Who can wage battle in the place where you are? With the small stone that you have thrown, the heavens are quaking without end, and angels without limit.’
And all the Masters of the Academy, all of them were quaking, and they fell in ‘the falling of the face’, from their original place, and they said: ‘And if so much with this small stone, how much more so could one not fight against you, with the sword, of which it is stated: (Ps. 149:6) The praises of EL in their throat, and a double-edged sword in their hand, which is the recitation of the Shm’a – your sword, which you prepared for yourself [Var. for Her], and with which you killed the Egyptian, it is this that is written: (Ex. 2:12) And he turned this way (koh) and that (khoh)... and he smote the Egyptian...... koh∞‘this way’△25 and khoh (=25) add up to fifty letters, with which they unite the blessed Holy One twice, with (Deut. 6:4) Hear O Israel Y”Y ELoQeYNU Y”Y One, in which there are 25 letters, twice, and they amount to the fifty gates of Binah, which is the letter Ḥet ח, the eighth of the ten sephirot, from below and to above.