#### Yesod (1) - *El Hai* (Translation based on Markel and Markel) My soul thirsts for God-*אלהי״ם,* for the Living God-א״ל חי, When will I come and behold the face of God-*אלהי"ם*? (Psalms 42:3) (2) The second of the holy names in ascending order is is called **The Living God-*El Chai*** - א"ל חי. The reason for being called *El Chai*\-*א"ל חי* is because this name is the end of the nine levels called the nine lenses (*Aspaklariot*\-*אספקלריות*), it draws the quality of kindness and life to the quality of *Adona”y*\-*אדנ"י*, as I have told you. Since it draws from the quality of Kindness-*Chessed*\-*חסד,* it is called *El*\-*א"ל* and since it draws from the quality of life it is called Living-*Chai*\-*חי*, and when the kindness and life are unified as one, it is called The Living God *El* *Chai*\-*א"ל חי*. When this power is then drawn into the quality of *Adonay*\-*אדנ"י*, then it too is called, The Land of Life-*Eretz* *HaChayim*\-ארץ החיים, that is, the land where the Supernal life gathers. (3) It is from the power of the quality of this name *El Chai-א"ל חי* that the quality of *Adonay*\-*אדנ"י* draws life into all creatures in the world to their various kinds, into the angels and all the hosts of heaven and their stars and into all the hosts of the earth and its offspring. This is the meaning of the verse, “Let the earth bring forth living souls according to their kind.” (Genesis 1:24)[^1] [^1]: God said, “Let the earth bring forth every kind of living creature: cattle, creeping things, and wild beasts of every kind.” And it was so. [[Yesod 01 - El Hai|English Only]]