85. The answer is that the fourth level additionally became attached to the partition of Nekudim and the partition of Atzilut, from the force of the Malkhut that ascended to the nekudot (vowels)260This refers to one of four aspects of the level of Sag (or any given level), represented by the four aspects of the Hebrew alphabet: the otiot (written letter forms), the tagin (written crowns on the letters), the vowels (nekudot) of the letters and the ta'amim (the notes for chanting the letters when reading).
The aspect of nekudot corresponds to the level of Bina in a given level. of the Sag level of Adam Kadmon.261Once Malkhut, the “fourth level,” ascended to Bina in the second constriction (which took place from Nekudim and below), the partitions below this constriction received the opacity of Malkhut irrespective of their natural opacity. This can be thought of as Malkhut being present in every area below the level in which the second constriction transpires.
For if the fourth level had not participated in the partition in Nekudim and Atzilut, no partzuf could have emerged upon the partition. For even the opacity of the first level in Nekudim is considered a weak "gaze,"262Often, the light that emerges from the “eyes” (the “aperture” of the light of Ḥokhma) is referred to as “sight” or “gaze.” such that the fusion through collision does not produce any partzuf from it.263Such a small measure of opacity means that a structure of returning light and a subsequent partzuf cannot be properly formed.
This is even more the case with regard to the opacity of the forehead264Since this is the root level of opacity, which is even less capable of producing the requisite structures for a partzuf. in Atzilut, which is unfit for a fusion through collision to produce a partzuf. But as a result of the fourth level becoming attached to those partitions, they become fit for a fusion through collision.