Chapter XXVI

Accordingly, we can now see the coexistence of a concept and its antithesis. The point of Chochmah [the abstract concept] is elucidated through the expansive comprehension afforded by Binah. This [expansion] is by nature the opposite of the point of the yud of Chochmah , which is nothingness, concealment, non-expansion. Nevertheless this [nothingness of Chochmah] can be unified and synthesized with Binah to become expanded [into something with an individual identity]. This potential is found within Chochmah itself; it is havein beChochmah. Hence, Binah is included within Chochmah itself, enabling it to be expanded and become unified with Binah ; Chochmah then possesses an actual [power of] expansion and understanding [the qualities which are] the very opposite of its essential nature.

Similarly, when the revealed understanding of Binah becomes nothingness and concealment, [reaching the level] of koach mah [“the faculty of the unknown”] of the point of Chochmah , i.e., chacham beBinah , [it has become synthesized with] something contrary to its own essence, as mentioned previously.

Thus the concealment of the point of Chochmah becomes revealed through understanding, and the revealed understanding of Binah becomes the concealment of the point of Chochmah the coexistence of a concept and its antithesis. It must be concluded, then, that that which unifies them and causes them to synthesize with one another must stem from a higher power [than either of them]. This comes from the essential Being from the Atzmus of the [infinite] Ein Sof -light, which is higher than both the level of concealment and the level of revelation; in relation to Atzmus , they are equal. Hence, this is the source of unity and mutual inclusiveness the power to transform revelation into concealment and concealment into revelation.

Summary:
The unification of the opposites of Chochmah and Binah through a power higher than them both.