The proposition consists of four parts: Part 1: The Eyn Sof, blessed be He... This is the underlying principle of the order that was instituted to serve the ultimate purpose as discussed in the previous Opening. Part 2: He planned and calculated how to reveal... This is the plan that lies behind this order. Part 3: Initially, He gave a place... This discusses how evil reverts to good. Part 4: And thus His oneness is revealed... This tells us what comes at the end of the cycle.
Part 1: The Eyn Sof, blessed be He, wanted to bestow complete good... As explained earlier, He wanted to bestow good to the utmost degree of goodness and perfection …so that its recipients will not even be ashamed. For, as the rabbis stated, “One who eats what is not his, feels ashamed to look in the face of his benefactor” (Yerushalmi, Orlah 1:3). In order to avoid this, He wanted that people should have a way of working in order thereby to earn the good which they then receive as their reward. Accordingly He created good and evil and gave man free will, placing him in a situation of reward and punishment until the intended goal is achieved.