{"id":15165,"date":"2026-01-14T19:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=15165"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:12:24","slug":"the-preface-to-the-commentary-of-the-sulam-the-science-of-kabbalah-pticha","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-preface-to-the-commentary-of-the-sulam-the-science-of-kabbalah-pticha\/","title":{"rendered":"The Preface to the Commentary of \u201cThe Sulam\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>THE TEN SEFIROT<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>1. First of all, one should know the names of the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>:&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>KaHaB HaGaT NHYM&nbsp;<\/em><em>(Keter, Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gvurah, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod and Malchut)<\/em>. These ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;constitute the ten concealments of the Supreme Light, which exist in order to let the created beings receive that Light. It is impossible to look at the Sun without the help of some darkened glass that weakens sunlight and makes it suitable for visual perception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With certain reserve, this may be compared to the reception of the light by the spiritual objects (created beings), for which the Creator\u2019s Light is too powerful; hence, it can be received only through these ten concealments. It should be noted that the lower the concealment is located, the more it weakens the Creator\u2019s Light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. These ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;correspond to the Creator\u2019s ten Sacred Names, mentioned in the Torah&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>(Zohar,&nbsp;<\/em><em>Vayikra&nbsp;<\/em>\u00a7\u00a7 156-177):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Name&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d0\u05d4\u05d9\u05d4&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(Ekeh)<\/em>&nbsp;corresponds to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefira Keter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Name&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d9\u05d4&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(Yah,<\/em>&nbsp;pronounced as&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cKoh<\/em>\u201d) corresponds to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Name&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5&#8221;\u05d4&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(HaVaYaH<\/em>, with the vowels of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cElohim<\/em>\u201d) corresponds to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Name&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d0\u05dc&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(El)<\/em>&nbsp;corresponds to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Name&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d0\u05dc\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(Elohim<\/em>) corresponds to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gvura<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Name&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5&#8221;\u05d4&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(HaVaYaH<\/em>, with the vowels of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Shvah-Holam-Kamatz<\/em>) stands for&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Name&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05e6\u05d1\u05d0\u05d5\u05ea&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(Tzevaot)<\/em>&nbsp;corresponds to two&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em><em>Netzah<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hod<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Name&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05e9\u05d3\u05d9&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(Shaddai)<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Yesod<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Name&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d0\u05d3\u05e0\u05d9&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(Adonai)<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;correspond to the five&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behinot<\/em>&nbsp;(phases). The fourth&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behina&nbsp;<\/em><em>Zeir Anpin (ZA)<\/em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>contains six&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>:&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hesed<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gvura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod<\/em>. The reasons for it are explained in great detail in the Book of the Zohar (See&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cHakdamat Sefer Zohar<\/em>\u201d,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cMarot&nbsp;<\/em><em>HaSulam<\/em>\u201d, p.5). Thus, the 5&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behinot<\/em>&nbsp;are called:&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter, Hochma, Bina, Tifferet (or ZA) and Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;(See also \u201cThe Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah\u201d, \u00a7\u00a7 1-7)&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>.<\/em><a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>WHY DOES TIFFERET CONSIST OF HAGAT NHY?<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Each of the five&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behinot KaHaB TuM<\/em>&nbsp;in turn consists of its own five&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behinot KaHaB&nbsp;<\/em><em>TuM<\/em>. However, the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot de Tifferet<\/em>&nbsp;are not called&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>KaHaB TuM,&nbsp;<\/em>but&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>HaGaT NH&nbsp;<\/em><em>(<\/em><em>Hesed<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gvurah, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod<\/em>), since their level is lower than the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gar<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefira&nbsp;<\/em><em>Yesod<\/em>&nbsp;unites all of them. The fact that&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behina Tifferet<\/em>&nbsp;includes six&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;does not at all mean it is higher and better than&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the contrary, since the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behina Tifferet<\/em>&nbsp;does not have the light of the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gar<\/em>, its five&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot&nbsp;<\/em><em>KaHaB TuM&nbsp;<\/em>received new names &#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>HaGaT&nbsp;<\/em><em>NH<\/em><em>. Sefira Hesed&nbsp;<\/em>corresponds