Part 5 · Chapter 22

The Ari's Text

This also explains why the vessel is called one vessel, alone, and the lights are called ten. This is because when the light departs, everything is called one vessel, and not ten vessels. Conversely, the lights within them, when they expand once more in a real expansion, which is the second expansion, it does not expand at once inside the vessel, as it departed, but rather enters and exits ten exits and ten entries. It enters and exits ten times: once in Keter, once in Hochma, and so forth in all of them. This is why they are called ten lights, but the vessel is made at once in one departure, when it departed at once. For this reason, it is called one vessel.

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

1Hence they are called ten Orot. The Kli, however, is made at once. Compared to the Kli, all these departures are considered one Histalkut. This is because here there is still only one Kli, only Kli Malchut. There is no recognition of a Kli in the first nine Sefirot and all these exits and entrances made in it are considered as one long Kli whose parts are not equal as the Rav says above (item 19). Know, that all these are preparations for the Tikun of the Eser Kelim in the Eser Sefirot.Things are done gradually: in Hitpashtut de AK there is still no recognition through the Histalkut. Even the discernment in the Orot does not show that they are ten Orot. In Hitpashtut Bet there is a discernment in the Eser Sefirot that they are ten Orot, and in the Hitpashtut of the Eser Sefirot in Olam Nekudim there is a recognition of the Eser Kelim in the GAR and not in the seven lower Sefirot. It is completed in Olam Atzilut and ten complete Kelim are made in all ten Sefirot.