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The Spiritual Vessel (Kli)
The Spiritual Vessel (Kli)
A Kli, in Hebrew, can actually mean two things: a vessel that receives something, and a tool, like a working tool. When we use the
word Kli in this section, it will always mean a vessel.
A Kli is drawn like a cup or a bowl, facing up to receive Light from above (drawing 2).
Kabbalah explains that there are only two elements in the whole of creation—the Creator and creation.
The Creator is a desire to give pleasure, usually drawn as a downward arrow. Creation is a desire to receive the pleasure that the
Creator wants to give. This is why it is usually drawn as an upwardly bowl or a cup. That desire to receive pleasure is the Kli
(drawing 3).
In most cases, you will see arrows pointing to and from the Kli. These represent the way the Kli relates to the pleasure that the
Creator wants to give.
A downward arrow, for example, can represent the Creator’s Light (pleasure), which the Kli receives (drawing 3). It can also
represent that Kli’s desire to receive the Light. But in any case, the center is always the Kli, because the Kli is actually us, and
how we work (if we learn how) with the Creator’s Light.
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