Partie 16 · Chapitre 219

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*And now let us explain the order of the clothing of the Partzufim one within another. For in Atzilut we have already explained that all the Partzufim are complete and whole. And behold, the three highest of Atik remain revealed, without clothing, for AA cannot clothe him because of the great purity and fineness of the head of Atik. And indeed, the seven lower of Atik are clothed within AA, in all its ten Sefirot.

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1The clothing of the Partzufim one within another, for in Atzilut etc. Behold, here it is understood that just as the five Partzufim came out in Atzilut one below another, so the five Partzufim came out in each one of the three worlds BYA one below another. For he first took pains to detail the five Partzufim of Atzilut in their state and their clothing one below another, and afterward he equates, opposite them, the relation of the clothing of the five Partzufim of Beria one within another. And it is known that every Partzuf of the Partzufim of Atzilut is comprised of five Partzufim clothing one another in thickness, at an equal level, such that each one of them has five Partzufim in length, so that every Partzuf is comprised of twenty-five Partzufim. As the ARI wrote in Etz Chaim, the second Gate 42, Chapter 2, see there. And see in the book Beit Sha’ar LaKavanot, page 73, the passage beginning “And this,” where this is explained well, that there is no coupling that does not bring out five Partzufim whose level is equal, and each of them has five Partzufim in length. And it is found from this that whether for Atik, who comes out on the screen of phase four, or for AA, who comes out on the coupling of the screen of phase three, or for AVI, who come out on the screen of phase two, etc., each one of them has twenty-five Partzufim.
And you already know that this matter of one below another comes only from the difference of the screens on which the coupling is made, and it is found that the five Partzufim one below another cannot be conceived unless they come out on five distinct couplings according to their screens. And according to this, it must be understood how it is possible that there be in the world of Beria five kinds of couplings on differences in the screens, when there is there only the discernment of a coupling on one screen of phase two. And more difficult than this is how it is possible for AA to couple to bring out the level of AVI at a time when he himself is VAK without a Rosh [head], and likewise AVI, etc. And all the more so in the Partzufim of Yetzira and Assiya, where there is no discernment of coupling at all. As the ARI wrote above.
And although these questions can be resolved well, as we shall explain them below, nevertheless it is impossible to explain here that the ARI speaks of the five Partzufim of Beria as one below another, for he deals here only with the Mochin of YESHSUT, which come out on one coupling of the screen of phase two. And everything that comes out on one coupling — its five Partzufim have an equal level. Moreover, in Sha’ar HaGilgulim [Gate of Reincarnations], Introduction 11, the ARI says, and these are his words: And likewise in the three worlds BYA, that each world of them, in all its five parts, is only in relation to one particular Partzuf of Atzilut, etc., and all these five parts of the five Partzufim of Beria are called Neshama, etc. End of quote. See there. Thus it is explicitly explained there that the Partzufim of Beria are not equivalent to all five Partzufim of Atzilut, but only to one Partzuf of them, such that all five Partzufim of Beria correspond to one Partzuf, which is YESHSUT of Atzilut, which comes out on the screen of phase two, and all five Partzufim of the world of Yetzira correspond to one Partzuf, which is ZA of Atzilut, and all five Partzufim of Assiya correspond to one Partzuf, which is the Nukva of Atzilut, and it is found that all five Partzufim of Beria clothe one another at an equal level in thickness, like the five Partzufim of YESHSUT of Atzilut, and likewise those of Yetzira at an equal level, like the five Partzufim of ZA of Atzilut, etc. Study it there well.
And one should not distinguish between worlds and souls, for everything that exists in the worlds exists also in the souls. As is known.
Thus, as for what the ARI detailed here, all the five Partzufim of Atzilut one below another, the intention is not to tell us that they are entirely equivalent to the five Partzufim of Atzilut, for they are equivalent only to one Partzuf of Atzilut, which is YESHSUT, as above in Sha’ar HaGilgulim; rather, he came to teach us the measure of their level, in order to know what each Partzuf of the five Partzufim of Beria takes from the discernment opposite it among the five Partzufim of Atzilut, which are one below another, as I will explain below. But he did not come to say that the five Partzufim of Beria here also clothe one another, one below another. As explained. And even without this, it is impossible to say that the ARI likens them to the five Partzufim of Atzilut in this matter of one below another, for he says here that YESHSUT, ZA and Nukva are at an equal level, and it is known that it is not so in Atzilut, for there ZA clothes from the Chazeh [chest] and below of YESHSUT, and the Nukva from the Chazeh and below of ZA. And in this way the words of the ARI before us will be well explained.

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