to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gvurah<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Netzah<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hod<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefira Yesod<\/em>&nbsp;is added to them. It is not a new level; it is rather a mixture of all the previous&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behinot<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tifferet<\/em>&nbsp;is otherwise called&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>VAK\u2013\u201cVav Ktzavot<\/em>\u201d (six edges), which means six&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>THE LIGHT AND THE VESSEL<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>5. We cannot speak about the light in the absence of the vessel. \u201cThe Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah\u201d in \u00a7\u00a7 3-4 explains what the spiritual vessel is. First, there was just one vessel \u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. When we say, there are the five&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behinot&nbsp;<\/em><em>KaHaB TuM,<\/em>&nbsp;we actually mean that they constitute parts of&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;called&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behina Dalet<\/em>. In fact, these&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behinot<\/em>&nbsp;are stages of the vessel\u2019s development, whereas Malchut is a final stage (See \u201cThe Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah\u201d, \u00a7 5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the First Restriction&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>(Tzimtzum Alef, TA<\/em>) the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Kli&nbsp;<\/em><em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;puts up a screen&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>(Masach<\/em>), which prevents the light from getting inside it. As the Supreme Light tries to enter&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, it impacts the screen, and is reflected by it. This process is called \u201ca&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Zivug de Haka\u2019a<\/em>\u201d (a stroke interaction) between the light and the screen of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. The light that bounces back is called \u201cthe ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Reflected Light\u201d.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ROSH, TOCH, SOF PEH, TABUR, SIUM RAGLIN<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Because of the emergence of new vessels of the Reflected Light, three parts are formed in each&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>: the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Rosh<\/em>, the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Toch,<\/em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sof<\/em>. As was already stated, the screen blocked the reception of the light inside&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, which led to the Stroke Interaction (a&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Zivug&nbsp;<\/em><em>de&nbsp;<\/em><em>Haka\u2019a<\/em>) between the light and the screen. The ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Reflected Light created by this&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Zivug<\/em>&nbsp;\u201cdressed\u201d on the ten&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Direct Light. The ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Reflected Light combined with the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Direct Light form the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot de Rosh<\/em>. However, the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Reflected Light and the ten&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Direct Light are not yet genuine vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word \u201cvessel\u201d points to a certain&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201c<\/em><em>Aviut<\/em>\u201d \u2013 the size of a &#8216;desire to receive&#8217;. This means that the power of the category of Judgment, the ban inherent in the screen, prevents the light from entering&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. There is a rule: the power of the ban is effective only below the point of the restriction, but never above it. Since the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Reflected Light rise above the screen, the restriction does not apply to it; therefore, it cannot be a genuine vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Reflected Light are called \u201cthe&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Rosh<\/em>\u201d. These ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;are not considered the real vessels.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;with a screen that makes a&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Zivug de Haka\u2019a<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201cthe&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Peh<\/em>\u201d (mouth). Similar to a material mouth, which utters sounds designated by letters, the spiritual&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Peh<\/em>&nbsp;forms the ten&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Reflected Light called the five&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behinot KaHaB TuM&nbsp;<\/em>resulting from a&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Zivug de Haka\u2019a.&nbsp;<\/em>These&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;are the vessels for the Direct Light; these vessels are called \u201cletters\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>(\u201cOtiot<\/em>\u201d). Thus, now we know what the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot de Rosh<\/em>&nbsp;are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. When the ten Sefirot of the Direct Light, and the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Reflected Light spread under the screen, the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Reflected Light turn into the real vessels for the reception of the light. These in turn dress onto the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;of the Direct Light. This happens because the screen that created the Reflected Light already rules over it with the help of its&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Aviut<\/em>. These ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;(now genuine vessels) are called \u201cthe&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Toch<\/em>\u201d and \u201cthe&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Guf<\/em>\u201d, i.e., they constitute the inner part of the&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut de Toch<\/em>&nbsp;is called&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cTabur<\/em>\u201d. The&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tabur<\/em>&nbsp;is a center. It means that&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut de&nbsp;<\/em><em>Toch<\/em>&nbsp;is a central, principal&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. The genuine vessels of