Feminine waters (Kabbalah)

It is known that as a result of the expansion of the points of Sag to Mah and Ban of the inner Adam Kadmon, traces of two levels are joined in the partition. These are the first heh in Sag, and the bottom heh in the inner Adam Kadmon. Thus, the partition is incorporated from two females, Bina and Malkhut. For this reason the partition was given the name feminine waters, since from this point onwards it incorporates these two females in every fusion it performs with the supernal light (Talmud Eser Sefirot, v. 6, Q & A 15). The meaning of feminine waters is that it causes a fusion. It is always an expression of Netzaḥ, Hod, and Yesod, or Ze’ir and Nukba. For the female is instituted in the light of the back side of Imma, which is attached only to the light of giving and which rebuffs Ḥokhma. Accordingly, she does not turn her face towards the male to receive the illumination of Ḥokhma, unless she is forced by some factor to do so. This factor is an expression of Ze’ir and Nukba, to which the Bina has a connection, to illuminate it with the illumination of Ḥokhma, due to the relationship between Bina and the Ze’ir and Nukba of the direct light. Consequently, when the Ze’ir and Nukba ascends to her for feminine waters, her back side immediately stops, and she turns her face to the Ḥokhma, to receive from it the illumination of Ḥokhma. She thus engages in a face-to-face fusion with it (Talmud Eser Sefirot, v. 7, Q & A 35).