Partie 9 · Chapitre 45

Let us begin by clarifying the first discernment, called a point, which is before the emanation was corrected. At that time ZA [Zeir Anpin] was in a discernment of six points only, separated from one another without correction, as is known, and they were in the discernment of the letter Vav of the Name. Then Malchut was a seventh point to him, and she was in the discernment of an Atara [crown] beneath the Yesod in him; her measure, too, was the measure of the Atara of the Yesod, which is one third of the measure of the Yesod.