Section: The Unknown Head (Openings 85–89)
This is the opener of The Unknown Head, a five-chapter unit (Op. 85-89) that develops radla (reisha de-lo ityada, the Unknown Head — the upstream concealed level of Atik) as the location of the concealed governmental order, and the uncertainties (sefekot) about its operation that the system itself requires us to hold without resolution. The previous unit (Op. 78-84) established that the concealed governmental order — the unique arrangement of MaH-with-BaN connections — exists, is structural, is productive, and operates both at the order level (Op. 81) and inside each Partzuf as a layer of concealed qualities (Op. 84). What that unit did not answer: where, in the post-Tzimtzum architecture, is the concealed order located; and what are the precise uncertainties about its operation. Op. 85 answers the where and announces the uncertainties. Two parts. (Part 1) The location. The place where the unique joining of MaH-with-BaN is fixed is radla — the Unknown Head, the upstream concealed level of Atik. Klach's argument is structural: each function has its own level (madregah) where it is fixed and from which its branches extend; each light (ohr) is one law (chok) of the supreme attribute, shining through its luminary (ma'or); the entire governmental order is one law, hence one light on a level of its own. Since Atik is the head of all the Partzufim and higher than all of them, radla — the upstream concealed aspect of Atik — is the first place where the joining of MaH and BaN occurred. The pathway is laid down there at the outset; once laid down, the same path is followed in all places lower down. (Part 2) The unknowability. Both the order itself at radla and its consequences (toladot) in the Partzufim are not ascertainable or understandable in the least. This is why the level is named Unknown Head — not because we have not yet learned it, but because, by the architectural conditions of Op. 81 (foreknowledge concealed for free will), it cannot be known. Sometimes certain movements are seen in the Partzufim whose root is unknown — those movements derive from here. This sets up the unit's central topic: the subject of the uncertainties (sefekot) in the Unknown Head, to be developed in Op. 86-89.
This is a unit-opener doing two jobs at once. Job 1: state the location of the concealed governmental order — radla, the Unknown Head, the upstream concealed level of Atik. Job 2: state what kind of unknowability attaches to radla — both the order at radla itself and the consequences in the Partzufim are not knowable in the least; this is what radla's Unknown name encodes; this is what licenses the unit's central topic — the uncertainties (sefekot) of the Unknown Head. The five-chapter unit (Op. 85-89) will develop these uncertainties in detail. Op. 85 itself does not enumerate them; it lays the architectural foundation. Two parts: Part 1 locates the order; Part 2 characterizes the unknowability and flags the topic of uncertainties.
Part 1 — The location: radla holds the concealed order; each function has its own level. Klach makes a structural argument that the concealed governmental order — the unique arrangement of MaH-with-BaN connections established as the true root of the entire governmental order in Op. 81 — must have its own level (madregah). The argument runs in three steps. (i) Every function (inyan) is carried out on its own level — either one of the overall Ten Sefirot or a particular aspect of one of them. (ii) There has to be a place where the function is fixed (niqba), from which its branches (anafav) and consequences (toladotav) extend to wherever they reach. (iii) The reason is given in Klach's tightest available form: each light (ohr, אור) is one law (chok, חוק) of the supreme attribute that shines through the luminary (ma'or, מאור) in question — each law is one light. The whole governmental order is one law (the joining of MaH-with-BaN is the law that determines all governance), so it is one light on a level of its own. The conclusion: this one light — the law of the entire concealed governmental order — must have a place where it is fixed. That place is radla. The Lurianic architectural detail: the Partzufim are in Atzilut, but Atik is higher than all of them and is the head of all of them, and this was the first place where the joining of MaH and BaN occurred. The reasoning: for the way they interconnect certainly has to be decided immediately at the outset, since before they start to join, it is necessary to lay down the pathway whereby the interconnection will be made. The pathway (derech) is laid down at radla — at the outset — and once it has been laid down, the same path will be followed in all the places lower down. The Partzufim of Atzilut are the consequences; the first place is radla.
