The Path of Daleth: Chokmah to Binah

The fourteenth path is the topmost horizontal path of the Tree, joining Chokmah, Wisdom, to Binah, Understanding, the supernal father and mother, whose union above the abyss is the source from which the lower sefirot flow. It carries the letter Daleth, whose name means "door", the aperture between the two supernal powers, and whose form derives from a pictograph of a door or doorway.

In the Sefer Yetzirah Daleth is one of the seven double letters assigned to the seven planets, and it is given to Venus, the planet of love, union and generation, fitting for the path that links the primordial masculine and feminine and stands as the doorway of creative union at the summit of the Tree. The attribution of the letter to Venus is part of the ancient Jewish scheme in which the alphabet is the toolkit of creation, the seven doubles corresponding to the seven planets and the fundamental pairs of opposites the Sefer Yetzirah names.