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Hello Gianni, can you please elucidate the term “clothing”. Like what precisely do you mean with “they cloth on each other” or “ohr hozer forms the clothing for the ten sefirot”.
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Sorry I missed this, Tom. It is hard to say because we don’t do anything like that in our world. A precise way to say it is that clothing means to take the form of. For example, the desire to receive will always be a desire to receive that can do nothing but receive. However, it can take the form of bestowal. Let’s say, like a child, that, with the qualities he has, tries to take on the qualities of his father. It is one object, dressing into the qualities of another, though it remains with it’s own qualities, it uses them in another form, in a form of bestowal.
I understand that we have to be careful to ask questions at the right place, exactly where they occur, in the shortest possible manner, in order to contribute not only to our own understanding but to help each other digest the contents. Thank you for reminding me.
My question here at this place is:
Are Ohr Yashar and Ohr Hozer of equal proportion, or ist it more like Ohr Hozer and Ohr Makif add up to Ohr Yashar?
According to the Ohr Yashar (direct light), meaning what is coming to the Kli (vessel) from the Creator, we have to be sure that we can reject all of it, forever. Like I won a billion dollars and I simply send it to some poor people in another country – and it’s gone without any chance of return. This finality is called Tzimzum (Restriction). But in truth, once I send it away with no hope of return, a new angle is revealed whereby – no, the money isn’t really gone. I couldn’t have imagined how, but now, in relation to what I measured in the Creator’s attitude (the “billion dollars”), I check to what extent I can return his attitude, by checking to what extent my wanting to bestow upon Him is equivalent to His attitude towards me. This is Ohr Hozer (Reflected Light). Maybe I can return 3/5 of his attitude, so I receive 3 of 5 Lights – Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama as (Ohr Pnimi), in the Kelim of Keter, Hochma, Bina. And so the Kelim of Zeir Anpin and Malchut remain empty, leaving the Lights of Haya and Yechida outside the Kli as Ohr Makif (surrounding light).
GE and AHP are the names we use to divide the Ten Sefirot, especially when we climb back up the degrees that cascaded from Above downwards. Because they clothe onto each other in a special way, so that there will not be another Shattering. So, in AK we don’t need to think about GE and AHP yet, although the Partzufim in AK do clothe on each other in a special way, and in doing so, they build that part of the ladder of degrees that we will later climb up.
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