…so that she can receive the Kindnesses from Zeir Anpin. Nukva is given these Kindnesses only to mitigate her strict Judgments but not in order that she should rule with Kindness, for that is not her purpose. It is when Judgment is sweet in its intrinsic nature that it seeks its own mitigation through joining with Kindness. (In the building of Nukva, her Strengths – which extend in her center column – are sweetened through the radiation of Netzach-Hod of Zeir Anpin in the two side columns, and this is what mitigates the intrinsic nature of Nukva, making her long to receive Kindnesses through coupling with Zeir Anpin.)