This Tzimtzum caused some of His light and radiance to become visible, whereas previously – and this applies even now to those levels where the Tzimtzum does not reach – they could not be seen or grasped in any way. And this light that is permitted to be seen is called emanated light, for it seems like a light that was newly generated. But the truth is that it is only a certain aspect of the primordial light, whose power was reduced through the Tzimtzum.
Having introduced the subject of the Tzimtzum, we must now trace its consequences, starting from the very first.