Part 6 · Chapter 32

The Ari's Text

*In the beginning of my studies with my teacher, he would conceal, cover, and clothe the matters, as I did not yet know the beginning of the matters in the order I have presented in the previous gates. Hence, when he began to explain to me the matter of Atik Yomin, he explained one commentary, and we shall write it here. I could not connect it with what I have written thus far, yet I do wish to write it, and perhaps the reader will be able to connect it with the above-written, for the matters seem to contradict the above-written. Here is the matter: It is known that in the beginning, there were ten Nekudim, and the first three did not break, and the vessels and lights remained. However, the seven lower Nekudot [dots] broke, the vessels descended to Beria, and the lights remained in their place in the world of Atzilut without any clothing. Know that Partzuf Atik Yomin was made only from first three Nekudot, both the lights and the vessels. No other force is involved in them. However, many forces are involved in the seven lower Nekudot, since there is an upper phase from the phase of Atik in each of the seven Nekudot, and there is also a second phase of AA in each Nekuda of the seven. Also, there is the phase of AVI, and there is the bottom phase among them, which are of ZON.

Inner Light

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1The first three Nekudot… …are the only ones Partzuf Atik Yomin is made of. Meaning: Partzuf Keter, called Atik, has Eser Sefirot called Inner HaVaYaH. The tip of the Yod is the Keter in it, meaning Keter de Keter; the Yod in it is Abba and Hochma; the first Hey is Ima and Bina, and the Vav in it is ZA. The last Hey in it is Malchut.Complete HaVaYaH emerges as Malbush out of every single Ot in the Inner HaVaYaH in Partzuf Keteritself. Partzuf AB comes out of its Yod, and Partzuf SAG comes out of its first Hey. AB is called Abbaand the SAG is called Ima. Partzuf ZA comes out of the Vav in it, clothing it from Tabur down, and Partzuf Malchut comes out of the last Hey.Know, that so it is in every complete Partzuf. Partzuf Keter is considered the Pnimi, also containing inner AB, SAG, MA, BON, called Inner HaVaYaH. Besides those, it has Outer AB, SAG, MA, BON, which are Malbushim to it. The AB and SAG clothe above Tabur, and MA and BON, being ZON, clothe below Tabur, as the Rav says (Part 6, item 1).Thus, in Partzuf Nekudim only Behinat Partzuf Keter in it came out with the AB, SAG, MA, BON in its Pnimiut. It did not have time to produce the outer AB, SAG, MA, BON, because the seven lower Sefirot in it broke, and the Achoraim of the GAR in it were also canceled.However, the Behinat Panim of its First Three remained. It means that everything that was in these GAR from the beginning of their creation is called Panim; all of it remained and not a thing of them was canceled.It is written, “The first three Nekudot, both in the Behinat Orot and in the Behinat Kelim, are the only ones Partzuf Atik Yomin is made of.” It is so because the outer AB, SAG, MA, BON have no hold on the GAR de Partzuf Keter.This is the meaning of the words, “no other force is involved in them.” This is because even Partzuf AB begins to emerge from Peh de Partzuf Keter down, which is below Malchut of its Rosh; much less in the rest of the Partzufim.
2There are many forces involved in the seven lower Nekudot. It refers to those Behinot from which the four Partzufim outer ASMB that clothe it should emerge. It is so because they haven’t emerged from it in Olam ha Nekudim. He will explain henceforth that there is a Behinat AA that should come out of it.