The fourth phase of desire, “Behina Dalet,” is the creation and is the most distant from the Creator in its properties. At the same time, it is the closest to Him in its ability to attain Him.

The other phases are impossible to evaluate at all relative to attainment because there is no reflected light within them. It appears only in the case when Behina Dalet works with them.

Let’s say with my egoism, the desire to receive pleasure, I become inspired by some melody, painting, or story. These pieces of art themselves have no feeling or attitude whatsoever. However, when I tune into them with my egoism, I give them feelings and through them I attain the Creator. They alone do not have this, and this is the concept of the first nine Sefirot.

The first nine Sefirot are the properties that in connection with my egoism help me reveal the properties of the Creator that He manifests in relation to me, to my perception.

The difficulty of the perception of the Creator is that He acts “in circles” (without any limitations), while the creation has to respond to Him “in a straight line,” meaning with the screen that limits egoism. However, when we rise by faith above reason from rung to rung every time, then this ascent becomes continuous, analog, integral. Once we complete our ascent, we perceive it in a discrete way, as a specific rung.

We do reveal something from the “circles,” from the Creator’s perfection by means that we rise by faith above reason. Faith above reason allows us to approach the maximum degree from the “straight line” of creation to the “circular perfection” of the Creator.

The force of unity comes to us from the light that is eternal. And so by achieving some measure of the property of bestowal through the light, the force of the “circular perfection,” where all are equal, we thus form within ourselves desires that are close to the circle, to the Creator. However, they are formed within us through our “straight line.”

We gradually attain the circle through the straight line, but there always remains some elusive additional element that we lack. It is like when we calculate a mathematical integral, we divide the area into a multitude of rectangles approaching the curve, but there always remains an uncaptured remainder.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/19/18, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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