{"id":15122,"date":"2026-01-14T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=15122"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:27:46","slug":"the-moon-diminished-herself","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-moon-diminished-herself\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moon Diminished Herself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>675) \u201cOne lamb\u201d and \u201ctwo one year old lambs without blemish\u201d correspond to the first three&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>. Seven one year old lambs correspond to the seven bottom&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>. Seven lambs are seven days, seven&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the moon,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. \u201cOne year old\u201d means that they are the children of the moon, who is called \u201cyear\u201d [<em>Bnei<\/em>&nbsp;means \u201csons of,\u201d as well as denotes age]. She is one of those primordial years, the inclusive ten&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>, where&nbsp;<em>Atik<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>AA<\/em>&nbsp;are&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>AVI<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>YESHSUT<\/em>&nbsp;are&nbsp;<em>HB<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>, who includes the six&nbsp;<em>Sefirot HGT<\/em>&nbsp;<em>NHY<\/em>, and the last one is&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. Thus,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;is one of the inclusive ten&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>, the primordial years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is written, \u201cAnd on your new [written as \u201cheads of\u201d] moons.\u201d Does the moon have several heads? There is no head to the moon but the sun,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, who is her head. However, there are two heads on each month, Jacob and Joseph,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Yesod<\/em>, which are renewed to illuminate to the moon, to&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. For this reason she must be renewed with offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>677) \u201cTwo young bulls.\u201d They are the ones of which the moon said, \u201cHow can two kings use one crown?\u201d They are&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;with respect to the two great lights, after which she diminished herself under them, descending below&nbsp;<em>Chazeh de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>. And one ram is the ram of Isaac,&nbsp;<em>Gevura<\/em>. And where did Abraham go? Why is Abraham\u2019s quality,&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>, not mentioned here? It is because the name Esau awakened, the goat of the new month, in whom there is a part to the&nbsp;<em>Sitra Achra<\/em>, who is called&nbsp;<em>Se\u2019ir<\/em>&nbsp;[\u201chairy,\u201d as well as \u201che-goat\u201d], such as \u201cEsau was a hairy man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why Abraham, the light of&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>, was removed, so as to not be seen in order to prevent the&nbsp;<em>Sitra Achra<\/em>&nbsp;from sucking from the light of&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>. But Isaac, the left line, is there because his love was for him, like wine on its yeast, for Esau is the waste of the left line, and the light of the left is called \u201cwine,\u201d and the waste is yeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacob,&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, the middle line, is there to break the face of Esau, since the middle line diminishes the&nbsp;<em>GAR<\/em>&nbsp;of the left, the face of Esau. Joseph\u2014<em>Yesod<\/em>, an ox of&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, extending from the left line of&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>, called \u201cox,\u201d\u2014is with Rachel, to bestow upon&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, who is Rachel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>675) \u201cOne lamb\u201d and \u201ctwo one year old lambs without blemish\u201d correspond to the first three&nbsp;Sefirot. 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