Part 9 · Chapter 71

Let us begin to clarify the matter of these doors, hinges, and MAN [Mayin Nukvin] — what they are. Know that we have found in The Zohar two appellations for Malchut, namely Zion and Jerusalem. Their meaning is that the point of the Yesod of the Nukva [female] is called Zion — as is written in the Idra of Haazinu, that Zion in the Nukva is like the house of the womb for a woman — while the point of the Malchut in the Nukva is called Jerusalem.