At that time, the Name Y”Y resides upon Her, and it is stated of Her: (Deut. 28:10) And all the peoples of the land will see, that the Name of Y”Y is called upon you, and they will fear you.
And the appointed-ones of the liver and its veins, and the appointed-ones of the spleen and its evil mixture, become subjugated beneath the heart, for the soul (nishmata) is there.
And if the soul is defiled [Var. defected] by sins, or is lacking even one precept of these precepts – as the Masters of the Mishnah have established:lxBT Sotah 21a ‘a transgression extinguishes a precept’ – then in that place [Var. limb] where the transgression resides, and the precept is withdrawn from it, that limb is defective, and it is a blemish of the soul, – because of it, the blessed Holy One does not reside upon the soul. It is this that is written: (Lev. 21:18) Anyone in whom there is a blemish shall not approach – a soul which has a blemish in one of its 248 precepts, does not approach the blessed Holy One because of it.