Part 5 · Chapter 17

The Ari's Text

Also, when the phase of light of Hod departs, Hod will be back-to-back with the upper light. Then Yesod will turn its anterior to Hod, Hod and Yesod will be face-to-face, and Malchut will be face-to-back, and the anterior of Malchut in the posterior of Yesod. This is so because the lust and the yearning of the Sefira to return its anterior to the light, but the near Sefira to the light still cannot return its anterior to it before it draws the measure of one Sefira far from the light.

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.

Not matched to a seif

1Before it draws the measure of one Sefira far from the Ohr. As long as there is Zivug in the highest Sefira, the He’arat Zivug comes from there to the empty Sefira below it. At that time this He’arah reaches only the Behinat Achor in the Kli and not at all the Panim. Thus, the Panim of the Kli are turned downward.However, after the Ohr departs from the highest Sefira as well, the He’arat Zivug reaches only from the Elyon to the Tachton, meaning from the cause to the consequence but not from above its cause. This is so even though there is still Zivug in the Sefira above the Upper One.Thus, the He’arat Reshimo returns and returns its Panim upward. This is his precision, “Before it draws the measure of one Sefira far from the Ohr,” and examine carefully.