Rabbi
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto ("RaMChaL"):
138 Openings
of Wisdom
Opening
71
Complete
correspondence between the arrangement of the Partzuf and the human form.
The arrangement
of the lights of the Partzuf, their interconnections and all their different
aspects are exactly like the arrangement of the limbs and organs of man's
body. Everything that exists in man has some corresponding aspect in the lights
in the Partzufim above.
Having
explained that the Partzufim are rooted in the mystery of the Likeness of
Man, we will now elaborate further on the correspondence between the Partzufim
and the human form.
This
proposition consists of two parts: Part 1: The arrangement of the lights
of the Partzuf... This expresses the complete correspondence between the
Partzufim and the human form. Part 2: Everything that exists in man...
This is the mystery of "And from my flesh I perceive God" (Job 19:26).
Part 1: The arrangement
of the lights of the Partzuf... This arrangement consists of everything
discussed in the previous Opening in connection with the measures of "thickness"
or "breadth" and "height" - ...and their interconnections...
This includes everything discussed there about how they are bound and joined
together. ...and all their different aspects are exactly like the order
of the limbs and organs of man's body.
In other words, anything
that can be said about the nature of man, such as all the different aspects
of constitution and character (מזגים, mezagim, "mixes"
of elements") - in short, everything discernible in the human form in
all the affairs of this world - is all rooted above. The underlying foundation
of what we see in the world lies in all the different aspects of the flow
(שפע, shefa) emanating from the lights,
which sustains all the different aspects of human service in this world, governing
the indwelling of higher levels within lower levels and all the other characteristics
of the lights. All that can be said about the supreme Partzufim follows the
corresponding aspects in the human form.
Part 2: Everything
that exists in man has some corresponding aspect in the lights... This
is the mystery of "And from my flesh I perceive God" (Job 19:26). For this is the way to investigate
and discover what exists in the Sefirot - through the creations in the lower
world, just as what exists in the lower creations can be known through the
Sefirot. Indeed, what falls under our scrutiny initially is that which exists
in the lower creations. It is necessary to rise up to the source, to understand
things properly in the light of the link that joins the lower world with the
upper world, namely the link between the resultant effect and its cause. ...that
make up the Partzufim above. I.e. it is in the Partzufim that we find
this differentiation into particulars and not in the Sefirot.
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