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81. Concerning Raising MAN
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It is known that because of the breaking, sparks of Kedusha [holiness] fell into BYA. But there, in BYA, they cannot be corrected. Therefore, they must be raised to Atzilut. By doing Mitzvot [commandments] and good deeds with the aim to bring contentment to his Maker and not to himself, these sparks rise to Atzilut. Then they are included in the Masach [screen] of the upper one, at the Rosh [head/top] of the degree, where the Masach remains in its eternity. At that time, there is a Zivug [coupling] on the Masach by the Hitkalelut [mixture/integration] of the sparks, and the upper light spreads through all the worlds according to the measure of the sparks that they have raised.
This is similar to the Hizdakchut [thinning/waning] of the Partzufim of Akudim. We learned that during its Hizdakchut, when the light departs because of it, the Masach of the Guf [body] ascends along with the Reshimot to Peh de Rosh. The reason is that when the lower one stops receiving, it is considered that it has been cleansed of its Aviut [thickness]. Hence, the Masach can rise back to Peh de Rosh, as its decline into the degree of Guf was only because the light expanded from above downward into the vessels of reception.
Also, the Rosh is always discerned as being from below upward, meaning resisting the expansion. When the Guf stops receiving the lights from above downward, because of the absence of the Masach that had been purified by the Bitush [beating] of the internal and the external, it is considered that the Masach de Guf has been cleansed of its Aviut and ascended to the Rosh with the Reshimot.
Additionally, when one engages in Torah and Mitzvot in order to bestow and not to receive, through it, the sparks rise to the Masach in the Rosh, in the world of Atzilut (and they rise degree by degree until they arrive at the Rosh de Atzilut). When they are included in that Masach and the level of light appears according to the size of the Masach, more light is added in all the worlds. And man, too, who caused that improvement above, receives illumination by having improved above, in the worlds.