Thus, the elimination of pleasure in Stage Four is neither a result of its inability to receive, nor a consequence of the Root\u2019s inability to give. The Root gives incessantly, but the desire to receive does not want<\/em> to receive something as degrading as charity (as described by Ashlag in \u201cThe Giving of the Torah\u201d <\/a><\/a>[59<\/a><\/strong>]). For this reason, because Stage Four wishes to acquire the giver\u2019s thought and become like its Creator, its restriction is an offshoot of its decision to not receive unless with the intention to bestow, as this reciprocates the Creator\u2019s desire to bestow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To achieve that, Stage Four builds a three-part mechanism, called Partzuf<\/em> (Face), to determine if it should receive light, and if so, how much, with the aim to bestow at any given moment (Figure no. 6). The top section of the Partzuf<\/em> is called Rosh<\/em> (Head). Its task is to determine how much of the abundance (light) is to be received by the desire to receive. The desire to receive itself constitutes the bottom part of the Partzuf<\/em>, which is called Guf<\/em> (Body).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Between the Rosh<\/em> (Head) and the Guf<\/em> (Body) stands the Masach<\/em> (Screen). Just as a selectively permeable membrane allows only some molecules to seep through it, the Masach<\/em> screens out the light, allowing into the Guf<\/em> only as much light as the Rosh<\/em> decided it could receive with the intention to bestow, while repelling the remainder of the light. That way, the Masach <\/em>functions as a guard, making sure the degradation sensed immediately prior to the restriction will not return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Figure no. 6: The mechanism called Partzuf<\/em> (face): The Rosh<\/em> (head) determines how much of the abundance (light) to receive. The Guf<\/em>(body) is desire to receive itself, and between the Rosh<\/em> and the Guf<\/em>stands the Masach <\/em>(screen), which admits into the Guf<\/em> only as much light as can be received in order to bestow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a sense, a Partzuf <\/em>can be compared to a big company, where the Masach<\/em> is like the Human Resource (HR) department in that company. If the management, the Rosh<\/em> (head), wishes to increase production (bestowal, level of being like the Creator), it needs to hire more people (desires) so it can receive more light\/pleasure (thus bestowing upon the giver). Once new people are hired, they will be admitted into the company (Guf<\/em>, body) and will be put to work: receiving pleasure in order to bestow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the Rosh<\/em> decides it is time to act, the Masach<\/em>\u2014HR department\u2014screens the applicants (desires) and chooses only the right ones. A new employee (desire) must not be under-qualified (too small), since that would not bring pleasure to the Creator (because you cannot experience great pleasure when you have a small desire for it). It also cannot be over-qualified (desires that are too intense to be used with the aim to bestow), since that would reawaken the excessive desire to receive and the creature\u2019s resulting degradation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet, in both the Partzuf <\/em>and its mundane \u201cwork-alike\u201d company, which we can call \u201cCreation,\u201d a problem remains unsolved: What about the desires (people) who were not hired (made to work in order to bestow in the Guf<\/em> of the Partzuf<\/em>)? Are they doomed to eternal unemployment (rejection)? That would mean that there will always be lights (pleasures) that the Creator wishes to impart, but which we cannot receive. This defies the purpose of creation: for the recipients (Creation, us) to receive unbounded delight, the power, knowledge, and supremacy of the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed, eventually all the desires will be \u201chired\u201d and put to work, and all the lights will be received. However, to avoid overloading the system and risking a total collapse, some desires must be temporarily put on hold. The lights that should be received in those desires are therefore reflected and remain as \u201csurrounding lights\u201d (Figure no. 7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The desires and lights that cannot be put to work for the time being apply constant pressure on the Partzuf<\/em>, \u201creminding\u201d it that there is still more pleasure to receive if it is to receive from the Creator everything that the Creator wishes to impart. In our mundane example, the marketing department is the \u201csurrounding light\u201d\u2014constantly reporting new potential markets into which the company can expand, and which can produce substantial profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Figure no. 7: While the Partzuf<\/em>is incapable of receiving all the light, the reflected light must remain outside the Partzuf<\/em>. This is called \u201csurrounding light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/a>[59<\/a><\/strong>] Ashlag, \u201cThe Giving of the Torah,\u201d in Kabbalah for the Student<\/em>, 244<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the previous chapter, we talked about the emergence of the desire to receive in Stage One, and the desire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":14709,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[27],"class_list":["post-14713","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-michael-laitman"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/var\/kbl\/storage\/images\/kabbalah\/tyqyyh_zmnyt\/ts_mv_ls_ng_mk_rabochie_papki\/english_library_work_folder\/self_interest_vs_altruism_in_the_global_era\/chapter_3_humanity_s_shared_origin_folder\/humanity_s_shared_origin\/self_interest_vs_altruism_in_the_global_era_figure_no_6\/1674309-4-eng-GB\/self_interest_vs_altruism_in_the_global_era_figure_no_6.jpg\")
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