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Hi Zorica,
Partzuf = 10 Sefirot, divided into 3 parts called Rosh, Toc, Sof. Essentially this is the division of the desire so that it can become a system of bestowal.
Clothing = We can only know the Light by its actions. When it clothes the desire it gives it forms of bestowal like those of the Creator.
When his friends implores sufficiently… this is the Host imploring the guest to eat and enjoy. Fist I have to reveal the host such that I have such a relationship with Him. Then I can know what this imploring is and how much is enough.
I’d recommend reading the published articles of Baal HaSulam to clarify these matters. Especially The Essence of the Wisdom of Kabbalah, The Teaching of Kabbalah and its Essence, and The Wisdom of Kabbalah and Philosophy. Because The Solution is an unpublished article. It was for him, written in a way that he could understand what he needed to touch upon later when he puts it together for the public. There is a ton of room for confusion in it. Every word needs explanation. So here it’s the word “awareness”. There’s also the matter of direct perception of the Creator himself.
So, the latter first – you can read about it here: http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/content/view/frame/31687?/eng/content/view/full/31687&main
And here: https://laitman.com/2011/01/honor-your-father/#gsc.tab=0
So, if you read those, you’ll understand that (1) we do not reveal the Creator Himself, but only his manifestation in our Kli (vessel). This Kli is always changing though it is written that the Creator never changes (“I, the Lord, do not change”). And as my vessel evolves, if I had a perception of the Creator inside it, that changes. That’s why it is written, “Every day I have a new Creator.” This is the matter of there being several different names for the Creator. This is also the matter of “The Whole Torah is the names of the Creator.” Meaning it describes all the states the Kli goes through on the way to full attainment of the Creator. But at the end of it all, it’s still what’s revealed in the vessel as the Creator and not anything outside it. In this, we have all the way to the end, a science, such that the Creator we refer to is only that which I attain as surely as the computer in front of me. Less than that isn’t considered attainment, and in fact, even that is considered less than what Kabbalists mean by attainment. The hard science of our world in fact is far less rigorous than Kabbalah’s standard of proof. And that’s why the science of our world always changes, whereas the letters of the Kabbalists are the same discovered in different places and times, by different Kabbalists throughout in all times.
Now the matter of “awareness”. From the above, we can also understand that Kabbalists do not take seriously mere mental pivots but they respect those pivots as part of the effort to come to the right perception. On the one hand, Baal HaSulam informs us that our whole perception is a psychological matter. But that’s just a way of describing all that I feel and experience as psychological phenomena. If I could truly pivot, with all of my vessels of perception, toward the spiritual world, the world of bestowal, then I would reach what is called “מודעות” (moda’ut), awareness. It shares the root י־ד־ע (yod-dalet-ayin) with the word “דַּעַת” (da’at), knowing. And knowing here is as in “וְהָאָדָם יָדַע אֶת־חַוָּה אִשְׁתּוֹ” (veha’adam yada et-Chavah ishto) – “and Adam knew his wife”. So, must be the awareness of the Creator. It’s knowing, which means truly attaining as if holding it in one’s hand, and nothing less than that.
Except for the perception of the Creator in 5 new, spiritual senses, more real than the current reality we feel, everything else is just exercises. And these exercises are good, and we need to understand and practice them more and more thoroughly.
Every vessel has a screen. Remember the screen is the intention to bestow and not receive unless to bestow. So no spiritual object doesn’t have a screen.
