Keter D'Atzilut ("The 'Crown' of Emanation") Eight stages of the rectification process of the world of Atzilut which begins with the rectification of its "crown."
Introduction: Partzufei Ha'Keter (The "Figures of the Crown")
Atik Yomin	Arich Anpin	Reisha D'lo Ityada	Reisha D'Ayin
Reisha D'Arich	Gulgalta	Mocha Stima'ah	Dikna

Resha D'Ayin
"The Head of Nothingness"

The second of the three "heads" of the keter (of the rectified world of Atzilut), "the Head of Nothingness," corresponds, in general, to the seven lower sefirot of partzuf Atik Yomin, those "enclothed," as a soul in a body, within the partzuf Arich Anpin. In particular, it corresponds to the chesed of Atik Yomin "enclothed" within the keter (Gulgalta, "skull") of Arich Anpin, to be explained.

The ultimate sense of pleasure and serenity inherent within the Divine soul of Israel is its sense of true "nothingness." Whereas the mundane or animal soul of man experiences pleasure as "somethingness," the Divine soul experiences pleasure as "nothingness." In simple words: "the less I am, the less space I occupy as an independent being, the better I feel." The pleasure of experiencing the Divine source of all reality, the Divine "nothing" from which all "something" was created, causes one to "reduce" in his own sense of self to "nothing."

Of this level it is said: "Wisdom is found from nothing." A new flash of insight captures in itself a point of the experience of the superconscious state of "nothingness."

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