זוהר, בראשית ז׳Zohar, Bereshit 7

Segment 1א׳

(ר"ת יהו"ה) וַ'יֹּאמֶר אֱ'לֹקִים יִ'קָּווּ הַ'מַּיִם וְגו' בְּאֹרַח קַו לְמֶהֱוֵי בְּאֹרַח מֵישָׁר. דְּהָא מֵרָזָא דְהַהִיא נְקוּדָה קַדְמָאָה נָפַק כֹּלָּא בִּסְתִימוּ. עַד דְּמָטֵי וְאִתְכַּנִּישׁ לְהֵיכָלָא עִלָּאָה וּמִתַּמָּן נָפִיק בְּקַו מֵישַׁר לִשְׁאָר דַּרְגִּין. עַד דְּמָטֵי לְהַהוּא אֲתַר חַד דְּכָנִישׁ כֹּלָּא בִּכְלַל דְּכַר וְנוּקְבָא. וּמַאן אִיהוּ חַי עָלְמִין.

AND GOD SAID, LET THE WATERS FLOW: The word flow (yikavvu) implies that they were to go in a line (kav) so as to take a straight path. For from the first mystic point the Whole issues in secret, until it reaches and is gathered in to the supernal Palace, and from there it issues in a straight line to the other grades, until it comes to that place which collects the whole in a union of male and female; this is the “Life of worlds.”

Segment 2ב׳

הַמַּיִם דְּנַפְקֵי מִלְעֵיל מֵאֵת ה' עִלָּאָה. מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמַיִם ו' זְעֵירָא. וְעַל דָּא ו"ו חַד שָׁמַיִם וְחַד מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמַיִם. כְּדֵין וְתֵרָאֶה הַיַּבָּשָׁה דָּא ה' תַּתָּאָה. דָּא אִתְגְּלִי. וְכָל שְׁאָר אִתְכַּסֵּי. וּמִגּוֹ הַאי בַּתְרָאָה אִשְׁתְּמַע בְּסוּכְלְתָנוּ הַהוּא דְּאִתְכַּסֵּי.

THE WATERS: to wit, those that issue from on high, from under the upper He’. FROM UNDER THE HEAVEN: this is the lesser Vau (hence the word yikavva is spelt with two vau’s, one for “the heaven” and one for “under the heaven”). In consequence: LET THE DRY LAND APPEAR. This is the lower He. This is disclosed and all the rest is undisclosed; from this last we conclude by inference to that which is undisclosed.

Segment 3ג׳

אֶל מָקוֹם אֶחָד בְּגִין דְּהָכָא הוּא קִשּׁוּרָא דְיִחוּדָא דְעָלְמָא עִלָּאָה יהו"ה אֶחָד וּשְׁמוֹ אֶחָד (תרומה קלד ע"א) תְּרֵין יִחוּדִין חַד דְּעָלְמָא עִלָּאָה לְאִתְיַחֲדָא בְּדַרְגּוֹי, וְחַד דְּעָלְמָא תַּתָּאָה לְאִתְיַחֲדָא בְּדַרְגּוֹי. קִשּׁוּרָא דְּיִחוּדָא דְּעָלְמָא עִלָּאָה עַד הָכָא אִיהוּ. חַי עָלְמִין תַּמָּן אִתְבְּסִים וְאִתְקַשַּׁר עָלְמָא עִלָּאָה בְּיִחוּדָא דִילֵיהּ. וּבְגִין כָּךְ אִקְרֵי מָקוֹם אֶחָד. כָּל דַּרְגִּין וְכָל שַׁיְיפִין מִתְכַּנְשִׁין תַּמָּן וְהֲווּ כֻּלְהוּ בֵּיהּ חַד בְּלָא פִּירוּדָא כְּלָל. וְלֵית דַּרְגָא דְּאִתְיַחֲדָן תַּמָּן בְּיִחוּדָא חַד אֶלָא הַאי, וּבֵיהּ אִתְכַּסְּיָין כֻּלְהוּ בְּאֹרַח סָתִים בְּתִיאוּבְתָּא חַד. עַד הָכָא בְּדַרְגָּא דָּא אִתְיַיחַד עָלְמָא דְאִתְגַּלְיָיא בְּעָלְמָא דְאִתְכַּסְיָיא.

TO ONE PLACE: so called because it is here that the whole of the upper World is linked into one. It is written: The Lord (Tetragrammaton) is one and his name is One (Zech. 14, 9). Two unifications are here indicated, one of the upper World in its grades, and one of the lower World in its grades. The unification of the upper World is consummated at this point. The Life of Worlds was there firmly based, and through its unity the upper World was bound together, and therefore it is called “one place”. All grades and all members were gathered there and became in it one without any separation; nor is there any grade in which they are embraced in one unification save this. In it, too, they all mysteriously conceal themselves in one desire. In this grade the disclosed World is linked with the undisclosed.