139. “And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth grass,’” meaning the connection of upper water with lower water to make fruits. Upper water multiply and make fruits, and lower water call on the upper ones to receive from them the fruits, like a female to the male, since the upper water are males, and the lower waters are females.
HGT above the Chazeh are upper water, males. All the lights are bestowed from them. However, the place of revealing of illumination of Hochma in Hassadim is not in them, but in NHY from the Chazeh and below, which are called “lower water,” since they are below the Parsa in the place of the Chazeh. They are females, for everything that is in them, they receive from the males, from the upper water, HGT that are above the Chazeh.
A second reason why upper water, HGT, are called “males,” is that their light is bestowed from above downward, since they are the GAR of the Guf, while the lower water, NHY, are females since they are the VAK of the Guf, and their light is bestowed from below upward, and this illumination from below upward is called “female light.”
Since the illumination of Hochma is revealed only from below upward, it cannot be revealed in the place of HGT, where there is the male light, from above downward, but rather in the place of NHY, which shine from below upward.
“Let the earth bring forth grass” means connection of upper water with lower water to make fruits. By connecting upper water with lower ones, HGT imparted the fruits to NHY, for because there is incorporation with illumination of Hochma in the fruits, they cannot be revealed in the place of HGT, but rather HGT bestow them to NHY, and they are revealed in the place of NHY.
140. All this is above and below. Thus, who is the name “God” in the text? Simply “God” is the living God above, Bina. Below, it is generations, as it is written, “These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were created,” He created them with a Hey. This is so because all the generations emerge from the Hey which is below, and the one that is above the Chazeh, HGT, the fathers of everything, is the one who makes the work. For this reason, the earth makes generations since she becomes impregnated by the fathers above the Chazeh like a female from a male.
The light of the right is upper water; the light of the left is lower water. All this is above and below, since there is upper and lower water, right and left, that is above the Chazeh, and there is upper and lower water, which is right and left, below the Chazeh. It is not as was said before, that above the Chazeh is upper water and below the Chazeh is lower water.
It is known that three Sefirot are called God: Bina, Gevura of ZA, and Malchut. If the coupling of upper water and lower water also applies to the right and to the left below the Chazeh, then who is the name God in the verse “And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth grass’”? Is it Bina or Malchut?
Simply God is the living God above, Bina, who is called “God.” She is the one who connected the upper water with the lower water. Below, Malchut, who is called “God,” is generations, for the emergence of the generations of heaven and earth is attributed to her, and not the actions, as it is written, “These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were created,” He created them with a Hey, meaning that Malchut elicited the generations of heaven and earth. Bina above is called “God”; He is the God of everything, for Bina shines in HGT, who are called fathers.
Bina makes actions, and it is written about her, “Let the earth bring forth grass.” Therefore, the earth, Malchut in her place in NHY of ZA, makes generations since she is impregnated by the fathers who are above the Chazeh like a female from a male. It is written about her, “Let the earth bring forth grass," since she received the grass from Bina, who shines in the fathers, HGT, and was impregnated by them, and afterwards took them out.
141. All the forces of the work of creation were in the earth, in Malchut. She did not bring out the forces, which are her generations, until the sixth day, as it is written, “Let the earth bring forth a living soul.” But it is also written in the third day, “Let the earth bring forth grass”? On the third day, she brought forth the correction of the forces to settle in them, to complete them sufficiently, but everything was still concealed in her until the time when she needed to bring them out, which is on the sixth day.
In the beginning, it is written, “And the earth was unformed and void,” meaning it was empty. Afterwards, on the third day, which is Tifferet, the middle line, the earth, meaning Malchut, was established and settled through the middle line, and received seed and grass, and herbs and trees as it should be, which are the generations of the work of creation. Afterwards, she brought them out on the sixth day, Yesod, and the lights that were made on the fourth day, he also did not use their light on the fourth day, but when it was needed.