Part 2 — The unknowability: both order and consequences are not knowable; the topic of uncertainties. From the location follows the unknowability. Both the underlying order and its consequences are not ascertainable or understandable in the least. The phrase is precise. Both (bein hi u-vein toldoteha): not just the order itself but its consequences in the Partzufim too. Not ascertainable or understandable in the least (einam musagim ve-noda'im klal): the unknowability is total, not partial. This is what the level's name encodes — reisha de-lo ityada, Unknown Head: the level is named by its unknowability. Except that at times certain movements are seen in the Partzufim whose root is unknown, but the truth is that they derive from here. The exception is precise: we do not see radla itself, nor its specific operations; what we see — sometimes — is certain movements in the Partzufim whose root is unknown, and those derive from radla. The unknowability of the root persists even when the consequence becomes momentarily visible. The chapter closes by flagging the unit's central topic: this brings us to the subject of the uncertainties in the Unknown Head. The uncertainties (sefekot, ספקות) are not gaps in our knowledge that better study could fill; they are structural features of the Unknown Head — places where the architecture requires that we hold the question without resolution. Op. 86-89 will develop them.
Two diagrams capture the chapter. The first shows the level-architecture: radla as the upstream-most level holding the one law of the concealed governmental order, with the Partzufim of Atzilut as the consequences below, and the both-concealed characterization. The second shows Klach's pathway-and-derivation argument from ¶6: the pathway laid down at the outset at radla, then followed in all places lower down.
The diagram reads top to bottom. Radla (the Unknown Head) holds the one law / one light of the concealed governmental order: the unique arrangement of MaH-with-BaN connections, fixed at the upstream-most level. The Partzufim of Atzilut operate below as the consequences (toladot); each Partzuf carries the two-aspect structure of Op. 84 (inner concealed, outer revealed). The both-concealed edge marks Klach's precise claim: both the order at radla and its consequences in the Partzufim are not ascertainable. The visible-movements edge marks the exception: occasional movements in Partzufim whose root is unknown — these derive from radla but their root remains opaque.
The diagram shows Klach's structural argument from ¶6. Before the joining of MaH-with-BaN can occur anywhere, the pathway (derech) must be laid down — first at radla, the first place where the joining occurred. Once laid down, the same path is followed in all the places lower down: in each Partzuf, in each combination, in each operation. The picture is upstream decision; downstream execution — the one law fixed at radla; its consequences propagating through Atzilut.
Source — Hebrew (קל"ח פתחי חכמה):
ההנהגה הנעלמת הוקבעה ברדל"א ותולדותיהם בפרצופים ושניהם נעלמים:
Source — English (Greenbaum):
The root of the interconnections between MaH and BaN lies in the Unknown Head while the results are found in the Partzufim, and both are concealed.
Plain English: The chapter's claim in one phrase, doing the unit's opening work. Two clauses joined: (i) the root of the MaH-BaN interconnections is in the Unknown Head — radla, the upstream concealed aspect of Atik; (ii) the results (toladot) — what the order produces — are found in the Partzufim of Atzilut. And both are concealed. The italic gloss locates the root and announces the unknowability that the unit will develop.
What this paragraph does: Names the chapter's topic, and through it, the unit's. Root in radla; results in Partzufim; both concealed. The compactness is the point: a unit-opener italic gloss should be the unit's whole architecture in one sentence.
Concepts: unknown_head_radla_topic, radla_reisha_de_lo_ityada, location_of_concealed_governmental_order, mah_ban_unique_arrangement, concealed_governmental_order, revealed_governmental_order_atzilut, both_order_and_consequences_concealed, mah, ban, partzuf.
