Part 6 · Chapter 41

The Ari's Text

*Each of these ten Sefirot certainly contained all ten Sefirot, but in a mixture. Let us make an allegory: It is as if water, wine, oil, honey, milk, and so forth, were all mixed together and placed in one vessel, and the lower seven were in the state of judgements. The reason is that it is impossible for the world to exist and be conducted except through the judgements and the shells, as it is written in the Mishna: to punish the wicked, etc., and give a good reward to the righteous.

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.

Not matched to a seif

1Consisted of all the Eser Sefirot, but that was by way of admixture. This means that the Tikun of the ten Kelim was made by Tzimtzum NHY. It means that Behina Dalet incorporated in each and every Sefira because of her connection with Behina Bet, and the Masach and Zivug were corrected in each and every Sefira through Hochma and through the Nikvey Eynaim.However, that Tikun was only on the GAR de Nekudim. The connection of Behina Bet with Behina Dalet dominated in the ZAT de Nekudim, as these Kelim are Behinat Kelim of the lower nine Sefirot de SAG. That connection was primarily in them, and there the Behina Bet became AB, by the force of their He’arah in the inner ZON de AK (see Ohr Pnimi item 1).Hence the ZAT received that doubled Behinat Aviut first, but it was in them without Tikun. Instead, they were mixed together in one another like the mixture of moist with moist that the Rav brings. It means that the Behinot Dinim themselves and Behinot Rachamim themselves were not apparent, but everything was mixed together beyond recognition. Also, from this mixture formed the Behinot Klipot, as Sigim of gold and Shmarim of wine, and they too mixed with those Kelim beyond recognition.You must perceive in this matter that although the Behinat Aviut in the Kelim is their entire magnitude and merit, the height of their Koma is measured by it. Indeed, this is provided they have a Tikun of the Masach equivalent to that measure of Aviut.However, if they do not have that Tikun of the Masach that should be with respect to that Aviut, the Aviut turns into hard and bitter Dinim, since Shinui Tzura is separation in the spiritual. For that reason they cannot suck their sustenance off the Ohr Elyon, for then the Aviut turns into Behinot Dinim and Klipot, meaning to incorrigible nocuous, until they receive their complete Tikun.
2It is impossible for the world to exist and be conducted except through the Dinim and the Klipot. Since the world is conducted according to the thought of creation, which is to delight His creatures, meaning give a good reward to the righteous. Such a leadership cannot exist except by the work in the form of “God hath made even the one as well as the other,” hence, the place was prepared for the existence of the Dinim and Klipot.