Parte 14 · Capítulo 46
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- But with what was stated above, the three of them are true. For in the aspect of Rachel, who descended below into Beria and has no coupling with her husband ZA, they said that they delight in the souls of the righteous, and hear the voice of those who engage in Torah at Chatzot. And in the aspect of Leah, who couples with Yaakov, they said that ZON couple at Chatzot; and this too is called delighting with the souls, as above, at the beginning of this discourse, for it is the matter of the ascent of the souls in the secret of MAN to Leah. And since Yaakov and Leah are the secret of the posteriors themselves and of AVI, as is explained by us, for therefore Leah is called the hidden world; therefore they mentioned it by the name of the coupling of AVI. But it is nothing but the coupling of Yaakov and Leah.
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And what he says, that the coupling of ZA and Leah can be called the coupling of AVI, because they are one discernment, requires explanation. It was already explained above the difference from Leah to Rachel: that Leah is the discernment of the upper wall from the posterior of Ima, and therefore she ends at the point of the Chazeh [chest], where the Yesod of Ima ends; wherefore the discernment of Leah is covered Hassadim, like the discernment of the GAR of Ima, as above, see there. And by this you will understand why the standing of Leah is at the back of ZA: for her face is the discernment of the back of ZA, because the face of ZA is the discernment of revealed Hassadim, since the whole essence of ZA, from his root in direct light, is the discernment of the revelation of Hochma in Hassadim, as is known. And therefore the discernment of covered Hassadim is regarded as the discernment of posteriors in its original value. However, this posterior specifically is the entire discernment of the face of Leah, for she pushes away Hochma and is not content with the revelation of Hassadim, for she is in the secret of “for He desires mercy,” like the upper Ima. And therefore she stands face against back always — meaning, that the back of ZA is her face.
Indeed, there is also a coupling of ZA and Leah in the aspect of face to face, from the Chazeh and above, as is known. However, this is the discernment of a coupling of Katnut in the discernment of ZA, for he serves there with the Yesod of the time of his VAK, meaning at the point of the Yesod of Katnut, which becomes the point of the Chazeh in Gadlut. For at the point of the Chazeh itself there is no Yesod there that would be fit to couple with Leah there; however it is reckoned as the VAK of Neshama, because it is the discernment of the GAR of Bina, whose meaning is Neshama. However, in the coupling of midnight, after she receives the Mochin of AVI of midnight, when Leah expands to the place of the NHY of ZA, as above, she then serves there in the discernment of the Yesod of Gadlut of ZA, in his place in the NHY; and the Mochin that go out from this coupling are the discernment of the GAR of Neshama, which is the level of SAG, entirely equal to the level of the upper AVI, whose coupling never ceases. Thus, in the coupling of midnight, the level of the coupling of ZA and Leah is regarded exactly like the level of the upper AVI. And this is what the ARI says, that the coupling of Yaakov and Leah after midnight can be called by the name of the coupling of AVI, because they are one discernment, as explained.
And this is what they said (item 11): “And therefore the upper Malchut needs to conceive from the souls of the righteous, whose root is from Beria, the place of the Mochin, and then she can ascend as MAN through them upward to AVI, and take the Mochin fit for her” — meaning, as explained, that Leah herself is the discernment specifically of covered Hassadim, for therefore the back of ZA is her face; and if so, who compels her to ascend as MAN to AVI in order to receive the VAK of the Mochin of Haya and the GAR of the Mochin of Neshama, and expand into the place of the NHY of ZA — all of which is the discernment of revealed Hassadim, coming from the Mochin of AB SAG, which push the bottom Hey from the Einayim to the Peh, as above? And this is what the ARI writes: that in truth she does not ascend as MAN except through the souls of the righteous, who have already attained their discernment of Katnut and need the GAR, and they themselves ascend of themselves to the discernment of MAN to Leah, who is the upper Malchut; and then, for the sake of correcting the children, who are the souls that ascended to her, she nullifies her upper posterior that is in the place of HGT, and descends to the posterior of NHY, whereby she ascends as MAN to AVI and receives the GAR of Neshama and the VAK of Haya. And then her children acquire their discernment of the GAR, through her coupling with ZA in the Yesod of Gadlut, as above.
And by this you will understand what he writes (item 5): “that the souls of the righteous do not ascend in the secret of MAN except at night, at the time of lying down, since the upper Malchut has dominion only at night; but ZON ascend in the secret of MAN by day and by night, in the secret of the Shema of the morning and evening prayers, up to the upper Ima, since the coupling of AVI never ceases, and the dominion of the upper Ima is by day and by night” — and one needs to understand this matter, for in every coupling of ZON by day there is also the matter of the ascents of MAN of the souls; so how can he say that the souls ascend only at night?
However, what is spoken of is the coupling of souls, in the matter of their ascent after they are thirteen years and one day old, when they ascend to the upper Malchut, who is Leah; and it was explained that there is no coupling of ZA and Leah in the Yesod of Gadlut — meaning that she expand into the place of the NHY of ZA — except at night, through the Mochin of the VAK of Haya and the GAR of Neshama that she receives from the upper AVI. Whereas by day, Leah always stands from the Chazeh and above, for from the Chazeh and below is the place of Rachel. Thus, Leah’s dominion in the place of the Yesod of Gadlut of ZA is only specifically at night, where the souls ascend as MAN and receive the GAR of Neshama through this coupling; whereas by day she has only the coupling of Katnut of ZA, and has no Mochin of GAR. Not so ZON, who, when they need to receive the Mochin of GAR of Neshama from AVI, can always ascend even by day, since the upper AVI are always in the discernment of the GAR of Neshama, permanently, and their coupling never ceases from this discernment, as is known, for AVI took on permanently the SAG of MA. And therefore ZON too can always ascend to them.
However, also the discernment of the first MAN of the souls — which is the beginning of their coming out from the shells — likewise occurs only at night, meaning at the time of the dominion of the lower Malchut in BYA. For then she joins to herself her AHP from the shells, and also the GE [Galgalta ve Einayim] of the souls that are attached to these AHP of Rachel are found; they too ascend together with them and join in the Yesod of Rachel. But by day, Rachel is found entirely in Atzilut, and cannot gather the souls from among the shells. And the ARI is speaking here of the matter of lying down, which is the discernment of the ascent of MAN after thirteen years — meaning, that they already have the discernment of the VAK of Neshama, and they lack only the GAR, so that the matter of their ascent is specifically at the time of sleep, that is, at night, and not at any other time, as above.