Tzimtzum

The Rebbe HaShav says Ramah refers to attic.

Atik, the Atik elsewhere says it has three translations, but a copy, distant, old, referring to a copy of what was before the Tzimtzum, and therefore it's called distant and old because it's way beyond the rest of the spiritual cosmos.

So the Esha refers to Atik, and according to this we can connect the beginning of the verse, Avram plants a tree in Be'er Sheva, to the end of the verse, and it caused people to call it in the name of Hashem, Kelelam, What's the connection? Based upon what the Gemara says, that Ram Akarni, my glory will be elevated, refers to the kingdom of David HaMelech, which is eternal, because he was anointed with a keren.

Keren means glory, and keren means a horn.

To serve Hashem, that's a Tachlis.

But to get to us, sitting in this room, learning this Sefer, which is after the Tachlis of creation, there needs to be many, many, many Tzimtzum and many constrictions where Kaddish Baruch Hu went from pure spirituality, that over time, a little less spiritual, a little more Gashmi, a little less spiritual, a little more Gashmi, until a little more Gashmi, a little less spiritual, until we have... us, who are almost only Gashami, but we have a brain, we do have an Ishamah, so Kudusro went and even viked her, and then he made animals, and then he constricted even more, and he went to plant life, and then the ultimate constriction is what? rocks, domim, inanimate objects, which for sure is elukos, because nothing can exist without elukos, but it can't do anything, it's the most constricted, it's the most physical.

So he went from the highest, the spheres, as it continued, as it continued to constrict, to constrict, to constrict, like a snowball, physicality started to become revealed, all the way down to the pure, pure, pure physicality.

Within everything, along the chain, from pure spirituality to Gashamis, every single thing in between, so a thought is, in a certain way, a thought is higher than a rock.

And then, for me, there is something that perhaps comes from Kabbalistic teachings.

It's called Tzimtzum.

It's the contraction of the light so it can be poured into vessels.

The vessels need to be able to hold that kind of light.

Interesting.

Yeah, yeah.

What's that? How do you spell that Kabbalistic principle that you just discussed? It's a Tzimtzum.

How do

That's what the Kav really, Initially, it does.

It comes from the Ered Esau before the Tzimtzum that is all-encompassing, all-pervasive.

The Tzimtzum conceals it.

The Kav is a thin line, Kav Echut, a line, a thread, that now channels like a laser beam, and that too will ultimately channel into different levels, the different worlds, and in each world the different spheres.

So that energy, we learned earlier, I recall, that it's like, think of it like a big ocean that in turn feeds rivers.