קבלה אויף שיר השירים 2:11

When we were delighting ourselves in the garden of the pleasures of the books of the wise on this wisdom, we have found that the sage Rabbi Yehuda Chayyati in his book “The Offering of Yehuda” (folio 9b) has written on the reason of the [number] ten. The first reason is in the name of Rabbi Azriel [of Gerona], and [has] his [= R. Yehuda Chayyati’s] answer [to this] from his part. And this is what it says: ‘Know that every point comes with three axes: length, width and depth. And when you multiply them, each one with the other by method of the square number, the three make nine, and with the place that bears them they are ten’. End of citation. And Rabbi Yehuda questioned him and this is what he says: ‘It is not good in my eyes, this reason, for two reasons. The first [is] that the preamble is not true, because the axes mentioned have quantity, but the point does not have quantity as it is an end of the line. And further [the second reason is:] [would it be] proper in the eyes of HaShem that the mentioned axes, with which substance is enclosed, would be attributed to the emanation/Atsilut? But isn’t it so [that] in the godhead “the substance/(rain) is vanished and away” [Song of Songs 2:11].’ End of citation.