Part 6 · Chapter 49

The Ari's Text

It is not surprising that the vessels were registered and implied in the first two Nekudot [dots], the finest among them. The thing is that the vessels for the rest of the Nekudot were made of these first two Nekudot, namely Keter-Hochma of the Nekudot, and they are the ones that engendered and elicited vessels for the Sefirot below them. There is yet another reason: It is known that the seven lower Nekudot are the seven kings that died. However, the first ones did not die. It is also known that death is the breaking of the vessel; hence, the seven other Nekudot remained without a vessel, but only with light, which is the Nekudot. But the first ones, which did not die, and remained with their vessels, the lights become concealed and clothe within the vessels, and are named after the vessels, which are the twenty-two lights implied in the Kamatz and Patach, as we have mentioned.

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

1The first did not die. Rather, the Kamatz returned to the Nikvey Eynaim as it was before. Also, the Patach remained alone once more in Kli de Hochma. It is so because when they are in their place as they were when they were first created, they are considered Kelim de Panim, where annulment and breaking do not apply.