Part 5 · Chapter 29

The Ari's Text

We shall add another explanation about the making of those vessels. It has been explained in the previous study that the three kinds of light that emerged from the AHP of AK are considered NRN and clothe each other. However, the light that emerges from the Eynaim of AK is called Neshama to Neshama, which is called Haya. Its place is up there in the Ayin, but it expands below, as we will explain. It is so because it stands in its place as surrounding light to them, and from it, a thin, very small light expands downward, called seeing. It is not a complete Hevel [vapor] like the Havalim [pl. of Hevel] that emerge from the AHP, which are complete, tangible, and sensed Havalim. In addition, since it is a very thin and weak light, the vessels of Akudim that exit from the Peh were made of it, and the lights were not made, since it is a weak light. However, the light of AHP was not an actual tangible and sensed Hevel. Even the vessels could not be made since they are lower lights than the light of the Eynaim. For this reason, they come out as actual, sensed Hevel, and thus the lights that are called NRN were made.

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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1Orot that came out of AHP de AK are considered NRN. This has already been explained in the Rav’s words above (Part 4, Chap 6 item 6) and in Ohr Pnimi.
2The Ohr that comes out of the Eynaim etc. Its place is up there in the Ayin etc. as Ohr Makif. This refers to Behinat Ohr Makif de Yechida to ZA. However, as the Rav says (Part 4, Chap 6 item 17), it does not reach the Nukva even as Behinat Ohr Makif.
3A very minute Ohr called Reiah. It is not a complete Hevel like the Havalim that extend from the AHP. Those are complete tangible and sensed Havalim. The Ohr Hozer that expands from above downward with the Ohr Yashar inside it into Eser Sefirot called Guf is called Hevel. This is because it comes out of the Zivug de Hakaa in the Aviut in the Masach.If there is a lot of Aviut the Ohr Hozer is greater and the Koma is greater. Hence, until Behina Bet, the Aviut in the Masach is considered sufficient to raise Ohr Hozer to extend the Ohr from below upward in a sufficient measure to afterwards expand from above downward into Behinat Guf as well. For that reason the Ohr Hozer is called “Complete Hevel”.However, the Aviut from Behina Aleph, called Eynaim, note that the Aviut of that Behina is very thin and frail. It is a not a complete Hevel that can also expand from above downward and for that reason no Ohr comes from it into the Guf.It is written, “since it is a very frail and thin Ohr, the Behinat Kelim of Akudim etc. were made of it.” It means that we discern only the Behinat Ohr Yashar in the Ohr Eynaim.This is the Behinat Atzmut Ohr that makes a Zivug de Hakaa in the Orot de AHP and generates the Kelim for them as he explains before us. However, initself, the Zivug is insufficient to generate Komat Ohr to the Guf as the AHP, only as a frail Ohr.