Question: What does it mean that a person resembles the actions of the Creator?

Answer: It means that he strives to perform the same actions of bestowal. He reveals the Creator’s action upon himself, and this is usually perceived as negative with respect to the will to receive pleasure since the Creator is first revealed by adding to a person an additional desire to receive.

On the one hand, he sees this desire as evil, because by its form, the intention for self-reception, it distances him from the Creator. Yet in itself this state is positive because it is the Creator’s invitation to draw closer to Him to the height of that very desire, by correcting it to the intention “for the sake of bestowal.”

Thus, in every action and in every state, a person must not lose connection with the Creator. Otherwise, he immediately begins to engage in himself, that is, in the desire within him that is not aimed toward the Goal.

After passing through all these stages and striving within his desire to match the Creator’s intention (the Creator desires only to bestow) a person corrects that desire to bestowal. Then it becomes as if common to both of them: the inner part of the Partzuf (Toch), where the Creator and the created being meet and exist in adhesion.

That is, one must view desires as a means, as something not truly “mine.” I have a head (Rosh), where I wish to be together with the Creator in intentions, and there is a body (Guf), where the Creator and I are found, meaning our actions in adhesion.

We are speaking about the “head” of the soul and the “body” of the soul, the Partzuf. One must see the soul as a part of the Creator from Above, where He and I are merged. This is the place of adhesion in actions, and afterward also in thoughts.

Thus, first, I feel the Creator’s influence upon me, within me, inside that desire. Accordingly, I begin to build the Rosh. And when I have established my “head,” relating to the Creator in that desire just as He relates to me, it turns out that I have performed an action in the “body,” as He does. Through this, I begin to attain the “head” of the Creator, His intentions and thoughts toward me.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

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