Part 7 · Chapter 61

The Ari's Text

For this reason, the upper Emanator wanted and extended and expanded the vessel of Keter, which did not break, and was extended through the middle line, since the GAR were formed as three lines to begin with, and it was extended through the middle line up to the place of Tifferet, only to its middle, which is up to the Tabur. At that time, the light Tifferet ascended and was concealed inside that vessel of Keter that expanded up to its place. You find that only the bottom half of the light of Tifferet ascended since the upper half stands in its place, for the vessel of Keter has already expanded through it. Then the light of Daat that descended below, in Malchut of Atzilut, seeing that there was already a new vessel in its place, since its place is also in the middle line between Keter and Tifferet, then it, too, rose and ascended to its place. Then, since the light had drawn far from its vessel, it descended down in Malchut of Beria. However, the vessel of Tifferet remained in its place, which is in Keter of Beria, since only half of its light ascended, not all of it, and its upper half remained in its place.

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1Only half the bottom Ohr Tifferet rose, since the upper half stands in its place. It means that after the Masach de Chazeh was purified and rose to its Shoresh to AVI, the Rosh de YESHSUT came out on it through its Hitkalelut in the Zivug de Rosh from there. Their Guf expanded from above downward in the two thirds of Tifferet from the Chazeh downward from their Histaklut Eynaim. Also, after the Kli de Tifferet broke and descended to Keter de Beria, this Ohr that was in the two bottom thirds of Tifferet rose and ascended to the new Kli de Tifferet that was made of the Achoraim de Keter.
2The upper half stands in its place. It means that it did not descend from its degree because of the breaking of its Kli, and this is because of what the Rav wrote above (item 44), that Achoraim de Abba and Achoraim de Ima descended before there was a blemish and deficit in the Yesodot de AVI.This is because after the Achoraim de AVI have already descended and returned Achor be Achor, the fourth Melech began to reign, being the Upper third of Tifferet. He wrote the reason there, which is because the Yesod is all Panim and has no Achoraim that descended from it.It explains there in Ohr Pnimi that this entire Ohr that descended through the Zivug Yesodot de AVI is Behinat Achor be Achor. This is because they mated after they’d returned Achor be Achor, and He’arat Achor be Achor is considered Behinat Panim de Abba ve Ima, meaning from what they have from the beginning of their creation, which are not at all harmed by the matter of the breaking of the vessels.Thus, the Ohr of the Upper third of Tifferet up to the Chazeh that extends from the Zivug Yesodot de AVI has no flaw because of the breaking of the vessels, since it extends from Zivug de Achor be Achor. He writes here, “but the Ohr of the upper half of Tifferet that stood in its place, its taste did not change, and its power is strong.”We might therefore ask, why did the Kli of the Upper third of Tifferet break, since it only had Behinat Achor be Achor, which is all Behinat Panim? The Rav has already written that the Behinat Panimremains only in AVI, yet in the Kelim de ZAT, the Behinat Panim broke in them too.However, indeed his breaking was not great, but he rather descended from Behinat Rosh de Tifferet to Behinat VAK de Tifferet, meaning to Behinat from the Chazeh downward. What the Rav wrote above, that it fell to Keter de Beria, it is after the Guf de Histaklut Eynaim de YESHSUT expanded in it, and it broke and the Ohr ascended to the Upper half of the new Kli de Tifferet.At that time it fell to Keter de Beria, meaning to the corresponding Behina, since the Guf de YESHSUT that it expanded in is Behinat Keter de YESHSUT as well. From this you can see that its breaking is not great since all the Kelim of the Melachim descended to ZAT de Beria and only the Tifferet fell to the Keter de Beria, which is close to Atzilut.
3Ohr Daat that descended etc. it too rose and ascended to its place. It has already been explained above (Ohr Pnimi item 61, sub header “Only half the bottom”), that right after the Hitpashtut of the three Kavim de KHB to the Behinot new Kelim DHGT, all the Orot of the four Melachim Daat and HGT rose to their place together, each in his own Kav.The reason for their ascent back to the Kelim of the new HGT that emerged in their place is because of the new Zivug which is the Rosh de YESHSUT that came out there in their place, which is Behinat Hitpashtut Bet that returns and fills the Kelim and the Reshimot that remained after the Histalkut of the Partzuf Elyon, as it was in the previous Partzufim de AK.This is because the Reshimot and the empty Kelim of the Partzuf Elyon always travel to its Partzuf Tachton. So it is here with YESHSUT, which fills the Kelim and the Reshimot de Guf of the Upper AVI. However, the Kelim have already broken and fell, and it fills only the Reshimot alone, which are the Orot DHGT that previously fell to NHYM de Atzilut. Hence, now they returned to their place and are filled with Ohr de YESHSUT.Now you can also understand the reason for the double decline that happened to the Kelim of the Melachim, those Daat and HGT. It is that the primary sustenance of these Kelim that fell to KHBD de Beria, is their Reshimot. Since these Reshimot were from Behinat GAR de ZAT, which are the Orot Gufim of the Upper AVI, hence they also fell to their corresponding Behina, to GAR de Beria, meaning in KHBD de Beria.On the one hand, now after their Reshimot rose to the place of the new Kelim and were renewed in the He’arat Rosh de YESHSUT, they gained much, since they have obtained a new Ohr under the first Ohr of the Upper AVI that departed from them. On the other hand, they lost much due to their becoming receivers of the Ohr de YESHSUT, in that they have descended from Behinat GAR to Behinat ZAT.Thus, YESHSUT with respect to AVI are only Behinot ZAT. Because of that their Kelim that are in Beria descended from the Behinat GAR of Beria to Behinat ZAT of Beria too, and hence fell an even greater fall from the place of KHBD de Beria to the place of NHYM de Beria.We might say that according to that, they should have fallen to HGT de Beria, and not to NHYM. This is because it has already been explained that the Aviut is considered lowness in the empty Kelim, and the more Zach in them is more important. Hence, when HGT NHYM fall to ZAT, they are inverted. The HGT fall to NHYM, and the purer NHYM fall to HGT de Beria, and this is simple.You should know that this Ohr Daat that rose to its place is only the Reshimot de Hassadim of the Daat, but the Reshimo de Gevurot still remained there in Malchut, and rose only after the breaking of the vessels of the Melachim de NHYM.