Editing Woman (Isha) (section)

== Women's Das is Light ==
Chazal said "nashim daatan kalah" (women's das is light) - meaning that their dominant intellectual faculty is only the mochin of Chochmah and Binah, but not the moach of Daas. Other sources explain that women's midos (emotional attributes) are drawn only from the sefirah of Binah, which is on the left axis - the axis of Gevuros (5 Gevuros of Ima), and not from the sefirah of Chochmah, which is on the right axis - the axis of Chassadim (5 Gevuros of Abba). Therefore, their faculty of Daas is weaker, as Daas is the power to combine two opposing axes of Chesed and Gevurah. This is also why women are more easily persuaded from yes to no and vice versa, because they have only one axis, without the integration that comes through Daas. However, this doesn't mean women have no Daas at all, rather their Daas is "light" - meaning their Daas primarily feels Gevuros rather than Chassadim, and isn't strong enough to combine Chesed and Gevurah together, therefore it isn't completely stable.

In avodas Hashem, there are two types of service - "when man seeds first, a female is born" and "when woman seeds first, a male is born": When the service is done through the power of influence from above, "isarusa d'leila" first, the result is an unstable divine service in the manner of "female" whose das is light, without the permanence that comes through Daas; but when the service is done through one's own power, "isarusa d'lesata" first, one reaches the divine service of "male", meaning stable and eternal service through the power of Daas.