Part 16 · Chapter 121

However, what remained included in Adam and did not fall into the Klipot is called the Challah of the world, as mentioned. And the Challah is taken from the choicest part of the dough, as it is written: "when you lift up the best of it from it" (be-harimkhem et chelvo mimenu). And since they are the choicest, the Klipot did not rule over them as over the others. Nevertheless, since they shed from him because of his sin, reason suggests that the choicest was taken from him and the inferior remained in him, since he sinned. And to this there is also support from the verses that say "we are unclean because of the soul of man," and the like. And in particular, from what is explained by us: that the "soul of man" (Nefesh Adam) means that what remained in Adam was the aspect of the Nefesh, which is the lowest of all the souls, as is known.