Binah is known as the great sea. The understanding of this sephiroth is one of the most difficult to grasp philosophically. In completing the supernal triad, it is the feminine aspect of godhead; thus it is the 'space' that is interacted with by the 'motion' of chokmah. One concept that might help the student to understand binah is to relate it back to the idea of no-thing in zen buddhism. This is the total lack of seperation, and yet, it is even beyond no seperation, it becomes the child of the three pre-supernals, meaning that it takes part in the nothingness that exists before kabbalistic doctrine. Yet what is implied is that through manifestation of the second point (which allows essence to move in relation to another point) this emptiness becomes animate through interaction with the w