This symbolises the extraction of the lost sparks of ‘the other side’ [the side of evil]. The Zohar teaches that during creation, 288 sparks of holiness were scattered throughout the world, into zones which are outside the parameters of holiness, and our Divine service here in this the world of rectification is to collect and elevate these sparks. In Mitzrayim, the Jewish people elevated two hundred and two of those sparks, and thus only eighty-six remained post the exodus from Mitzrayim. (Those remaining sparks have also now been elevated during the long course of this exile. Today, the job of refining the material world has been completed. We no longer need to fight an upward battle against hostile forces in order to study Torah. We can now study Torah with the greatest ease, as we prepare for the revelation of the ultimate Torah of Moshiach).
This explains the Possuk: “The heavens are Mesaprim,” which refers to ‘Mochin of Abba and Imma’ as mentioned earlier, that the effect of an illumination from the essence of the intellectual attributes—“None is hidden from its heat”—the heat and the light reach absolutely every single possible place, even a place which is hidden and concealed, and from there it can elevate the sparks.
This is consistent with that which the Possuk states: “It rejoices like a mighty man running a course,” where the word יָשִיש has the same numerical value as the word כֶּתֶר, referring to a Hamshocha from a lofty Divine level called כֶּתֶר - crown, as a result of which one is “Like a mighty man running,” that shoots like an arrow as the Possuk states: “His word runs swiftly,” to the extent that it reaches the bottom of the bottom in a manner of אֹרַח - “pathway.”
The word אֹרַח is not the same as the word דֶרֶךְ – way. For a דֶרֶךְ is the main road that goes from the King’s palace from the King’s room all the way to the main cities outside the capital city. Whereas, the smaller lanes or the אֹרַח continue on [further] even to the most far-flung places in the very ‘bottom of the bottom’, even to the אֹרַח of the other side - the Sitra Achra—as the Possuk [uses this word to describe a menstruation] אוֹרַח כַנָשִים “the way of women” (As is explained in our Parsha), and the very very lowest also becomes transformed into good.
