Partie 11 · Chapitre 89

And this is the reason why, at the time when the Temple stood, the mercies multiplied and there was coupling. The reason is that then ZA was in the phase of the Mochin of absolute mercy of the second pregnancy, and there is no coupling except by means of those Mochin, as was said. But when these Mochin of mercy departed from him — and not only that, but even the Mochin of the Katnut of nursing, which are not absolute judgments, also departed — and nothing remained in him but the Mochin of the time of pregnancy, which are absolute judgments, then the Temple was destroyed, due to our many sins. And in that very moment ZA returned to the phase of the pregnancy of “three included in three,” in the likeness of what was at the time of the exile of Egypt, as clarified above.