8. We learned that Rabbi Yitzchak said on behalf of Rabbi Yehuda: The whole world appears as if in one composition kept together with its own web, MEANING THE QUALITY OF JUDGMENT AND THE QUALITY OF MERCY, BEING MALCHUT AND BINAH, ARE LINKED AND INTERWOVEN WITH ONE ANOTHER. And so, when the world is judged, it is judged with Judgment tempered with Mercy, WITH MALCHUT INCLUDED IN BINAH. Were it not so, the world could not survive even one moment. We established this matter, as it is written, "for when Your judgments (lit. 'justice') are on the earth," NAMELY MERCY, CALLED 'JUSTICE,' "the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness" (Yeshayah 26:9). THEY WERE CAPABLE OF RECEIVING THE JUDGMENT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, BEING MALCHUT, DUE TO ITS CONNECTION TO THE ATTRIBUTE OF MERCY.
8. תָּאנָא אָמַר ר' יִצְחָק אָמַר ר' יְהוּדָה, כָּל עָלְמָא כֻּלְּהוּ לָא אִתְחָזֵי, אֶלָּא בְּחַד עֲטִירָא דְּקוּטְפָא בְּקִיטְרוֹי כַּד אִתְּדָּן עָלְמָא בְּדִינָא כָּלִיל בְּרַחֲמֵי אִתְּדָּן. וְאִי לָ-ו, לָא יָכִיל עָלְמָא לְקַיְּימָא, אֲפִילּוּ רִגְעָא חֲדָא, וְהָא אוֹקִימְנָא מִלֵּי, כְּמָה דִּכְתִּיב כִּי כַּאֲשֶׁר מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ לָאָרֶץ צֶדֶק לָמְדוּ יוֹשְׁבֵי תֵּבֵל.