Reverse Im HaKolel

The "protected house" of a dream earlier this month is from the root חוה meaning "protected homes".¹ It was built into the side of a "small" mountain. The dream points to completed tikun of חוה (Chavah) into חוויה (protected experience) and to an existent state of kedushah surrounding and filling it. With a gematria of 35, חוויה has the same numerical value as the two letters לה which, through a pasuk of Torah (Devarim 30:12), represent my whole name, ליאורה. The house was lit within. The remaining letters of my name permute into אורי, my light - and the light of my bashert.

The swarm (in the dream) represents the "these" (אלה) in the idolatrous phrase "these are your elohim Israel" (Shemot 32:4) spoken by Aharon during the incident with the golden calf. Eleh (אלה) has a gematria of 36. Significantly, the number 36 is associated with a (לו) lamedvav tzadik. Consequently, "these" are a distinguishing test and the final ketz which transforms, purifies and elevates a lamedvavnik to the next level², from righteousness to holiness, to לה, through a reverse im hakolel³ where the normative sum is reduced by 1 to reflect the "small self-nullification" integral to the meaning of Hermon (the "small" mountain).⁴

The swarm was not able to enter the place of kedushah. Only the waters of the parah adumah can purify the sin associated with the "these" of the golden calf.⁵ The she-demon horde trying to break in was indeed angry, but there was a peaceful light in the protected house that night.

חוויה represents the pure existent expression of חייה chayyah, just as חוה represents the fractured expression of חיה chayah.

footnotes:

¹ Etymological Dictionary Of Biblical Hebrew, R. Matityahu Clark
² Zohar Chadash 56b; Tikunei Zohar 47 (87b)
³ Zohar I, 8b-9a explains that new words and/or "entities" (a new method of gematria, for example) can be created through discourse on the Torah.
⁴ Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh teaches: the root of Hermon in Hebrew is cherem (spelled: chet, reish, mem). Cherem means nullification or self-nullification. The remaining two letters of Hermon, vav and nun, are used in Hebrew to reduce quantity in the meaning of a word. Although it is the largest mountain in Israel, Hermon means "a small self-nullification."
⁵ Numbers Rabbah 19:8

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