Looking at the Tree of Life we find Keter being at the top center with Chochmah slightly below and to the right. Binah, our next Sefirah is on the left slightly below Keter.
Binah is typically translated as understanding. Chochmah is non-verbal, non-visual, and non-communicable. Binah is verbal, visual, and communicable. It puts form and shape to the wisdom shared in Chochmah. It is where, in a sense, “the rubber meets the road”. There is a sense of structure and permanency with Binah. Chochmah is spontaneous, short lived, impulsive, natural, and unstructured, while Binah is planned, organized, constructed, enduring, eternal, and stable
Binah is like a knife blade. If we were to take a dull knife it would be very difficult if not impossible to cut with it. But sharpen the blade and precision surgery could be conducted. Binah sharpens the blade and makes it useful.
To continue with our “thought of creation”, plan, and execution model presented in the previous few Nuggets, Binah is the completion of planning and the potential beginning of execution. Key here is “beginning of”. This triad is dealing with the intellect so action is not part of the equation. Action takes place in the last of the 3 triads. There should be a clear picture of the plan and the desired look of the finished product.
Ask yourself: Does the plan ever get fully or properly expressed in action? How does this relate to the concept of sin?
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