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chevron_rightIntroduction of The Book of Zohar
The Rose
The Rose (Mirrors of the Sulam [Ladder)
The Flower Buds
Who Created These
Who Created These of Elijah
Mother Lends Her Clothes to Her Daughter
The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba
Hochma [wisdom], on which the World Stands
Lock and Key
BeHibaraam [When They Were Created] – BeAvraham [In Abraham]
The Vision of Rabbi Hiya
You Are in Partnership with Me
The Donkey Driver
Two Points
On the Night of the Bride
Heaven and Earth
Among All the Sages of the Nations of the World, There Are None Like You
Who Is This
Rejoicing in Holidays and Not Giving to the Poor
Torah and Prayer
Rabbi Shimon’s Exit from the Cave
The Commandments of the Torah, the First Commandment
The Second Commandment
The Third Commandment
The Fourth Commandment
The Fifth Commandment
The Sixth Commandment
The Seventh Commandment
The Eighth Commandment
The Ninth Commandment
The Tenth Commandment
The Eleventh Commandment
The Twelfth Commandment
The Thirteenth Commandment
The Fourteenth Commandment
General Explanation for All Fourteen Commandments and How They Divide into the Seven Days of Creation
Explanation of the Division of the Fourteen Commandments into Ten Utterances
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chevron_rightBeresheet - 1
He Carved a Carving in the Upper Light
The Brightness of the Firmament
Taamim, Nekudot [points], and Otiot [letters]
And the Land Was Tohu [Chaos] - 1
Let There Be Light
Let There Be a Firmament
Let the Waters Gather
Let the Earth Put Forth Grass
Let there Be Lights - 1
The Two Great Lights - 1
Explaining the Names Matzpatz, Matzpatz
The Two Great Lights - 2
Illuminations of Light and Illuminations of Fire
Three Lights
Moses and Jacob
Let Us Make Man - 1
I, I am He
Let Us Make Man - 2
A Prayer for the Poor
The Sling-Stone
Creates Worlds and Destroys Them
Five Kinds of Mixed Multitude
Moses and Two Messiahs
Pure Marble Stones
A River Comes Out of Eden
And Placed Him in the Garden of Eden
Idolatry, Bloodshed, Incest
And the Lord God Formed Every Beast of the Field
And the Lord God Built the Rib
Moses’ Hevel
Bad Mixtures
The Correction of the Lower World from the Upper World
And the Land Was Unformed [Tohu] and Void [Bohu] - 2
Three Letters Tov [Tet-Vav-Bet]
The Correction of PBP de ZON
The Voice of the Lord Is Upon the Waters
Opposite the Frame
Bet Resheet
The Hidden Light
If My Covenant Is Not Day and Night - 1
The Separating and Connecting Firmament
These Waters Conceived and Begot Darkness
If My Covenant Is Not Day and Night - 2
Let There Be Lights - 2
Let the Waters Swarm
And God Created the Sea Monsters
Let Us Make Man - 3
For He Did Not Shower Rain
And the Lord God Commanded the Man
And the Serpent Was Cunning
And the Lord Set a Token for Cain
Sin Crouches at the Door
Aza and Azael
This Is the Book of the Generations of Adam
My Spirit Shall Not Abide in Man
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Seven Palaces in the Garden of Eden
Seven Sections of the Upper and Lower Earth
Seven Sections of the Upper Earth
Seven Halls of the Upper Earth
Preface to the Seven Halls
Seven Halls of AVI of Beria
Let There Be Light - 1
And There Was Evening and There Was Morning
Let There Be Light - 2
Let There Be a Firmament
Let the Earth Put Forth Grass
Lights without Vav
Let the Waters Swarm
Let Us Make Man
And God Saw All that He Had Done
And the Heaven and the Earth Were Completed
And on the Seventh Day God Completed
Which God Has Created to Do
Sukkah [Hut] of Peace
And the Lord God Built the Rib
And the Lord God Formed the Man
Baal and Asherah
Reconciliation and Receiving Permission
One Who Sets Out on the Road
Voice and Speech
The Address of the LORD to My Lord
A Rising Flame
The World Was Divided into Forty-Five Colors and Kinds of Light
And They Heard the Voice of the Lord God Walking in the Garden
