## The Gate of Unity Chapter 9

###### The Gate of Unity 9:1
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אך הנה לכאורה אינו מובן מה שאמר אני יהו״ה לא שניתי

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
At first glance, the verse, “I HaShem have not changed,” is not understood.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:2
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שזה מדבר במלכות דאין סוף עצמו

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Now, [this verse] is speaking in regard to *Malchut* of the Unlimited One (*Ein Sof*) Himself.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:3
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הרי אם בבחינת מלכות דעשיה יש בו שינוי בין דין לחסד, שהוא בחינת התפעלות כו', מוכרח שגם במלכות דאין סוף יש שינוי זה

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
However, if in *Malchut* of *Asiyah* (Actualization) there is a change between judgment and kindness, which is [only] an aspect of a reaction, then it must be that in *Malchut* of *Ein* Sof (The Unlimited One) this change also takes place.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:4
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מאחר שאמר אני אני הוא כו' כנזכר לעיל

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
After all, it states,¹ “See now that I, I am He.”

footnotes:
¹ Deuteronomy 32:39


###### The Gate of Unity 9:5
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וכן מלכותך מלכות כל עולמים בשווא ממש כנזכר לעיל

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
It likewise states,² “Your kingdom is the kingdom of all worlds,” literally equally, as explained previously.

footnotes:
² Psalms 145:13


###### The Gate of Unity 9:6
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דהיינו כאשר עולה ברצונו הפשוט שבעצמות ממש, להיות חפץ חסד, הרי חפץ חסד העצמי הזה יורד עד למטה ממש בחפץ חסד דמלכות דעשיה

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
In other words, when the desire for kindness arises in His simple essential desire, this very same essential desire for kindness descends until the very end, to the desire for kindness of *Malchut* of *Asiyah*, literally.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:7
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וכן להיפך כפי המובן מכל הנזכר לעיל

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
According to all the above mentioned, it is likewise understood that the opposite is true as well.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:8
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וגם הרי בכל יום מחדש מעשה בראשית למטה מטה

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Furthermore, we recite [daily],³ recital. “He renews every day…the act of creation” here below [in our physical world].

footnotes:
³ See the blessings before the Shema


###### The Gate of Unity 9:9
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שהוא בקדמין ובחוכמתא דבראשית ברא

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
In other words, [“he renews”] in “*Kadmin* – Desire” and “*Chochmeta –* Wisdom,” [which are the translations]⁴ of “In the beginning He created.”

footnotes:
⁴ See Targum Onkelus and Targum Yerushalmi to Genesis 1:1


###### The Gate of Unity 9:10
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עד רום המעלות בעצמותו ממש

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
[These are “renewed”] all the way until the highest heights, literally in His Essential Self.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:11
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אם כן יש בחינת חידוש גם בעצמיות אור אין סוף

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
This being the case, [it seems] that there is a renewal even in the Essence of the Limitless Light of the Unlimited One, *HaShem*-יהו״ה, blessed is He. (*Atzmoot Ohr Ein Sof)*.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:12
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ואיך אמר אני לא שניתי כלל

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
How then can it state,⁵ “I *HaShem-*יהו״ה have not changed,” [implying that there is no change] whatsoever?

footnotes:
⁵ Malachi 3:6


###### The Gate of Unity 9:13
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וכן אנו אומרים אתה הוא קודם שנברא העולם כו' וכמו כן קודם שהאציל כו' וכידוע

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Similarly, we say,⁶ “You are He before the creation of the world; You are He after the creation of the world.” This [principle] likewise applies “before He emanated,” as known.⁷

footnotes:
⁶ See the morning prayers.
⁷ See Avodat HaKodesh (R’ Meir ben Gabay) Chelek HaYichud, Ch. 2.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:14
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ועל דרך משל מאדם התחתון, הרי יש שינוי גם ברצון העצמי מרצון של דין לרצון של חסד וכידוע

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Moreover, in the analogy of man below, there is change from a desire for judgment to a desire for kindness, even in the essential desire, as known.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:15
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ואיך אנו אומרים יהי רצון מלפניך, רצון חדש, שיתהפך רצון של דין לחסד כו'

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Likewise, how can we [pray and] request, “May it be desirable before You,” [requesting of *HaShem*-יהו״ה to have] a new desire; that a desire for judgment should be overturned into a desire for kindness?


