And furthermore: Open for me the gates of righteousness... (Ps. 118:19) – these are the 2 eyes.
When they are [Var. that the eyes are] (Ps. 27:11) looking ‘in a straight way’, it is stated of them:... and their faces are one to the other... And when they are not looking ‘in a straight way’, then: (Is. 27:1) the crooked serpent is there, about which it is stated: (Rut. 1:17)... for death shall separate... etc. [Var. see Hos. 13:15 “and it shall separate between ‘brothers’.”]
The three colours of the eye are the three Patriarchs, of whom it is stated: (Ex. 6:14) These are the heads of their fathers’ house... The ‘eye’s daughter’ (bat)’ayin the pupil which is thin and small, – this is the Shekhinah, Who participates with the Patriarchs. And about Her it is stated: (Ps. 17:8) Guard me, as the ‘pupil of the eye’s daughter’... and all is within the mystery of Be-REiShYT: there is RASheY (heads-of), there is BaT (daughter).