The proposition has three parts: Part 1: This emanated light... This explains that the emanated light was only a trace of the first light that disappeared. Part 2: This Residue is called... This explains that this emanated light has the power to provide a place or space for all that exists. Part 3: This place or space is said to be empty... This explains the concept of “emptiness” as it applies to this “place”.
Part 1: This emanated light was called a Residue (רשימו, reshimu)... It was called a Residue, but only until new developments took place in it. This is because different names and descriptions are given to the lights according to their different functions, and the light which we are presently calling the Residue will later be called “worlds”, “buildings”, “structures” and various other names. However, before we trace these later developments, we shall refer to it by the term that applied to it originally, when it was called the Residue.