And the blessed Holy One, as it were, is poor, when He is outside His place, and because of Her it is stated: (Is. 33:7) Behold their mighty-ones have shouted outside... etc.
And in which place is He poor and is She poor? In the Righteous-One (Yesod) which is the covenant, and because Israel sinned through it below, it is: (Job 14:11)... a river dried up and parched – in the First and Second Temples. And the Shekhinah is dry and parched in it, because they caused to be gathered-up from it (Yesod), the ‘higher waters’, and the Shekhinah was left dry. It is this that is written: (Gen. 1:9)... Let the waters be gathered, from beneath the heavens to one place, that the dry land may be seen...