Editing The World of Tohu (section)

== The Concept ==
At the beginning of Parshas Bereishis, the creation of the world is described: "And the earth was tohu vavohu and darkness was upon the face of the deep." This describes its essential position in the order of worlds - the highest and most primordial. Additionally, it is brought in Torah Ohr that the root of the Nefesh Habehamis is higher than the Nefesh Elokis, as it is written "And these are the kings who ruled in the land of Edom before any king reigned over Bnei Yisroel." The kings of Edom symbolize the world of Tohu (because each king ruled and died before the reign of the next king, as there was no integration and each king/middah shone with full intensity without making space for another middah, therefore there needed to be death before the reign of another middah) ruled before a king reigned over Bnei Yisroel who symbolize the world of Tikkun, the world of Atzilus. A question arises, because the Alter Rebbe explains that an angel is from the world of Tohu, and it is known that at its root, the neshamah is above the angel, which is why the angels wait to say Kedushah until Yidden say Kedushah below. The answer appears in Toras Chaim regarding the explanation of how "many waters cannot extinguish the love" even though at their root they are higher than the Jewish neshamah since it is from the world of Tikkun and they are from the world of Tohu. The answer is that the root of the hidden love within a Yid is above Tohu because it is in the Essence of Ohr Ein Sof, and therefore at the root, the love of a Yid is above the entire world of Tohu including the Tohu of the angels.