The Scent of the Rose and Its Mystical Meaning

And there is found ‘the scent of the rose’, and this is the Middle Pillar (Tipheret). And because She smells it, she says: Support me among barrels...

And through it, She is made into a segol ֶ. When She descends – furnish me with apples, – these are ‘the two pillars of truth’☉Netzaḥ-Hod, which are white and red. And because She smells the letter Vav ו, which is in the covenant, She says:... furnish me with apples.

And when She joins with Him, She is made into a segol ֶ. That which was tzereiy ֵ, is made into tziyeyr (depicted). It is this that is written: (Gen. 2:7) And Y”Y ELQYM formed (yiytzer) the human, dust from the ground... etc.