An additional [virtue in mitzvot involving action (aside from their function in elevating one's animal soul, mentioned above), is that]: the vitalizing soul's energy clothed in the [utterance of] letters of one's speech in Torah study, prayer or the like, or [the energy clothed in the performance of] mitzvot involving action, derives its entire growth and vitality from the blood, which is of kelipat nogah itself, meaning all the food and drink that one has eaten and drunk, and which have become blood.

These were under the dominion of kelipat nogah and drew their vitality from it.

Now [that the person performs a mitzvah with the energy derived from this food and drink] this kelipah is transformed from evil to good and is absorbed into holiness, by means of the energy of the animal soul that grows from it [i.e., the energy nourished by those objects that derive their vitality from this kelipah], which has now clothed itself in these letters [of Torah and prayer] or in the performance of this mitzvah, which actually constitute the unveiled expression of the inner aspect of G-d's Will.

For their vitality [the vitality expended in performing mitzvot] is also absorbed [like the mitzvot themselves] into the blessed Ein Sof-light, which is His Will [as expressed in mitzvot], and with their vitality the energy of the animal soul is likewise elevated and absorbed [into the Ein Sof-light;

And since the energy necessary for performing mitzvot was supplied by food and drink, the vitality of the food and drink is likewise absorbed in the Ein Sof-light, together with the mitzvah whose performance it made possible].

Thereby, all of kelipat nogah, which constitutes the vitality of this physical and corporeal world as a whole, will ascend as well.

[When will this come about?]