Source of kav is malchus, that relates to expansion to the outside. Since it is relevant to worlds, when it went through the tzimzum it was affected by it. The ohr aquired the nature of expressing itself as being separate from the source – this is chitzonius.
But the inner element is rooted in the concealed tifferes / beauty. This tifferes is known as the middle line. This means it is constant in all places. This means that the tzimzum does not have an affect on it. It remains representative of the essence and included within it. It goes out, but remains absorbed. It affects the exterior by its presence. As essence affects, so too it affects.
Tifferes is beauty and glory. Chassidus explains that its beauty is that it includes the opposites of chesed and gevurah (kindness and severity). The reason that this is where beauty comes out by this blend is because the multiplicity of colors is rooted in the beauty aspect of essence.
How is there a combination of opposites? Externally they are opposites. Chesed is by nature, total openess, “why not?!” It is representative of the abundance of the mashpiah. There is no reason for restraint. Gevurah is just the opposite. It is mashpiah exclusively where it is needed and in a way that is needed. Chessed says, “as much as I give, I am lacking nothing.”
Tifferes is something else – it has aspects of restraint, chesed and hashpah.
Tifferes knows that it is going down, and yet he continues to give. It is the recognition of the essence itself. In tifferes there is a recognition of why I have the ein sof – I have it due to the emes / truth of the inyan. And truth knows no bounds. I go out of my way and give to the outside and the outside is also part of that emes / truth.
Due to tifferes he can be outside and not recognize it as outside – the outside is the same as inside. The outside is there due to the inside. Chesed and gevurah are repsenting the ohr aspect. It is all based on the ohr. Tifferes is representing the source of the ohr.
The sun has light in abundance. It give it without restraint. The light is able to illuminate darkness, but there it comes in a measured manner, giving just the right amount – this is like the gevurah aspect. Then there is another aspect of sunlight – it represents the essence of light – the sun is light through and through. This aspect, of representing essence is true, wherever it is, even the light measured to illuminate is still this essential sunlight. This means it has the purity of light coming from light – the etzem / essence aspect.
Grace is tifferes. When one is gracious it is not rooted in abundance, it is rooted in reality - “you're a human being, and regardless, you need to be treated that way.” This is reality itself, not one quality or another. The feet – netzach and hod – left and right – we see a person to really stand needs both feet. Both need to function towards the same purpose.
Wherever it is the element of tifferes is rooted and absorbed in the essence. The tzimzum has no affect on this level. Affected by the tzimzum means the finite get separated from the infinite and it becomes defined by its definitions.
There is light outside the sun, because the sun is there – the essence. The light is not a luminary at essence, it doesn't know of darkness. It is the essence of light.
Tifferes it the interior of all the sphirot. A person can be doing many varied activities. The person remains the same. Externally there is great variety, but essentially he remains the same.
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