Part 12 · Chapter 182

And the matter is that since it comes after the night, in which only the inner ones of the Katnut of Ima alone remained, therefore in the word "Israel" we must draw it another level, and it is the encircling ones of the Katnut of Ima. And in this aspect it is less than the Shema of the evening, for then the encircling ones of Ima were already in it by themselves, without our deed.