Part 8 · Chapter 1

The Ari's Text

* When the Maatzil wanted to revive the dead and correct these broken Melachim that were fallen into Olam Beria, He sentenced and raised MAN from below upward. Thus, there was a Zivug Elyon de HB de Inner AK, generating the new MA there, and the Melachim were corrected.

Inner Light

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1Revive the dead. Meaning the first seven fallen Melachim that fell into the separated BYA. This fall is considered death since they are separated there from the Light of life, meaning the Ohr Hochma, as it says, “wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.” This is the reason that Ohr Hochma is called Ohr Haya (Light of life).Also, the three Olamot BYA are called The Separated Olamot, since the Ohr Hochma cannot expand in these places and everything in them will die without Hochma. They cannot be corrected except through ascent to Atzilut, meaning to the place where there is Hochma that can expand in them.Hence, when they rise to Olam ha Atzilut they are considered to have been revived, having been granted the Ohr Haya. It is written, “When the Maatzil wanted to revive the dead,” meaning to raise them from BYA to Atzilut, which is the revival of the dead. This is the meaning of the correction of the seven Melachim.
2He sentenced and raised MAN from below upward. Meaning from ZON to Keter. The matter of raising MAN has already been explained (Part 7, Ohr Pnimi item 24) and study it there. However, here we should understand another principal issue: These MAN are the seven Orot that remained of the seven Melachim, meaning the Reshimot that the Orot de ZAT left after their departure.This is so because once the Masach de Nekudim purified from its Aviut entirely, it returned and rose to its Shoresh in Rosh de Nekudim with all the Reshimot contained in it. Since it has already come there, in Behina Aleph in the Zivug of Daat de Nekudim (see Ohr Pnimi item 70), you find that its last Behina is Behina Aleph.Hence, the Masach did not become Av because of its Hitkalelut in the Rosh, but only to the extent of the Aviut de Keter, since the last Behina was lost. Thus, only Komat Malchut could have come out on it. Thus, you find that the Hey Tata’a (lower Hey), incorporated in the Masach,rose from the Eynaim to the Keter, and the Zivug was made on Sefirat Keter. It turns out that the above rising of MAN is to the place of Keter.