Part 6 · Chapter 30

The Ari's Text

Concerning the Akudim, the phase of tastes dots, tags, letters in them has already been explained above. Here we will explain them in the phase of Nekudim. It is said that the phase of Nekudim are the first lights that emerged, and the letters are the vessels. Then, when the vessels were broken and each was separated from its dead, the lights remained as tags on the letters, which are the vessels. Tastes is the name New MA that later emerged from the light of the Metzach for the correction of the kings.

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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1Regarding the Melachim, the Behinat TNTO in them has already been explained above. It is written (Part 4, Chap 3, item 11) that Hitpashtut Aleph of the Partzuf, which is Ohr Yashar, Rachamim, is considered the Taamim in it. When it begins to diminish by the power of the Hizdakchut of the Masach, at which time the other four Komot of Katnut from Hochma to Malchut emerge, they are considered Behinat Nekudot in it. Also, The Reshimot that remain from the Behinat Nekudot, from the Behinot Nitzotzin that fall off them into the Kelim are called Otiot.
2Nekudim are the first Orot that came out in the beginning. By that he tells us that the order is changed here, compared to the way it was in the previous three Partzufim of AK. There the Gadlut came out first, which are the Taamim, and then the degrees of Katnut emerged, meaning the Nekudot.However, here in Olam ha Nekudim, the Katnut came out first, and then the Gadlut. This is so because at first, only the GAR came out, in Orot de Ruach Nefesh, namely Komat ZA. Then AB and SAG mated, the Parsa fissured, and the Orot de GAR went down to the Nekudim, and to the seven lower Sefirot.It is written, “Nekudot are the first Orot that came out in the beginning,” meaning the opposite of the previous Partzufim Galgalta, AB, SAG, where the Taamim came out first. Here the Behinot Nekudot came out first, meaning the Katnut, and then the Gadlut. Notwithstanding, He’arat Gadlut is not called Taamim, because they were not in Behinat Rachamim, as in these Orot and in what caused them was the matter of the breaking of the vessels.
3And the Otiot are the Kelim. They also contain the Nitzotzin that fell into them during the Histalkut of the Orot from them, as it was in Akudim.
4The Taamim is the new name MA. Those Taamim that emerged in Olam ha Nekudim, meaning the Gadlut that emerged by Zivug AB SAG, being the Taamim de Nekudim, did not exist in Nekudim, but only after the new Taamim de MAcorrected them. Hence, they are called after the name of the MA.