Source — Hebrew (קל"ח פתחי חכמה):
מקום ההנהגה לפי ענין התחברות של מ"ה עם ב"ן הוא ברישא דלא אתידע. ולפי מה שמתנהג בה - נולד הנהגה גדולה בפרצופים. אך בין היא ובין תולדותיה אינם מושגים ונודעים כלל. כי אם לפעמים נראות איזה תנועות בפרצופים, שאין שרשם נודע, ובאמת הם תלויות מכאן:
Source — English (Greenbaum):
The location of the governmental order that depends on the interconnection of MaH with BaN is in the Unknown Head. The way this governmental order operates gives rise to a governmental order of major importance in the Partzufim. However, neither the underlying order nor its consequences are ascertainable or understandable in the least. Except that at times certain movements are seen in the Partzufim whose root is unknown, but the truth is that they derive from here.
Plain English: Three claims. (i) The location of the governmental order that depends on the interconnection of MaH-with-BaN is in the Unknown Head. (ii) The way this governmental order operates gives rise to a governmental order of major importance in the Partzufim. The order at radla is the source; the order in the Partzufim is the result. (iii) However, neither the underlying order nor its consequences are ascertainable or understandable in the least — except that at times certain movements are seen in the Partzufim whose root is unknown, but the truth is that they derive from here. The qualifier except names the only visible signature: occasional movements in the Partzufim whose root cannot be traced — those are radla-derived.
What this paragraph does: Holds the chapter's whole content in one paragraph. Part 1 (claim i — the location is radla) will be defended in ¶5-¶7. Part 2 (claims ii and iii — both order and consequences concealed; movements with unknown root) will be defended in ¶8. The proposition's grammar: location → consequence → both concealed → exception (visible movements with hidden root).
Concepts: location_of_concealed_governmental_order, radla_reisha_de_lo_ityada, unknown_head_radla_topic, mah_ban_unique_arrangement, concealed_governmental_order, revealed_governmental_order_atzilut, both_order_and_consequences_concealed, movements_in_partzufim_with_unknown_root, mah, ban, partzuf, atzilut.
Source — Hebrew (קל"ח פתחי חכמה):
אחר שביארנו ענין ההנהגה הזאת של מ"ה וב"ן, עכשיו נבאר המקום שבו היא קבועה.
Source — English (Greenbaum):
Having discussed this governmental order of MaH and BaN, we will now examine its location.
Plain English: Klach signals the move from the previous unit (Op. 78-84, which established the existence and operation of the concealed MaH-BaN governmental order) to this unit (Op. 85-89, which will examine its location and its uncertainties). Having discussed — the prior unit. We will now examine its location — the new question.
What this paragraph does: Sets up the chapter as the location analysis of what the prior unit characterized. The prior unit said what the concealed order is and how it operates; the new unit asks where it is.
Concepts: location_of_concealed_governmental_order, mah_ban_unique_arrangement, concealed_governmental_order, mah, ban.
Source — Hebrew (קל"ח פתחי חכמה):
חלקי המאמר הזה ב'. ח"א, מקום וכו', והוא מקום הנהגה זאת. ח"ב, אך בין היא וכו', והוא שמקום זה נעלם:
Source — English (Greenbaum):
This proposition has two parts. Part 1: The location... This explains where this governmental order is located. Part 2: However... This location is concealed.
Plain English: Two parts. Part 1 — "The location..." — this explains where this governmental order is located. Part 2 — "However..." — this location is concealed. Standard Klach scaffolding.
What this paragraph does: Names the location / concealment-of-location division so each can be argued cleanly. Part 1 places the order; Part 2 characterizes the unknowability of the placed order.
Concepts: location_of_concealed_governmental_order, both_order_and_consequences_concealed, radla_reisha_de_lo_ityada.
