Part Two

Table of Questions for Topics

71. What is the origin of the vessels of circles

72. What are the records that remained in the circles after the restriction

73. Why are the circles located one inside the other

74. Why is there no state of one being inside the other in Ein Sof

75. What is the root of all the lights

76. What is the root of all the vessels

77. What is the origin of the reflected light

78. Why do the lights precede the vessels

79. Why does Bina not precede Hochma

80. What is the origin of the controlling force in the worlds

81. Where does the screen come from

82. How many causes preceded the screen

83. What is the source of vessels of straightness

84. From where do the circles get their light

85. How do the circles receive light from one another

86. Why must the circles receive from the straightness

87. What are the windows at the top and at the bottom of every circle

88. What made the circles become one under the other

89. Why do the circles need to be connected by the line

90. What is the difference between the Sefirot of straightness and the Sefirot of circles

91. Why is the restriction not enough, and a screen is also required

92. What are the lights of straightness

93. What is the difference between straight illumination and circular illumination

94. What makes the circles finer than the straightness

95. What makes the Sefirot of straightness better than the Sefirot of circles

96. In the circles, the more external the circle, the better. Why

97. In vessels of straightness, the more inner the vessel, the better. Why

98. Why is the world of Assiya more external than all other world

99. Who caused the appearance of the screen

100. When was the screen formed

101. Why does the quality of the screen depend on the coarseness of phase four

102. What are the vessels of reception in the light of the line

103. What are the two kinds of ten Sefirot in each emanated being

104. Why is reflected light considered to be a vessel of reception

105. What is the measurement for the amount of the reflected light?

106. Why is Malchut regarded as Keter of the reflected light

107. Why do the screen and the coarseness function as one

108. Why are the coarseness and the reflected light interdependent

109. What refines the screen

110. Why are the Sefirot of circles regarded as Nefesh

111. Why are the Sefirot of straightness regarded as Ruach

112. What is the merit of the first three Sefirot of straightness

113. How are the Sefirot of straightness positioned inside the circles

114. Why are the circles positioned in the place of GAR of straightness

115. What is the distance between each two circles

116. Why don’t the circles surround the ZAT of straightness

117. Why it is forbidden to engage in the GAR of each degree

118. Is it forbidden to engage in all ten inner Sefirot in the GAR

119. Why do we not engage in the Sefirot of circles

120. How are the ten Sefirot divided among the five phases of the desire

121. What exactly does it mean, “Ten and not nine, ten and not eleven

122. Why doesn’t the will to receive appear all at once

123. Why is the coarseness regarded as internality

124. Why specifically the internality is regarded as a vessel of reception

125. How is the greatness or smallness of the worlds measured?

126. Why does the light also depart from the first three phases during the restriction

127. What are the three discernments in the vessels

128. What are the two discernments in a spiritual substance

129. To which point is the emanated being named after its upper one

130. When is the emanated being considered to be leaving the upper one into its own authority

131. What does impossible mean

132. What does not intending mean

133. Why is phase one considered to be impossible and not intending

134. Why is phase two considered to be possible and not intending

135. Why is phase three considered to be impossible and intending

136. Why is phase four considered to be possible and intending

137. Why are not all the phases of the desire fit for being vessels of reception, but only phase four

138. Why every change of form in phase four becomes a new emanated being

139. Why is the upper light incessant in the emanated beings

140. What is the difference between bestowal and reception in the vessels

141. Why does the giver give to the most coarse while the receiver receives in the most refined

142. How should we understand the novelty of form in the expansion of the upper light?

143. How is the emanated being emanated from the upper light

144. What is the difference between the names of the four phases and the names KHB ZON

145. What is the order of the entrance of the lights into the emanated being after the correction

146. In what order do the vessels in each Partzuf grow after the correction

147. What is the first substance of every emanated being

148. What are the Ketarim (pl. for Keter) in each degree

149. Why does the light not become absent in its place when it moves to another place.

150. How is every upper one incorporated in the ones below it

151. How is every lower one incorporated in the ones above it

152. What is the key to finding the distinction between the Sefirot that are incorporated in one another

153. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Keter

154. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Hochma

155. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Bina

156. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Hesed

157. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Gevura

158. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Tifferet

159. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Netzah

160. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Hod

161. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Yesod

162. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Malchut

163. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Keter in Keter

164. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Hochma of Keter

165. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Bina of Keter

166. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Hesed of Keter of Keter

167. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Gevura of Hochma of Netzah

168. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Tifferet of Bina of Hod

169. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Netzah of Yesod of Keter

170. Which are the phases of direct light and reflected light in Hod of Tifferet of Malchut

171. How are the lights of direct light and reflected light clothed in the vessels

172. What is the order of cause and consequence from Ein Sof through Malchut of Adam Kadmon