Question: What does it mean that a person must build a “head” (Rosh)?

Answer: It is written, “From Your actions we know You.” By resembling the Creator, I begin to perceive His thoughts.

How do we learn in this world? A small child looks at his father or at a teacher and imitates their actions without understanding why. So it is with us: we do not understand, but if we perform the corresponding actions, it gradually becomes clear to us why the upper one chose to act this way.

At first, a person sees only the external form—what the upper one does in relation to him. But as he becomes similar to the upper one, he attains His intention: why He reveals Himself in this manner and what He seeks to achieve in His relationship with the lower one. In this way, he is granted the “head,” as it is written, “From Your actions we know You.”

This is the only action by which we can ascend from a lower degree to a higher one. The action at each degree is called the flavors of the Torah. When I attain the flavors of the Torah, reveal the Creator’s actions within me, and make myself similar to Him, then I taste the flavors of the Torah.

Ta’amim (tastes) are the lights that spread into the Guf (body) of the Partzuf when I align my intention with the intention to bestow, and thus I have a body, a Partzuf. From there, I come to the head of the degree, which is called the secrets of the Torah (Sodot Torah), the intentions of the Creator.

Thus, I reveal the flavors of the Torah, and the Creator reveals Himself to me in this action, giving me desires. Then, from the flavors of the Torah, I come to the secrets of the Torah: “From Your actions we know You,” to the head of the Partzuf. And the head of the Partzuf consists of the Creator’s intentions, which I am not permitted to reveal; I must preserve them.

What does it mean “not permitted to reveal”? What is the severity of this prohibition? In spirituality, “not permitted” means “impossible.” These heads accumulate within me each time; they are all arranged from below upward and are based on the rejection of the light.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/10/26, Rabash, “What Are the Two Actions During a Descent?”

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