When the Matrona [Shekhinah] departs from the King [Tif’eret] and they are not found in union, the Supernal Mother [Binah] departs from the King and she does not feed him, for the King without a Matrona is not crowned in the crowns of the Mother… When he is joined to the Matrona she crowns him in several crowns, in several splendors of the supernal and holy crowns, as it is written, “O maidens of Zion, go forth and gaze upon King Solomon [wearing the crown that his mother gave him on his wedding day]” (Cant. 3-11). When he unites with the Matrona, then the Supernal Mother crowns him, as is fitting.

Translated by Elliot Wolfson in Through a Speculum that Shines- Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism, Princeton- Princeton University Press, 1994.