Partie 10 · Chapitre 11

And the matter is that at the time of the rising of the lights of these Melachim [kings] within Ima in the secret of MAN [Mayin Nukvin], they caused a coupling for AVI, and then Aba selects these Melachim, as is known, in the portion of Pekudei, page 254b, and this is its language: "Come and see, the head, the beginning of faith within thought, the sparkling candle strikes and rises within thought, sparks are cast to two hundred and eighty worlds, and the waste is selected out of the thought, and it is selected," etc. And the matter is that all the selections of the Melachim are made through the thought, which is the brain, where the selection occurs, and from there it descends afterward in the secret of the drop of the coupling.