the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Guf<\/em>&nbsp;were formed out of its Reflected Light. We may also add that the word&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tabur&nbsp;<\/em><strong>(\u05d8\u05d1\u05d5\u05e8)<\/strong>&nbsp;consists of the same combination of letters as the word&nbsp;<strong>\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1<\/strong><strong>\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(\u201cTov&nbsp;<\/em>&#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ohr<\/em>\u201d, good light). This suggests that the light is good when it is inside the vessels fit to receive it. Thus, now we understand the meaning of the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot de Toch<\/em>&nbsp;down to the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tabur<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. There are two&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behinot<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut de Rosh<\/em>:&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>1. Malchut Mesayemet<\/em>&nbsp;(limiting), i.e.,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Masach<\/em>&nbsp;in this place prevents the light from entering the vessels of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>2. Malchut Mizdaveget,&nbsp;<\/em>which makes&nbsp;<em>Zivug<\/em>. There would have been no vessels of reception, unless the light impacted on the screen (a&nbsp;<em>Zivug de Haka\u2019a<\/em>) and elevated the Reflected Light. There would have been no light, because without the vessel the light does not exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Behinot<\/em>&nbsp;exist in&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut de Rosh<\/em>&nbsp;only as&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cShorashim<\/em>\u201d \u2013 roots, sources.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut Mesayemet de Rosh&nbsp;<\/em>is a root of the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut Mesayemet<\/em>, which completes this level.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut Mizdaveget de Rosh<\/em>causes the light to get inside the vessels. Both of these actions really happen only in the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Guf<\/em>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>, i.e., in the space between the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Peh<\/em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tabur<\/em>, where the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut Mizdaveget<\/em>&nbsp;rules, and so the Supreme Light enters the vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Malchut Mesayemet<\/em>&nbsp;rules in the space between the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tabur<\/em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sium<\/em>, creating the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot de Sium<\/em>&nbsp;(end of the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>). Each of these&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;has only luminescence of the Reflected Light; the Supreme light cannot enter them. The&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>&nbsp;ends at the point of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut de Sium<\/em>, since this is exactly the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut Mesayemet<\/em>&nbsp;that does not receive any light; it limits the spreading of the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Kli de Partzuf<\/em>. We also call it&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;de&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cSium Raglin<\/em>\u201d (\u201cend of the legs\u201d), which cuts the light off and limits the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot de Sium<\/em>, which spread from the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tabur<\/em>&nbsp;down to the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sium Raglin<\/em>, are called the ten&nbsp;<em>Sefirot de Sof<\/em>; they are all parts of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut de Sof<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>de Sium<\/em>. By saying that there is only the Reflected Light inside these&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot,<\/em>&nbsp;we do not mean they have no Direct Light at all. There is some luminescence of the Direct Light in them, but it is considered the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>VAK bli Rosh<\/em>&nbsp;(See \u201cThe Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah\u201d, \u00a750-53).<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>CHAZEH (CHEST)\u00a0<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>9. Up to this point, we have spoken about the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzufim<\/em>&nbsp;of the world of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Adam&nbsp;<\/em><em>Kadmon&nbsp;<\/em><em>(AK<\/em>). However, a new&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sium<\/em>&nbsp;is added in the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzufim de Atzilut<\/em>, in the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot de&nbsp;<\/em><em>Toch<\/em>. It happens because&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut de Toch,<\/em>&nbsp;called the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tabur,<\/em>&nbsp;rose to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;of the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot de Toch,<\/em>&nbsp;and restricted them. This new&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sium<\/em>&nbsp;(end) is called \u201cthe&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>\u201d. This is where the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Parsa<\/em>&nbsp;is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Torah calls this boundary \u201cthe firmament\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>(\u201cRakia<\/em>\u201d); it separates \u201cthe upper waters\u201d (i.e.,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma de Toch<\/em>) from \u201cthe lower waters\u201d (the vessels of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>), which descended from the level of the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Toch<\/em>&nbsp;to the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sof<\/em>. Because of this, the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot de Toch<\/em>&nbsp;split into two levels: a space from the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Peh<\/em>&nbsp;to the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>, still considered the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Toch<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gar de Guf<\/em>; and a space below the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Chazeh<\/em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tabur<\/em>, regarded as the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot de Sof<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Beria<\/em>&nbsp;and also the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>VAK bli Rosh<\/em>&nbsp;like the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot de Sof<\/em>.