A sphira, like chochmah seems to tend in both directions – up towards what it is looking at, down toward being a metziut.
The neshamah is in the body. What holds it and draws it? Not descent, but the realization that through being in the body it can have an ascent by means of being their, greater than being itself.
As we said last night, the roads paved between cities, seem to be on a practical/circumstantial level, yet there is an overall plan, since there is an overview that all of these cities are all rooted in one source. There are many cities because melucha is not limited to one place.
Malchus is the last sphirah – and the focus and intent reaches this level, which shows itself to the outside. The person has sphirot and kochot functioning internally. Then comes malchus – it says, where do I exist? Am I a real presence? And suddenly he needs a home and furniture etc.
On a superficial level, this looks like just a circumstance – yet the principle that he need a home to establish his real presence is beyond needing shelter and is not obvious at the practical level. This low level of malchus is rooted in chochmah.
It says that after the tzimzum, there was a makom panui – a vacant space. This can be viewed as nothing – a place where anything can be put, or it can be viewed as everything, where all is contained. If seen as nothing, then anything placed there seems out of place.
Without the kav, the makom chalul would not represent anything and there would be no unity. The kav brings back the ohr ein sof from before the tzimzum and has the root for all that develops there – it develops because it is intended and it unifies them all. This nothingness is not nothing – it is ein sof.
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Here's a poem from Yitzchak,
What Lay Behind Discovery
What lay behind discovery
Was not a search for gold;
Columbus sailed across the sea
For new things to behold.
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