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The analogue for all of this can be understood above in the spiritual realms regarding the difference between the Upper Purity (Tehiru Ila’a) (before the tzimtzum/lessening) and the Lower Purity (Tehiru Tata’a) , which is after the tzimtzum/lessening.

Namely, that the fact that He (G-d) estimated within Himself in a potential manner within the Upper Purity everything that would be afterwards in the hishtalshellus/chaining - this estimation corresponding to the level of Kadmon (original) where there was the engraving of letters called the glyph glyphu (see ch 10) - this is analogous to the predetermined decision (resolve) within the simple will of the essential self of one’s soul, discussed previously, e.g. one’s taste. Which (this predetermined desire) still does not come to any sort of extension or expression out of the Essential Self of the the Infinite Light, as of yet. In addition, even though this taste connects to the extension of will that comes afterwards, powering and influencing it, still it (the inner taste itself) remains included within the concealment of the Essential Self of the Infinite Light and therefore it is beyond relating even to the aspect of generality (a GENERAL matter implies that it relates to the PARTICULARS that it encompasses and is composed of) so that it (the glyph glyphu or inner estimation within the Upper Purity - the Infinite Light) is still too removed from the worlds to even be referred to as gazing and overseeing everything in a single glance etc. This kind of a terminology is only applicable to the conscious desire that arises from this inner taste, as will be explained and as was explained in chapter fourteen about how the Infinite Light before the tzimtzum/lessening cannot be referred to as a makif [encompassment] that relates to a pnimi [that which is encompassed] for it is still an essential heyuli and is not effected by the hishtalshellus/chaining (chaining of the worlds) at all. On the other hand, the first encompassment of the kav/line after the tzimtzum/lessening can be referred to a general encompassment for the four worlds. This means that it is a makif (surrounding) on a pnimi (inner) - i.e. an encompassment (surrounding) relating to a particular (inner) subject - for it is only an encompassment for these four worlds and no other and it is effected by what is within them. The Infinite Light before the tzimtzum/lessening on the other hand is not limited to these worlds at all and it is not affected by them. Just, as a person’s essential taste is not limited to a desire for a house and it is not affected by the particular circumstances that one finds oneself in. On the other hand, the revealed desire for a house is only the desire for a house and nothing else. In addition, it is affected by one’s situation and environment. For example, one’s budget will affect ones desire for an actual particular home which he wants in ACTUALITY, but one’s inner taste will not be affected. So that while the particular appearance of one’s dream home may change with time, according with one’s age and with changes in society, the inner physical and emotional needs that one wants from a home stay the same, the inner feeling of being at home, comfortable and secure etc.