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DonateL. What is the Parsa?[1]
Earlier we stated that there exists a curtain, known as a Parsa, between the various spiritual worlds of Atzilus, Beriya, Yetzira, and Assiya. This curtain of course is metaphoric and refers to a filter which helps to decrease and diminish the quality and quantity of divinity that is sent from the upper world to the lower world. This is similar to a parable which comes to convey a deep message on terms that can be understood and comprehended by the audience. A parable has the unique ability to conceal the complexity of the original intellectual idea and nonetheless transmit its main core message. So too, the Parsa between Atzilus and Beriya on the one hand conceals the quality and quantity of G-dliness found in Atzilus, but at the same time manages to convey and draw down a level of G-dliness that can be received by the world the Beriya.
[1] Torah Or p. 14a
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