The light cleaves to its source and thus has the quality of ein sof, because it is like the essence. Ein sof here means, being without a parameter, and beyond grasp.
This is true of the ohr even after the tzimzum. You may think it loses this quality because it was contracted and reintroduced, but no, it still has this element and still touches and is unified with its source.
The essence of light is cleaving to its source. There is light inside the sun, because the ohr of the sun is essential to it. It is light from inception.
Before the tzimzum the ohr ein sof “filled the entire space” - there was no vacancy or possibility – the reality of elokus was present at inception, not by introduction. For this reason, at that level worlds could not exist. The principle of malchus is that it encompasses all. The king is not limited to what he is unto himself – so even if there is no outside, there is still the quality of the king that, if there was an outside he would incorporate that too.
This is the nature of essence, it is true to itself and true beyond itself.
The real inyan of light is as it is included in its source. Ohr emanates exclusively from an essence – it can only come from something that has that thing at an essential level, not at an acquired level.
Atzilus is in contrast to ohr, it is like chochmah – it is a recipient and has a sense of receiving, and this is how the light is revealed exernal to the essence.
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