Часть 14 · Глава 12

There is yet another reason, and it is close and drawn with the aforementioned reason. And it is that ZA still has in him only the six extremities, for he is the secret of the Vav of the holy Name; and in order to give birth to souls, he must first give, in the first union, the aspect of that spirit that the husband leaves in her in the first coupling, as is known by us, by which the female can raise Mayin Nukvin. And behold, he cannot yet give in her but a spirit comprising only his six extremities; therefore he cannot give birth, for he still has in him only the Mochin needed for himself and not for others. For this is the secret of the reason of what our sages said in the Gemara: a minor merits for himself and does not merit for others.