Creator (Bestowal) --> Tzimtzum (Restriction) --> Creation (Reception)

Creation (Reception) --> Tzimtzum (Restriction) --> Creator (Bestowal) 

Are we essentially doing the restriction that the Creator did originally?  Only instead of creating the 'vacuum' inside for a place of reception to happen like the creator did, we are creating a vacuum within our nature of reception for bestowal to happen?