Part 7 · Chapter 27

The Ari's Text

When Adam haRishon was created and performed practical Mitzvot, he returned them face-to-face. In that state, there was no longer fear of the shells, as he had already dug, hoed, removed the stones, and cut the thorns from the vineyard. When they are back-to-back, ZON have only one wall for both of them. One wall is enough for both of them, and they use one wall: half a wall for ZA and half a wall for Nukva. When Adam returned them face-to-face through Mitzvot and good deeds, one posterior was finished and completed, one complete posterior for one, and one complete posterior for the other, and they can return to face-to-face.

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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1Practical Mitzvot he returned them Panim be Panim. This means that through good deeds that he deed, he cleaved further to Kedusha and could scrutinize scrutinies in the Nitzotzin and Kelim that fell to BYA, purifying them from the Sigim in them, meaning from the mixture of Behina Dalet in them (Ohr Pnimi item 2).In that state he raised them for MAN to the Nukva. These Nitzotzin and Kelim that he raised came from the seven Melachim de Nekudim that had already had Ohr Hochma before they broke. Also, they are parts of Nukva, and hence Nukva de ZA feels their absence from the Ohr Hochma, and hence stops her Achoraim, brings her Panim back to ZA, and mates Panim be Panim.
2In that state there was no longer fear of the Klipot, as he had already dug, hoed, removed the stones, and cut the thorns from the vineyard. It means that after he sorted the Nitzotzin and the Kelim from all the Sigim in them, called cultivating the vineyard, meaning dug, hoed, etc. they are worthy of rising to MAN to Nukva, causing a Zivug Panim be Panim there with ZA. At that time these Kelim are corrected in Behinat GAR and there is no more fear that they will break, as had happened to these Kelim in the first time in Olam Nekudim. This is so because the thorns have already ended in the vineyard, which are the Sigim in them, and from here on they remain forever in Kedusha.
3One wall for both of them. One wall for both of them is enough and they use one wall. A “Wall” means Achoraim. This refers to Achoraim de Ima, corrected in her in Behinat Achor be Achor, which satisfies both of them as He’arat GAR. It complements the lack of Hochma in them, and for this reason they are defended from the exteriors.He writes, “One wall for both of them is enough.” It means that it is enough for them to cover and conceal the lack of Hochma in their Achoraim and the Klipot cannot suck from there.
4Half a wall for ZA and half a wall for Nukva. It means that both are contained in these Achoraim in a way that the Klipot can suck from neither the ZA, nor the Nukva.
5One complete Achor for one, and one complete Achor for the other, and they can return Panim be Panim. This is so because by the Hassadim and the Gevurot that they obtain from the Zivug Elyon of AVI, by the Hassadim the Achoraim de ZA are completed in Behinat GAR. Also, the Achoraim de Nukva are completed in and of themselves in He’arat GAR through the Gevurot, as written below, and then they are fitting to return Panim be Panim.