Editing Klipah (section)

== Nature and Purpose ==
With the creation of the world by the Holy One, Blessed be He, and His contraction of divine flow, many events occurred in the spiritual worlds. Among them was the "Breaking of the Vessels," where many supreme lights began to serve in opposition to the lights of holiness, constituting the power of the Sitra Achra in this world. Thus, it became possible for the world to conceal the divinity within it, and the creation of the Holy One would not be openly recognizable as such.

This fact, that an unholy force conceals the divine force and divine spark existing in everything, is called in Kabbalah and Chassidut "Klipah," just as a shell covers the fruit within it.

The role and purpose of Klipah is to assist a Jew in their work to establish divinity in this world, according to the will and desire of the Holy One to have a dwelling place in the lower worlds.