Parte 3 · Observación Interior 2

Chapter TwoExplains the ten Sefirot of reflected light, and containing three issues:1. The measure of the light that would have been suitable for reception in Malchut, had the screen not pushed it backward, is called reflected light. 2. After the restriction, the reflected light became the vessel of reception for the upper light instead of phase four. 3. Since phase four clothed all the phases of Keter, Hochma, Bina, and Zeir Anpin prior to the restriction, there are five phases of light discerned in the reflected light rejected by it, which clothe the five phases KHB TM of direct light. In item three he explains the ten Sefirot called NRNHY and ten Sefirot called SNGLH.The ten Sefirot of direct light clothe the ten Sefirot of reflected light1. Regarding the ten Sefirot of reflected light, brought here in the words of the ARI (Chap 1, items 1, 2, 3), they emerge by the expansion of the light of Ein Sof as coupling by striking on the screen in the vessel of Malchut of direct light. The screen detains the direct light that belongs to the vessel of Malchut so it does not expand within her.Instead, it pushes it back to its place. This reflected light, meaning the entire measure of light that would have been suitable for reception in the vessel of Malchut, but she did not receive it, and it was pushed back from her, is not regarded as having disappeared from there. Rather, it became a vessel of reception that rises and clothes all four phases of direct light. Hence, there are two phases of ten Sefirot here, clothing one another, as the ten Sefirot of direct light are clothed in the ten Sefirot of reflected light.

The light that would have been suitable for reception in phase four had it not been for the screen that detains it is called reflected light. After the restriction the reflected light became the vessel of reception instead of the restricted phase fourEven though all the reflected light that rises is only the light of Malchut, we still discern ten Sefirot in this reflected light. The reason is that only Malchut was the vessel of reception for the entire ten Sefirot prior to the restriction, as the nine Sefirot have no vessels of reception whatsoever. Instead, they are regarded as actual light, as the ARI wrote here (Chap 12, item 1 and Inner Light, item 2).From the restriction onward, Malchut can no longer receive any direct light. Thus, the reflected light that was rejected by Malchut became the vessel of reception instead of her.Hence, the light of Malchut from before the restriction is discerned as having five phases of vessels, corresponding to each phase of direct light that Malchut clothed there. Now that the reflected light operates instead of Malchut, we also discern ten Sefirot in this light that was rejected from Malchut, clothing the ten Sefirot of direct light. In addition, we discern five empty phases in the vessel of Malchut, from the light that belongs to her, meaning from what she had prior to the restriction.

Explanation of the ten Sefirot called NRNHY and the ones called SNGLHThe difference between the ten Sefirot called KHB TM and the ten Sefirot called Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Haya, Yechida, is that the vessels of the ten Sefirot are called KHB TM, and the lights in them are called NRNHY.The ten Sefirot called root, soul, body, garment, hall bear a specific meaning: they lack ZA and Malchut of vessels, and Haya and Yechida of lights. They have only KHB of vessels, called root, soul, body, and NRN of lights. This happened in the second restriction by the ascent of Malchut to Bina (see here in Chapter 10).