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Sefer Megaleh Amukos on Parshas Va'eschanan - Ofan 73

This section will explain the small letter Aleph (א), which is the secret of Rabbi Akiva. And the secret of "Your friends" (re'echa). And the secret of the bent Chaf (כ) and the straight Chaf (ך). And the secret of why Rabbi Akiva's name is sometimes spelled with an Aleph (עקיבא) and sometimes with a Hei (עקיבה). And how Rabbi Akiva merited the letter Shin (ש) of the Tefillin, while Moshe did not. And the secret of "Behold (Hen), his eye saw every precious thing." And how when Moshe forgot the hooks of the pillars (vavei ha'amudim) and could not align the calculation, until the soul of Rabbi Akiva came to him. And the secret of "And the thousand (ha'elef), etc." And the secret of: "Yishmael my brother, I expound upon every 'daughter' (bas)." Rabbi Yishmael is the reincarnation (gilgul) of Yosef, and Rabbi Akiva is the reincarnation of Shimon. The rectification of their brotherhood is from the secret of the letter Zayin (ז). Rabbi Akiva is the secret of the six (Vav) orders of the Mishnah, and he expounds upon every inclusionary word "es" in the Torah. And this is the secret of "And he brought Shimon out to them." And the secret of "And they went to pasture es the flock." The secret of the Yad (hand) of the Tefillin, and the Shin of the Tefillin. The secret of the Divine Names Gat Kra Pach (ג"ט קר"ע פ"ח), corresponding to the seven heads [of the letter Shin]. And the secret of the Land of Israel being surrounded by seven seas. The word Na (נ"א) stands for Nativ Aleph (the path of Aleph). Rabbi Akiva merited the Heichal Ahavah (Chamber of Love). Na also stands for Nogah Ahavah (the radiance of love). Moshe died by the "mouth of Hashem," which is the secret of "the utterance of Hashem's mouth," which is called the Heichal Ratzon (Chamber of Will), the acronym of which is Har (ה"ר - mountain):

Hashem showed Moshe the small letter Aleph (א' זעירא), which is the secret of Rabbi Akiva. For the numerical value (gematria) of "small Aleph" (א' זעירא) equals that of Rabbi Akiva (ר' עקיבא). The remaining letters from the word Vayikra (ויקרא - "And He called," Leviticus 1:1) [after removing the small Aleph] spell Yekar (ויקר - precious). Our Sages of blessed memory expounded (Avodah Zarah 5a) on the verse, "How precious (yakru) are Your friends to me, O God" (Psalms 139:17), that this refers to Rabbi Akiva. And within the word re'echa (רעיך - Your friends) lies the secret of "Thus it arose in [Divine] Thought" (Kach alah b'machshavah - Menachos 29b). The Arizal wrote that there are two unifications (yichudim). The first is the bent Chaf (כ), which is the secret of the lower unification of "Blessed be the Name of His glorious kingdom" (Baruch Shem Kevod). The straight Chaf (ך) is the higher unification of "Hear O Israel" (Shema Yisrael, Deuteronomy 6:4). When Rabbi Akiva's soul departed with the word "One" (Echad - Brachos 61b), he merited both of these names; he entered in peace and departed in peace. This is the secret of why Rabbi Akiva's name sometimes ends with an Aleph (עקיבא) and sometimes with a Hei (עקיבה). When his soul departed with "One" (Echad), he merited the letter Aleph, which is the secret of the upper tip of the letter Yud (representing the highest level of Divine Will). This is hinted at in the word re'echa (רעיך), which is an acronym for "Rabbi Akiva, his unification is the large Chaf" (ר'בי ע'קיבא י'חודו כ' רבתי). This is what is meant by "O God" (El), which is the secret of "God, slow to anger" (El Erech Apayim, Exodus 34:6). They expounded on "How precious (yakru) are Your friends to me" as referring to Rabbi Akiva, who merited the secret of the letter Shin of the Tefillin, which is called Yekar (precious). As our Sages of blessed memory said in Megillah (16b), "And honor (vikar, Esther 8:16) refers to Tefillin." Therefore, the word Vayikra (ויקרא) is used. When Rabbi Akiva merited the letter Aleph [the small Aleph of Vayikra], he merited the Yekar (honor), which is the secret of the Shin of the Tefillin. However, Moshe only merited "And you shall see My back" (Exodus 33:23), which our Sages zt"l expounded in Brachos (7a) as referring to the knot of the Tefillin, which is the letter Dalet. According to the Targum Yonasan ben Uziel, Moshe merited the Yud of the hand-Tefillin, the knot on the hand. According to both opinions, "My face shall not be seen" means that Moshe did not merit the Shin of the head-Tefillin. But Rabbi Akiva entered in peace (Chagigah 15b) and also merited the Shin of the Divine Name Shaddai. Therefore, it is said of him, "He cleaves channels in the rocks; his eye sees every precious thing (yekar)" (Job 28:10). This means that when he merited the letter Aleph, which is the secret of the word Hen (הן - behold) — since in Greek, "one" is called hen (Tanchuma, V'Zos HaBerachah; Shabbos 31b) — then "his eye saw every precious thing (yekar)," meaning he saw all the letters of yekar, which refers to the Tefillin. This is what is written in the Midrash on Parshas Chukas (Bamidbar Rabbah 19:6) regarding this verse: Rabbi Akiva's eye saw more than what Moshe Rabbeinu saw. Moshe Rabbeinu only merited two letters of the Name Shaddai [the Dalet and the Yud], but Rabbi Akiva also merited the letter Shin of the Tefillin.