And the Children of Israel Were Stripped of Their Ornaments from Mount Horev
And They Sewed Fig Leaves
And He Drove Out the Man
And the Man Knew Eve
If You Do Well
When Cain Killed Abel
This Is the Book of the Generations of Adam
He Created Them Male and Female
And Enoch Walked with God
And the Lord Saw that the Wickedness of Man Was Great in the Earth
And He Was Saddened in His Heart
My Spirit Shall Not Abide
The Fallen Ones Were in the Earth
I Will Blot Out Man
Come, Behold the Works of the Lord, Who Has Wrought Desolations in the Earth
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Noah and the Ark
Go See the Works
Good Is a Man Who Is Gracious and Lends
Drink Water from Your Cistern
And the Earth Became Corrupt
Had He Not Sinned, He Would Not Have Begotten Offspring
And God Saw the Earth
The Lord Has Done What He Devised
For After Seven More Days
And Noah Begot Three Sons
The Judgment of Hell
The End of All Flesh
Shrill Your Voice, Poor of Anatot
That Jew
The Offering
I Lifted Up My Hands in Prayer
And I Bring a Flood of Water - 1
I Said, “I Will Not See the Lord”
And I Bring the Flood of Water - 2
And I Will Establish My Covenant
And He Healed the Ruined Altar of the Lord
Come You and All Your Household
The Earth Is the Lord's, and All that Fills It
The Wicked Perish from the World
The Difference between Moses and the Rest of the World
And Noah Went into the Ark
And Lifted Up the Ark
And He Blotted Out the Universe that Was Upon the Face of the Ground
And God Remembered Noah
And Noah Built an Altar
And the Lord Smelled the Sweet Fragrance
And God Blessed Noah
And the Fear of You and the Dread of You
I Have Set My Bow in the Cloud
This Stone, which I Have Set Up as a Pillar
The Sons of Noah Who Came Out of the Ark Were...
These Three Sons of Noah
And Noah Began and Planted a Vineyard
Bat-Sheba and Uriah
He Was a Mighty Hunter before the Lord
And the House, While It Was Being Built
עיר ומגדל
The Gate of the Inner Court
And the Lord said, “Behold, They Are One People”
chevron_rightLech Lecha
Listen to Me, You Stubborn-Hearted
On What Does the World Stand?
And the Lord Said unto Abram
And They Went Forth with Them from Ur of the Chaldees
Go Forth to Correct Yourself
And I Will Make You a Great Nation - 1
But From the Wicked Their Light Is Withheld
And I Will Make You a Great Nation – 2
And Abram Went, as the Lord Had Spoken to Him
And Abram Took Sarai
And Abram Passed Through the Land
Three Degrees NRN
And Abram Went Down to Egypt
And It Came to Pass, When Abram Came to Egypt
The Creator Plays with the Souls of the Righteous
And the Lord Plagued Pharaoh
At Night My Soul Longs for You
NRN
And He Went on His Journeys
And There Was Strife between the Herdsmen of Abram's Cattle and the Herdsmen of Lot’s Cattle
And the Lord Said to Abram, After Lot Had Separated
Like an Apple Tree among the Trees of the Forest
And It Came to Pass in the Days of Amraphel
O God, Do Not Keep Silent
Melchizedek King of Salem
After These Things
The Word of the Lord Came Unto Abram in a Vision
Rabbi Hiya Went to See Rabbi Elazar
Bless the Lord, You His Angels
And Abram Said, “...What Will You Give Me?”
For Who Is God, Save the Lord? And Who Is a Rock, Save Our God?
מחזה שד"י, מחזה סתם
The Creator Makes Couplings
Night and Midnight
A Small Hey and a Big Hey
Sayings for the Brit Milah [Circumcision]
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chevron_rightVaYera
And the Lord Appeared to Him
Man’s Soul Rises from the Earth to the Firmament
The Soul at the Time of Its Demise
When Rabbi Eliezer Was Sickened
And Behold, Three Men - 1
Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord
Behold, Three Men - 2
And He Said, “I Will Surely Return” - 1
And Sarah Will Have a Son
Her Husband Is Known in the Gates
And He Said, “I Will Surely Return” - 2
And the Men Rose Up from There
Do I Hide from Abraham?
I Will Go Down and See
