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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 13 Part 3
Until now the Mittler Rebbe explained how the analogy of the concealment of the mentor’s knowledge is paralleled above in the concealment of the essential Light of G-d. Now the Mittler Rebbe will explain the parallel in G-dliness found in the analogy of the concealment of the spiritual life of the soul when it is vested within the body in order to enliven it:
In addition, it is similarly understood according to the second type of analogy that was mentioned previously (in Ch 12) of the soul’s life force as it is enclothed within the body, that just as this life force changes from being spiritual in nature to being physical in nature, as mentioned previously, it is likewise understood according to this analogy that this Tzimtzum [contraction] of the Essence of the Infinite Light is not a change in the Light at all. Since, just as in the analogy of the soul enlivening the body there is a bond and connection of the physical life to the spiritual life, as is apparent from the fact that we see that the soul is affected by what occurs to the bodily life and yet there is no change caused in the spiritual essence of the soul from a lack in the extension of life force into a physical limb, as mentioned previously (in Ch 12). So too, in the analogue there is no change in the aspect of the Light of the Essence of G-d when It shines forth even as it shines forth after the Tzimtzum, even though after the Tzimtzum the Light is only revealed in a limited manner according to the level of the Hishtalshellus (Chaining). For, there is a bond and connection between the Infinite Light before Tzimtzum and the limited Light after the Tzimtzum, for the finite Light comes out of the Infinite Light like a particular coming out of a heyuli and its existence is dependent on the Infinite Light; and yet, still the Tzimtzum in the Light as it comes to be in a manner of a Kav [line; i.e. finite], is not a change in the Light of the Essence of G-d at all, as per this analogy of the life of the soul as it is enclothed within the body.
This is also understood in accordance with the third analogy of the power of movement as it is enclothed within physicality, or like the analogy of the conception of a new idea out from the power of conception, which were both mentioned previously. However, all of these analogies come to one conclusion, as mentioned previously, that there had to be a Tzimtzum, hiding the Infinite Light in order for it to be possible for there to be a finite revelation, creating finite beings and yet the essence of G-d and His essential light remain unchanged and this is enough explanation for the understanding.
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