Question: What is the difference between the first phase of Hochma, in which receiving the light of pleasure happens for the first time, and the last phase of Malchut, which is a pure desire to receive?

Answer: There is a great difference between Hochma and Malchut. The fact is that the first phase of Hochma is mechanically created from the zero phase of Keter. It had no desire to receive, to be filled, and to enjoy the light. But when the desire passes through all the other phases of development and reaches the last one, Malchut, then this phase is defined as the dominion of the desire to receive.

In other words, if from the phase of Keter a very small desire Hochma appears, which in its development through the phases of Bina and Zeir Anpin reaches the level of Malchut, then, in doing so, it turns into a great desire that yearns only to receive and to absorb into itself. Therefore, it is considered a complete desire, a complete creation.

In addition, the difference between the first and the last phase is the quality of pleasure. In the first phase, the creation unconsciously receives pleasure from the light of the Creator, which He gives, and in the last one, it already wants to use this light for its own sake or to be like the Creator. That is, it is a qualitatively different level of desire.
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From KabTV’s “Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah” 7/16/23

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