קבלה על במדבר 12:8

And teshuvah is called life: "because from it there are results of life" (Prov. 4:23) - those [results] are Israel's souls.

"A man of good appearance (Heb. מַרְאֶה)." This is, as it is written, "manifestly (Heb. מַרְאֶה), and not in dark speeches" (Num. 12:8). "A man," is, as it is written, "the man of Elohim" (Deut. 33:1). This is the husband of that "appearance," the glory of Hashem (i.e. Malchut). Because he earned the right to lead this grade over the land, as he wished, a feat that no other man had achieved.

If one should ask: Is it not written, “For ye saw no manner of similitude” [Deut. 4:15], the answer would be: Truly, it was granted us to behold him in a given similitude for concerning Moses it is written, “and the similitude of the Lord doth he behold” [Num. 12:8]. Yet the Lord was revealed only in that similitude which Moses saw, and in none other, of any creation formed by His signs. Therefore it stands written: “To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?” [Isa. 40:18].

One would answer: I saw this form, as in the verse: “And the image of the Lord he beholds.”⁴¹Numbers 12:8. This refers to the sefira of Malkhut, in which all the souls and the worlds are rooted, as she (Malkhut) is the root of all the vessels.⁴²This will be explained more fully below, section 36. Regarding the ones that receive from her, those that must acquire the vessels from her, she is considered to them like an image. For it is regarding her that it is stated “and the image of the Lord he beholds,” as the Zohar proceeds to explain.