Question: How can one imagine a Partzuf? How does it manifest in a person?
Answer: A Partzuf is the measured reception of light for the sake of bestowal.
If I have a certain desire and I fulfill it for myself, it is an egoistic desire. Let us say right now that I have a desire that can be filled with some pleasure—light. When the light enters the desire, it instantly neutralizes it. It is like annihilation. The pleasure that fills me nullifies even the strongest desire.
The desire cannot persist if it receives what it wants. Therefore upon receiving pleasure, the desire disappears. The desire vanishes, and the pleasure is no longer felt. That is, receiving pleasure destroys the pleasure itself, and in the end, I remain empty. This is exactly what is happening in the world today.
The feeling of emptiness drives us forward into the unknown. Suddenly we sense that pleasure no longer gives us the feeling of enjoyment. As a result, we become depleted.
So what is the essence of the patent for endless pleasure?
If there are two entities and I receive from one and pass on to another, then any light can flow through me. I receive it not for myself and transmit it to someone else in order to please them, and so on in a circle.
Imagine a vast volume containing many parts separated from one another. What does “distance” mean? Each part feels its own egoism. And above this egoism they begin to build connections among themselves where each receives for the sake of the other.
As a result, a constant, endless pleasure circulates between them, and never nullifies any of them. It is perfect and fills everyone completely because none of them receive for themselves. Each one receives in order to pass it on to another. But the pleasure that flows between them and is passed from one to another ends up circulating among all.
Thus, a person who received for themselves—even if they could hold onto, say, just one kilogram of pleasure—would “plug themselves up” and be unable to receive more because they would already be full. But when receiving for the sake of bestowal to others, an infinite amount of pleasure can flow through them, not only in quantity, but in quality. That is, everything that can possibly be imagined, everything that is felt as pleasure by all other desires, this person begins to feel within themselves. In the end each of us as a separate small egoist grows and experiences this light as the light of infinity.
Such are the opportunities available to us thanks to our ability to unite and begin to include ourselves in a single unified system. This is what we are gradually beginning to approach in our development today.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/16/11
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