Part 5 · Chapter 8

The Ari's Text

There is yet another kind of incorporation. This is the reality we are in, which are two lights without vessels, which are ZON of the Keter that rose up and are not in the vessel. It is because then their incorporation would be in the form of receiving illumination from one another, and this is their incorporation.

Inner Light

This commentary hasn't been matched to individual seifim yet — items are shown in reading order, and the number beside each one counts the notes themselves, not the seifim of the Ari's text.

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1The reality we are in, which are two Orot without Kelim. Here the Zachar and the Nekeva are considered in ascent because of the Hizdakchut of the Masach from all the Aviut that was in it, as it completely equalized its form with the Maatzil.These Zachar and Nekeva de Keter are nothing but silent Reshimot that have no Aviut at all. Yet, they were first in Behinat Hitlabshut in the Guf, one in Komat Keter de Guf and the other in Komat Hochma in the Guf. Hence, we call them Zachar and Nekeva.This is the precision that the Rav makes for us here, “which are two Orot without Kelim, which are ZON of the Keter that rose up.” This means that these ZON have nothing of the Behinat Kelim since they are considered to be in ascent.