###### The Gate of Unity 9:16
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ואנו רואין שנויים רבים בכל יום ושעה כו' בכל אשר חפץ עשה תמיד בשמים ובארץ כו'.

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
[This question is further strengthened by the fact that] we see multitudes of changes every day and every hour, in “everything that *HaShem*-יהו״ה desires”⁸ and constantly does in the heavens and the earth.

footnotes:
⁸ Psalms 135:6


###### The Gate of Unity 9:17
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והתירוץ לכל זה הוא ענין הצמצום כידוע

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Now, the resolution for all this is the matter of *Tzimtzum*, as known.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:18
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דאם היה השפע דרך עילה ועלול, היה נופל ענין שינוי התפעלות כו'

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
For, if the influence was in a manner of cause and effect, then the matter of change and reaction would fall upon it.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:19
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אבל מאחר שההמשכה בבחינת אור וזיו לבד, וגם הוא על ידי צמצום, על כן אין בעצמות אלהו״ת שום שינוי כלל, גם במלכות דמלכות דעשיה

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
However, since the aspect of the drawing down [of influence] is only in an aspect of a light and ray, and this too is by means of *Tzimtzum*, there is therefore no change at all in the Essential Self of *HaShem*’s-יהו״ה Godliness, even in *Malchut* of *Malchut* of *Asiyah*.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:20
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וכך הוא עד רום המעלות

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Such is the case, all the way to the highest level.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:21
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ואחר הצמצום יש בחינת שינוי, וזהו מצד המקבלים לבד כידוע.

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
After *Tzimtzum* [however] there is an aspect of change, but only from the perspective of the recipients, as known.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:22
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וביאור ענין ההפרש בין אור לשפע ידוע לכל

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
The explanation of the difference between “*Ohr* (Light) and *Shefa* (Influence) is known to all.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:23
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ואמנם גם בבחינת אור הוצרך להיות על ידי צמצום

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
However, even in the aspect of the light it was necessary for [its revelation] to be by means of *Tzimtzum*.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:24
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ועל כן צריך כל אדם לידע ענין הצמצום ולהתבונן בו בכל עולם לפי ערכו

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
It therefore is incumbent upon every individual to know the matter of *Tzimtzum* and to contemplate it [relative] to each world according its value.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:25
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כי הוא העיקר בכלל היחוד האלה״י באין שינוי לגבי העצמות

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
This is because it is the main principle in the general matter of the unity of *HaShem*-יהו״ה, and [in understanding] how there is no change relative to the Essential Self of *HaShem*-יהו״ה, blessed is He.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:26
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וכמו קמיה כחשיכה כאורה, רוחניות וגשמיות שוין, עד אצילות ועשיה שוין כידוע

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
[This is to say] that before Him, “the darkness and the light are equal,”⁹ the spiritual and the physical are equivalent, so much so, that the world of *Atzilut* and the world of *Asiyah* are equal [before Him], as known.

footnotes:
⁹ Psalms 139:12


###### The Gate of Unity 9:27
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הגם שזהו לגבי בחינת המקיף בלבד הנקרא סובב כל עלמין בכלל ובפרט

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Now, the [above] is only in relation to the encompassing light of *HaShem*-יהו״ה, blessed is He, which is called *Sovev Kol Almin* (The light that encompasses or transcends all worlds) both generally and particularly.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:28
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שלמעלה מהדרגת האור שבבחינת ממלא כל עלמין כידוע

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
This [light] is higher than the level of light that is in an aspect of *Memale Kol Almin* (the light of *HaShem-*יהו״ה, blessed is He, that fills all worlds), as known.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:29
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אך הנה גם בבחינת אור פנימי, בחינת ממלא בכלל ובפרט, אין שינוי כו'

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
However, even in the aspect of the inner light of *Memaleh*, both generally and particularly, there is no change.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:30
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ועליון ותחתון שבו שוין

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
[Here too] its upper and lower [levels] are equivalent.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:31
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כמו שכתוב אני לא שניתי, ואני הוא בחינת ממלא כידוע

