364. The perfecting of the rectification of this spirit, WHICH IS THE LIGHT OF MALCHUT AS MENTIONED ABOVE, is the spirit of the righteous in this world. This spirit was perfected in the time that Enoch, Yered, and Mahalalel were in the world, and when the wicked of the world increased, that perfection was removed from it, FROM THE SPIRIT. After they perished IN THE FLOOD, Noah came and brought perfection. Then came the generation of separation and perfection was removed from it, FROM THE SPIRIT. Then Abraham came and perfected it. When the people of Sodom came and removed it, Isaac came and perfected it. The Philistines and the wicked of the generation came and removed THE PERFECTION from it. Then Jacob and his sons came, FOR THEY WERE a perfect bed WITHOUT A FLAW, and perfected it.

760. Pertaining to below, WHAT IS WRITTEN, "And Adam knew Eve, his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain" (Beresheet 4:1). The Kof (of Cain), WHOSE LEG WAS CLOTHED WITH THE KLIPOT IN THE SECRET OF THE PASSAGE, "HER FEET GO DOWN TO DEATH" (MISHLEI 5:5) started to bear IN THE BELLY OF EVE with the strength and support of Adam after it had already received filth from this Kof. FIRST, THE SERPENT CAME, WHICH IS THE SECRET OF KOF, UPON EVE AND INSERTED FILTH INTO HER AND THEN ADAM CAME UPON HER. Therefore, it is not written, 'And he begot,' but rather "And ADAM knew...And she conceived, and bore" and the refuse emerged of the female, EVE.

764. HE QUESTIONS, What is the difference between this name and the name Adam? HE ANSWERS, Enosh had not his own strength, but was rather the perfection of the earlier ones, ADAM AND SETH, as it is written, "What is man (Heb. Enosh), that You are mindful of him?" (Tehilim 8:5) and, "What is man (Heb. Enosh), that You should magnify him... and that You should remember him every morning, and try him every moment?" (Iyov 7:17-18). About this, it is written, "But it pleased Hashem to crush him by disease" (Yeshayah 53:10), because the breaking of the body and the strength of the soul is what Seth bequeathed to his son Enosh. This was an inheritance that he should have received FOR HIMSELF, but he bequeathed it also to his son, NAMELY MAHALALEL.

765. The letters rolled further in order to straighten out the deviation, WHICH WAS CAUSED BY THE SIN OF ADAM, AND CAIN, AND ABEL, and they then begot Keinan, because Keinan is the perfection for Cain, FOR KEINAN IS COMPOSED OF THE LETTERS OF CAIN. He was perfected instead of him and the letters reverted to improving the world from the deviation. Mahalalel, THE SON OF KEINAN, the Mem OF MAHALALEL is the last of the letters of Adam. Hei and Lamed are the perfection of the letters of Abel (Hei-Bet-Lamed). Since Abel was not a sinner like Cain, the letters of his name were not changed, IN MAHALALEL, except for one LETTER ALONE, for in place of the Bet OF ABEL, there was an Aleph IN MAHALALEL in order to be perfected even further.