Part 7 · Chapter 49

The Ari's Text

*When the third of Tifferet still did not die, the descent and fall of the posterior of Abba and Ima was not completed. When those kings entered their vessel, they were revealed in a great light. But after the upper third of Tifferet died, the posterior of AVI fell there. When the rest of the remaining lights came out there in order to enter in their vessel, they were clothed in these posteriors that fell and remained in Atzilut, and the last kings came out clothed in the posterior of AVI. This remained for them always until all the scrutinies could emerge in the days to come. This is the meaning of the raising of MAN that ZON raise to Abba and Ima, and it is from these posteriors of AVI that descended there below in Atzilut itself that they took.

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1When the rest of the remaining Orot came out in order to enter in their Kli, they were clothed in these Achoraim that fell. The matter of these Achoraim of AVI has already been explained. They are all the Behinot of Gadlut that were in AVI with respect to Panim be Achor and with respect to Panim be Panim. All this came down from Behinat Rosh and they were made into Behinot HGT without a Rosh.This is so because their Behina from above downward, which is the Guf, which are the four Melachim Daat HGT through the Upper third of Tifferet, broke and fell to BYA. As a result, the MAN that operated in the Rosh were blemished too, fell with their Orot, and lost the He’arat Hochma in them, obtaining Behinot HGT without a Rosh.However, they did not descend outside Atzilut because of that, like the Kelim de ZAT, because the Achoraim de AVI that still remain above the Behinot Achor be Achor, meaning from what they’d had prior to the Gadlut, all this remains in its full completeness. Hence the Behinot Gadlut de AVI that fell to HGT were also protected in those Achoraim from Achor be Achor de Rosh.Yet, there is a big difference between AVI Achor be Achor that remained in the Rosh. This is because those that remained in the Rosh were never restricted because of the Hey Tata’a in the Eynaim.Rather, these Behinot de Gadlut already extended He’arat Hochma, and departed from them once more due to the ascent of the Hey Tata’a in the Eynaim, though they received the Tikun of the Achoraim de Rosh after they had suffered the corruption. For this reason they are discerned as receiving from the Rosh and are considered Guf.In spite of that, these Achoraim that fell to HGT and became Behinot new Kelim, corrected in Tikun Kavim, are considered to be like AVI of Rosh, since they receive from the Rosh. This is because the Achoraim de Ima corrects them in Tikun Kavim and connects them into one knot. It means that the middle line that extends from Upper Bina in Ohr Hassadim unites the right and the left, and sentences them in her He’arat GAR as well.All three Kavim are united by the influence of Ohr de Hassadim because the Elyonim too receive their completion through them. Here you must remember that the Elyonim are Hesed and Gevura, which are of the value of Hochma and Bina.Tifferet is considered the Tachton that receives Ohr de Hassadim from Upper Bina that have Behinat GAR in her Levush of Achoraim. By so doing, the Hesed and Gevura that require He’arat GAR are completed too.It has been explained above that Rosh de YESHSUT clothes from the Chazeh de Nekudim to Peh de AVI de Nekudim. Thus, Rosh de YESHSUT clothes these Achoraim de AVI, which is similar to AVI de Atzilut that clothe HGT de AA de Atzilut, and these HGT administer all their wholeness to AVI de Atzilut. Similarly, here the Achoraim de AVI that fell to HGT became the Pnimiut to Rosh de YESHSUT, from which it sucks its wholeness.He writes, “When the rest of the remaining Orot came out in order to enter in their Kli. They were clothed in these Achoraim that fell and remained in Atzilut, and the last Melachim came out clothed in the Achoraim of AVI.” This is because the Orot de Rosh de YESHSUT themselves were clothed in these Achoraim, as they clothe them in their Pnimiut. Hence, their Gufim too, which are the four Melachim TNHYM clothe these Achoraim de AVI too.You must know that there is a great difference between the Achoraim de AVI that fell and the Rosh de YESHSUT. This is because these Achoraim come from Behinat Rosh de AVI, but because of the blemish of the breaking of the vessels, they descended to HGT.Although the Orot came out on the Masach de NHY de AK, which are Behinot ZON, yet the MAN do not act at all in the Rosh, since they are there in Behinat from below upward. Hence, these Orot de Gadlut that came out on the MAN are considered Behinat AVI, and do not consist of the Atzmut Hey Tata’a.Rosh de YESHSUT came from the Masach de Guf of the Nekudim, meaning from the Masach de Chazeh, which are the Kelim and the Orot that expanded from the MAN de NHY de AK from above downward. Thus, the Hey Tata’a is actually mixed in them, and for this reason these YESHSUT clothed the HGT de Nekudim themselves, these did not break.Therefore, now these YESHSUT gain much since they clothe the Achoraim de Ima and they really are a higher degree than they. Yet, because of their fall, it became possible for YESHSUT to clothe them.
2This remained for them always until all the scrutinies could emerge in the future. It means that these Achoraim are always made Behinot Levushim for Mochin to the Orot of ZON. Through them, ZA can obtain all its degrees and is protected in them. Were it not for these Levushim, ZA would not have been able to obtain any Mochin, and therefore it needs them until “in the future”, meaning until it obtains all its degrees, which is at Gmar Tikun.
3Raising of MAN etc. from these Achoraim de AVI that descended there etc. The matter of raising MAN when AVI do not mate Panim be Panim but through raising MAN has already been explained above (Ohr Pnimi item 24). Since Upper Ima is in the Achoraim to Abba in the form of “because He delighteth in mercy,” she does not stop her Achoraim except by raising MAN de ZON that awaken her to administer them He’arat Hochma. For them she stops her Achoraim and returns Panim be Panim with Abba.There was already He’arat Hochma of ZON in these Achoraim that fell from AVI, which were already Behinat Yechida, Haya, Neshama for ZON (Ohr Pnimi item 41, par. “It has been explained”). Hence, when ZON rises to MAN, it returns and scrutinizes scrutinies from Neshama, Haya, Yechida, that are in these Achoraim, and raises them to MAN for him to AVI.This is because when it raises scrutinies de Neshama to MAN, meaning from that part of the Achoraim that has already served there in AVI in the form of Komat Bina, you find that it causes Zivug Panim be Panim de Neshama to AVI. When it raises from scrutinies of Haya, meaning from that part of Achoraim that has already served there in AVI in Behinat Komat Hochma, that causes the return of Panim be Panim to AVI in Behinat Haya. Also, it raises scrutinies de Yechida from them of the needs of Yechida.