6 are to be followed generation after genetration:

The numerical equivalent of the vav is six. Six represents connection, exemplified by the angels in Ezekiel’s vision, whose six wings enabled them to soar to unite and connect with G‑d. Six also represents the six books of the Mishnah. Through learning Torah, one connects with G‑d.

Six also represents completion, because something that is surrounded on all six sides—north, south, east, west, above and below—is complete. Similarly we find that when the Jewish people left the land of Egypt, G‑d surrounded them with six Clouds of Glory.3

5 Four thousand are to be gatekeepers and four thousand are to praise the Lord with the musical instruments I have provided for that purpose.”

Kabbalah explains that these four stages were also used in the creation of the world. The first stage was the overall concept.

1) The initial flash of inspiration (concept)

2) The broadening of the concept (developing the concept in detail)

3) Emotional involvement and the drawing of actual plans

4) Practicalities (building)

Each of the four stages of creation corresponds to one of the four letters in the Tetragrammaton, G‑d’s four-lettered name of Havaye. The world of Atzilut corresponds to the letter Yud.

6 David separated the Levites into divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

Gershon= to expel

Kohath= to gather, to congregate

Merari= myrrh + ari= "the essence of the very best."

This entire section speaks of ways to press out or gath, the good things David's reign left behind and preserve them in combination with the "fairness and justice" or "completeness" we have come to believe in from that of Solomon's. This is what is meant by the term Levi, the connection between reigns that permits tradition and innovation to work together with the religion.

Every generation of Jews needs to gather to perform the Four Steps and formalize its approach to the future as if each had a king, a court, and a reign. What was repugnant about the rulership of the former court is obviously removed, what is needed to connect to God more completely is added. Then the effects of the steps are measured until the final stage, the myrrh is distilled.

As this catechism suggests this includes achievement in reality all of the sacraments a Jew observes via facsimile during Shabbat.

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