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We have the mashal of the river. A river will by nature flood an area – it flows wherever it is allowed. To fill a vessel the water has to come as an orderly presence in order to relate to the vessel. A keili/vessel gets water through its opening – not that the vessel is sunk/submerged in the body of water.
Filling a vessel is by means of a process, not just a presence.
Tzimzum means we are relating not just to the presence of water, but to the way it can be processed.
We're looking at how the ohr ein sof is supplied into the world. The kav comes from ein sof, but represents not ein sof, but the content of ein sof.
Since the kav, comes by means of the tzimzum, and the reshimu (trace/impression of infinity) there is the power of finitude in the ohr ein sof that has now become revealed through the tzimzum.
The kingship consists of the people, it would seem. But it only becomes a kingdom when the people band together and then the king represents them.
The tzibur (community) has a definition that is beyond, the sum of its parts. It has an eternal quality. There is an entity that incorporates all the units and is greater than the sum. This is the head. The melucha is the infinite quality of the people.
Within the tzibur or the melucha, you find individuals. When you conceal the infinity aspect you find the parts. This is the inyan of the ohr ein sof having individual entities in it, when the infinity is hidden. The ein sof is not built by gvul, but contains it.
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