Daily Zohar # 4754 – Shemot – Why seventy years

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Zohar Shemot
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#141
Because the first exile was from the First Temple, and the First Temple corresponds to the first ה’ (Hei) of the Name YHVH, which represents Binah. Corresponding to its seventy years, which align with its seven lower sefirot (Chessed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yessod, and Malchut), the exile of the First Temple lasted seventy years. Each sefirah includes ten sub-sefirot, making seventy. During those seventy years, the Mother, which is the upper aspect of Binah, was not hovering over them, and they were separated from the upper Name, which is the first H ה of YHVH.
At that time, the י (Yud) of YHVH, representing the supernal aspect of Binah, ascended higher and higher into Ein Sof (the Endless). The holy, supreme First Temple, which is Binah, no longer flowed with the fountain of living waters’ מַיִם חַיִּים’ because its source, the י (Yud) of YHVH, representing Chokmah, had been removed.
#142
And the first H ה of YHVH was in exile for seventy years because she is called “seven years,” as it is written: “וַיִּבְנֵהוּ שֶׁבַע שָׁנִים” “And he built it in seven years” (1 Kings 6:38) concerning the First Temple, which corresponds to the first ה’ as explained above.
He asks: If you say that the kingdom of Babylon ruled above, in the aspect of the seventy years of Binah, heaven forbid—how can this be? He answers: While the Temple stood, the light and the flow from the Supernal Mother, which is Binah, illuminated and descended below. But when Israel sinned, and the Holy Temple was destroyed, and the kingdom of Babylon ruled, that light became hidden and darkened, and the holy lower realms were no longer illuminated.
Notes:
The seventy years of exile reflect the concealment of Binah’s divine light following the destruction of the First Temple. While Babylon ruled below, it did not dominate above; instead, the sin of Israel caused the divine illumination to be hidden, leaving the lower realms in spiritual darkness.

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