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Now, before we can continue to explain the various parts of the emotions and their interrelationships with each other, the intellect, the desire and the self, we must first understand several important matters in...

The ten sefirot have names.  These names are the vessels for the sefirot.  The reason for this is because a name draws out the essence and spreads it forth into revelation.  This is understood...

The vessels have two aspects which are interrelated: 1)  The first aspect is that the vessels give form and definition to the lights. This is in order to give them defined existence.  Furthermore, it...

There are two kinds of limitation: 1)      The first is the essential “ability to limit”.  For example, a person has the “ability to limit” the unlimited power of movement to a specific movement. This...

It is clear that there are two matters to every vessel: form and substance.  For example, in an eye, the substance is the physical vessel of the eye, whereas the form is the spiritual...

As mentioned above, the vessels come about from the “thickening” of the lights.  This can be understood as follows.  As explained earlier, the concept of a name is that it defines and describes something. ...

From the above, we understood that the “vessels” come about from the “light”. It would, therefore, seem that the source of the lights is higher than the source of the vessels. This is because...

Now, there is an advantage of the vessels over the lights in the fact that it is specifically because of the vessels that the investment of a light in its opposite vessel can take...

There are three main organs (vessels) in a human being which are the chief organs of the body.  These are the brain, heart and liver.  The brain is the vessel for the intellect, the...

Now that we have understood all of the above, we must return to the explanation of the emotions of Atzilut (Emanation) which are born out of the unification of NeHi”Y of Abba and Imma...