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
This is as stated, “I *HaShem-*יהו״ה have not changed,” and “I-*Ani-*אני” refers to the aspect of *Memaleh* [the inner pervading light], as known.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:32
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וכן מה שכתוב את השמים ואת הארץ אני מלא, בהשוואה אחת דווקא מלא

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Likewise, it states,¹⁰ “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? – says *HaShem*-יהו״ה.” He, specifically, fills them equally.

footnotes:
¹⁰ Jeremiah 23:24


###### The Gate of Unity 9:33
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זה גם כן בבחינת אור פנימי וכמאמר לית אתר פנוי מיניה כידוע

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
This too [refers to] the aspect of the inner pervading light, as in the dictum,¹¹ “There is no place void of Him,” as known.

footnotes:
¹¹ See Tikkunei Zohar, 457 (91b) and 470 (122b) and other sources.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:34
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והיינו משום דגם בבחינת ממלא בא ירידת האור והשפע על ידי צמצומים דוקא

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
The reason is because even in the aspect of [the inner light of] *Memaleh*, the light and influence descend specifically by means of *Tzimtzumim.*¹².

footnotes:
¹² This is the plural of Tzimtzum


###### The Gate of Unity 9:35
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וכידוע דגם בבחינת הקו וחוט שנמשך מעצמות אור אין סוף שנקרא ממלא כל עלמין דאבי''ע בכלל, הרי הוא נמשך על ידי צמצום בתחלה בעצמות

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
As known, even the aspect of the line and thread (*Kav V’Chut*) which is drawn from the Essential Self of the Limitless Light of the Unlimited One and is generally called the inner light¹³. of the worlds of *ABY”A*,¹⁴, *Yetzirah* and *Asiyah*. is, likewise, initially drawn by means of *Tzimtzum* in the Essence.

footnotes:
¹³ Memale Kol Almin
¹⁴ Atzilut, Briyah


###### The Gate of Unity 9:36
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והוא צמצום הראשון הנקרא מקום פנוי וחלל ריקן כו' כמו שכתוב בעץ חיים

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
This is the first *Tzimtzum*, which is called the “empty place” (*Makom Panuy*) and the “empty void” (*Challal Reikan*), as stated in *Etz Chayim*.¹⁵, Shaar 1, Anaf 2 (*Drush Igullim V’Yosher*)

footnotes:
¹⁵ See Etz Chayim


###### The Gate of Unity 9:37
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וכן בירידת הקו למטה בבחינת עגולים ויושר כו' עד שנעשה בחינת כתר לאדם קדמון הוא על ידי צמצום

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
This is likewise the case in the descent of the *Kav-*line down, into the aspects of *Igullim* and *Yosher*, until it becomes the aspect of *Keter* of *Adam Kadmon*, [this too] is by means of *Tzimtzum*.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:38
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וכן מאדם קדמון לעתיק יומין ואריך אנפין כו'

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
The same [principle] applies [in the descent] from *Adam Kadmon* to *Atik Yomin* and *Arich Anpin.* [It too is by way of *Tzimtzum*].


###### The Gate of Unity 9:39
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וגם באצילות עצמו יש מסך בין כתר לחכמה בכלל

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Even within the world of *Atzilut* itself, generally, there is a screen (*Masach*) between *Keter* and *Chochmah*.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:40
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והוא מה שכתוב והבדילה הפרוכת פרסא בין כו' כמו שכתוב בזוהר

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
This is the meaning of the verse,¹⁶ “The curtain shall be for you as a division between the holy and the holy of holies,” as explained in *Zohar*.

footnotes:
¹⁶ Terumah 26:33


###### The Gate of Unity 9:41
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וכן מאבא ואימא לזעיר אנפין ומזעיר אנפין לנוק' כידוע

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Similarly, [there is a screen (*Masach*)] between *Abba* and *Imma* to *Zeir Anpin*, and between *Zeir Anpin* and *Nukva*, as known.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:42
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וממלכות דאצילות לבריאה יש מסך, והמלכות בוקע המסך ונעשה כתר לבריאה

