Part 2: In order to accomplish this in actuality, it was necessary for these garments to provide a place for it to come into being. As explained above, the Supreme Will wanted the individual details of the process to be distinct – the deficiencies by themselves and the repair by itself.
This was through the selection and gradation that took place among them... For initially, even though the vessels were broken, as stated above, everything was only in the Sefirot prior to the emergence of separate creations. Thus when we say that evil was revealed, this was not actual evil itself – the Other Side – but rather, the roots of evil, i.e. the strict judgments and flaws of all different kinds found in the lights themselves. Actual evil itself emerged only afterwards, following the repair – in other words, after all the levels were instituted in their repaired state as laws in the governmental order. It was then that they brought forth the separate creations and the Other Side emerged in accordance with these roots revealed when the vessels broke. It was the breaking of the vessels that involved the separation into levels that we discussed above (Opening 47), where each level in succession turned away from producing evil, leaving only the lowest level of Malchut of Asiyah to produce evil. It was this lowest level of Malchut of Asiyah that brought forth evil into actuality, with aspects corresponding to all the roots contained in it from all the Sefirot. For this Malchut includes all those roots and brings forth their function into actuality in the form of the Other Side itself.