Editing The First Tzimtzum (section)

==== Essence Does Not Conceal Essence ====
Another concept that stems from the understanding of "Tzimtzum not according to its simple meaning" is that the Infinite Light is '''revealed''' even after the Tzimtzum and in the place of the void (though this revelation is from the perspective of the light and is not felt by the recipients).

The Alter Rebbe explains, and the content of his words is: The concealment effectuated by the Tzimtzum on the light is only regarding the created beings (recipients of the light) and not regarding the Divinity that is the provider. That is to say, the effect of the Tzimtzum on the light is only that '''the created beings''' should not feel it—but it does not affect the light itself, and it remains '''revealed''' even after the Tzimtzum and in the place of the void.

That is, the entire purpose and goal of the Tzimtzum is '''for the sake of revelation''' (and moreover—even after the Tzimtzum, a trace (reshimu) of the light remains)—therefore (despite the fact that for the created beings the light is concealed), this does not conceal '''at all''' regarding the light.

As an analogy for this, the Alter Rebbe brings a person who previously studied a tractate well, and now is not engrossed in it deeply but studies it superficially. A person who hears his reading does not sense any depth at all (for him, the Tzimtzum creates concealment, as he does not sense the depth that exists in the memory of the learner), but for the learner himself, there is no concealment at all. When he reads the letters, all the deep concepts that exist in his memory from the time he studied in depth illuminate within them.

This matter was explained at length in the discourses of our Rebbes, beginning with the discourses of the Alter Rebbe in which the defining and compelling argument for this concept is presented, namely that after we know that even the Tzimtzum is from His power, then according to the principle that "essence does not conceal itself," there is no concealment whatsoever regarding Him in the Tzimtzum.