The action of constriction can be seen (in a formal sense), paradoxically, as multiplicity and expansion.
One example of this is the passage from chokhmah [wisdom] to binah [understanding].
The initial flash of chokhmah contains a reality that is not composed of separate elements but is a complete gestalt.
However, when this gestalt passes to a level of structured understanding, binah, at least in a formal sense, the image is broadened.
The one spark of chokhmah expands into a variety of thoughts in binah, to be expressed by innumerable worlds.
—Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz