Parte 11 · Capítulo 142

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*Also know that this Tzelem is composed of two, and it is the first Tzelem of Mochin from the side of Ima, and the second Tzelem from the side of Aba. And they are one within the other, the Tzelem of Aba within the Tzelem of Ima. And first the internal ones of the Tzelem of Ima enter, and then the surrounding ones, and afterward the internal ones of the Tzelem of Aba, and then the surrounding ones. And the Mem of the Tzelem comes clothed within the KHB of Tevuna, and the Lamed within the HGT of Tevuna, and the Tzadi within the NHY of the third Tevuna, which is the second; and their parallels are the Tzelem of the Mochin of Aba.

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1This Tzelem is composed of two: it is the first Tzelem of Mochin from the side of Ima, and the second Tzelem of Mochin from the side of Aba: For these Mochin come through the coupling of male and female, namely AVI and YESHSUT, which are included in one Partzuf, as above. And therefore there must necessarily be two kinds of Mochin, and two kinds of garments, called Tzelem of Mochin — there being Mochin and Tzelem from the side of Ima, and Mochin and Tzelem from the side of Aba.
2And first the internal ones of the Tzelem of Ima enter, and then the surrounding ones, and afterward the internal ones of the Tzelem of Aba: For Ima, who is Bina, is regarded as the phase above ZA, the one nearest to him in degree, and therefore she clothes in him first, in inner and surrounding lights, and after her Aba clothes in him, in inner and surrounding lights.
3The Lamed within the HGT of Tevuna, and the Tzadi within the NHY of the third Tevuna: This does not contradict what was said above (page 1071), that the first six Sefirot — KHB HGT of the third Tevuna — are the Mem of the Tzelem. And what was said on page 1075, that the three Sefirot NHY of the third Tevuna are called the Lamed of the Tzelem. For there the ARI deals with the matter of the cascading of the Mochin and the Tzelem of ZA at the time of the smallness of the third Tevuna, that is, while she is in the phase of “crouching,” as is written there at the beginning of the discourse, in item 119, and in item 104. For he goes on to arrange the Mochin and the Tzelem from the time of birth, until their entry into ZA — study it there well. And behold, at the time of smallness the third Tevuna has only two phases: Nefesh and Ruach alone, which are HGT down to the chest, and NHY, and she is lacking KHB, as is known. Only that her HGT then also include KHB, because at the time of her greatness, the two upper Sefirot of her HGT become the phase of Rosh [head] and KHB, as is known. And her NHY include HGT and NHY, because the upper joints of the NHY of smallness join with the lower joints of the HGT of smallness and become HGT at the time of greatness, as is known.
And therefore he reckons her HGT down to the chest as the phase KHB HGT, in accordance with what they will double into at the time of greatness: the two upper joints of each of HGT will then become KHB, and the lower joints of each of them will then become HGT — all of which are certainly the phase of the Mem of the Tzelem. For the primary meaning of the Mem of the Tzelem is the first expansion of the Mochin of ZA, made in the place of the womb of the whole of AVI and YESHSUT, which is the phase of the Rosh [head] of the first Tevuna, which is the second. As the ARI wrote (item 119, and item 114) that there the Mochin came out through the coupling of AVI in their entirety with YESHSUT into one Partzuf, and the womb was then in the phase of GAR and the Rosh of YESHSUT; but at the time of birth, this phase of the womb descended to the phase of HGT of the third Tevuna, and the Yod mingled with the light of the GAR of the womb, and became the phase of air, as is written (item 108) that at the time of birth “the Tzelem of the Mochin was found standing suspended in the air, except for the Yesod, between the first two joints of NH of the whole, where the GAR of this Tevuna now is; and this phase is indeed called the Mem of Tzelem” — study it there well. And see also in the Inner Light there, that the descent of the place of the womb outside the GAR of Tevuna, to the phase of air, which is the light of Ruach, does not harm the second Tevuna, which is the first, at all, since it is the phase of the internality of YESHSUT themselves, which is not shared with the Tzelem of ZON, whose coupling is included only in the phase of the externality of YESHSUT. And therefore this descent of the womb to the phase of HGT is reckoned under the name of the third YESHSUT, which is the externality of the second YESHSUT, which is the first. And behold, indeed this very phase — namely, the phase of the womb, where the first and primary coupling was made upon the MAN of ZA that is included in AVI — is in particular called by the name Mem of Tzelem, which indicates the first root of the Mochin and the Tzelem, as the ARI was precise to write in item 108. Only that it is reckoned not from the time of the coupling, which was then in the phase of GAR, but from the time after the birth, when it descended and became the phase of HGT of the third Tevuna.
And you see how greatly the ARI took pains to teach us, with exact precision, the phase of the Mem of the Tzelem — which is the phase of the place of the GAR of Tevuna that descended and became HGT of the third Tevuna — because of the Yod, which is the secret of the coarseness and the place of the coupling, which then rose into the eyes and cast the AHP outward, and the light of GAR became air. According to this it is found that at the time of greatness, when ZA rises again to MAN and arouses the coupling of AB SAG, the Yod descends from the air. And when AHP return to their degree, then this whole place, the phase of the womb, returns to its former elevation, and the air becomes light, and HGT again become GAR and KHB. And these are the words of the ARI here: that the Mem of Tzelem clothes in KHB of the third Tevuna, because now the discussion is at the time of greatness, when these HGT again become KHB. For the Yod descended from the air and light remained; however, this action is no longer discernible in this Mem of Tzelem, since it is now the phase of the upper AVI, as above at length — see there. Rather, it is revealed mainly in the Lamed of Tzelem, which is the phase of YESHSUT of the third Tevuna.
And this is what he means, “and the Lamed within HGT of Tevuna” — for after HGT rise and become KHB, when the Mem of Tzelem is thereby elevated and clothes in KHB, as above, it is likewise found that the NHY of Tevuna, which were previously below, from the chest down, are also elevated and become HGT. It is thus found that the Lamed of Tzelem too, which at the time of smallness was below the chest, is now elevated to the phase of HGT. So the Lamed now clothes in HGT of the third Tevuna, and not in NHY as before.
And this is what he means, “and the Tzadi within NHY of the third Tevuna,” namely, from the phase of the externality of her NHY, and not from her internality. For this is the rule, that the lower one does not emerge from the internality of the upper one, but only from his externality, as is known — as was written at length in Part 10.

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