And Abraham Will Surely Become a Great Nation
If As the Outcry That Has Come to Me, They Have Done
Would You Indeed Sweep Away the Righteous with the Wicked?
And the Two Angels Came to Sodom
The Garden of Eden and Hell
And the Lord Rained on Sodom
But His Wife Looked Back
A Land without Scarcity
And Lot Went Up from Zoar
Ammon and Moab
And He Said, “She Is My Sister”
Standing to His Right to Accuse Him
And Shall Behead the Heifer There in the Valley
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
And the Lord Visited Sarah
And the Lord Did to Sarah
Your Wife Shall Be as a Fruitful Vine
The Calculation of the Time of the Messiah
The Son of Hagar the Egyptian
The Signs of the Messiah
And God Tested Abraham
And Saw the Place from Afar
Abraham, Abraham
In All Their Affliction He Was Afflicted
chevron_rightChayei Sara
They Carried – And Cast Him into the Sea
And Dumah Rises and Calculates
A King Who Becomes Servant to a Field
One Who Diminishes Himself
And the Life of Sarah Was
And the Cows Took the Straight Way
And I Will Put Enmity between You and the Woman
Your Eyes Have Seen My Golem
To Mourn for Sarah and to Weep for Her
Dumah Takes Them in According to the Calculation, and Takes Them Out According to the Calculation
And Sarah Died in Kiriat Arba
The Serpent of the Firmament
Types of Witchcraft – in Women
The Cave of Machpelah - 1
Four Hundred Shekels
The Cave of Machpelah - 2
And Abraham Was Old, Advanced in Days
The Righteous Have Several Places
Eden Dripping on the Garden
About the Revival of the Dead
You Will Not Take a Wife from the Daughters of the Canaanites
בתורה כל החיים
Behold, Rebecca Came Out
Prayer, Outcry, Tear
And Isaac Brought Her into the Tent
And Abraham Took Another Wife
Unto the Sons of the Concubines – Abraham Gave Gifts
Who Gave Jacob for a Spoil?
chevron_rightToldot
These Are the Generations of Isaac
And Isaac Was Forty Years Old
And Isaac Pleaded
And the Children Struggled
The Meal of the Righteous in the Future
Association of the Quality of Mercy with Judgment
And the Children Struggled Together within Her
The Gathering of the Exiles and the Revival of the Dead
And the Boys Grew – for He Had a Taste for Game
For He Had a Taste for Game
And Jacob Cooked a Stew
And There Was a Famine in the Land
She Is My Sister
And Abimelech Commanded
And He Called the Name of It Rehoboth
And His Eyes Became Too Weak to See
He Called for Esau and Said, “I Do Not Know the Day of My Death”
The Best Garments of Esau
In My Distress I Called… and He Answered Me
The Blessings
VaYetze
VaYishlach
VaYeshev
Miketz
VaYigash
VaYechi
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Shmot
VaEra
Bo
BeShalach
Yitro
Mishpatim
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Truma
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Tetzave
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Bamidbar
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Balak
Pinchas
Matot
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VaEtchanan
Ekev
Shoftim
Ki Tetze
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New Zohar, Bereshit
New Zohar, Noah
New Zohar, Lech Lecha
New Zohar, VaYera
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New Zohar, VaYetze
New Zohar, VaYeshev
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New Zohar, Ki Tisa
New Zohar, Acharei
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New Zohar, Chukat
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New Zohar, Matot
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Pesach
Shavuot
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אברהם
אדם הראשון
אהבה
אהבת חברים
אור
אותיות
גברים ונשים
גלות וגאולה
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Tikuney Zohar
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Rashbi/Zohar for All/Vol. 1/Introduction of The Book of Zohar
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The Rose
 

