Part 7 · Chapter 30

The Ari's Text

It turns out that as mentioned in the introductions, on the one hand, this illumination that now comes from these Hassadim and Gevurot that now came anew will be more, better, and greater than the first illumination that ZON already had. This is because he emanated the first only in the state of back-to-back, and this new illumination returned them to face-to-face. Hence, this new illumination will be called a state of face-to-face. However, from another perspective, this new illumination will be worse than the first illumination since the first illumination made and emanated all their Partzufim, and this new illumination only increased half of their posterior. Their return to face-to-face came anyway, which is why this new illumination will be called a state of back-to-back, since its benefit was only to increase half of the posterior.

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

1He emanated the first only in Behinat Achor be Achor etc. made and emanated all their Partzufim etc. The first He’arah is the concealed HGT and NHY, and the second He’arah is the disclosed NHY. He says that we can call the first He’arah both by the name Panim, and by the name Achoraim.The second one can also be called Panim and Achoraim. This is so because from the perspective of the first He’arah being the actual emanation of the entire Partzuf, it can be called Panim, all the more so since the HGT are the Kelim de Panim that become HBD in Gadlut.It can also be named Achoraim because of the situation of Achor be Achor in them. Similarly, the new He’arah can be called Panim although she is only Behinat NHY. Because these NHY are disclosed, they extended the Panim be Panim of the ZON, and can be called Achoraim since they are Behinatcompletion and increment of the Achoraim, meaning the NHY.