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>THE INVERSE RELATION BETWEEN THE LIGHTS AND THE VESSELS<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>10. The lights and vessels are always inversely related. This happens because the upper vessels are the first to grow in the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>:&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;emerges followed by&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tifferet&nbsp;<\/em><em>(ZA<\/em>) and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. Hence, we call the vessels&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>KaHaB&nbsp;<\/em><em>TuM<\/em>, i.e., top-down, according to the order of their emergence in the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lights, however, enter the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>&nbsp;in the opposite order, starting with the lowest: first,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>, then&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Neshama<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Haya<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Yechida<\/em>. Thus,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>&nbsp;(the smallest light), which corresponds to the&nbsp;<em>Sefira&nbsp;<\/em><em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;is first to enter the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>, whereas&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Yechida<\/em>&nbsp;(the most powerful light), which corresponds to the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefira&nbsp;<\/em><em>Keter<\/em>, is last to enter the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>. Hence, we always call the lights&nbsp;<em>NaRaNHaY<\/em>, i.e., according to the sequence of their emergence inside the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11. It turns out that when there is only one upper vessel,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>, which appears first, it is not filled by the light of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Yechida<\/em>&nbsp;that corresponds to it, but with the weakest light of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>. When the second vessel&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;appears in the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>, the second light of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>&nbsp;enters it. By this, the light of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>descends from&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma,<\/em>&nbsp;while&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>&nbsp;fills&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the emergence of the third vessel,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, the light of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>&nbsp;descends from&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>&nbsp;passes from&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma,<\/em>&nbsp;and the light of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Neshama<\/em>&nbsp;enters&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>. As the fourth vessel&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>appears, the light of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>&nbsp;descends from&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>&nbsp;passes from&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Neshama<\/em>\u2013 from&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Haya<\/em>&nbsp;enters&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>. With the emergence of the fifth, last vessel, all lights take their rightful places:&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>&nbsp;enters&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Neshama<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Haya<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Yechida<\/em>&nbsp;fills&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12. It turns out that before all the five vessels of the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>KaHaB TuM<\/em>&nbsp;emerge, the lights are not in their places. Furthermore, the lights and vessels are inversely related, for unless&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut,<\/em>&nbsp;the smallest vessel, appears, the light of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Yechida<\/em>&nbsp;will remain outside the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>. If two lower vessels,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Malchut,<\/em>&nbsp;are absent in the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>, the two upper lights,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Yechida<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Haya,<\/em>&nbsp;will not be able to enter it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13. By saying that because of the rise of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, each level&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>(Partzuf<\/em>) ends after&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;and only two&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;remain in the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>, while&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;descended one level (See \u00a7 17), we mean only the vessels. Contrary to that, the lights&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>remained on their level, and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Neshama<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Haya,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Yechida<\/em>&nbsp;exited the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14. Certain places in \u201cthe Book of the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Zohar<\/em>\u201d say that since&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;rose to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, only two letters&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05de&#8221;\u05d9<\/strong>of the five letters that make up the Name&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Elokim&nbsp;<\/em><strong>(\u05d0\u05dc\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd)<\/strong>&nbsp;remained on the same level, while three letters&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d0\u05dc&#8221;\u05d4<\/strong>&nbsp;descended to the lower level (See The Introduction to the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Zohar<\/em>, p. 20). Other places in the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cZohar<\/em>\u201d state the contrary, that because of this ascent, two letters&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d0&#8221;\u05dc<\/strong>&nbsp;remained on their level, while three letters&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d4\u05d9&#8221;\u05de<\/strong>&nbsp;descended to the lower level (See \u201cThe&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Zohar<\/em>\u201d,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cBereshit&nbsp;<\/em>(Genesis) 1\u201d, \u00a7 59).