Part 7 · Chapter 7

The Ari's Text

*Let us complete the scrutiny regarding the primary reason and what it was. His intention is to create this world, which contains reward and punishment. This is impossible except through an officer, which is the measure of repaying the evil. Also, the evil is the root of the dross and the yeast of the Gevurot and the judgments, as it is written, “In the place of the sentence, there is the wickedness.”

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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1“In the place of justice, that wickedness was there.” This refers to the sentence of the Sitra Achra that is turned into harsh and bitter Dinim, as it is written, “His ordinances, they have not known them.” Now you can understand the words of the Zohar (Truma, p.164), “The Sitra Achra is given an extra count, and it is counted as a deficit, such as eleven.”This is the evil attribute to repay the evil, since the Sitra Achra is given more power to hold than they deserve. In that, “a whirling storm; it shall whirl upon the head of the wicked,” and this is what our sages imply, “A camel that went looking for horns, its ears were cut off.”