Partie 16 · Chapitre 28

And accordingly, what they said is difficult — that the light of Aba spreads in all of Atzilut to give it life. But the matter is this: the upper light of the Ein Sof reached Aba in a great expansion, without there being a screen and a separating partition. Therefore, up to Aba, called Hochma, everything is called by the name Hochma. But from Aba and below, the matter changed: Aba clothes within Ima, and Ima within ZA, etc. However, the essence of the light of Aba itself literally clothes and spreads within Ima.