Source — Hebrew (קל"ח פתחי חכמה):
חלק א: מקום ההנהגה, והיינו כי לכל ענין יש מדרגה בפני עצמה שנעשה הענין ההוא, או שתהיה ספירה אחת מן הכללות, או פרט אחד מאחת מהן. וצריך שיהיה מקום שבו נקבע הענין ההוא, וענפיו ותולדותיו יהיו מתפשטים בכל מקום שיתפשטו. וזה דבר ברור, כי הלא כל אור הוא חוק אחד מן המדה העליונה שמאיר במאור ההוא, שכבר נקבע כך, שכל חוק - תראה אור אחד. אמור מעתה - כל חוק הוא אור אחד, כל ענין ההנהגה הוא חוק אחד, אם כן כל ענין ההנהגה הוא אור אחד:
Source — English (Greenbaum):
Part 1: The location of the governmental order... Every function is carried out on its own level. This level will either be one of the overall Ten Sefirot or a particular aspect of one of them. There has to be a place in which the function in question is fixed, from which its branches and resulting consequences extend to every place where they reach. That each function has its own level should be quite clear, because each light (אור, ohr) is one law of the supreme attribute which shines through the luminary (מאור, ma'or) in question, since it has already been instituted that each law should shine as one light. (The entire governmental order comes to teach about the will of God, and therefore each law is a light.) Since each law is one light and the overall governmental order is a single law, it follows that the entire governmental order is one light on a level of its own.
Plain English: The structural argument for why the concealed governmental order must have its own level. Klach takes three steps. (i) Every function has its own level. The level is either one of the overall Ten Sefirot or a particular aspect of one of them; there has to be a place where the function is fixed, from which branches and consequences extend to wherever they reach. (ii) The reason each function has its own level: each light is one law of the supreme attribute. Each ohr (light) is one chok (law) of the supreme attribute (midah elyonah) shining through the ma'or (luminary). The principle was already instituted that each law should shine as one light. The bracketed gloss names what makes this Lurianic-Klachic rather than merely metaphysical: the entire governmental order comes to teach about the will of God, and therefore each law is a light — every law is a teaching, and every teaching shines (in this architecture) as a light. (iii) The application. Since each law is one light and the overall governmental order is a single law, it follows that the entire governmental order is one light on a level of its own. The one law of the joining of MaH-with-BaN is one light; that one light requires its own level.
What this paragraph does: Establishes the structural premise. The one-law-equals-one-light-equals-one-level chain is Klach's general principle for level-formation. By the time Klach applies it in ¶6 (the level is radla), the reader has the structural reasoning in hand: this is not an arbitrary placement; it is the only placement consistent with the project's level-architecture.
Concepts: each_function_has_its_own_level, each_light_is_one_law_chok, governmental_order_as_one_light, ohr_and_maor, location_of_concealed_governmental_order, concealed_governmental_order, mah_ban_unique_arrangement, sefirot_class.
Source — Hebrew (קל"ח פתחי חכמה):
לפי ענין ההתחברות של מ"ה עם ב"ן: הוא ברישא דלא אתידע, היינו כי הפרצופים הם באצילות, אבל עתיק הוא למעלה מכולם, וראש לכולם, והוא המקום הראשון שנעשה חיבור של מ"ה וב"ן. כי צריך בודאי שיהיה נידון מיד ענין זה של התחברות. כי קודם שיתחיל, צריך שיקבע הדרך איך שיתחבר. ואחר שיהיה נקבע כך, אחר כך יהיה בכל המקומות שלמטה ממנו:
Source — English (Greenbaum):
...that depends on the interconnection of MaH with BaN is in the Unknown Head. For the Partzufim are in Atzilut, but Atik is higher than all of them and is the head of all of them, and this was the first place where the joining of MaH and BaN occured. For the way they interconnect certainly has to be decided immediately at the outset, since before they start to join, it is necessary to lay down the pathway whereby the interconnection will be made. Once it has been laid down in this way, the same path will be followed in all the places lower down.
