When judgments are roused from justice, they are all mercy, all whole; for this justice mitigates righteousness, which is judgments. And as judgments are made whole and descend all into the world in wholeness, in mercy, it is the time for male and female to join and all realms are merciful and joyous.
When sins multiply in the worlds; and the Temple – Malchut – is defiled by people’s sins; and the male, Zeir Anpin, separates from the female, Malchut, and the fierce serpent begins to awaken; woe to the world that is sustained at that time by that righteousness, which is Malchut when separated from Zeir Anpin that is justice. Many battalions of demons are roused in the world, many righteous people pass away from the world. And why is that – because the male separates from the female and justice does not approach righteousness. It is written of this, “bus sometimes ruin comes for want of justice” (Mishlei 13:23), which is because justice, which is Zeir Anpin, separates from this righteousness and Malchut is not sweetened. Righteousness receives from another place, that is, the left without the righteous, which is harsh judgments.