Kabbalah Pengkhotbah 7:19: Zohar & Reshit Chokhmah

We find, namely, in the book of King Solomon, that he who lifts up his hand towards heaven without any devotional intention to utter prayer or blessing will be cursed by ten celestial powers, the “ten potentates which are found in the city” (Eccl. 7, 19), namely, the ten supernal beings who are appointed over the “spreading of hands”, to receive the blessings or prayers offered therewith, and to endow them with a power through which the holy name¹Adonai. is glorified and blessed from below. And when, through the “spreading of hands”, the name is blessed from below, it receives blessings from above also, and is thus glorified from all sides.

Similarly, the Sages explained about the verse “Wisdom is a stronghold to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city” (Ecclesiastes 7:19), and we have mentioned other articles about this in this gate in chapter five, study there.