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact is that the five letters of the Name&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d0\u05dc\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd<\/strong>&nbsp;constitute the five&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot KaHaB&nbsp;<\/em><em>TuM<\/em>&nbsp;or the five lights&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>NaRaNHaY<\/em>. When&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;rises to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina,<\/em>&nbsp;two upper vessels remain on this level \u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Hochma,<\/em>&nbsp;designated by letters&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d0&#8221;\u05dc<\/strong>, and three letters,&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>,\u05d4\u05d9&#8221;\u05de<\/strong>&nbsp;descended to the lower level. The opposite happens to the lights: the two last letters,&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05de&#8221;\u05d9<\/strong>, correspond to the two lower lights \u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>. They retain their level while the first three letters,&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d0\u05dc&#8221;\u05d4<\/strong>, corresponding to the lights&nbsp;<em>Yechida<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Haya,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Neshama<\/em>&nbsp;descended to the lower level. If one keeps that in mind and determines whether the lights or the vessels are meant in each particular case, many seeming contradictions will no longer be relevant.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>THE RISE OF MALCHUT TO BINA<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>15. One should pay close attention to the correction of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>. This notion is the root, the source of all&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Kabbalah<\/em>, since&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;represents the category of judgment (restriction). The world, the spiritual Universe, cannot be based only on restriction. Hence, the Creator elevated&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>(judgment, restriction) to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirat&nbsp;<\/em><em>Bina<\/em>, which is the category of mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sages say that the world was first created with the help of the category of judgment (restriction), i.e.,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, but seeing that such a world cannot exist, the Creator mixed the category of judgment&nbsp;<em>(Midat haDin<\/em>) with the category of mercy&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>(Midat haRachamim<\/em>), i.e.,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;with&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>. Because of the rise to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;acquired its properties, i.e., the category of mercy. After that, Malchut starts ruling the world using its new properties. The process takes place on all levels, in all the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Rosh&nbsp;<\/em><em>de&nbsp;<\/em><em>Atzilut<\/em>&nbsp;and down to the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sof de&nbsp;<\/em><em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;of the world of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Assiya<\/em>, because absolutely all levels, all worlds and the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzufim<\/em>&nbsp;consist of the ten&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot \u2013 KaHaB HaGaT NHYM<\/em>.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>THE DIVISION OF EACH LEVEL INTO TWO HALVES<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>16. All&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>, all levels, are known to end with the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefira Malchut<\/em>. This means that&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;of each level does not let the light enter it. The reason for this lies in&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>TA<\/em>&nbsp;(restriction), which forbids&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>from receiving the Supreme Light. Hence, the light spreads only down to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;without entering it; it stops, blocked by the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Zivug de Haka\u2019a<\/em>&nbsp;(stroke interaction) is made on this screen. Therefore, as&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;of each level rises to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, it begins to restrict the light in its new place in the middle of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>. The lower part of&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;are now below&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut Mesayemet<\/em>. They happen to be outside this particular level and by this form its second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, owing to the rise of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, each level was divided into two levels.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>and the upper half of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;remained on their level, while the lower half of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;(which includes&nbsp;<em>HaGaT NHY<\/em>), and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;turned into the lower level. The new end created by&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;in the middle of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201cthe&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Parsa<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17. As we know, there must be five lights on each level:&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Yechida<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Haya<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Neshama<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>, which are inside five vessels:&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>. After&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;rose to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, only two full vessels \u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 remained in each level;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;are absent there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, only two lights \u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 were left in each level. They are inside the vessels&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>. Three lights \u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Neshama<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Haya<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Yechida<\/em>&nbsp;are absent for the lack of appropriate vessels. In the language of Kabbalah, this process is described in the following way: