{"id":14410,"date":"2026-01-09T22:39:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14410"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:39:58","slug":"the-need-for-a-kli-without-light","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-need-for-a-kli-without-light\/","title":{"rendered":"857. The Need for a\u00a0Kli\u00a0without Light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Purim, February 1976<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Complete faith is faith that yields wholeness. It is as Maimonides said, \u201cWhat is repentance? Until He who knows the mysteries will testify.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the \u201cIntroduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,\u201d he interpreted that he means until the Creator opens his eyes and he is rewarded with nearing the Creator. This is regarded as the Creator testifying to him. It also follows that his intention is that wholeness means that the Creator brought him closer and admitted him into His hall, all of him says, \u201cHoly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;were made in&nbsp;<em>Nekudim<\/em>, but the completion of their work was in&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>, since in&nbsp;<em>Akudim<\/em>&nbsp;there was only one&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;[vessel], meaning the&nbsp;<em>Sefira<\/em>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, which was dark because there was a&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>&nbsp;[restriction] on her quality and she remained in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It follows that according to the rule that only&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;is the receiver, it turns out that&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;obtains the first nine that emerged through the&nbsp;<em>Zivug<\/em>&nbsp;<em>de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Hakaa<\/em>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;did. This is regarded as one&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;and one dot, since only her quality remained in the dark after the&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>Nekudim<\/em>, where&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;ascended to&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, it means that&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;uses only the vessels of bestowal in each and every&nbsp;<em>Sefira<\/em>. Thus,&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;attains the&nbsp;<em>GE<\/em>&nbsp;in the first nine, and the&nbsp;<em>AHP<\/em>&nbsp;in each&nbsp;<em>Sefira<\/em>&nbsp;departed from the degree. It follows that it became dark in every&nbsp;<em>Sefira<\/em>&nbsp;because no light was extended to the vessels of reception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterward, during the&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>&nbsp;[greatness\/adulthood], when they did extend abundance into the vessels of reception, the&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>&nbsp;[vessels] broke because they were small&nbsp;<em>Kelim<\/em>. That is, the&nbsp;<em>Masach<\/em>&nbsp;[screen] could not stop itself from receiving in order to receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>, even after the&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>&nbsp;returned, the real&nbsp;<em>AHP<\/em>&nbsp;in each degree remained empty from the abundance because only&nbsp;<em>VAK<\/em>&nbsp;<em>de<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;illuminated. This is regarded that there was no&nbsp;<em>Zivug<\/em>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;herself, but only on&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;that is sweetened in&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>. Thus, in each&nbsp;<em>Sefira<\/em>, an empty quality remained, and this is discerned as a&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>, meaning without light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason we need a&nbsp;<em>Kli<\/em>&nbsp;without light is that only then is it apparent that there is still a lack that we must correct. Otherwise, we would think that we have achieved wholeness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purim, February 1976 Complete faith is faith that yields wholeness. It is as Maimonides said, \u201cWhat is repentance? 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