Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 8
The Holy Idra Zuta - Why It Is called “Hochma of the Thirty-Two Trails”
73. This Hochma of the thirty-two trails is the beginning of everything. Thirty-two trails expand from it, in which the Torah, ZA, incorporated in twenty-two letters and in ten utterances, the ten Sefirot of AVI themselves, which are the ten Sefirot of Bina. Twenty-two and ten are thirty-two, and thirty-two trails means that ZA, which is twenty-two letters, ascends for MAN to Bina and connects in her in the middle line, which unites the right and the left. That Hochma is the father of the fathers, HGT of ZA. There are beginning and end in this Hochma, and for this reason, they are called upper Hochma and lower Hochma, where upper Hochma is the beginning, and lower Hochma is the end. When Hochma expands to ZA, he is called the “father of the fathers.” Everything is included in this Hochma, as it is written, “You have made them all with wisdom.”
