Method
This site makes claims of several different kinds, and treating them as one kind would be a form of dishonesty. Here is how they are separated.
Classical source
Tanach, Talmud, Midrash, Rambam. Quoted in the original, short, with translation and a reference. Where a reference could not be checked against a printed text it is flagged as needing verification rather than presented with false confidence. No citation on this site was invented.
Kabbalistic framework
The sefiros, the five terms of the soul, Keter and Atik, tohu and tikkun. This material is technical and its vocabulary does not map onto ordinary religious language. It is used here at a level of compression that is insufficient for study and adequate for argument, and chapters that lean on it are marked advanced.
Chassidic explanation
Principally the Chabad reading: dirah betachtonim, bittul, Atzmus and revelation, yechidah klalis, Torah as something to be entered. Where this site says the sources describe, it means this literature, and where a Chassidic reading departs from the plain sense it is identified as a reading.
Interpretive synthesis
Our own connections between the above. The argument that bittul is what makes authority structurally safe; the reading of oil's properties as a theory of legitimate power; the framing of kerirus as the failure that argument cannot reach. These are conclusions, not sources, and they are labelled.
Editorial and design metaphor
The motion language on this site is ours. Layers collapsing into a point, two axes meeting at a word, celestial geometry resolving into a room — these illustrate ideas and are not depictions of anything. Where a diagram might be mistaken for a source, it is captioned.
What is deliberately not here
No date calculation. No identification of any individual. No policy programme presented as mesorah. No portrait of Moshiach and no depiction of Hashem — the tradition's reasons for both are good ones. No Christological reading of Jewish texts, and no polemic against one either; this site states the Jewish reading and lets it stand.