Question: How is the Partzuf of Adam HaRishon, a part of the upper spiritual worlds studied in The Study of the Ten Sefirot, related to the first man (Adam HaRishon) who revealed the Creator, who was also called Adam?

Answer: Adam, the first one to reveal the Creator, was a man like us. He was born from his father and mother, lived in this world, and one day reached a state where he began to reveal the upper force, the Creator.

Such a desire suddenly awakened in him, and he began to think: “What am I living for, where did I come from, why, and who controls me?” This is like each of us. This is how he revealed the spiritual world.

He was distinguished by the fact that he had a very sensitive soul, which was not as coarse as with a developed egoism like ours. Therefore, it was easier for him to make this revelation himself. It was the very first spiritual gene (Reshimo) to be revealed in this whole system of broken souls, at the beginning of its ascent from the bottom up; this was Adam, the first person to reveal the Creator.

The Partzuf of Adam HaRishon is a spiritual object created from above, by Zeir Anpin (ZA) and Nukva of the world of Atzilut, when the worlds spread from top to bottom. ZA and Nukva raise him to their level, and then even to the level of Aba ve Ima, where he couples (Zivug) his two parts, male and female: Adam and Eve (Hava), thinking he can already be like Aba ve Ima and act in everything for the sake of bestowal.

But when he makes this coupling, he reveals he is not capable of it for the sake of bestowal, and shatters. This is the Partzuf of Adam HaRishon, the common soul, which is studied in the science of Kabbalah.

Its parts fall after shattering, going lower and lower until they reach the very “bottom,” and from there they begin their scrutinies and clarifications. First, there are numerous clarifications on the inanimate, vegetative, and animate levels, which do not have any freewill, and only the light acts, clarifying them and connecting them, not requiring any request from them.

But after these clarifications accumulate and the queue reaches the desires of the next level, the informational gene of the human level from all the broken Reshimot is revealed for the first time. This new Reshimo, revealed for the first time on the human speaking degree, was called “Adam,” and belonged to a man of our world who lived 5,771 years ago.

He was the first person to attain the Creator “from the bottom up,” that is, from our world. He was just like us, only the first one to reveal such a Reshimo.

He did not have a Kabbalistic group or an environment because he was the first. But correction begins with the lightest Reshimo so it was enough to give him a spiritual awakening from above, and then he himself sought revelation and achieved it. The Reshimot that are revealed after him get rougher and rougher.

We celebrate this day, the first revelation of the spiritual world, the Creator, by a man of our world, as the beginning of the New Year, Rosh HaShanah.

And the world was created “five days before that”; that is, Adam has already begun to somehow feel the upper worlds, the Sefirot, the Partzufim inside him, and during this first week, revelation came to him.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/22/11, “The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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