Plain English: Klach now identifies the level. The interconnection of MaH-with-BaN is in the Unknown Head. The structural reason — and this is not terminological, it is architectural — is given immediately. The Partzufim are in Atzilut, but Atik is higher than all of them and is the head of all of them, and this was the first place where the joining of MaH and BaN occurred. The Partzufim of Atzilut, including the Atik-Partzuf itself in its lower aspects, are not the first place; the upstream concealed aspect of Atik — radla — is. The structural argument: the way they interconnect certainly has to be decided immediately at the outset. The reason: before they start to join, it is necessary to lay down the pathway (derech) whereby the interconnection will be made. The pathway — the manner of the joining, the specific arrangement of MaH-with-BaN that Op. 81 named the true root of the entire governmental order — is laid down at the outset, at the upstream-most level. Once it has been laid down in this way, the same path will be followed in all the places lower down. The structural picture: the upstream-most node decides; everything below executes.
What this paragraph does: Identifies the level as radla and provides the structural reasoning. Two architectural claims. (i) The location: radla, the upstream concealed aspect of Atik. (ii) The mechanism: pathway-laid-down-at-outset / followed-everywhere-below. This is Klach's compact form for upstream decision; downstream execution: the unique arrangement that determines how MaH joins with BaN was decided first at the upstream-most level, and that decision then propagates throughout the architecture.
Concepts: radla_reisha_de_lo_ityada, radla_as_first_place_of_mah_ban_joining, location_of_concealed_governmental_order, pathway_laid_down_at_outset, mah_ban_unique_arrangement, atik_yomin, concealed_governmental_order, mah, ban, partzuf, atzilut.
Source — Hebrew (קל"ח פתחי חכמה):
ולפי מה שמתנהג בה - נולד הנהגה גדולה בפרצופים, פשוט כמ"ש במאמר שקודם זה:
Source — English (Greenbaum):
The way this governmental order operates gives rise to a governmental order of major importance in the Partzufim. This should be clear in the light of our discussion in the previous Opening.
Plain English: The order at radla gives rise to a governmental order of major importance in the Partzufim. The Partzufim of Atzilut are the consequences (toladot) of what is fixed at radla. This should be clear in the light of our discussion in the previous Opening —
What this paragraph does: Explicit cross-reference to Op. 84. The governmental order of major importance in the Partzufim is the picture Op. 84 just painted: each Partzuf carries an inner concealed compositional aspect and an outer revealed governmental aspect. Op. 85 ¶7 names the radla side of this picture: the consequences in the Partzufim are governed by what is fixed at radla, and that governance is the concealed compositional aspect of each Partzuf (Op. 84 ¶7).
Concepts: radla_reisha_de_lo_ityada, revealed_governmental_order_atzilut, two_aspects_of_each_partzuf, concealed_qualities_in_partzuf, mah_ban_unique_arrangement, concealed_governmental_order, partzuf, atzilut.
Source — Hebrew (קל"ח פתחי חכמה):
חלק ב: אך בין היא ובין תולדותיה, מה שהיא עושה בפרצופים: אינם מושגים ונודעים כלל, זהו ענין דלא אתידע: כי אם לפעמים נראות איזה תנועות בפרצופים, שאין שרשם נודע, ובאמת הם תלויות מכאן, כל זה הוא ענין הספיקות, וכמ"ש:
Source — English (Greenbaum):
However, neither the underlying order nor its consequences... i.e. what it brings about in the Partzufim ...are ascertainable or understandable in the least. This is why it is called the Unknown Head. Even though at times certain movements are seen in the Parztufim whose root is unknown, the truth is that they derive from here. This brings us to the subject of the uncertainties in the Unknown Head.
Plain English: Part 2's whole content. Neither the underlying order nor its consequences — what it brings about in the Partzufim — are ascertainable or understandable in the least. The phrase is precise. Both (bein hi u-vein toldoteha): not just the order at radla itself but its consequences in the Partzufim too. Not ascertainable or understandable in the least (einam musagim ve-noda'im klal): the unknowability is total, not partial. This is why it is called the Unknown Head. The level is named by its unknowability — reisha de-lo ityada, the head that is not known. The exception: even though at times certain movements are seen in the Partzufim whose root is unknown, the truth is that they derive from here. We do not see radla itself, nor its operations directly; what we see, occasionally, is certain movements in the Partzufim whose root is unknown — and those derive from radla. The unknowability of the root persists even when the consequence is momentarily visible. The chapter closes by flagging the unit's central topic: this brings us to the subject of the uncertainties in the Unknown Head. The uncertainties (sefekot) are structural features of radla — places where the architecture requires the question to be held without resolution. Op. 86-89 will develop them.
