(When therefore it is said) “And IHVH smelled the odor of rest,” most certainly the odor of the sacrificed victim is not meant, but the odor of the mitigation of all those severities which are referred unto the nose.
And all things which adhere unto them, all things, I say, are mitigated. But most of these severities mutually cohere.
As it is written, Ps. cvi. 2, “Who shall recount GBVRVTh IHVH, the Geburoth of Tetragrammaton?”
And this nose (of Microprosopus) emitteth fire from the two nostrils, which swalloweth up all other fires.
From the one nostril (goeth forth) the smoke, and from the other nostril the fire, and they both are found on the altar, as well the fire as the smoke.
But when He the most Holy Ancient One is unveiled, all things are at peace. This is that which is said, Isa. xlviii. 9, “And for My praise will I refrain from thee” (literally, “block up thy nostrils”[864]).
The nose of the Most Holy Ancient One is long and extended, and He is called Arikh Aphim, Long of Nose.
But this nose (of Microprosopus) is short, and when the smoke commenceth, it issueth rapidly forth, and judgment is consummated.
But who can oppose the nose of Him the Ancient One? Concerning this, all things are as we have said in the Greater Assembly, where concerning this matter the Companions were exercised.
In the book of the treatise of Rav Hamenuna the Elder he thus describeth these two nostrils (of Microprosopus), saying that from the one proceed the smoke and the fire, and from the other, peace and the beneficent spirits.