Question: It is said that intention can be either for the sake of bestowing or for the sake of receiving. Are there really only two states or are there gradations?

Answer: This is exactly what we are studying: how to move from the intention to receive to the intention to bestow. There are many actions between them.

Question: But the question is, are there multiple intentions between them?

Answer: This is exactly the passage through the states of Ibur, Yenika, Mochin, etc. We are talking about intention, not action.

Even when we talk about a Partzuf being filled, what is it filled with? With what its intention is filled with, the intention becomes manifest. This is not a physical action.

The same with the Zivug DeHakaa: the intention for the sake of bestowing gets filled. What kind of filling is this? The way your intention came to fruition: to what extent you built a certain common part with the Creator. Him for you, and you for Him: you have built the place where you are together. This is called the inner part (Toch) of the Partzuf.

Your attitude toward Him is your head (Rosh); the place you are unable to do this is the lower part (Sof) of the Partzuf; the place you are with Him is your Toch. That is, it is the manifestation of an intention, a kind of conclusion of your intentions: now, inside the Partzuf, you see and know that this was your intention.

So these are all intentions. What actions can be there? Whether you are in this world or you have already died, freed yourself from the animal body and everything that is here, nothing ends, because you remain in intentions!

It is in them that life is, and everything else, this whole world, is a state preceding the acquisition of intention. When you transition to the intention, and start creating your own spiritual Partzuf, you will not need this life anymore.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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