The arms of his hands were spread out” (Gen. 49-24), this refers to the secret of ten drops that were cast out from between the nails, as is mentioned in tiqqun 69, as is known … for they are themselves the aspect of the kings, or the nullification of the kings (bittul ha-melakhim) was on account of the fact that Adam was not yet arrayed as one, male and female. This is the secret of the seminal drops of Joseph that were discharged without a female, but from the male alone. And these are the ten martyrs of the royalty (‘asarei harugei melukhah). Contemplate the word melukhah, for they were verily the seven kings (melakhim) whose vessels and bodies were broken. The reason was also because they were without the arrayment (tiqqun) of male and female, until Hadar, the eighth king, came, and then they were arrayed.

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.