Daily Zohar # 4930 – Beresheet – The secret of three points

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Zohar Beresheet
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#297
At the time of the zivug (union) of striking in the Malchut of Binah, the halls (הֵיכָלוֹת, heichalot) are attained, meaning the Mochin. It drips to this side upward, it drips to the right, it inclines to the left, it descends downward. This means that when the Mochin are drawn solely from below to above, it is the aspect of the right, which is Netzach. When it inclines to the left, which is Hod, the illumination of the Mochin descends from above to below. But from the aspect of Netzach, their illumination is not drawn downward. Likewise, it draws the Mochin to the four directions, which are the secret of twelve, for each direction includes three aspects. The Malchut of Binah extends upward and downward and to the four directions to become one supernal river. This means that the Malchut of Binah bestows all these Mochin that emerged in Binah to Zeir Anpin. Through them, Zeir Anpin becomes one supernal river, at its culmination, as it is written, ‘וְנָהָר יוֹצֵא מֵעֵדֶן’—’ And a river went out from Eden’ (Genesis 2:10), where Zeir Anpin is the river, and Eden is Binah. These Mochin are twenty-four aspects, for the twelve aspects are included in the four directions, which are the secret of Chokhmah, Binah, Tiferet, and Malchut from the aspect of Netzach, meaning twelve aspects from below to above. And there are Chokhmah, Binah, Tiferet, and Malchut from the aspect of Hod, meaning twelve aspects from above to below, totaling twenty-four aspects. All these become one supernal river, meaning the Mochin to Zeir Anpin, which is the secret of ‘And a river went out from Eden,’

#298
Zeir Anpin, which is the secret of the supernal river, descends and bestows the previously mentioned Mochin downward to Malchut, making her the great sea ( יָם גָּדוֹל), as it is written, ‘כָּל־הַנְּחָלִים הֹלְכִים אֶל־הַיָּם’—’ All the rivers go to the sea’ (Ecclesiastes 1:7). For Malchut gathers everything and draws them into herself. This means that these mochin, which are the secret of the twenty-four aspects mentioned above, emerge within Binah, called a river, as it is written, ‘מִנַּחַל בַּדֶּרֶךְ יִשְׁתֶּה’—’ From a river on the way he will drink’ (Psalms 110:7). Zeir Anpin, therefore, raises his head, meaning the three upper sefirot, Mochin of Gadlut, and thus these twenty-four aspects of Mochin are called rivers. These rivers are drunk by Zeir Anpin, and he bestows them to Malchut, as it is written, ‘All the rivers go to the sea,’ for Malchut becomes the great sea through the rivers she receives from Zeir Anpin. As it is written, ‘אֲנִי חֲבַצֶּלֶת הַשָּׁרוֹן’—’ I am a rose of Sharon’ (Song of Songs 2:1). It is not called Sharon except for the place adjacent to the great sea, which draws all the waters of the world. This means that Sharon is from the term yashar (straight, as in ‘יָשׁוֹר עַל־אֲנָשִׁים’—’ He looks straight upon men,’ Job 33:27), meaning vision, which refers to mochin of Chokhmah. Therefore, when Malchut has Mochin of Chokhmah, she is called ‘חֲבַצֶּלֶת הַשָּׁרוֹן’ (Chavatzelet HaSharon, rose of the Sharon). This is what it means that Malchut is not called Sharon except when she is adjacent to the great sea, meaning when she has the rivers of Binah, which are the secret of Mochin of Chokhmah. For then, she draws into herself all the waters of Binah, called the world (olam), which are all the twenty-four rivers. They go outward, are drawn inward, and illuminate each other in known pathways.
This means that it alludes here to the order of the emanation of Mochin through the three vowel points (nekudot): cholam, shuruk, chirik, as explained above. The outflow is the secret of the cholam point, when Abba v’Imma (Chokhmah and Binah) bring forth Binah outside the head. Likewise, Zeir Anpin brings forth Malchut outside of Atzilut, becoming six sides of Z” A without a head (Mochin). This is the secret of the right line. The drawing is the secret of the shuruk point, when Binah returns to the head of Abba v’Imma, and likewise Malchut returns to Atzilut, receiving Mochin of Chokhmah, which is the secret of the left line. This receiving of Mochin is called drawing (שאיבה), as explained below. The illumination of one in the other in known pathways is the secret of the chirik point, meaning the emanation of the stature (קומה) of Chessed, which clothes the two lines—right and left—in each other. This is the secret of the central line, when they illuminate each other: the right line, drawn from cholam, receives the aspect of ‘three heads’ (upper three sefirot) from the left line, drawn from shuruk, and likewise the left line receives Chessed from the right line. Thus, there is Chokhmah and Chessed in the right line, and Chokhmah and Chessed in the left line, through which the Mochin are completed, as previously explained.

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