Part 6 · Chapter 21

The Ari's Text

We therefore find that three dots take illumination for their vessels from the three lights, which are AHP, specifically in the Shibbolet. But the ZAT take only from two lights, which are Hotem and Peh, from the Shibbolet down to the Tabur, since the light of the upper Ozen has already ended and was blocked at Shibbolet HaZakan. For this reason, the illumination of the three upper dots is greater than the seven lower ones.

Inner Light

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1The Ohr of the Upper Awzen has already ended and was blocked at Shibolet ha Zakan. Three Kelim are distinguished from Tabur up, made by the Histalkut Orot (see Part 5, item 27). Kli Malchut from Tabur to Chazeh was made in the Histalkut Ohr Malchut to ZA, and when Ohr ZAdeparted, Kli de ZA was made from Chazeh to the Shibolet. When Ohr Bina departed, Kli de Bina was made in the place of the Shibolet.It turns out that Ohr Bina ends in the place of the Shibolet because she doesn’t have a Kli below Shibolet ha Zakan, Ohr ZA ends at the Chazeh and Ohr Malchut at the Tabur. This is why it is written that the Ohr of the Upper Awzen ended and was blocked at Shibolet ha Zakan.There is yet another reason for the blocking of the Ohr de Awzen in the place of Shibolet ha Zakan: indeed, Shibolet ha Zakan and Parsa are one. They are both made of the force of Tzimtzum NHY and the ascent of the lower Hey to the Eynaim. After all, the AHP departed into Behinat Guf, and consequently, Behinat Peh descended and became Behinat Tabur, where the Parsa was placed.The difference is that the Peh originates in Malchut de Rosh, and descended to Behinat Tabur only because of its reception into the Ohr Eynaim. Parsa, on the other hand, is in the place of the original Tabur, which was Behinat Tabur in the Partzufim preceding the Ohr Eynaim too.It turns out that just as there is Parsa in the original Tabur of the general AK, above its NHY, which are ZON, so there is Parsa above Mazla, which are Behinat NHY and ZON de Dikna. The upper area is ZA and the lower area is Malchut, and both of them together are called Mazla.This Parsa above Mazla is Shibolet ha Zakan. As Parsa ends SAG and it stops above Tabur and the Parsa, so Shibolet ha Zakan ends the Ohr Awzen, being Behinat SAG in the Rosh. It does not shine below the Shibolet, but only Hotem Peh de Rosh, which are ZON, as in NHY of the general AK.Hence, the Ohr of the Upper Awzen is blocked at Shibolet ha Zakan in such a way that there is no He’arat GAR there, namely Ohr de Awzen, but only VAK, without GAR, namely only Behinat Hotem Peh.