Kabbalah Kejadian 1:5: Zohar Chadash, Sha'arei Orah & Sefer HaBahir

Come and behold, the supernal radiance [Binah], continues to radiate. Through this radiance, it should bring gladness to all. This is the right, which was crowned with the right to make the engravings. It is written, "How great is Your goodness, which You have laid upon those who fear You and which You have wrought for they who trust in You" (Ps. 31:20). "How great is Your goodness" alludes to the primordial light that the Holy One, blessed be He, stored away. "They who fear You" alludes to the righteous who fear sin, who are aforementioned. "And there was evening and there was morning, the first day" (Gen. 1:5) "And there was evening" from the side of darkness [Nukva] "and there was morning" from the side of light [Zeir Anpin]. And since they join together as one, it is written they are the "first day."

Now, as has been mentioned, there also is the title God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם as the matter of might-Gevurah and judgment-Din, as our sages, of blessed memory, stated,⁵See Midrash Bereishit Rabba 12:15 “At first He began creating His world with the quality of judgment-Din, as it says,⁶Genesis 1:1 ‘In the beginning God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם created.’ Seeing that it could not endure, He added the quality of mercy-Rachamim, as it says,⁷Genesis 2:4 ‘on the day that HaShem God-HaShem Elohi”m-יהו״ה אלהי״ם made earth and heaven.’” All this is true, well established, and correct. However, come and see wondrously great matters. The verse states,⁸Isaiah 40:26 “Raise your eyes on high and see Who-Mee-מי created these-Eileh-אלה.” Certainly, that which is called Who-Mee-מי created These-Eileh-אלה. This refers to the mystery of “day one-Yom Echad-יום אחד,”⁹Genesis 1:5 which is the matter of understanding-Binah. From it, until the day of Shabbat, there were six days in which the heavens and the earth and all therein were made. Now, in truth, the word Who-Mee-מי is above,¹⁰The Sefirah of understanding-Binah. and the word Sea-Yam-ים is below.¹¹The Sefirah of kingship-Malchut. Now, Who-Mee-מי created, this being the beginning of the manifestation of the name God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם within the secret of the Name HaShem-יהו״ה. That is, in its written form this quality is the name HaShem-יהו״ה, but in the secret of HaShem-יהו"ה it is vowelized and pronounced as God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם .¹²That is, the title Lord-Adonay-אדנ״י refers to the Sefirah of kingship-Malchut, which is below. In Torah, when the Name HaShem-יהו״ה is juxtaposed to the title Lord-Adonay-אדנ״י and follows it, such as (Deut. 3:24), “Lord HaShem-אדנ״י יהו״ה,” the Name HaShem-יהו"ה is pronounced Elohi”m-אלהי״ם,” in reference to the Sefirah of understanding-Binah. Thus, the name God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם is hidden in the vowelization of the written Name HaShem-יהו״ה. These two names HaShem-יהו״ה and God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם are thus found as one. Both are the mystery of Who-Mee-מי-50, as hinted in the verse,¹³Ecclesiastes 1:7 “All-Kol-כל-50 rivers flow into the sea-Yam-ים-50.” From this quality called Who-Mi-מי, which is the matter of the manifestation of God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם within the Name HaShem-יהו״ה, the quality of might-Gevurah inherited judgment-Din and fear-Pachad. This quality of might-Gevurah is the actual name God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם.¹⁴That is, both in its written form and in its pronunciation the quality of might-Gevurah-גבורה is called Elohi”m-אלהי״ם. With these two, the quality called Lord-Adona”y-אדנ״י inherited the title God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם and donned its garments, and the world was then created through the matter of HaShem Lord-HaShem Adona”y-יהו״ה אדנ״י (pronounced Elohi”m Adona”y-אלהי"ם אדנ"י).

6. “And God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם called the light.”³⁴Genesis 1:5