The Rose

1) Rabbi Hizkiya began: “It is written, ‘As a rose among the thorns.’” What is a rose? It is the assembly of Israel, Malchut. There is a rose, and there is a rose. Just as a rose among the thorns has red and white, the assembly of Israel has judgment and mercy. Just as a rose has thirteen petals, the assembly of Israel has thirteen qualities of mercy that surround it on all sides.

Also, God, in the verse “In the beginning God created,” God elicited thirteen words to surround the assembly of Israel and to keep her: THE, HEAVEN, AND-THE, EARTH, AND-THE EARTH, WAS, EMPTY, AND-CHAOTIC, AND-THE DARKNESS, OVER, THE FACE, OF THE ABYSS, AND-THE SPIRIT, up to the words “of God hovered” [In Hebrew, “and” is written in conjunction with the word following it, so it is regarded as one word].

Explanation: There are ten Sefirot: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut. However, essentially, they are only five: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Tifferet, and Malchut, since the Sefira [singular of Sefirot] Tifferet contains six Sefirot HGT NHY within it. They became five Partzufim [plural of Partzuf]: AA, AVI, and ZON. Keter is called Arich Anpin (AA), Hochma and Bina (HB) are called Aba ve [and] Ima (AVI), Tifferet and Malchut are called Zeir Anpin and Nukva (ZON).

The seven days of creation are the two Partzufim Zeir Anpin and Nukva of Atzilut. They contain seven Sefirot HGT NHY and Malchut. The writings of the work of creation explain how AVI, which are HB, emanated them from the beginning of their formation to the end of the Gadlut [adulthood/greatness], which take place in them over six thousand years.

Rabbi Hizkiya begins with the explanation of Nukva of ZA, explaining the order of her emanation from Ima, Bina, which is called Elokim [God]. This is the meaning of Rabbi Hizkiya beginning with the explanation of the rose, which is the Nukva of ZA. At the time of Gadlut, the Nukva of ZA is called “the assembly of Israel,” and this is why he said, “What is a rose? It is the assembly of Israel.”

There are two states to the rose: 1) Katnut—the beginning of her formation, in which there is only the Sefira Keter in her, in which her light of Nefesh is clothed, and her bottom nine Sefirot fall outside of Atzilut, in the world of Beria. 2) Gadlut—when her bottom nine rise from the world of Beria to the world of Atzilut and with them, she is built into a complete Partzuf with ten Sefirot. At that time, she rises with ZA, her husband, to an equal level with AVI of Atzilut and they clothe them. Then ZA is called Ysrael [Israel], with the letters Li Rosh [a Rosh (head) to me], and the Nukva is called “the assembly of Israel,” for she assembles within her all the lights of Israel, her husband, and gives them to the lower ones.

Katnut [infancy/smallness] is called “a rose among the thorns” since her bottom nine were emptied from the light of Atzilut and remained as thorns. Gadlut is called plainly “a rose” or “the assembly of Israel.” This is why it was said, “There is a rose, and there is a rose.”

The red color indicates that there is a grip to the outer ones there, for the shells to suckle from her. This is in Katnut, when her bottom nine are in Beria. There is also white in her vessel of Keter, where there is no grip to the outer ones. This is why it was said, “Just as a rose among the thorns has red and white, the assembly of Israel has judgment and mercy.” This indicates that even in her Gadlut, called “the assembly of Israel,” although at that time, she rises and clothes the Bina, judgment still remains in her because she needs the screen that is set up in her for the coupling by striking.

Because of the judgment in the screen, it strikes the upper light and reflects it back. By this, it raises ten Sefirot of reflected light, which is called the light of judgment. Within them, it draws ten Sefirot of direct light called “light of mercy.” Hence, there are judgment and mercy in the assembly of Israel, as well, corresponding to the red and the white that the rose among the thorns has.

This is the sea that Solomon made, which stands on twelve oxen, for her bottom nine that fell into Beria have been established there in twelve oxen, and the point of Keter that remained in Atzilut is the sea that stands atop them. All together, they are called “the thirteen petals of the rose.”

