Adnut

Adnut, (pronounced thusly, or as Adni, when not in context of prayer or verse recitation).

In Kabbalah, the Name Adnut (lit. "my Master") is generally associated with the sefirot of malchut.

The Name Adnut is the essential "garb" of the Name Havayah (the Tetragrammaton). The relationship between these two Names was first made explicit in God's words to Moses at the burning bush: "This is My Name forever and this is My remembrance from generation to generation" (Exodus 3:15). "My Name" refers to the Name Havayah, while "My remembrance" (which can also be read as "My enunciation") refers to the Name Adnut, for we are commanded to pronounce the Name Havayah as Adnut in prayer or recitation of Torah verse (only in the Holy Temple was the ineffable Name pronounced as spelled).

The Name Adnut, representing God's immanence, serves to reflect the Name Havayah, representing God's transcendence, as it manifests itself in the created dimensions of time and space.

In Kabbalah, we find the kavanah of the 4 letters of Adnut being intertwined in the 4 letters of Havayah (beginning with the yud of Havayah and ending with the yud of Adnut). This kavanah is referred to as yichuda ilaah (the "higher unification"), created time and space being "uplifted" to unite with God's transcendence above time and space.

When the four letters of Havayah are intertwined in the 4 letters of Adnut (beginning with the alef of Adnut and ending with the final hei of Havayah), this kavanah is referred to as yichuda tataah (the "lower unification"), God's transcendence uniting with His immanence to manifest Himself as the continual Creator of time and space.

The numerical relationship between these two Names is such that Havayah = 26 (2 times 13) while Adnut = 65 (5 times 13). Together, they = 91 (7 times 13, or the triangle of 13, the sum of all numbers from 1 to 13), the value of amen.

An additional numerical relationship between the two Names is that both--26 and 65--are square numbers plus 1. 26 is 5 squared plus 1; 65 is 8 squared plus 1. Mathematically, every square plus 1 is the average value of the 2 squares before and after the given square. Thus, 5 squared plus 1 (26, Havayah) is the average value of 4 squared plus 6 squared; 8 squared plus 1 (65, Adnut) is the average value of 7 squared plus 9 squared. God's concealed "goodly Name," Akvah (Havayah in "small numbering," the yud of Havayah being substituted with the alef of Akvah) = 17. 17 is also a square plus 1: 4 squared plus 1 = the average value of 3 squared plus 5 squared. As well, each of the first 2 letters of Havayah (the 2 letters which compose the Name Kah), yud and hei, are squares plus 1: 10 = 3 squared plus 1; 5 = 2 squared plus 1. The first letter of the Torah, the beit of Breishit = 2 = 1 squared plus 1 (in the phrase "B'Kah Havayah tzur olamim" (Isaiah 26:4), "with [the power of] Kah Havayah is the rock [the essential force of formation] of the worlds," each of the 3 letters "B'Kah"--beit, yud, and hei--are squares plus 1; the entire word "B'Kah" = 17 = 4 squared plus 1; the first 2 letters of Havayah are each a square plus 1; the entire Name Havayah = 26 = 5 squared plus 1; its "reading"--Adnut = 65 = 8 squared plus 1). Conceptually, a square plus 1 means the manifestation of God's transcendent light (the absolute One) "above" a consummately revealed state of His immanent light (represented by a square). This principle is reflected in the saying of our sages, "It is not like one who learns a chapter of Torah 100 times as one who learns the chapter 101 times." Similarly, the 50th gate of understanding (that of God's transcendent Essence) becomes revealed only after the consummation of the 49 = 7 squared gates of understanding (as in sifirat haomer, and the Jubilee year).

In at-bash, the Name Adnut transforms to tav, kuf, tet, mem, which = 549. 549 = 9 times 61. 61 = ani, "I," the most common connotation for the sefirah of malchut in Kabbalah. Malchut possesses nothing of its own, and is formed exclusively from the 9 levels of malchut contained within the 9 sefirot above it (the malchut of chochmah becomes the chochmah of malchut , the malchut of binah becomes the binah of malchut etc.).

The "full spelling" of Adnut = 671. As the sefirah of malchut is often identified with targum (Aramaic, the "backside" of the Holy Tongue), the number 671 is interpreted in Kabbalah to refer to the Aramaic word for "gate," tarah (= 671). Malchut (and the power of its Divine Name Adnut) is called the gateway to enter into the mystery of the Divine sefirot, the realm of the perfectly rectified consciousness of One.

Together with four primary "full spellings" of Havayah (= 232), 232 plus 671 = 903 = the triangle of 42 (the sum of all numbers from 1 to 42), the secret number of Creation. 903 = 7 times 129; 129 = "Havayah is Elokim," the phrase we repeat 7 times at the conclusion of the Niela prayer on Yom Kippur.

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