488. \u201cAnd God made the two great lights.\u201d In the beginning, the two great lights were equal to each other. These two lights were as one, adhered together. They were of one value, and both were called \u201cgreat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
489. Malchut was as big as ZA not because the moon, Malchut, was initially bigger and superior in importance than what she is now, but whenever the moon stands with the sun as one, because of him, she is called great, with him. The tail of the lion is also the lion, and it is called \u201ca lion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd God made the two great lights.\u201d This verse was written about Malchut in the first state, when Malchut was as big as ZA, which is why ZA and Malchut, the sun and the moon, are the two great lights. We should not be mistaken about this, that at that time, Malchut was more important than she is now, in the second state, for at that time, she was in posterior and could not shine, while now, in the second state, she is in anterior and shines in all the completeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, at that time, she was regarded as big as ZA because then both of them received from one root, from Bina, for ZA clothed the right line of Bina, and Malchut clothed the left line of Bina. Hence, ZA and Malchut were both a degree below Bina. And since they are on the same degree, she is as big as him, for in the second state, she already went down from there to below ZA and to receive from ZA, which is why she is regarded as smaller than him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
490. The moon said to the Creator, \u201cCan one king use two crowns together? Rather, this needs to be on its own, and that needs to be on its own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Zohar<\/em> interprets here a new way to explain the complaint of the moon. In every place, the phrasing of the complaint is \u201cTwo kings do not use the same crown,\u201d where ZA and Malchut are the two kings, and the one crown is Bina. But here the meaning is that the one king is Bina, and ZA and Malchut are the two crowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The complaint was over Malchut being adhered to ZA in one Partzuf, at which time Bina was using both of them at once. Malchut wanted to part from him and become her own Partzuf, which is why she said, \u201cThis needs to be on its own, and that needs to be on its own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 491. He said to her, \u201cI see about you, that you want to be the head of the foxes, to be a distinct Partzuf and bestow Hochma to the Sefirot of the three worlds BYA that need Hochma, and which are called \u2018foxes\u2019 in relation to the Sefirot of Atzilut, which are called \u2018lions.\u2019 Go and diminish yourself, for although you will be the head of the foxes, you will be more diminished than you are now,\u201d for then she will be a degree below ZA and the Sium [end] of Atzilut, which is the Rosh [head\/beginning] of Beria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 492. This is why the moon, Malchut, said to Bina, \u201cTell me, you whom my soul loves, where do you pasture,\u201d where can you lead the world with two crowns together, ZA and Malchut?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhere do you make it lie down at noon,\u201d for in that state, the moon is unfit to shine, and you cannot lead the world with two crowns together, with the sun and with the moon, ZA and Malchut attached in one Partzuf, since the moon, what light does she have at noon? When ZA shines in his full power. For this reason, you cannot use two crowns together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 493. \u201cFor why should I be like one who veils herself by the flocks of your friends?\u201d Where will I be enveloped at noon, when the light and the power of the sun intensify? Since I am wrapped in shame before Him, and cannot serve you, so how will you be able to lead and use both crowns together?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 494. The Creator, who is Bina, told her: \u201cI understand you, that you want to control and bestow Hochma; go and diminish yourself. \u2018If you do not know, O fairest among women,\u2019 for you said that it is impossible for Me to lead the world with two crowns together, go and diminish yourself.\u201d That is, she should descend below the screen at the Chazeh of ZA and be a degree below him, and then she will be the head of the foxes, the dwellers of BYA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 495. \u201cGo you out in the footsteps of the flocks,\u201d go you out and be the head of the camps and armies below Atzilut, and pasture them and lead them, and be king over all the lower ones, and lead each one as is appropriate for him, and be the ruler of the night. Go and diminish yourself, and this is what befits you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 496. Elijah said to Rabbi Shimon, \u201cHappy are you that the secrets of your master shine before you \u200elike the light of the sun. 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