The Mochin of Gadlut of Nukva that have illumination of Hochma are extended from the thirteen names, called “the thirteen qualities of mercy.” This is why the assembly of Israel has thirteen qualities of mercy, as well. The main thing that Rabbi Hizkiya comes to teach by this comparison between the rose among the thorns and the assembly of Israel is that everything that the Nukva has in her state of Gadlut must, correspondingly, have a preparation and qualification in the beginning of her formation, in the state of Katnut. This is why it was said that opposite the white and red in Katnut, judgment and mercy come out in her in Gadlut, and opposite the thirteen petals in Katnut, thirteen qualities of mercy emerge in her in Gadlut.

Elokim [God] in the verse “In the beginning God created” is the Bina that emanates to the Nukva of ZA. He elicited thirteen words: THE, HEAVEN, AND-THE, EARTH, AND-THE EARTH, WAS, EMPTY, AND-CHAOTIC, AND-THE-DARKNESS, OVER, THE-FACE, OF-THE-ABYSS, AND-THE-SPIRIT, up to the second Elokim. These thirteen words imply the same thirteen petals of the rose among the thorns, the sea that stands over the twelve oxen, which are preparation and qualification for the assembly of Israel to receive the thirteen qualities of mercy, to surround the assembly of Israel and to keep her since the thirteen qualities of mercy—the complete Mochin of Nukva—are regarded as surrounding and illuminating her on all sides from all around. Through them, she is kept from contact with the outer ones because as long as the great Mochin in illumination of Hochma from the thirteen qualities are not in her, there is nursing for the outer ones in her.

2) Afterwards, the name Elokim is mentioned another time, as it is written, “...of God hovers” to elicit five hard leaves that surround the rose. These five leaves are called “salvations,” and they are five gates. It is written about it, “I shall lift up the cup of salvations.” It is a cup of blessing.

A cup of blessing must be over five fingers and not more, like the rose that sits on five hard leaves that correspond to the five fingers, and this rose is a cup of blessing.

There are five words from the second name Elokim to the third name Elokim: HOVERED, OVER, THE-FACE, OF-THE-WATERS, AND ... SAID [in Hebrew Elokim comes after the “said”], corresponding to the five leaves. Henceforth, when it writes, “God ... Let there be light,” it is the light that was created and concealed, and was included in that covenant that entered the rose and produced a seed in her. This is called “a fruit bearing tree” with which they sowed. And that seed is found in the very token of the covenant.

Explanation: Five hard leaves are the five Gevurot [plural of Gevura] of Nukva, which are ten Sefirot of reflected light that the Nukva raises through a coupling by striking with the upper light, called “light of judgment,” for the ten Sefirot of direct light are called five Hassadim HGT NH, and clothe the five Gevurot HGT NH of reflected light.

Those five hard leaves are the power of judgment in the screen that detains the upper light from clothing from the screen down. This is why now it is only called “five hard leaves,” since she is still unfit for coupling on them. At the time of Gadlut, when a screen comes in a coupling with the upper light, they are called five Gevurot.

These five hard leaves are five words that there are from the second Elokim to the third Elokim: HOVERED, OVER, THE-FACE, OF-THE-WATERS, AND ... SAID. And why was it mentioned another time, implying that there is a new action here? It is in order to bring these five hard leaves out of the Nukva, which are a preparation for a coupling at the time of Gadlut.

Ten Sefirot of reflected light are called five Gevurot HGT NH. They are not called KHB TM because they extend only light of Hassadim. Hence, KHB descended from their degree, and they are called HGT, and TM are called NH.

In Gadlut, when the five hard leaves became five Gevurot, they are considered five gates, open to receive the five Hassadim of direct light. Also, they are called “salvations,” and then the Nukva is called “a cup of salvations” or “a cup of blessing” since through them, the Nukva becomes a vessel that holds the blessing, five Hassadim.

The number of Sefirot is ten. Essentially, they are five phases, or thirteen, like the thirteen qualities of mercy. Ten indicates the Sefira ZON, in which there is only light of Hassadim. Thirteen indicates the Mochin of illumination of Hochma, which is received for ZON.

A cup of blessing indicates the extension of five Hassadim within her five Gevurot. It must be five fingers and not more, meaning only in the number ten, HGT NH and not more, with the exception of the number thirteen since the Nukva is unfit to receive Hochma from thirteen except by clothing of Hochma in Hassadim. For this reason, first there must be an extension of blessing, which are five Hassadim, specifically through the five fingers, which are five Gevurot, and then she can receive from the thirteen, as well.

