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This series is a continuation and should be read in order. If you are not familiar with previous posts you may have trouble understanding later ones.
And now Chapter 12.05
In Part 4 the Mittler Rebbe gave as an analogy for the concept of the Tzimtzum the general limitation of the soul’s spiritual powers to the life of the body this also applies to each particular physical power of the soul.
For example:
The same is also true with the spiritual power of movement as it comes to be enclothed within a physical movement, that at that time it is contracted within itself etc. so as to limit itself enough to allow for a particular physical movement and nevertheless the physical movement is connected to and bound up with the spiritual movement. This idea is similarly expressed in many other ways, such as how the conception of a particular concept is brought out from the soul’s inner power of conceptualization (Coach Hamaskil), that at the time a person conceives a particular idea this inner power "rests" upon this particular concept in a hidden manner etc. as we see that even though a particular idea that someone conceives is only a small part of the infinite spiritual creative potential of the soul, yet at the same time a person’s creativity and genius can be found within this idea. So that, on the one hand, the very essence of the person’s creativity is found within this idea, and from this one idea one can gauge how creative the person is. This means that this idea reflects the entire intellectual potential of the person. Yet, on the other hand, this idea is like a drop in the sea relative to the spiritual potential of the soul’s power of intellect and is no where near the totality of the person’s creativity. Only that the person’s spiritual potential, so to speak, "hovers" over every idea that the person conceives in a hidden manner and subtly influences the way that the person thinks every particular thought, so that one can recognize the hidden potential from within this particular idea.
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