letter&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d9&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(Yud<\/em>) enters the word&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u201c\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(\u201cOhr<\/em>\u201d, \u201clight\u201d). As a result, the word&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u201c\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;turns into&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u201c\u05d0\u05d5\u05d9\u05e8\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(\u201cAvir<\/em>\u201d, \u201cair\u201d). It means that the rise of Malchut to Bina causes the loss of the three first lights called&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cOhr<\/em>\u201d, the light by each level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It retains only the lights&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ruach,<\/em>&nbsp;called&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cAvir<\/em>\u201d, air. Alternatively, this process can be described with the help of five letters of the Name&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u201c\u05d0\u05dc\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd\u201d,<\/strong>&nbsp;which was divided in two parts &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d0\u05dc&#8221;\u05d4\u05de&#8221;\u05d9<\/strong>, so that the two letters&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05de&#8221;\u05d9<\/strong>&nbsp;correspond to the two lights&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>&nbsp;in two vessels&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma&nbsp;<\/em>that remained on their level. The remaining three letters&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d0\u05dc&#8221;\u05d4<\/strong>&nbsp;correspond to the three vessels&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>, which descended to the lower level.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>DESCENT OF MALCHUT FROM BINA TO ITS OWN PLACE<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>18. Because of raising&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>MAN<\/em>&nbsp;(request, prayer) by the lower&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzufim<\/em>, the upper luminescence descends from the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzufim&nbsp;<\/em><em>AB<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>SAG&nbsp;<\/em><em>(Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>). This forces&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;to leave&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;and return to its own place. Now letter&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u05d9&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;exits the word&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u201c\u05d0\u05d5\u05d9\u05e8\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(\u201cAvir<\/em>\u201d, \u201cair\u201d), turning it into&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u201c\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><em>(\u201cOhr<\/em>\u201d, \u201clight\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vessels of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;return to their level. Now each level again has the five vessels&nbsp;<em>KaHaB&nbsp;<\/em><em>TuM<\/em>&nbsp;filled with the five lights&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>NaRaNHaY<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201c<\/em><em>Avir<\/em>\u201d turns to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cOhr<\/em>\u201d, because the three upper lights of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gar,<\/em>&nbsp;called&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>\u201cOhr<\/em>\u201d, returned.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>THE TIME OF KATNUT AND THE TIME OF GADLUT<\/strong><br><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>19. Owing to the rise of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, each level began to have two states, two periods:&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Katnut<\/em>and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>. After&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;rose to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, the level ends under&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirat&nbsp;<\/em><em>Hochma<\/em>;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>descend to the lower level. Only the vessels&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;with the lights&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>remain there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This state is called&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Katnut<\/em>. When because of raising&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>MAN<\/em>&nbsp;by the lower&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzufim<\/em>, the luminescence of&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina&nbsp;<\/em>(light&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>AB<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>SAG<\/em>) descends from the world of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>AK<\/em>;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;descends from&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>and returns to its position. The vessels of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;rise to their level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, five vessels,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;and five corresponding lights,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Nefesh<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Ruach<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Neshama<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Haya,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Yechida&nbsp;<\/em>again make up each level. Such a state is called&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>. Therefore, the state without&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gar<\/em>, without the three upper lights, is called&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Katnut<\/em>. The state wherein the three vessels&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;return and the lights of the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gar<\/em>&nbsp;reappear is called&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>THE RISE OF THE LOWER PARTZUFTO THE UPPER<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>20. The rise of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;creates an opportunity for each lower object to rise to the level of the upper. The rule states that the upper&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>, which descended to the lower, acquires its properties; and vice versa, the lower&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Partzuf<\/em>, which ascended to the upper, becomes similar to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, during&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Katnut<\/em>, i.e., when&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;rises to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, moving&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;to the lower level, these&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;become similar to that new level. During&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>, i.e., when&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;returns to its place,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;rise to their level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By this, they elevate the lower level, inside which they were before, to their own. Consequently, the lower level receives all the lights that were in the upper level. Thus, we have discovered how the connection between the levels is formed due to the rise of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, which allows even the lowest level to reach the highest.