{"id":15648,"date":"2026-01-18T20:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&p=15648"},"modified":"2026-01-18T20:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:21:05","slug":"expansion-and-withdrawal-of-light-037","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/expansion-and-withdrawal-of-light-037\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 3.7 – Expansion And Withdrawal of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a>Once\u00a0Malchut\u00a0<\/em>(who is considered a female\u00a0Partzuf<\/em>) decides to receive some of the direct light into her\u00a0Toch<\/em>, she stops receiving.\u00a0Malchut<\/em>\u00a0always calculates in the\u00a0Rosh<\/em>\u00a0(head) what is the maximum amount of Light she can receive in order to bestow. She always receives only a small part of the Direct Light, as receiving in order to benefit the Creator is against her nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As previously mentioned, the part of Direct Light that remains outside the vessel is called “Surrounding Light.” It continues to pressure the vessel, which limits its expansion in the Partzuf<\/em> and wants to break through the screen and fill up the entire vessel, including the Sof<\/em> (end) of the Partzuf<\/em>, just as it was prior to the restriction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Partzuf<\/em> understands that if it only receives a part of the Light, meaning if it only fills itself as far as the Tabur<\/em> (navel) and remains in that situation, the Thought of Creation would not be carried out. In order for it to be carried out the entire light must fill Malchut<\/em> as it did prior to the restriction, except with the aim to bestow. But if the Partzuf<\/em> receives more Light, meaning it receives below the Tabur<\/em>, that would be reception in order to receive, because it doesn\u2019t have a screen with which to activate these vessels in order to bestow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, the Partzuf<\/em> decides to not receive altogether and return to the situation from before the reception. That decision is taken in the Rosh<\/em> of the Partzuf<\/em>, as do all decisions. Once the decision has been made, the screen that dropped from the Peh <\/em>(mouth) to Tabur <\/em>begins to rise back up to the Peh<\/em>. The ascent of the screen makes the Lights exit the Partzuf<\/em> through the Peh<\/em> to the Rosh<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision to stop receiving the Light was made because there is a pressure on the screen that stands at the Tabur<\/em> by the Surrounding Light. This lets it into the Partzuf<\/em> to become Inner Light as well, while the Inner Light also keeps pushing down. These two Lights want to cancel the screen, which serves as a border that doesn\u2019t let the Lights through. The pressure the Lights activate on the screen is called Bitush<\/em> (Beating) of Inner Light and Surrounding Light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These two Lights press on the screen that stands at the Tabur<\/em> and limits the reception of Light into the Partzuf<\/em>. They want the screen to drop from the Tabur<\/em> so that the entire all the Surrounding Light can enter the Partzuf<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That situation is much like a person who receives some of the food given to him by the host and feels great pleasure at the reception. However, this weakens him, because he feels what great pleasures there are in the delicacies that he did not receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, the screen returns from the Tabur<\/em> to the Peh<\/em> and the Partzuf<\/em> empties itself of any Light. Just as the Light entered the Partzuf<\/em> through the Peh,<\/em> so it now leaves. The expansion of the Light from Above downward, from the Peh<\/em> to the Tabur<\/em> is called Taamim<\/em> (flavors).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The withdrawal of the Light from the Partzuf<\/em> is called Nekudot<\/em> (points). Once the Light withdraws from the Partzuf,<\/em> all that\u2019s left is a reminiscence (Reshimo<\/em>) of the Light, called Tagin<\/em>. The Reshimo<\/em>from the Light of Nekudot<\/em> is called Otiot<\/em> (letters).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The expansion of the Light and its withdrawal makes the vessel fit for its task, because only after the vessel feels the pleasure, which is then withdrawn, does it create a real desire for that pleasure. Once the Light is gone, there remains a Reshimo <\/em>in the vessel. It is a Reshimo<\/em> of the past pleasure, meaning the Nekudot<\/em>. When the vessel is emptied of the Light, the Reshimo<\/em> determines the desire and the yearning in the vessel. The Reshimo<\/em> from the withdrawal of the Light is called Otiot<\/em>, or vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prior to the restriction, the fourth phase received Lights from all four phases. The Light came to her from His essence through the root, first, second, third and fourth phases. That is why there are five phases in the fourth phase itself. Each phase of the five phases in Behina <\/em>Dalet<\/em> (the fourth phase) gets its Light from the corresponding phase:<\/p>\n\n\n\n