ואלה המלכים אשר מלכו בארץ אדוםThe Seven Kings

ve-eleh ha-melakhim asher malkhu be-eretz edomIn Gamatria ↗

Each king could carry only its own light, and they came all at once.

The seven lower points, from Da'at down to Malkhut, are the kings of Genesis 36 who 'reigned in Edom' before any king ruled Israel. Bela son of Beor is Da'at, and so on down the list. Netzach and Hod count as one, being two halves of a body. Each king is a whole 'extremity', no greater than the others, so each vessel could hold only its own share. They came out together inside Da'at. Its vessel could not bear them all, so it broke and fell. The remaining six entered Chesed's vessel and broke it, and so on downward. The upper three, already set in three columns, held.

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