Part 1: The repair of the vessels proceeded little by little... For to say that the light enters into the vessel only when it is purified could be problematic; yet we know that so far the process of purification after the breaking of the vessels is still not complete (see Opening 37). If so, how could lights enter into the vessels even after the start of the repair if the process of purification is not complete?
The answer is that the repair did not come about all at once but gradually. It started when the phase of repair first began, and advances stage by stage with every passing day through the ever-renewed process of sorting and sifting that takes place each day. The greater the repair, the more the light is able to enter, as the proposition goes on to state: