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In the same way that there is a depth and a length and a width in Binah (Understanding) as stated above, so too there is a depth and a length and a width in the spring of Chochmah (wisdom) which is called the Ein (nothing). And the depth of the spring, that is, the beginning of the root of its origins in its depth from whence its flowing spreads upwards until it breaks through and comes out drop by drop as it reveals itself from its hiding and its total hidenness, that (depth of Chochmah) is its total depth below like the springs of the abyss (the hidden reservoirs of great waters that are hidden deep in the earth from whence the outer spring flows which burst open (at the time of the Flood). For the earth is full of tunnels and channels etc. in the veins (of the earth) which have a primary depth. And this is what is written "and the Chochmah comes into existence from the Ein (nothingness)". That is from the hidenness of the Chochmah which is called the depth of Chochmah.
Now Chochmah is the discovery of a new intellectual idea which comes out like a flash of lightning etc. as is known and the source of its origins in its hidden depth is its main essence and inner innerness as was explained above about the depth of the Musag of Binah (the idea as it is intellectually grasped by Understanding) which is just the depth of the apprehension of Binah which is felt in the way of a Yesh (something) during the understanding of some subject through a revealed theory. (It was explained) that the depth of the explanations of the Hassogah (the reach of Binah) is in the aspect of being an Ein (nothing) only in respect to the Yesh (somethingness) of the Hassogah itself and this has no comparison to the Ein (nothingness) of Chochmah itself before it comes to be included in the Hassogah at all not even in the depths of it (the Hassogah of Binah) which is its essence. (i.e. the nothing of Binah is more of a something than the something of Chochmah).
So the length of Chochmah is the length of the concept coming out from the total Ein (non-definition) of the abyss of the Hidden Chochmah (in the Kesser). The width is the inherent width of the explanations which can come out from the Iyun of Binah. And the depth is the depth of the idea as it is in the super intellectual undefinite reservoir of the Hidden wisdom.
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