מן שנשברו הכלים – ניטל מהם כח ההנהגה. וגם לא היו עומדים בסוד צורה שלמה, אלא מיני כח בלתי שלמים ובלתי ראוים לפעול פעולה. ומקורם היה מקיימם כך, עד בא הארה חדשה שתשלימם, ותתן להם צורה ופעולה:
The ability to govern, i.e., to facilitate actions and contribute to a set goal, was taken away from the vessels when they were broken. They also didn’t function as the mystical configuration of a perfect form then. Instead, they functioned as various imperfect phenomena that were unfit to do things fully. It was their source i.e., the name AV, that kept them that way throughout the breaking process until a new emanation, i.e., the name MaH, came about to perfect them and give them form and function.
(c) 2013 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman
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