Question: It is said that the head of the lower Partzuf clothes into the body of the upper Partzuf. What does it mean to clothe into the higher?

Answer: The body of the upper is its actions, its work with desires, and the head is the making of decisions.

The lower can do nothing with its own head, on its own level. It is said: “Through Your actions we know You.” That is, the lower must enter into the body of the upper.

And when he practically learns what the upper does by performing it himself, only then does he begin to understand what the upper meant by it. Until you do what the upper told you to do, you will not understand what he is saying.

And this is not some dull, animal action where you just need to do what he tells you, you must do it and learn! Look at children, how they repeat the actions of adults. They copy our actions without understanding their meaning.

When a child is given a plastic hammer and nails, he does not know what to do with them. But he watches how you hammer nails and does the same, and from that, he begins to understand what it is for.

It is impossible to learn any other way. When building educational programs, we must take into account that one can be taught only by example. We see that the reason is hidden in the spiritual roots and is embedded in the spreading of the Partzufim (the descent of the connection of souls) from above downward.

All the intellect given to the lower is needed only to be able to repeat the actions of the upper. The head of the lower must function only in this way.

If the head of the lower looks upward in order to take an example from the upper and perform actions similar to his, then success awaits the lower. But if the lower believes that he can judge, decide, and do something with his own head, failure awaits him.

He will think that he is on a level where he himself can do something. But all actions are performed in the body of the upper. If the lower has enough wit to annul his own mind, his intellect, then he rises and receives the mind and intellect, of the upper.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/2/11, Baal HaSulam, The Study of the Ten Sefirot

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