Part 14 · Chapter 73

The Ari's Text

And this is called the secret of wisdom — the internality of the lower wisdom; and by this they illuminate and sparkle with the radiance of the upper wisdom, for the soul of the lower wisdom is the radiance and brilliance of the upper wisdom, in the secret of the bride of Moshe; and she is the rib, the point of the Yod, in the secret of a Yod at the head and a Yod at the end: the Yud of the name of four, the Yud of the name Adonai, as is known.

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1The soul of the lower Hochma is the radiance and brilliance of the upper Hochma, in the secret of the bride of Moshe. Malchut, the Nukva of ZA, is called the lower Hochma, because through her the upper Hochma of Aba is revealed, in the secret of the thirty-two paths of Hochma. For there is no revelation of Hochma except from the Chazeh [chest] and below, in the NHY of ZA; and these NHY are the discernment of his Nukva, since the very substance of ZA is reckoned as HGT, as is known. It is thus found that the essence of the revelation of Hochma is through the Nukva, and therefore she is called the lower Hochma, since through her the upper Hochma is revealed, as explained. And from this discernment the Nukva is called the bride of Moshe; for Moshe is the Yesod of Aba, and when the Nukva receives his illumination of the Yesod of Aba, which is revealed from the Chazeh and below of ZA, then the upper Hochma is revealed through her. And this is the secret of “Aba founded the daughter,” and therefore she is called the bride of Moshe.
2The rib is the point of the Yod, in the secret of a Yod at the head and a Yod at the end: the Yod of the name of four, the Yod of the name Adonai. This revolves around the verse, “and He took one of his ribs,” etc.; for ZA has two ribs, which are the discernment of the two walls explained above (page 1505, the passage beginning “and with this”), namely the wall of HGT and the wall of NHY. And AVI took the wall of NHY, which is the discernment of the Yesod of Aba, as above, for through it her Partzuf was built, so that she could couple with ZA in an equal level, face to face, as above.
It is thus found that the rib which he took is the discernment of the bride of Moshe, as above, in the adjacent item.
And this is the secret of HaVaYaH and Adonai interwoven, namely on account of their coupling face to face in an equal level, as above, in this manner: YAHDVNHY — for the interweaving indicates their coupling and their union one in the other. And there is here a Yod at the head, which is the Yod of HaVaYaH, and a Yod at the end, which is the Yod of Adonai. And the Yod of HaVaYaH is the upper Hochma that is in the Rosh [head] of ZA, and the Yod of Adonai is the lower Hochma, which is revealed through the Yesod of the Nukva of ZA; and the radiance and brilliance of the upper Hochma is revealed in the lower Hochma, through the Yesod of the Nukva, which is called Adonai, as explained.