What this paragraph does: Closes the chapter and opens the unit's topic. Three precise claims. (i) Both the order at radla itself and its consequences in the Partzufim are not knowable. (ii) The level's name — Unknown Head — encodes this unknowability as the level's defining feature. (iii) The unit's topic — the sefekot of radla — follows: with the unknowability now characterized, the unit will explore the specific places in the architecture where the unknowability requires the question to be held open. The closing this brings us to the subject of the uncertainties in the Unknown Head is doing unit-architectural work: it tells the reader that the next four chapters are an integrated study of one topic — the sefekot of radla.
Concepts: both_order_and_consequences_concealed, radla_reisha_de_lo_ityada, unknown_head_radla_topic, movements_in_partzufim_with_unknown_root, topic_of_sefekot_uncertainties, concealed_governmental_order, revealed_governmental_order_atzilut, rule_of_concealment_helem, foreknowledge_concealed_for_free_will, partzuf, atzilut.
Op. 85 opens the five-chapter unit The Unknown Head (Op. 85-89). The previous unit (Op. 78-84) established that the concealed governmental order — the unique arrangement of MaH-with-BaN connections — exists, is structural, is productive, and operates both at the order level (Op. 81) and inside each Partzuf as a layer of concealed qualities (Op. 84). What that unit did not answer: where, in the post-Tzimtzum architecture, is the concealed order located; and what are the precise uncertainties about its operation. Op. 85 answers the where and announces the uncertainties. The chapter is short and architectural — eight paragraphs, two parts — but it is doing two distinct kinds of work simultaneously: it is the first chapter of the new unit, and it is the immediate continuation of the previous unit.
Part 1 — The location. The place where the unique joining of MaH-with-BaN is fixed is radla — reisha de-lo ityada, the Unknown Head, the upstream concealed aspect of Atik. Klach's argument is structural, not terminological. It runs in three steps. (i) Each function has its own level. Every function (inyan) is carried out on its own level (madregah) — either one of the overall Ten Sefirot or a particular aspect of one of them. There must be a place where the function is fixed (niqba), from which its branches and consequences extend to wherever they reach. (ii) The structural reason. Each light (ohr) is one law (chok) of the supreme attribute that shines through the luminary (ma'or); each law shines as one light; the entire governmental order is one law (the joining of MaH-with-BaN is the unified law that determines all governance), so it is one light on a level of its own. (iii) The application. The one law that the entire governmental order is must have a level where it is fixed. That level is radla, because the Partzufim are in Atzilut, but Atik is higher than all of them and is the head of all of them, and this was the first place where the joining of MaH and BaN occurred. The pathway (derech) by which MaH and BaN interconnect had to be decided immediately at the outset; once decided at radla, the same path is followed in all the places lower down. The structural picture: upstream decision, downstream execution. Op. 85 ¶7 then explicitly cross-references Op. 84: the way this governmental order operates gives rise to a governmental order of major importance in the Partzufim. This should be clear in the light of our discussion in the previous Opening. The Partzufim are the consequences (toladot) of what is fixed at radla; their concealed compositional aspect (Op. 84 ¶7) is the trace, in each Partzuf, of the radla-decision.