This means that it refers to the five fingers of the left hand, which are five Gevurot, since the five fingers of the right hand are five Hassadim. Thus, the cup of blessing must be raised with both hands, meaning with the five fingers of the left hand, as well, to indicate the intention of the five Gevurot. However, afterwards, in the beginning of the blessing, only the five fingers of the right hand should remain on the cup to avoid awakening the gripping of the Sitra Achra, which nurses from the left.

The third Elokim in the verse “Let there be light” is to emanate the Gadlut of Nukva, which is five Hassadim and the thirteen qualities of mercy, where the five Hassadim are five times “light” in the verses “Let there be light,” “And there was light,” “That the light was good,” “Between the light,” “The light, day.” The thirteen qualities of mercy are implied in the words “And there was evening and there was morning, one day,” since one is thirteen and also thirteen in Gematria.

These five lights are the light that the Creator created on the first day. Adam was watching it from the end of the world to its end. When the Creator looked at the generation of the flood and the generation of Babylon and saw that their actions were corrupt, He stood and concealed it from them. It is written, “God, ‘Let there be light.’” This is the light that was created and concealed and included in that covenant, meaning entered the rose, that the five Hassadim were first incorporated in Yesod of ZA and did not come straight from Bina, from Elokim, to the Nukva, and the covenant, Yesod of ZA, which entered the rose and gave them to her.

These five Hassadim that emerge on five Gevurot are called “seed.” The power of the judgment and the Gevurot in the screen, by whose power it strikes the upper light and repels it, is mainly found only in Ateret Yesod of ZA, which it extended from Mazal veNakeh in Dikna while the Nukva receives from it only an illumination and a branch.

For this reason, the coupling on the screen, which raises the five Gevurot that extend and clothe the five Hassadim, which are five lights, is done mainly in Yesod of ZA, and he is the one who gives them to the Nukva. That seed, five Hassadim and five Gevurot, is found in the very token of the covenant, since in the token of the covenant, which is Ateret Yesod of ZA, there is the actuality of the Gevurot that extend five Hassadim called “seed.” However, the Yesod of the Nukva receives only the form of his Gevurot. This is why the Yesod of the Nukva is called only by the name of the form of the covenant.

3) As the form of the covenant was sown in forty-two couplings from the seed, the engraved and explicit Name was sown in the forty-two letters of the work of creation.

Explanation: The name “forty-two letters” is simple HaVaYaH, HaVaYaH with a filling, HaVaYaH with a filling of filling, in which there are forty-two letters. That seed, which is found in the token of the covenant—which are five Hassadim and five Gevurot—extends from the name “forty-two.”

Therefore, as the form of the covenant, Yesod of Nukva, was sown in forty-two couplings from the seed of the token of the covenant, the engraved and explicit Name was sown in forty-two letters of the work of creation.

There are two phases in Nukva: 1) The construction of her Partzuf, which was built by Bina, and 2) Her copulation with ZA, which is called “the coupling.”

As the form of the covenant, Yesod of Nukva, was sown in forty-two couplings from that seed of the token of the covenant, where the difference is in the coupling, so you deduce in the order of the emanation of the construction of the Nukva, called “the work of creation,” through the Bina, who was in the name “forty-two,” as well.

There are two states in the construction of the Nukva: Katnut and Gadlut. The Katnut is called “engraving,” meaning engraving into a receptacle of the lights of the time of Gadlut, since all that is received by the Nukva at the time of Gadlut requires preparation and qualification for them from the days of Katnut. The Gadlut is called by the explicit Name because all that is concealed during the Katnut is explained and becomes known during the Gadlut.

Thus, “The engraved and explicit Name” is sown in the forty-two letters of the work of creation. The Nukva is called “a name.” “Engraved” means her Katnut, “explicit” is her Gadlut, and they, too, were sown and built in forty-two letters like the forty-two couplings in the coupling in the token of the covenant. Also, the forty-two letters of the work of creation are the forty-two letters presented from Beresheet [In the beginning] through the Bet of Bohu [Tohu veBohu means “unformed and chaotic”].