Mystical Garments That Had to Rule for Evil to Exist

Having discussed these garments and how they needed to rule in order to produce evil, we will now explain what this rule entailed.

The proposition consists of two parts. Part 1: When it was necessary to give control... This explains how the garments ruled. Part 2: This is called a fall for them... This explains why their rule is called a fall.

Part 1: When it was necessary to give control to the garments by themselves... As I wrote above, the root of evil lay only in the function carried out by the garments during the time of their rule, when they were considered worlds in their own right. For it is said of all that stands in Atzilut, “Evil will not dwell with You” (Psalms 5:5). Now since the intention was to produce evil, it was necessary for these garments to rule, and then they would produce it.