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Based on this the explanation of a seemingly paradoxical existence of two opposite qualities within the kav/line can be understood. This first quality of the kav/line is that it is specifically within the kav/line’s ability to include the "left" in the "right" etc., which is the inclusion and unification of all of the lights that branch-off from the kesser (crown) of A"K (Adam Kadmon - Primal Man) until malchus of Atzilus (Kingdom of the world of Emanation). They are joined together by the kav/line to form complete partzufim [lit. faces or personages; meaning various configurations of the ten sfiros - emanations] in the form of a man. This represents an interrelation between the sfiros like in the body of a person where each organ and limb is connected and interdependent with each of the bodies other organs and limbs, so that they form an inseparable whole, where each needs the other in order to function properly. Until the point where it is specifically through it (the kav) that a light is switched over to enter into a vessel that is not its own, such as the light of chesed (kindness - love) in the vessel of gevurah (might - severity - justice) etc. (An example for the light of chesed within the vessel of gevurah is like a parent who takes a knife away from a small child. Even though the inner desire of the parent (the light) is chesed [love; kindness], which is the desire to give and to fulfill the desires of the subject of ones love; still, in this situation it is specifically love that motivates the parent to take the knife away from the child, which is an act of restraint and stringency depriving the child of his immediate desire. Yet, this is not viewed as a contradiction to the parent’s love for the child. Quite on the contrary, this shows that the parent cares about the child’s well-being and a parent who would not do so would be viewed as extremely irresponsible or insane.

Everyone’s individual kav/line is what allows one’s desire of love and giving to be expressed in its opposite - strictness and restraint. This is because in order for each person to express their soul’s desire for kindness (or any other of its attributes) one must first create a "measuring rod" - a system by which to measure and define how this desire is to be revealed. This includes a measuring of the very definition of love and kindness themselves as well as who and what one is to love and how this love will be expressed and how to know love etc. This ability of recognizing, defining and expressing such attributes within any situation or scenario is rooted in the very essence of the soul of man and is linked with his free will. Therefore, this measuring kav/line can define all of the soul’s expressions, giving one guidelines to follow on what is good and what is bad, what one likes and what one dislikes, etc., and at the same time it is in its ability to break the rules; specifically because through its power they where made in the first place. So that even though a certain action which may fall under the category of restraint would normally seem sort of mean, yet everyone possesses the power of judgment with which to override the normal way that a person defines an action based on special considerations, such as, for example, the ends it will bring; in this case injury to the child.)