Concept slug: reshimu
First introduced: Op. 16
Last advanced: Op. 92
Appearance count: 8 chapters
Reshimu (רשימו, "Residue") is the trace of light that remained in the chalal after the Tzimtzum. It is the receptive matrix on which the Kav (Line) acts and from which all subsequent cosmogonic structures emerge.
Reshimu is introduced at Op. 16 (the first explicit Tzimtzum naming) and developed at Op. 25 (the chalal contains the Reshimu — the trace of the simple light that filled it). Op. 26 (details of the Residue that filled the Empty Space — its structural features).
Op. 27 (how the Line governs the Residue — the operational mechanism by which Eyn Sof's perfect action is received within limits). Op. 28 (the Line divides into Inner and Encompassing Light within the Sefirot of the Residue). Op. 29 (the Line shines within the Sefirot through a garb — the Residue is the receiver).
Op. 41 (the Line cannot join the Residue at the outset of Nekudim — the resurrection-archetype). Op. 64 (MaH (gematria 45) = Line, BaN (gematria 52) = Residue* — the cosmogonic identification that runs through the World of Repair and Z"N units). Op. 92 (Zeir Anpin (Z"A)'s emergence presupposes Reshimu-as-receptive-substrate).
Reshimu travels with Tzimtzum (the act that produces it), Kav / Line (its complement; the active partner), chalal (the empty space that contains the Reshimu), BaN (Reshimu = BaN per Op. 64), and Nukva (operationally rooted in the BaN-Reshimu lineage).
Reshimu is the receptive matrix on which the cosmos is built. Every later cosmogonic structure — the Sefirot, Adam Kadmon, the broken-and-repaired vessels, the named Partzufim — operates on the Reshimu. The MaH-BaN architecture of the second half of Klach is the operational continuation of the original Line-and-Residue pair.