Aba and Ima that are Chochmah and Binah Rabbi Shimon raised his hands joyfully, saying, surely now is the time for revelation and everything depends on this time. We have learned that when the most concealed Atika Kadisha wanted to construct everything, it constructed it in the form of male and female; that is, it raised Malchut to Binah, and Malchut became the female aspect throughout the Sfirot – each Sfirah comprises male and female.
But wherever a male and a female were incorporated in every Sfirah, they could be sustained only in a different form of male and female. When this Chochmah, which comprehends everything, that is, Chochmah of the thirty-two paths, came out and shone from Atika Kadisha, it shone only through a male and a female. Chochmah expanded and extruded Binah from within it, so they are male and female, Chochmah is the father, Binah the mother.
Chochmah and Binah were evenly weighted, a male and a female, that is, they are equal. For their sakes everything exists in the form of male and female; otherwise, they would not have existed.