Partie 12 · Chapitre 69

However, according to the opinion of the one who says twenty-four months, the reason is that three Sefirot need to be clarified, and they are: Hod, Yesod, and Malchut. Behold, when you divide twenty-four months to complete the clarification of all three, eight months come to each one of them. And behold, it is known that all the food by which man is nourished — at first the liver takes it, and clarifies it and gives it to the heart, and there it is again clarified, and it divides it and sends it to all the limbs, and it begins to send it to his Keter, and afterward to Hochma, etc.