The Difference in Thickness Between Parzufim

We're dealing with the structure of the upper worlds as explained in the Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah. We're learning one term after another. So first we learned that there is a purpose to all this - to benefit the creatures.

Today we will learn how the screen is purified as it rises from the navel to the head.

We learned about the thought of creation, about its development through the four stages of light from the straight path to the final stage - Malchut.

We learned how Malchut is reduced and how the new vessel was born - the screen and the returning light.

The screen has two properties - hardness and thickness, and 5 types of Striking Coupling (Zivug D'hakaa) that give rise to 10 sefirot in each parzuf at the head, 10 sefirot inside, and 10 sefirot at the end of the parzuf.

We learned how after the first parzuf 4 more faces were born, so that in total there are 5 parzufs that create a world - the world of Adam Kadmon. We explained what the surrounding light is and what a thin line is, and how after the inner light enters the parzuf, a refinement occurs between the inner light and the surrounding light, and the screen is refined and rises from the navel to the head. We learned that the first difference between a parzuf and the one after it is that the additional parzuf is smaller than the first. It only reaches as far as the mouth of the first parzuf.

Today we will learn about another difference between the first parzuf, the upper one, and the one after it, the lower one - the difference in thickness between the parzufs. But first we'll hear what Rav has to say about this process -

Clip: Opening and Return

We see here only one thing, that we have a desire to receive that has been reduced, and the assembly of the screen that does not want to receive for itself, but only receives in order to bestow back to the landlord. Because the feeling of the landlord, the attitude towards the landlord is more important for him than the pleasure he gets from receiving within the desire to receive, because in this he is pleasing the landlord and for him that is important. And this is how this system called Galgalta, the first parzuf, works.

When Galgalta is purified, cannot stand against this, the second parzuf called Ab comes in its place, it also wants to receive in order to bestow, and calculates according to the lists. Galgalta had lists from an infinite world that was before it, and therefore it received as much as it could, it received more than everyone else in order to bestow. But because the screen that came was purified, then lists remained from the face of Galgalta itself, and the lists are already less than they were before. Because the screen decided that as it was before, it will no longer go, it has already done it, and what is left is less. Then the second parzuf that comes after Galgalta is called Ab, and in it there is a much weaker light than the parzuf of Galgalta, and also by its will it is shorter, it is weaker. Therefore, this is how we draw it, that Ab is clothed from here to the navel of Galgalta. Michael Laitman

Rav is talking about a will to receive that doesn't want to receive for itself but only wants to bestow to the Creator. Why? Because his attitude to the Creator gives him greater pleasure than anything he can receive in his will to receive. Since he's a spiritual parzuf wanting to become similar to the Creator - he wants bestowing to the Creator to be more important than anything else in this world. We want all our calculations to be about giving back to the Creator like He gives us.

This is why we're always looking for greater and greater ways to give back to the Creator, who relates to us with love. This is why every single parzuf is bigger than the one before it and therefore unique.