{"id":11945,"date":"2025-12-13T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=11945"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:36:47","slug":"what-does-it-mean-that-the-sitra-achra-is-called-malchut-without-a-crown-7","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/what-does-it-mean-that-the-sitra-achra-is-called-malchut-without-a-crown-7\/","title":{"rendered":"17. What Does It Mean that the\u00a0Sitra Achra\u00a0Is Called \u201cMalchut without a Crown\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I heard in 1941, Jerusalem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crown means&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;is the Emanator and the Root.&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>[holiness] is connected to the root, meaning that&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;is considered being in equivalence of form with its root. This means that as our Root, namely the Creator, wants only to bestow, as it is written, \u201cHis desire to do good to the creatures,\u201d so the&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>&nbsp;is only to bestow upon the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Sitra<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Achra<\/em>&nbsp;[other side], however, is not so. She aims only to receive for herself. For this reason, she is not adhered to the Root, being&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>. This is why the&nbsp;<em>Sitra Achra<\/em>&nbsp;is referred to as having no&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;[crown]. In other words, she has no&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;because she is separated from the&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we can understand what our sages said (<em>Sanhedrin<\/em>&nbsp;29), \u201cAll who add, subtract.\u201d This means that if you add to the count, it subtracts. It is written (<em>Zohar<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Pekudei<\/em>, Item 249), \u201cIt is the same here, relating to what is inside, it writes, \u2018Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains.\u2019 Relating to what is outside, it writes, \u2018eleven curtains,\u2019 adding letters, meaning adding the&nbsp;<em>Ayin<\/em>&nbsp;[the added Hebrew letter] to the twelve, and subtracting from the count. It subtracts one from the number twelve because of the addition of the&nbsp;<em>Ayin<\/em>&nbsp;to the twelve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is known that calculation is implemented only in&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, who calculates the height of the degree (through the&nbsp;<em>Ohr Hozer<\/em>&nbsp;[reflected light] in her). Also, it is known that&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201cthe will to receive for oneself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she annuls her will to receive before the Root, and does not want to receive but only to give to the Root, like the Root, which is a desire to bestow, then&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, called&nbsp;<em>Ani<\/em>&nbsp;[I], becomes&nbsp;<em>Ein<\/em>&nbsp;[nothing], with an&nbsp;<em>Aleph<\/em>. Only then does she extend the light of&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;to build her&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>&nbsp;and becomes twelve&nbsp;<em>Partzufim<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Kedusha<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, when she wants to receive for herself, she becomes the evil&nbsp;<em>Ayin<\/em>[eye]. In other words, where there was a combination of&nbsp;<em>Ein<\/em>, meaning annulment before the root, which is&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>, it has become&nbsp;<em>Ayin<\/em>&nbsp;(meaning seeing and knowing within reason).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is called \u201cadding.\u201d It means that one wants to add knowing to faith, and work within reason. In other words, she says that it is more worthwhile to work within reason, and then the will to receive will not object to the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This causes a flaw, meaning that they were separated from the&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>, called \u201cthe desire to bestow,\u201d which is the Root. There is no longer the matter of equivalence of form with the Root, called&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>. For this reason, the&nbsp;<em>Sitra Achra<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201c<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;without a Crown.\u201d It means that&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<em>Sitra Achra<\/em>&nbsp;does not have&nbsp;<em>Dvekut<\/em>&nbsp;[adhesion] with the&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>. For this reason, they have only eleven&nbsp;<em>Partzufim<\/em>, without&nbsp;<em>Partzuf Keter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the meaning of what our sages said, \u201cninety nine died of evil eye,\u201d meaning because they have no quality of&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>. It means that the&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;in them, being the will to receive, does not want to annul before the Root, called&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>. This means that they do not want to make of the&nbsp;<em>Ani<\/em>&nbsp;[I], called \u201cthe will to receive,\u201d a quality of&nbsp;<em>Ein<\/em>&nbsp;[nothing], which is the annulment of the will to receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, they want to add. And this is called \u201cthe evil&nbsp;<em>Ayin<\/em>\u201d [eye]. That is, where there should be&nbsp;<em>Ein<\/em>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<em>Aleph<\/em>&nbsp;[the first letter in the word&nbsp;<em>Ein<\/em>], they insert the evil&nbsp;<em>Ayin<\/em>&nbsp;[eye, the first letter in the word]. Thus, they fall from their degree due to lack of&nbsp;<em>Dvekut<\/em>&nbsp;with the Root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the meaning of what our sages said, \u201cAnyone who is proud, the Creator says, \u2018He and I cannot dwell in the same abode,\u2019\u201d as he makes two authorities. However, when one is in a state of&nbsp;<em>Ein<\/em>, and annuls himself before the Root, meaning that one\u2019s sole intention is only to bestow, like the Root, you find that there is only one authority here\u2014the authority of the Creator. Then, all that one receives in the world is only in order to bestow upon the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the meaning of what he had said, \u201cThe whole world was created only for me, and I, to serve my Maker.\u201d For this reason, I must receive all the degrees in the world so that I can give everything to the Creator, which is called \u201cto serve my Maker.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard in 1941, Jerusalem Crown means&nbsp;Keter, and&nbsp;Keter&nbsp;is the Emanator and the Root.&nbsp;Kedusha[holiness] is connected to the root, meaning that&nbsp;Kedusha&nbsp;is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6231,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[25],"class_list":["post-11945","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-baal-hasulam"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kabbalah | 17. 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