A great and mighty tree is the Middle Pillar, herbs and grasses, who are the sages, sprout from there like a garden, because She is the Oral Torah.
And what waters and irrigates [Var. and multiplies], with it, the trees and the herbs and the grasses? (Song. 4:15) the well-spring of the gardens – which is Ḥokhmah, the first of everything, the first born of all. And from where does the well-spring of water emerge? From ‘the house of Y”Y’. It is this that is written: (Joel 4:18)... and a well-spring shall go forth, from the House of Y”Y...