Moses Cordovero, Zohar ‘im Perush ’Or Yaqar

Jewish Mysticism
Hokhmah is garbed in Binah to actualize this light below in the sefirot … and this garment is the cause of the disclosure for the lower beings could not endure it except through its being garbed, and this garment is what causes the light to be concealed. … The matter is like the light of the sun that is revealed, which blinds the eyes of the one who sees. By its being garbed it is concealed and revealed to the eye of the one who sees. Thus, the concealment is the cause of the disclosure (ha-hit‘alem sibbat ha-hitgalut).

Translated by Elliot Wolfson in “Divine Suffering and the Hermeneutics of Reading- Philosophical Reflections on Lurianic Mythology,” in Suffering Religion, 101-162, Edited by R. Gibbs and E. R. Wolfson. New York and London- Routledge, 2002, from Moses Cordovero, Zohar ‘im Perush ’Or Yaqar, vol. 11 (Jerusalem, 1981), p. 349.