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Yes, my goal is to explain it in the manner that Baal HaSulam did, but in an even easier way. This preface after all Baal HaSulam considered one of four necessary introductions to the study of Kabbalah. The goal is to draw the Reforming Light, which is the only means to develop even a millimeter spiritually. The Light is drawn specifically when one isn’t able to put the concept into a form he understands – after all, he needs to reach forms that he has no pattern in his understanding for, and he should be left with a longing for that, and not to have the (foolish) satisfaction that he does understand with the mind he already has. You see, then he stays as he is. But now he’s worse than before Kabbalah because now he’s still in this world but is calm, thinks he’s already connected to spirituality. So he has no deficiency for the Light to change him.
They do retain a reshimo, the Point in the Heart, which causes one to search for how he can return to the perception of the Upper Worlds. He doesn’t know that that is why he is interested in the wisdom of Kabbalah.
I’m not sure where the video is to which you’re referring, if it’s on YouTube it is likely that the unmute button at the bottom of the video needs to be clicked.
Taamim, Nekudot, Tagin and Otiot are, in fact, considered the Reshimot of the Partzuf. These are the entry of the Light, how the Light needed to be expelled, what that was like, and the impression left after the Light was gone. This is everything in the universe. These leave a bread crumb trail up which we can climb through the spiritual worlds.
Your thinking is correct. However, not exactly.
There are ten sefirot. Keter, Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod, Malchut.
Sometimes we only talk about 5 though, in which case the group of Sefirot that includes Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah and Hod is referred to as either “zeir anpin” or “tifferet”.
For example, Tifferet is generally more relevant when we talk about how the degrees unfold from Above downwards; whereas when we attain the degrees from below, Zeir Anpin is especially relevant. Zeir Anpin is Aramaic for “small face”, which means a small Light that can be attained at that degree.
