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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 16 Summary
There are two types of will or desire:
1.) the inner predetermined will or one’s essential taste, which is simple and hidden within one’s essential self and
2.) the revealed will, which is composed of general and specific desires.
This is like the allegory of the desire for a home.
The estimation before the tzimtzum/lessening of how the world would be is on the first level of will and is called the ratzon ha’muchlat or the predetermined will. This is beyond the limitations of general and specific desires. This is called the Upper Purity.
After the tzimtzum/lessening there is a revelation of the desire for the world. This desire is a general one, which then subdivides into particulars, and then these particulars further divide into more specific particulars and so on until the very last desire for the final deed.
This first general desire is the first circle of the heyuli kav/line it is the general all encompassing desire and is called the ‘first desire’ (Ratzon HaKadum) and the 'first thought' (Machshava Kdumah), which oversees everything in a single glance. It is also called the Lower Purity. (There are various other Kabbalistic Names)
In addition, all of the aspects of the revealed desire both general and particular are exactly according to the predetermined will in the Essential Self. This is why the first thought or desire can include all of the particulars as per the statement "with His self-knowledge He knows all of creation," for the first desire is to create something that will fit the essential taste. (Only that in a person there is a predetermined nature that one is born with while with G-d this is determined only according to His freewill.)
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