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 לִי יְּא רִי וַאֲנִי עֲשִיתִנִי “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.
