Kabbalah Mazmur 111:10: Zohar, Ohr Ne'erav, Sefer HaBahir & Sha'arei Orah

R. Abba said: ‘The expression “Serve the Lord with fear” contains a mystical allusion. What kind of fear is meant? It is that which here esoterically alludes to the Holy One, blessed be He, as in the verse, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (Prov. 1, 7).’ R. Eleazar said: ‘If a man desires to serve his Master, from what place should he commence and in what place should he first aim at unifying the name of his Master? In “fear”, with which the ascent heavenwards commences.’

[Sec. 5] 7. [The beginner] must also know that before the emanation of the aforementioned qualities, these qualities were utterly hidden within Him in the greatest possible unity. It is not appropriate [to ascribe to them] any image or point at all. They were, rather, united in Him. Afterward He emanated one point from Himself. [This] one emanation is Keter, which is called ‘Ayin (“Nothingness”) on account of its great transparency and closeness to its source, such that being (yesh) cannot be posited of it. From [Keter] a second point was emanated in a second revelation. It is Ḥokhmah, and it is called “being” because it is the beginning of revelation and being. It is called “being from nothingness” (yesh me-’ayin). Because it is the beginning of being and not being itself, it required a third point for the revelation of existents. That is [the sefirah] Binah, which [constitutes] the revelation of the existents. Ḥokhmah is the beginning of existence, and Binah is the end of existence, since the beginning of the founding of existence comes from Ḥokhmah, which is called “Beginning” (re’shit).¹⁵Cf. Ps. 111:10: “The beginning of wisdom (re’shit ḥokhmah) is the fear of God.” The end of their concealment is in the supernal Jubilee,¹⁶A reference to the sefirah Binah. as is known.

For he is only called “one” when he is complete, and not if he is defective, and therefore God is called One when He is consummated with the Patriarchs and the Community of Israel. When, therefore, the Israelite puts on his phylacteries and wraps himself in the fringed garment, he is crowned with holy crowns after the supernal pattern and is called “one.”