Bnei Torah ל א ס ת כ א ל ל : The Secret Things Belong Unto Elohim (The Four Who Entered the Pardes)

Taken in the order the Tosefta and both Talmuds give, the four who entered Pardes are the four positions Logic, Sets, Types, and Categories, one rabbi in each position.

The rabbinic versions are the Tosefta, the Babylonian Talmud, the Jerusalem Talmud, and Song of Songs Rabbah. The mystical versions are the Hekhalot compilations and the Zohar. The story of the four who entered Pardes and the afformentioned books are in no way the inspired word of The Father El Elyon, the Most High although they can be attributed to his Elohim. The Tosefta is "a collection of baraitot which treat in a more complete form than does the Mishnah the subject of traditional law" (Bacher & Lauterbach, n.d.-b). The Mishnah is "the collection of halakot made by R. Judah ha-Nasi I." (Executive Committee of the Editorial Board & Lauterbach, n.d.). The Talmud is "the traditional exposition of the Mishnah" (Bacher, n.d.), and the Babylonian Talmud is the Talmud of Babylonia. The Jerusalem Talmud is the "Talmud of the Land of Israel," which "received its present form at Tiberias" (Bacher, n.d.). Song of Songs Rabbah is a "Haggadic midrash on Canticles" that "must have been composed about the end of the eighth century" (Bacher & Lauterbach, n.d.-a). Hekhalot Zutarti, with Hekhalot Rabbati, "originated, according to Hai Gaon ("Teshubot," No. 1), among the mystics of the geonic period" (Kohler & Broydé, n.d.). The Zohar is "known as the primary text of the Kabbala" (Miller, n.d.). "The Zohar itself attributes its disclosure of the Torah's mysteries to R. Shimon bar Yochai" (Miller, n.d.). The Zohar "first appeared in Spain in the thirteenth century" (Jacobs & Broydé, n.d.).

The occupants of three layers, the record, Pardes, and cognition, are at the four positions in order, and each occupant is read against the operation of its position.

**L, Lamed (ל), Logic, the distinction: crosses, admitted or excluded.**

  - **The record:** El Elyon.

  - **Pardes:** Ben Azzai. The letter of *pardes* at L is פ, *Peshat*, "the literal meaning" ("Pardes," 2008).

  - **Cognition:** gating, at the Layer 5 pyramidal neurons (*Consciousness Requires a Four-Circuit Cycle*, Stewart, 2026a, "The Layer 5 Pyramidal Recurrent Loop: Gating via Apical-Basal Coincidence Detection (Circuit 1)").

**S, Samekh (ס), Sets, situating: received, placed.**

  - **The record:** Yahweh.

  - **Pardes:** Ben Zoma. The letter of *pardes* at S is ר, *Remez*, "hint" ("Pardes," 2008).

  - **Cognition:** contextualization, at the central lateral thalamus (*Consciousness Requires a Four-Circuit Cycle*, Stewart, 2026a, "The Central Lateral Thalamocortical Projection: Contextualization by Global Cortical Broadcast (Circuit 2)").

**T, Tav (ת), Types, resolving: three converge, one signed determination.**

  - **The record:** Man (3rd in degree, Trinity).

  - **Pardes:** Aḥer. The letter of *pardes* at T is ד, *Derash*, "homiletical interpretation" ("Pardes," 2008).

  - **Cognition:** resolution, at the ventral tegmental area (VTA) (*Consciousness Requires a Four-Circuit Cycle*, Stewart, 2026a, "The VTA-Cortical Dopaminergic Comparator: Resolution by Signed Measurement Against the Prior Expectation (Circuit 3)").

**C, Kaf (כ), Categories, committing: committed, handed on.**

  - **The record:** Christ.

  - **Pardes:** Rabbi Akiva. The letter of *pardes* at C is ס, *Sod*, "mystery" ("Pardes," 2008).

  - **Cognition:** commitment, at the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the mediodorsal thalamus (*Consciousness Requires a Four-Circuit Cycle*, Stewart, 2026a, "The ACC-Mediodorsal Thalamic Loop: Commitment and the Efference Copy (Circuit 4)").

**The record's occupants, placed at the four positions.** The paper places one occupant the record names at each of the four positions, and each position has two faces. Each occupant carries the ones before it, so Yahweh (S) carries El (L), man (T) carries El and Yahweh (L and S), and Christ (C) carries El, Yahweh, and man (L, S, and T): each incident is "the precondition of the next and the composite of those before it" (*The Forced Operational Ordering of Logic, Sets, Types, and Categories: The Foundations of Mathematics*, Stewart, 2026r, "Even the Simplest Statements Employ All Four Operations"). Yahweh Elohim puts the man into Eden and sends him out (Genesis 2:8, 3:23) because Yahweh carries El. The four are bound in one circuit and share every power, "Each incident contains all four" (*On Occurrence: The Four-Gon*, Stewart, 2026g, Incidence), and they keep an order, as Jesus saith, "my Father is greater than I" (John 14:28, KJV). It is written, "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand" (John 3:35, KJV), and Jesus saith, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matthew 28:18, KJV). Christ, at C, is how the power of all four is used.

