Creation is an empty desire, while the Creator is Light. How can this emptiness be connected with the Light; they are two complete opposites? Otherwise, creation, whose very nature is an empty will to receive, would remain empty forever.

How can these two opposites be joined? After all, according to the law of equivalence of form that governs all of nature, they cannot draw near or unite, like polar opposites. Therefore, there is a need for to mix the will to receive and the will to bestow.

In the Rosh (head), the intention to receive for the sake of bestowal arises. But in the Guf (body) awakens the egoistic force, to receive for one’s own sake. Thus a shattering occurs between the head and the body, a loss of connection between them, the inability to think and act in unison.

One thought resides in the head, yet a completely different desire is in the body. The heart and the mind are no longer together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/7/10, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to the Book Panim Meirot uMasbirot”

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