Come and see, it is written, “Elohim understands its way” (Ibid. 23), its way literally; because Elohim, which is Zeir Anpin, knows the way Chochmah of the thirty-two paths spreads into the lower Chochmah. But “he,” Atika Kadisha, “knows its place” (Ibid.), its place literally, that is, the actual highest Chochmah, which signifies Aba and Ima and surely Chochmah that is concealed in Atika Kadisha, as it is its own brain.
Why it is called Chochmah of thirty-two paths This Chochmah of the thirty-two paths is the beginning of everything; thirty-two paths spread from it, which means that the Torah, which is Zeir Anpin, is included in them in twenty-two letters and ten sayings33 The ten times “And God said” mentioned in the story of Creation (translator). They are the ten Sfirot of Aba and Ima themselves, the ten Sfirot of Binah. Twenty-two plus ten equals thirty-two. Meaning, what is meant by the thirty-two paths is that Zeir Anpin that signifies the twenty-two letters rises as female waters to Binah and joins it as the central column that unites right and left (as said in section 64). This Chochmah is a father of fathers, who are Chesed, Gvurah and Tiferet of Zeir Anpin. And there is both beginning and end to this Chochmah that are therefore called higher Chochmah and lower Chochmah. The higher Chochmah is the beginning and the lower Chochmah is the end. When Chochmah spreads to Zeir Anpin it is called father of fathers. Everything is incorporated only in this Chochmah, as written, “in wisdom have you made them all” (Tehillim 104:24).