Part 2 — The unknowability. From the location follows the unknowability. Neither the underlying order nor its consequences are ascertainable or understandable in the least. The phrase is precise — both the order at radla itself and its consequences in the Partzufim are not knowable. The unknowability is total, not partial. This is what the level's name encodes: reisha de-lo ityada, the head that is not known. The Unknown is structural, not contingent — de-lo ityada names that which by its nature is not knowable, not that which has not yet been investigated. The architectural ground was laid in Op. 81: foreknowledge concealed for free will. Radla is the level of foreknowledge; its concealment is what makes free will possible. The single exception named by Klach: certain movements are seen in the Partzufim whose root is unknown, but the truth is that they derive from here. Visible toladot whose shoresh cannot be traced are radla-derived movements. The unknowability of the root persists even when the consequence becomes momentarily visible. The chapter closes by announcing the unit's central topic: this brings us to the subject of the uncertainties in the Unknown Head. The uncertainties (sefekot) are structural features of radla — places where the architecture requires the question to be held without resolution. Op. 86-89 will develop them.
Three architectural notes worth holding clearly. First: the one-law-equals-one-light-equals-one-level principle in ¶5 is a project-wide structural device. Klach's level-architecture is not arbitrary placement; every level holds one law whose unified character requires a unified place. When later chapters speak of the level of X or the place where Y is fixed, the same reasoning applies: a unified law shines as one light and so requires its own level. Second: the upstream decision; downstream execution picture in ¶6 is Klach's compact account of how the architecture transmits structure. The pathway (derech) is laid down at the upstream-most node — radla — and then followed throughout the levels below. This is what makes Atzilut one single order (Op. 83 ¶3, Op. 84 ¶9-¶10): every Partzuf below executes the same path that was decided at radla. Third: the both-concealed characterization in ¶8 is the unit's framing principle. The unknowability of radla extends into the Partzufim — not because the Partzufim are themselves unknowable (they are not; Klach has been analyzing them since Op. 1), but because radla-rooted movements in them retain their unknowable character even as they manifest. The visible toladot with unknown shoresh phenomenon is the symptom of the unknowable root. Op. 86-89 will name the specific sefekot that this phenomenon licenses.
If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this: The concealed governmental order — the unique arrangement of MaH-with-BaN that the previous unit established — is located at radla, the Unknown Head, the upstream concealed aspect of Atik. The pathway of the joining was decided there, at the outset, and is followed by all the Partzufim below. Both the order itself and its consequences in the Partzufim are not knowable in the least; this is what the level's name encodes. Sometimes a movement is seen in a Partzuf whose root cannot be traced — that movement derives from radla. The architecture has limits; this is one of them. The next four chapters will explore the structural uncertainties (sefekot) that this limit licenses.
expected_md_paragraphs = 8 confirmed.concepts_introduced are explicitly named or argued in the prose. Unknown Head topic — central, ¶1, ¶2. Location of concealed governmental order — central, ¶2, ¶6 verbatim. Radla as first place of MaH-BaN joining — ¶6 verbatim (this was the first place where the joining of MaH and BaN occurred). Pathway laid down at outset — ¶6 verbatim (before they start to join, it is necessary to lay down the pathway). Each function has its own level — ¶5 verbatim (every function is carried out on its own level). Each light is one law (chok) — ¶5 verbatim (each light is one law of the supreme attribute). Governmental order as one light — ¶5 verbatim (the entire governmental order is one light on a level of its own). Ohr and ma'or — ¶5 verbatim with both Hebrew terms parenthesized. Both order and consequences concealed — ¶8 verbatim (neither the underlying order nor its consequences are ascertainable). Movements in Partzufim with unknown root — ¶8 verbatim. Topic of sefekot uncertainties — ¶8 verbatim (this brings us to the subject of the uncertainties in the Unknown Head).radla_and_consequences (radla holding the one law of the concealed governmental order, with the Partzufim of Atzilut as consequences below, both-concealed characterization, and the visible-movements-with-unknown-root exception) and pathway_laid_down (the pathway laid down at radla, then followed in all places lower down — Klach's upstream decision; downstream execution picture). Both depict claims explicitly made in the chapter (¶6 for the first-place / pathway architecture; ¶8 for the both-concealed / movements-from-unknown-root).Op. 85 opens The Unknown Head unit with the structural claim that anchors radla: the root of the interconnections between MaH and BaN lies in the Unknown Head while the results are found in the Partzufim, and both are concealed. Forecasts Op. 84.