Partie 15 · Chapitre 43

However, immediately after the destruction, the Nukva returned to be corrected in the third aspect, and became a Partzuf of ten Sefirot, back to back, from the chest and below; and even then the five [Sefirot] of ZA illuminated in her. And all this on weekdays, for on Shabbat she was face to face, in the sixth aspect. It is found that at the time of the destruction of the First Temple, in that exile of the seventy years of Babylon, the Nukva was exactly as she was at the exodus from Egypt and in the generation of the wilderness. And this is what is written: “I have been a wilderness to Israel, etc.”