Part 7 · Chapter 39

The Ari's Text

*Let us return to the intention and say that AVI were initially face-to-face since the Mochin was made for them from the Keter. However, their MAN, which causes them to establish and sustain the state of face-to-face, was the existence of those seven kings that were in the Me’i Bina [intestines of Bina], and these were its MAN. This is how it always is. The sons are the MAN of Ima. While those seven kings that were inside the Bina, they were raising MAN and causing a coupling to AVI. The Mochin were extended to them, AVI were returned to face-to-face and made a coupling together in order to elicit these seven kings. When these kings emerged, had they not died but persisted, they would have positioned AVI face-to-face, even though they emerged below, and they would have been beneficial for their MAN. However, because they broke and died, the posterior of AVI, too, which position them face-to-face, descended, and then returned to back-to-back since there was no one to raise MAN for them anymore, and sustain their return to face-to-face.

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1AVI were first Panim be Panim since the Mochin was made for them from the Keter. We have written above (Ohr Pnimi item 31) that the Zivug de Gadlut de AVI was by obtaining the disclosed NHY from Keter de Nekudim.
2Their MAN, which causes their erection and sustenance of the Behina de Panim be Panim, was the reality of these seven Melachim. It has already been explained above that AVI do not return Panim be Panim unless through raising MAN de ZON (Ohr Pnimi item 24) because Bina is in the form of “because He delighteth in mercy” at her Shoresh, and rejects Hochma. However, when ZON rise to her for MAN, her Shoresh de Ohr Yashar awakens in her since ZON de Ohr Yashar are her sons, which she emanated in He’arat Hochma.Hence, after ZON rise to her for MAN and Bina awakens to dispense them He’arat Hochma, she then arrests her Achoraim and returns her Panim to Hochma. She mates with him Panim be Panim and renews He’arat Hochma to ZON, and once ZON obtain He’arat Hochma, they come to their place below. From there on Bina is found in a Zivug Panim be Panim with Hochma in order to sustain He’arat Hochma in ZON.Here [Written aside in the manuscript of the author: “Needs scrutiny. After all ZON were previously emanated from Hotem Peh de Dikna. They only received the Gadlut from the Vav and Nekuda, as it is written in Part 6, Histaklut Pnimit item 19, that lowering the Hey Tata’a to the Peh, which is the Vav, makes the Shuruk] the ZON were not yet emanated to be able to raise MAN to AVI.This is why this raising of MAN was made by the inner NHY de AK, and the Yesod de AK illuminated the Shuruk for AVI, the Vavand Nekuda. It is written in the Rav’s words (Part 6 item 31) that theis Behinat ZA, and the Nekuda is the Behinat Nukva, and they became MAN in Ima. At that time Imawas awakened to bestow He’arat Hochma in them, stopped her Achoraim, and returned Panim be Panim with Abba.AVI raise MAN higher up, meaning to Keter, and Keter too above it etc. up to Ein Sof. Then a new Ohrcomes down from Ein Sof and cascades through the degrees until the drop of Zivug de AVI that descends on theand Nekuda inside them, which are ZON.They acquire He’arat Hochma, and then expand to their place below, meaning to the bottom seven de Nekudim. In addition, in order to keep the He’arat Hochma in the ZON, Ima must extend the Panim be Panim with Abba.Now you can thoroughly understand the Rav’s words that ZON not only cause the returning of AVI Panim be Panim when they are up in Ima in the form of MAN, but even after they expand downward to their place, they are still considered the causes of the sustenance of the Zivug AVI Panim be Panim. Because of them Ima must be Panim be Panim with Abba, in order to keep their He’arah in ZON.He writes, “their MAN, which causes their erection and sustenance of the Behina de Panim be Panim, was the reality of these seven Melachim that were in the Me’i Bina, and these were its MAN.” It means that in the beginning, the seven Melachim were in Behinat MAN in the Me’i of Bina since they are theand Nekuda that Yesod de AK administered them, which caused the return of Panim be Panimwith Abba when they came to Me’iIma.Afterwards, when the seven Melachim expanded and descended to their place, they still induce AVIsustenance and existence of the Behina de Panim be Panim. This is because Bina must extend her Zivug Panim be Panim with Abba because of them, in order to administer and keep the He’arat Hochma in them.
3Because they broke and died. For this reason the Achoraim of AVI too, which locate them Panim be Panim, went below. The whole matter of the Hamshacha of the Zivug Panim be Panim de AVI is only in order to keep He’arat Gadlut in the sons, which are ZON. Hence, when the sons died, Bina no longer needs to extend the Panim be Panim with Abba. For this reason they return Achor be Achor and all the Behinat Orot de Gadlut that were in them descend from their degree and fall to Behinat Guf and ZAT, meaning they were rejected from the Rosh de AVI.The reason that they descend from the Rosh de AVI is that the Bina returned to her original degree that appreciates Hassadim more than the Ohr Hochma. You find, that after the sons died and she no longer has a need to extend He’arat Hochma for them, she immediately returns Achor be Achor, meaning to her first state, to extend Hassadim and reject Hochma.By that she rejected and dropped the Mochin de Hochma outside the Rosh into Behinat ZAT, as it is written, “my princes all of them kings” (Isaiah 10;8). This is because these Achoraim that descended from their degree and became ministers, were Melachim before, meaning when they were up in Rosh de AVI in Behinat Mochin de Gadlut. Now that they have descended into Behinat ZAT, they have become ministers, meaning subordinate and enslaved to the Melachim.