Part 5 · Chapter 20

The Ari's Text

Now there is another expansion and departure, as will be explained, and then the four phases will be completed. The thing is that when this phase of the vessel was completed and became a vessel by the departure of the light, when the light expands in it once more, there will remain lights and vessels. However, when the light expands in this vessel for the second time, it does not expand in the first order, but appears and disappears. This is the meaning of what is written in The Zohar, “Matei and not Matei” [expanding and not expanding]. These two phases are called expansion and departure, by which the four phases will be completed.

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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1“Matei ve Lo Matei.” These two Behinot are called Hitpashtut and Histalkut, by which the four Behinot. This refers to the four Otiot of the Name HaVaYaH. This is because these two Behinot of Hitpashtut and Histalkut de Hitpashtut Aleph de Akudim that he introduced above (item 19) are the two Otiot Yod, Hey of HaVaYaH. These two Behinot of Hitpashtut and Histalkut in Hitpashtut Bet de Akudim, called Matei ve Lo Matei, are the two Otiot Vav, Hey of HaVaYaH.
2The beginning of the Matei of Ohr inside the Kli de Keter. Will be explained below.