Part 8 · Chapter 4

The Ari's Text

However, the Behinat MAN we have mentioned above, when they rose for the Zivug Elyon, is in itself the matter of the ascent of the seven Orotabove in Bina. Remember this forward regarding the meaning of the topic of raising MAN.In this Zivug, all Eser Sefirot from Keter to Malchut must be corrected because even GAR are not corrected. Hence, this Behinat “raising” of these MAN was above in AB SAG de AK.

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1Even GAR are not corrected. This because nothing of the Mochin de Gadlut that they’d received in Nekudim remained in them, but only what was in them when they were first created by the Zivug de Hey Tata’a in the Nikvey Eynaim. Hence they lack all the Behinot Gadlut. This is why it is written that even the GAR are not corrected.
2Hence, this Behinat “raising” of these MAN was above in AB SAG de AK. This means that there is no raising of MAN but only from the Tachton to its Elyon by one degree, meaning from ZON to AVI, from AVI to AA etc. but not to the one higher than it by two degrees.It is written that since GAR also need Tikun, and they too need raising MAN, it is necessary that the Upper Behina of raising MAN will be the Rosh SAG. This is because the MAN de ZAT are corrected in AVI de Nekudim, MAN de AVI in Keter de Nekudim, MAN de Keter in Rosh ha Aleph de Nekudim, and MAN de Rosh ha Aleph de Nekudim are corrected in Rosh SAG, meaning every Tachton in its Elyon.He says above that all the MAN together, meaning both ZAT de Nekudim and GAR de Nekudim, rose to GAR de Nekudim, which are seven Reshimot of seven Orot de ZAT being the Achoraim de HB and Keter. However, that does not mean that all were corrected there together, but only gradually. Each Tachton raised the MAN of its Elyon to its AliElyon, which in turn, corrects them for the Elyon.Thus, each sorted out a part of the general MAN and raised them to its AliElyon, until they ascended to the Upper AB SAG.