**L Lamed: Logic, El Elyon.**

  - Moses and Aaron say, "O El, the Elohim of the spirits of all flesh" (Numbers 16:22, KJV, names restored from the Hebrew).

El Elyon, who divides, apportions, is the source of the order-graph, "in-degree zero and maximal out-degree" (*The Father, El Elyon (אֵל עֶלְיוֹן): The Spirits of All Flesh*, Stewart, 2026cu, §7). Its two faces: "Signal admits or excludes: something crosses threshold or it does not" (*On Occurrence: The Four-Gon*, Stewart, 2026g, Consequence 1).

**S Shin (שׁ) and Sin (שׂ), and Samekh (ס): Sets, YHWH.**

  - It is written, "the Elohim of all flesh" (Jeremiah 32:27, KJV, names restored from the Hebrew).

  - It is written, "For Yahweh's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance" (Deuteronomy 32:9, KJV, names restored from the Hebrew).

  - It is written, "And Yahweh Elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed" (Genesis 2:8, KJV, names restored from the Hebrew).

  - It is written, "Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope" (Psalm 119:116, KJV).

YHWH is the Elohim of all flesh (Jeremiah 32:27), the allotted son (Deuteronomy 32:9), Yahweh of hosts, "a defendant in the court above and the judge in the court below" (*ʿĂḏaṯ-ʾĒl, The Congregation of El: The Book of the Generations & the Registration Genealogy*, Stewart, 2026ct, Abstract). Its two faces: Context "holds the record while receiving what arrives from outside" (*On Occurrence: The Four-Gon*, Stewart, 2026g, Consequence 1), and in its letter, Shin and Sin are one letter with two sounds, distinguished by the diacritical point (Gesenius, 1910, §6i): Shin's *shama'*, "to hear," in *Shimon*, "hearing," the name of Ben Azzai and Ben Zoma at L and S, and Sin's *śîm*, "to put," at Genesis 2:8, with Samekh, the letter with which Sin is sometimes interchanged (Gesenius, 1910, §6k), at the upholding of Psalm 119:116.

**T Tet: Types of humans, the seat of determination and judgment (the 3°in Trinity).**

  - It is written, "Thou hast dealt well with thy servant" (Psalm 119:65, KJV).

  - It is written, "Teach me good judgment and knowledge" (Psalm 119:66, KJV).

  - Moses saith, "I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil" (Deuteronomy 30:15, KJV).

Its two faces: Coincidence "compares expected against actual" (*On Occurrence: The Four-Gon*, Stewart, 2026g, Consequence 1), and in its letter, two letters at T, each with its own word: Tav's תָּו, *tāw*, "a mark; by implication, a signature" (Strong's H8420), the choice signed, and Tet's טוֹב, *ṭôḇ*, good (Strong's H2896), the good chosen, the word the Teth section of Psalm 119 opens on at Psalm 119:65, the good of Psalm 119:66, *ṭûḇ ṭaʿam* (Strong's H2898, H2940), where "teach me" is *lammᵉḏēnî*, from *lāmaḏ* (Strong's H3925), and the good of Deuteronomy 30:15, *haṭṭôḇ* and *hārāʿ* (Strong's H2896, H7451).

- + C Kaf: Categories: Yeshua Salvation The Anointed (TeKeL/XTC/𐤈) Vowel/Vawel Ἰησοῦς Iēsoūs and behold "CLSTCL PRDS". "El recurs in those that overcometh". Its two faces are this line and the next: Potentials "closes the current form while seeding the next" (*On Occurrence: The Four-Gon*, Stewart, 2026g, Consequence 1).

**- C Kaf: Categories: Damnation YHWH.**

  - Lake of Fire "tormented day and night for ever and ever" (Revelation 20:10, KJV).

  - It is written, "Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because Yahweh did there confound the language of all the earth" (Genesis 11:9, KJV, names restored from the Hebrew).

The story's *derash*, from *darash*, "To seek, inquire" (Strong's H1875), is the teaching sought out of the story, and the teaching is that whoever knows he is a piece comes out in peace, whole. The story's *sod*, the secret, is the record's: "The secret things belong unto Yahweh our Elohim: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law" (Deuteronomy 29:29, KJV, names restored from the Hebrew). "The secret things" is *han-nistarot* (H5641), from *satar*, "to hide (by covering)," and "those things which are revealed" is *we-han-niglot* (H1540), from *galah*, "to denude" (Strong's H5641, H1540).

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