Here is its wording, in its pure style:40Parashat Bo, 215-218, and in the Raya Mehemna. A person might ask: But it is written in the Torah (Deuteronomy 4:15): “For you did not see any image,” and how, then, do we expound names and sefirot as applying to Him?
One would answer: I saw this form, as in the verse: “And the image of the Lord he beholds.”41Numbers 12:8. This refers to the sefira of Malkhut, in which all the souls and the worlds are rooted, as she (Malkhut) is the root of all the vessels.42This will be explained more fully below, section 36. Regarding the ones that receive from her, those that must acquire the vessels from her, she is considered to them like an image. For it is regarding her that it is stated “and the image of the Lord he beholds,” as the Zohar proceeds to explain.