Chasidut zu Bamidbar 20:29

When the Temple stood, the world of Asiyah and Malkhut was at the level of Tiferet and the world of Yetzirah, and there was a true unification. After the destruction of the Temple, Malkhut and the world of Asiyah descended. See Etz Hayyim III:2, “This is the secret of ‘He threw down earth from heaven,’²³¹Lamentations 2:1, describing the destruction of the first Temple. for Tiferet Israel, which is Zeir Anpin, threw down Malkhut, which is called ‘earth,’ which had been its Tiferet [state] which is called ‘heaven…’²³²This passage from Vital is cited to source the notion that the destruction of the physical Temple was correlated with a ‘descent’ of more supernal elements of the godhead down to lower levels of existence. This why there were two types of prophets. The forty-eight drew down light from the supernal worlds and the prophets of each generation raised up the world of Asiyah so that it could receive the light. This was in the sense of the companions of the King and the companions of the Matroness;²³³I.e., the divine Presence [Shekhinah]. Moses was like the former, and Aaron, who was closer to the people and rectified them so that they could receive, was like the latter. That was why “the entire house of Israel cried for Aaron.”²³⁴Numbers 20:29.