The Rebbe Rashab explains the meaning of the “eyes” of Adam Kadmon, and what it has to do with the Keilim of the Sefiros of Akudim and Nekudim:
The idea of “eyes” is that by looking at something, the person has an “encompassing” connection to that thing. (For example, we find that a Tzadik can have a powerful effect on someone by just looking at him in the face, without even saying a word. This is an “encompassing” light that envelops the person receiving that look from the Tzadik. Similarly, Moshe Rabeinu looked at the entire land of Eretz Yisrael before he passed away, thereby bringing down an encompassing Light and power into it.)
The level of Adam Kadmon, is the first level that came into being from the Kav, it is the all-encompassing plan and desire from Hashem for everything in the subsequent worlds, like the general blueprint of the architect for the entire building. When it “looks” at a certain level of Hishtalshelus, it is drawing into it an encompassing power. This encompassing power it receives enables it to form its own Keilim. (In the analogy of the building, at each stage of construction of the building, by the architect looking at a certain part of the building as it is described in the blueprint, he can go ahead at that stage with the actual construction.)
Through this process of Adam Kadmon “looking” at the revelations of Hashem which are the source of Akudim and Nekudim, it enables them to form Keilim. This allows the next stage of Keilim to come into being, the Keilim of Atzilus.
Meaning, that at that point there can come into being the level (of Chochma of Atzilus), which serves as that source of the source of wisdom that is found in our world.
The Rebbe Rashab explains: Chochma of Atzilus is called the “source of the source,” since, relative to the types of wisdom in created worlds, the Divine Wisdom of Chochma of Atzilus is still unlimited and cannot be fathomed by any creation. However, the Kli (singular of Keilim) of Chochma of Atzilus is the “source” of wisdom of creations, since it creates the limited wisdom in created worlds, even though, the Chochma of Atzilus itself is not actually limited.
