In creation, there is only the Creator and the creation. When the shattering occurred, the Creator, as it were, shattered Himself, and took on the negative qualities of the creation.

It is as though He contracted Himself, placed veils of concealments over His governance, and hid that it is good and does only good; He as if corrupted Himself in order to correspond to the future creation, which is destined to grow from a state of zero until it attains His level.

The Creator diminished Himself, His light; this is what is referred to as the entry of Malchut into the first nine Sefirot. This was only a preparatory stage. Subsequently Adam HaRishon emerges; he undergoes a shattering and a descent, and at this point the process of discernment and correction begins. This process must originate from us, from below upward.

Adam HaRishon, by correcting himself, thereby builds the correct governance with respect to himself.

Question: Why was Adam HaRishon not able to clarify this immediately? Why must we discern something that already exists?

Answer: We are discerning it because we are Adam HaRishon!
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 4/26/26, Rabash, “Peace After a Dispute Is More Important than Having No Disputes At All”

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