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>KATNUTAND GADLUT OF THE YESHSUT AND THE ZON<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>21. Now that we know what the rise of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;generally means in all phases of the worlds of&nbsp;<em>ABYA<\/em>, let us look at the details. For example, let us take to phases in the world of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Atzilut<\/em>&nbsp;called the&nbsp;<em>YESHSUT<\/em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON<\/em>. Because of the rise of the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut de&nbsp;<\/em><em>YESHSUT<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina de YESHSUT<\/em>&nbsp;during&nbsp;<em>Katnut<\/em>, three&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;descended to the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON<\/em>. While being in the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON,<\/em>&nbsp;these three&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;acquired their properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>, when&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;descended to its place,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;returned theirs \u2013 in the&nbsp;<em>YESHSUT<\/em>. At the same time, they elevated the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON<\/em>&nbsp;(or, rather,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Keter<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Hochma de ZON<\/em>), with which they actually constitute a single whole. As a result, the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON<\/em>&nbsp;also became the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>YESHSUT<\/em>, i.e., acquired their properties and received the corresponding lights.<a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>UNLESS MALCHUT RISES TO BINA, THE ZON CANNOT RECEIVE GADLUT<\/strong><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>22. It should be stressed that the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON<\/em>&nbsp;cannot receive the light of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>&nbsp;by themselves, since they refer to the space under the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tabur de AK<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;rules there, controlled by the power of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tzimtzum<\/em>(Restriction), which prevents it from receiving the light. However, during&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>, when&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Malchut&nbsp;<\/em><em>de YESHSUT<\/em>&nbsp;elevated the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON<\/em>&nbsp;with them,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON<\/em>, in fact, turn into&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>YESHSUT<\/em>; now they (like the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>YESHSUT<\/em>) can receive the light of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gadlut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23. Now we can understand what our sages meant by saying, \u201cFirst, the Creator created the world in the category of judgment\u201d. The&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON de Atzilut<\/em>&nbsp;is called \u201cworld\u201d. This word refers to our world, which receives the light from&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON de Atzilut<\/em>. Whatever was received in&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON de Atzilut<\/em>&nbsp;can be received by people in our world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversely, whatever was absent in&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON de Atzilut<\/em>, cannot descend to our world. As we said, the root&nbsp;<em>(Shoresh<\/em>), the source of&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON de Atzilut,<\/em>&nbsp;is the space under the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Tabur de AK<\/em>, where&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;rules in the state of restriction. Therefore, the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON<\/em>&nbsp;cannot receive the light and exist. Even more our world, located much lower and receiving from&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON de Atzilut,<\/em>&nbsp;would be unable to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is exactly what the following words refer to: \u201cThen the Creator saw that such world cannot exist, so He mixed mercy with judgment\u201d. It means that the Creator elevated the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;(judgment) of each level to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>&nbsp;(mercy). In particular, the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut&nbsp;<\/em><em>de YESHSUT<\/em>&nbsp;rose to&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina de YESHSUT<\/em>; as a result,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA<\/em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut de&nbsp;<\/em><em>YESHSUT<\/em>&nbsp;descended one level, i.e., to the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON<\/em>. By this, they acquire that level\u2019s properties. In fact, the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sefirot<\/em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON<\/em>&nbsp;become a single whole after their descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, during the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gadlut de YESHSUT<\/em>, when&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;descends to its own place from&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>, the three vessels \u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Bina<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZA,<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Malchut<\/em>&nbsp;also return to their position on the level of the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>YESHSUT<\/em>. With that, they also elevate the&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>ZON<\/em>, with which they form a single whole. 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