Syphoning off by the other side of the overflow of vitality headed towards holiness. When there is Chessed from above, the wealth pours, but when that has to be restricted with Gevurah into a vessel then there can be an overflow, like when pouring out of a bucket into a small cup there is bound to be overspill. And this overflow will be picked up by the forces of evil.
Ches of holiness: Therefore, the connection between the left line representing action and the top line representing thought, is a good and desirable connection.
Below the row: The descent of the left leg of the letter Kuf below the row upon which the letter sits. If the row is symbolic of the middle road of world what we call life, including all the spiritual worlds and levels above, then below the row represents the other side.
Tower floating in the air: This is a phrase from the Zohar that says the Letter ‘Lamed’ is a tower floating in the air. In the Talmud in Sanhedrin (106b) and Chaggigah (15b) based on a Possuk in Yeshayahu (33:18) אַיֵּה ס פֵּר אֶת־הַמִגְּדָלִים “Where is he who counts the towers”, says that they used to learn three hundred laws from the tower floating in the air. [The hidden secrets in the letter lamed, which means to teach]. The head of the letter ‘Lamed’ is stretched above the row alluding to a Divine light from a higher realm, higher than anything to do with this world. Higher than Seder Hishtalshelus. Just like ascent of the head of lamed above the row alludes to an ascent in holiness, so too the descent of the letter ‘Kuf’ below the row alludes to a descent from holiness to the opposite.
Seder Hishtalshelus: Is the order of contraction of the divine light as it filters through levels and worlds in a gradual orderly fashion from the infinite supernal divine light above through to the finite material world by way of a chain where each level in this chain is connected to the level above as well as the level below, it incorporates all the ten supernal Sefirohs through each of the four groups of spiritual worlds. Starting with the lofty spiritual worlds and levels contracting and descending to create and vitalise our world and all that is in it.
Sits above in holiness: It is only a small bit of the left leg that is in the klipos.
Even the Klipos: The Koach of the other side of holiness that conceals the Divine light and obstructs it like the peel that covers a fruit.
Don’t say: Like Pharoh said.
"My river is my own, and I made myself": This is heresy in Hashem. The phrase comes from a Possuk in Yechezkel the whole Possuk reads: דַבֵּר וְּאָמַרְּתָ כ ה־אָמַר ה׳ אֶלֹּקִים הִנְּנִי עָלֶיך פַרְּע ה מֶלֶךְ־מִצְּרַיִם הַתַנִים הַגָדוֹל הָר בֵּץ בְּתוֹךְ יְּא רָיו אֲשֶר אָמַר לִ י יְּא רִי וַאֲנִי עֲשִ יתִנִי “Speak [to Pharoh] and you shall say; So says Hashem: Behold I am upon you, O Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great crocodile that lies down in the midst of its rivers, who said, "My river is mine, and I made myself."
G-d of gods: They refer to Hashem as the G-d of gods meaning that although they are mistaken in their belief that there are other gods besides Hashem, yet they believe in hashem’s existence but say that He is the G-d of gods.
It can be said that this descent of the letter Kuf’s left leg below alludes to a Hamshocho, a descent and revelation of the Divine light, a very lofty light that has no limit to how far it can descend and spread out. As is explained in Chassidus regarding the long final letter ‘Nun’ of the words תִדְּבָקוּן וּבוֹ “Cleave to him” that sometimes it is written without a ‘Nun’ but only here in this Possuk it is written with a ‘Nun’. Because after completing the six instructions enumerated in the Possuk before this [‘Nun’] can one arrive into the state of ‘Nun’ which represents a Hamshocho from the state of ‘fifty’.
And this state, which is from higher than the Seder Hishtalshelus, extends below the row, below to the ultimate low. To transform transgressions committed intentionally to be like merits. Until they even become merits Mammosh.
In the regular order of this, in Avodas Hashem which is hinted at in the letters ‘Ches’ and ‘Kuf’ as in the word ‘Chukah’ and ‘Chakikah’, is in a manner of תְּמִידִים כְּסִדְּרָן the regular Korbonos. In the order of the Aleph Beis, from stage to stage according to the location of each letter from these letters in the Aleph Beis, which will be Hey Ches Kuf, first comes the letter ‘Hey’ (according to the normal natural worldly order from the perspective of creation as mentioned earlier: “With the letter ‘Hey’ this world was created”). Then comes the letter ‘Ches’ (Through a person’s Avodah) that he also joins the left leg (Power of action) to the upper (horizontal) line. Then, thereafter, comes the letter ‘Kuf’ which alludes to the Avodah of Teshuvah.
However, from the perspective of an Avodah which does not go in an orderly fashion. With the Avodah of a Baal Teshuvah the Avodah can be the other way around. First, they start with the letter ‘Kuf’ from the perspective of the Alphabet in reverse as in the mnemonic Tashrak from below to above. [Like the alphabet of the first letters of the Shabbos Musof prayer ‘Tikantoh Shabbos’.] But he also needs to come afterwards to a situation of the letter ‘Hey’ which is the Avodah of תְּמִידִים כְּסִדְּרָן the regular Korbonos.
Then, there is another system of Avodah which starts with the letter ‘Ches’. This is the order of the word ‘Chukkah’. And with the various combination of these three letters, all the Avodah of a person is included.
In Avodah, of practising Yiddishkiet there are different approaches, perhaps we can say: that there is someone who perhaps grew up religious and mechanically does all the Mitzvos that are expected from him. But like the letter ‘Hey’ his action is disassociated from his thought; his intention and focus are not connected to the deed. He needs to connect the left leg of his ‘Hey’ and connect it to his thought making a ‘Ches’ which will then lead him to a Teshuvah where he can transform his habitual life of ‘Hey’ which now has thought in his ‘Ches’ into a ‘Kuf’ where he elevates his transgressions. Someone else might not have been brought up religious and he has become a Baal Teshuvah and repents for his past and regrets his life that was void of Hashem, so he has his ‘Kuf’ but perhaps he needs take on more Mitzvos more Torah study classes more charity and build his ‘Ches’ and think about the Mitzvos that he is doing, connecting his action with his thought. He will then come to a stage where he has to lose the (Self-Proclaimed) Baal Teshuvah label and do all the Mitzvos regularly building his ‘Hey’ and become a regular guy. Someone else might enjoy putting on Tefilin sometimes and keeping other Mitzvos sporadically and they might mean a lot to him and spiritually uplift him, and he may have full focus and intention whilst performing his Mitzvos like the ‘Ches’. But has not yet taken the plunge of Teshuvah, he may still be holding on to his non-Jewish lifestyle. He needs to build his ‘Kuf’ do a complete Teshuvah and then tackle his ‘Hey’ later.
And as a result of completing the Avodah in all these matters, both the study of Torah, the regular Avodah of Temidim Kesidron, and the Avodah of Teshuvah, we come to the redemption of the future very soon Mammosh!
