Part 5 · Chapter 53

The Ari's Text

Generally speaking, there is YH in the upper Keter, which is ZON, Keter and Hochma. In Hochma, there is ZON, and this is another name YH, and it is HB. In Bina, there is another name YH, which is ZON, and it is the Hochma that is innovated from the upper coupling in ZON in Hochma, which is Yod. Bina is a female to him, and is the letter Hey. Thus, there is the name YH here, as well. There is also light Hesed in her, which is the phase of son. Also, each of these GAR is called the letter Yod in a filling, since Keter contains ZON, YH, and the vessel itself is the Dalet of the Yod. Hochma, too, contains Yod, which is YH, ZON, and the Dalet is the vessel. However, Bina is called Yod in the phase of three lights in her, whose order is Yod-Dalet-Vav, and they are Hochma, Bina, Hesed. Yet, the vessel is not mentioned here. There is yet another reason why the drop of Yod from the coupling of Hochma is the husband of this lower Bina: When ZON in Hochma make a coupling, they do not elicit that drop from her self, but only from above, meaning from the Keter. This is why his power is greater than the light of the lower Bina.

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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1Bina is called Yod-Vav-Dalet in the aspect of the three lights in her, and their order is Yod-Dalet-Vav: The male is called Yod after Hochma, being his offspring, as above. And the female, who is Bina, together with the light of Hesed in her, is the secret of the Hey: the light of Hesed is discerned as the Vav that is inside the Hey, and Bina is discerned as the Dalet that encompasses the Vav, this being because she is the aspect of the GAR of this Vav.