However, this is not called the function of perfection but rather the function of concealment, which in any event does contain some aspect of God’s actual unity. This is why we said that the good times came about through the influence of these mental powers. For it is through the mystery of these mental powers that unity is to be found even in the time of concealment, because these mental powers are the force that is the strongest, nearest and most closely related to perfection.
However, perfection itself will function only in time to come, when “Torah will come forth from with Me” (Isaiah 51:4) – meaning that a new level of Torah will come forth from God (see Vayikra Rabbah 13:3). This means that initially the only aspect of the Torah that was given was that which is bound up with the building of the cycle itself, a radiation of God’s unity to keep the world in existence.
However, in time to come the Torah will be given from its supreme Source, which is the unity functioning as what it truly is in itself. For this reason, after this there will be no more flaws and deficiencies at all.