Teil 5 · Kapitel 19

Thus we have explained the departure, and how the vessels were made by that. Yet, although we have explained the existence of the vessel of Malchut and Yesod, in this vessel, etc., this is not why they are called ten vessels, since it is still not apparent that they are ten Sefirot, as well as that the light departed together. The thing is that it is like one long vessel whose parts are not equal with respect to the distancing of those parts from one end to the other. Thus we have explained the existence of the light, its expansion, and its departure, and they are two phases.