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Chapter FourExplains the ten Sefirot that emerge one above the other, and contains two issues:1. Each one hundred Sefirot that emerge by coupling by striking at an equal level are regarded as merely one Sefira. 2. The ten Sefirot of equal level emerge from a single coupling by striking, and the ten Sefirot that emerge one above the other emerge from five couplings by striking.Five levels of ten Sefirot emerge from the five phases of coarseness, one above the other, through refinement.1. We shall now explain the ten Sefirot that emerge one above the other. Know that because of the five phases in the above vessel of Malchut, five levels emerge through the abovementioned coupling by striking, one above the other, due to the refinement of the screen and its appearance in the above five phases of coarseness in the vessel of Malchut.When the screen is over the complete coarseness in the vessel of Malchut, called the coarseness of phase four, it is considered that there are five phases in the light reflected from her. Therefore, they clothe all five phases of direct light.However, if the coarseness of phase four is refined, the reflected light repelled from it is too short to clothe the phase of Keter of direct light, for it has only four phases. This matter is already explained sufficiently in Inner Observation (Part 2, item 72), study it there, and there is no need to elaborate on it here.

However, we must know that any expansion of upper light for a coupling by striking by the order of degrees of the five phases of coarseness in the above screen, although there are one hundred Sefirot in every expansion, which are ten Sefirot lengthwise and ten Sefirot thick-wise, it is still regarded as only one Sefira, named after the highest Sefira in it. If the highest one is Keter, they are all called Keter; if its level is the Sefira of Hochma, they are all called Hochma, and so on similarly.

Thus, these five levels that emerge because of the refinement of the screen, one above the other, from the level of Keter to the level of Malchut, are regarded as merely five Sefirot KHB TM. Although each of the levels has ten Sefirot lengthwise and ten Sefirot thick-wise, still, because all these one hundred Sefirot are on the same level, they are regarded as a single Sefira named after the highest one.

You can therefore see the great difference between the ten Sefirot of equal level and the ten Sefirot one above the other. The ten Sefirot of equal level emerge from a single coupling by striking and are all regarded as a single Sefira. However, the ten Sefirot KHB TM emerging one above the other emerge by five couplings of striking because the screen is refined gradually from phase four to phase three, and so on, up to the root.Each of them contains ten Sefirot lengthwise and ten Sefirot thick-wise at an even level. Hence, these five levels are regarded merely as KHB TM, one above the other, named after the highest Sefirot in these five levels.Thus we have explained the great differences between the five kinds of ten Sefirot, namely: the ten Sefirot of direct light as they are in and of themselves; the ten Sefirot of direct light and reflected light whose level is equal; the ten Sefirot of NRNHY; the ten Sefirot SNGLH; and the ten Sefirot one above the other.