창세기 2:20의 Kabbalah

[Sec. 18] 40. [The beginner] must also know that the emanation of Malkhut and Tiferet in union stems from the height of the degrees beginning from Ḥokhmah. This is the mystery of the dual face¹²I.e. a hermaphrodite. Cf. Eruvin 18a, Bereshit Rabbah 8:1. in which they were created. However, within Ḥokhmah they constitute the vav prior to the daled in the order of the completion of the [spelling of] yod in the [divine] Name.¹³The word yod is spelled out with three letters: yod, vav, and daled. They emanate and come in to Binah as daled before vav. In Binah, through Ḥesed, Malkhut is separated from Tiferet and Malkhut remains in Ḥokhmah-within-Binah. Tiferet emanates, and afterwards And the Lord built (banah), Binah, the rib, Malkhut, which he took from the man, Ḥokhmah, and brought it to the man, Tiferet (Gen. 2:22). And there was still not [a help meet for him] (Gen. 2:20)—this is the mystery of diminution.¹⁴The reference is to the diminution of the moon. Cf. Bereshit Rabbah 6:3. The moon is a symbol of the sefirah Malkhut. However, Malkhut was below Tiferet, with both of them deriving sustenance from [the side of] Judgment from Gevurah and Binah. Similarly, Ḥesed [derived its sustenance] from Gedulah and Binah. Tiferet forced Malkhut to the side of Mercy, for he is “below” relative to Mercy. Then [Malkhut] criticized and said, “It is impossible,” since her intention was that Malkhut should work [in the sphere of] Judgment and Tiferet in Mercy, and that Tiferet would not force Malkhut to the side of Mercy. Then we say to her, “Go and diminish yourself.” Thus they subtracted from its light, and whereas previously she had been at the seventh rung, she descended to the tenth [rung] because of the diminution of her merit.

But up to that time, she was no help to him, as it is said, “but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him” {Gen. 2:20}. Adam, then, was the very last, for it was right that he should find the world complete when he made his appearance.