Partie 9 · Chapitre 87

Indeed, we shall explain the reason why it is called a Tzir [hinge]. The matter is that Tzir in Gematria is the Shin of Shaddai [300], which is the Yesod of the female, called Shaddai. And this Shin has three lines, three Vavs, which are the discernment of HGT [Hesed-Gevura-Tifferet] inscribed in the Yesod; they were drawn to her there from the upper fathers, HGT, which are three Vavs. This is the meaning of "the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people delved…" — that being the discernment of the Yesod in the Nukva [female], which raises MAN [Mayin Nukvin]. And it is the well of Miriam, of which it is said, "Rise up, O well; sing to it." For this Yesod does not protrude like the Yesod of the male; rather, it is sunk as a hollow, like a kind of well that raises water from below upward. And he clarified its matter and said that this Yesod and well, "the princes dug it, the nobles of the people delved it": they are the fathers, who are called nobles, as is known; and they are HGT, who engraved their seal, which is the HGT in the Yesod — and it is the Shin of Shaddai.