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
[Furthermore], between *Malchut* of *Atzilut* and *Briyah*, there is a *Masach* (screen) and *Malchut* penetrates the screen and becomes *Keter* of *Briyah*.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:43
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ועל דרך זה יש מסך בין בריאה ליצירה ומלכות דבריאה בוקע המסך ונעשה כתר ליצירה

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
In this manner, there is a *Masach* (screen) between *Briyah* and *Yetzirah*, and *Malchut* of *Briyah* penetrates the screen and becomes *Keter* of *Yetzirah*.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:44
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וכן מלכות דיצירה בוקע המסך ונעשה כתר לעשיה

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Similarly, *Malchut* of *Yetzirah* penetrates the screen and becomes *Keter* of *Asiyah*.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:45
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עד מלכות דעשיה שנקרא המלך המרומם לבדו כו'

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
[This continues] until *Malchut* of *Asiyah*, which is called “The King who is exalted and alone.”


###### The Gate of Unity 9:46
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כמאמר רבותינו ז״ל כברייתו של עולם, ברישא חשוכא והדר נהורא

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
This is also like the statement of the Sages,¹⁷ “Like the creation of the world: At first there was darkness, and then the light returned.”

footnotes:
¹⁷ See Talmud Bavli, Shabbat 77b


###### The Gate of Unity 9:47
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וכן משאמרו רבותינו ז''ל בתחלה עלה במחשבה לברוא במידת הדין, שהוא בחינת הצמצום דשם אלהי״ם שבמלכות דעשיה

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
Similarly, the Sages stated,¹⁸ “Initially it arose in His thought to create with the quality of Judgment.” This [quality of Judgment] is the aspect of *Tzimtzum*, [which is] the title God-*Elohi”m-*אלהי״ם of *Malchut* of *Asiyah*.

footnotes:
¹⁸ See Rashi on Bereshit 1:1 and the citations there.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:48
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כמו שכתוב בראשית ברא אלהי״ם, בחוכמתא, בקדמין, רצון וחכמה דמלכות דעשיה וכו' ודי למבין:

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
This is as stated, “In the beginning God-*Elohi”m*-אלהי״ם created etc.” [“*Bereshit* – In the beginning” is translated as] “*Bechochmeta –* With Wisdom,” and “*BeKadmin* – With Desire,” which is the desire and wisdom of *Malchut* of *Asiyah*. This will suffice for those of understanding.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:49
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ועל פי זה יתורץ הכל דמה שכתוב אני יהו״ה לא שניתי

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
According [to all of the above] everything is resolved [in regard to] the verse,¹⁹ “I *HaShem-*יהו״ה have not changed.”

footnotes:
¹⁹ Malachi 3:6


###### The Gate of Unity 9:50
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בין רצון של חסד או דין בכל עולם דאבי''ע

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
[This is to say that there is no change] between a desire for kindness or for judgment in all of the worlds of *ABY”A*.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:51
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היינו כמו שהוא קודם הצמצום ומסך שבוקע בו ונעשה כתר לעולם התחתון

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
In other words, [this refers to] how He is before the *Tzimtzum* or *Masach* (screen) through which [the light] penetrates and becomes the *Keter* of the lower world.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:52
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ועל זה אמר יהי רצון מלפניך דייקא

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
It is, specifically, to this aspect, [that is, the Essential Self of *HaShem*-יהו״ה, blessed is He, that we pray and] say, “May it be desirable, specifically, before You.”


###### The Gate of Unity 9:53
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וכל בחינת מעלה ומטה שבעולם זה שוין כו'

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
[Relative to the Essential Self of *HaShem*-יהו״ה, blessed is He,] all aspects of “higher” and “lower” in the world, are literally equivalent.


###### The Gate of Unity 9:54
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אבל אחר הצמצום נמשך הרצון בחכמה ומדות בשינויים עד מלכות דעשיה, אומרים יהי רצון מלפניך, בשינוי לענין עשיה בפועל ממש, מדין לחסד וכהאי גוונא ודי למבין:

**Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2023:**
However, after the *Tzimtzum*, the desire is drawn into the intellect and emotions with changes, until the aspect of *Malchut* of *Asiyah* [about which] we say, “May it be desirable before You,” [meaning that *HaShem*-יהו״ה, blessed is He, should cause] a change in actual action, from judgment to kindness and the like. This will suffice those of understanding.