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The sefirah Malkut manifests on the Tree of Life as a result of the merging together into one conformation of the twelve Simple letter pathways. This is hinted at in several places in the Zohar. For example...
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...We see that Jacob [Tifaret] blessed Joseph along with his brothers, but when God arranged the tribes under four standards He omitted Joseph and put Ephraim in his place. This cannot have been for any sin of Joseph's, but the reason is this. Joseph [Yesod] was the impress of the male, and since all the adornments of the Shekinah [Malkut] are female, Joseph was removed from the standards and Ephraim was appointed in his place. On this account he was stationed on the west, the side where the female abides, and the impress which is male [Joseph, Yesod] was removed from her adornments. We thus see that all the twelve tribes [twelve Simple letter pathways] are the adornment of the Shekinah [Malkut] after the supernal pattern, save for the grade of the Zaddik [Yesod], who makes all the limbs male [1]. [Soncino Zohar, Vayehi, 246b. Vol II, pg 381.]
[1. The seven sefirot (Da'at to Yesod) are made male by Yesod because Yesod represents the male sexual organ.]
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JOSEPH IS A FRUITFUL BOUGH, A FRUITFUL BOUGH BY A FOUNTAIN. The words "fruitful bough" are repeated to show that he is such both above and below. Observe that the holy kingdom [Malkut, second Heh of YHVH] does not attain its perfection as holy kingdom until it is joined with the patriarchs [referring to Hesed, Geburah, Tifaret]. Then its structure is completed from the upper world, [247a] which is the world of the male [i.e. Vav of YHVH, the sefirot Da'at to Yesod].
The upper world [i.e. Vav of YHVH] is called "seven years" because all the "seven years" [the seven sefirot Da'at to Yesod] are in it. The Mnemonic of this is "and he built it seven years" (I Kings VI, 38). By means of this the lower world [Malkut, second Heh of YHVH] was built, which also is alluded to as "seven years". The mnemonic for this is "Seven days and seven days, fourteen days" (I Kings VIII, 66), the first seven being male and the second female.
It is written: "Many daughters have done virtuously" (Prov. XXXI, 29). These are the twelve tribes who did valiantly. Hence it is written here: "The daughters advanced upon the wall"; that is to say, the daughters [twelve Simple letter pathways] took part in the adornment of the Shekinah, but not the sons [seven sefirot Da'at to Yesod]. [Soncino Zohar, Vayehi, 246b-247a, Vol II, pg 382.]
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[In all the above the bracketed [] notes are my own.]
Blessings,
Patrick.
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Formation of the Tree of Life
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~astroqab/formation_tree_life.htm
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