(Gen. 2:9) And Y”Y ELQYM caused to sprout, from the ground, every pleasant-looking tree... etc. – this is a righteous person, he is (Gen. 1:11)... a fruit tree making fruit to its kind... And in this place, it is Her love, in the joining and unity with Her Husband, and because of this She says: (Song. 2:5)... for I am love-sick.
And when the People of Israel sin through the covenant of circumcision, the flow of the vowel-points is interrupted, from the letters which are included in the Lower Shekhinah, and She remains dry [in them]. At that time, what is written of shureq ּ and ḥireq ִ? (Lam. 2:16)... they hissed (sharqu) and gnashed∞ḥarqu teeth, they said ‘we have swallowed...’