Part 8 · Chapter 17

The Ari's Text

*This above-mentioned Behinat Ibur was forced to wait and be delayed for twelve months, as it is written in the Tikkunim in an article called “The Measurement Line”. The reason was to correct the entire Atzilut, which are the twelve Behinot Atik and Nukva, AA and Nukva, Upper AVI, YESHSUT and ZON, Yaakov and Leah. These are twelve complete Partzufim, hence the reason this Ibur had to last twelve months.

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1This above-mentioned Behinat Ibur was forced to wait and be delayed for twelve months. Komat Malchut, which is the most restricted Katnut possible, is called Ibur. This comes from the word Avara (impregnation) and Dinim, as it is written “But the LORD became pregnant in me for your sakes.”However, here we should understand, that they are three Sefirot in thickness, in the form of Gimel Kavim, called NHY. This is because a lesser measure than that is not called a Partzuf, as it is written, “and behold a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying there by it,” which are NHY.Even though the Koma is but one Sefira of Malchut, still, because there is Tikun Kavim there, it contains three Behinot: right, left, and middle. These three Behinot in Komat Malchut are called Netzah, Hod, Yesod, hence we discern them as standing thickwise one within the other.This indicates that although there are three Sefirot there, they do not increase Komat Malchut in any way. Instead, all those three are on a Koma of a single Sefira.The issue of the months of pregnancy refers to renewals of He’arot that the Partzuf generates and manifests during the situation of Behinot Ibur. These are seven months, nine months, or twelve months. Any Hidush He’arah is called “Month”, and here the Rav says that this Ibur consists of twelve months, to manifest twelve Partzufim.
2The reason was to correct the entire Atzilut, which are the twelve Behinot. It means that through the ascent of this MAN to the Metzach, which is Behinat Bina de Keter, where the Eser Sefirot on Komat Malchut came out, called Ibur, this Ibur needs to fully correct the entire Atzilut,all the way. Also, because they are twelve Behinot, they need twelve months.The reason for that is because all the Behinot diminished, fell and broke during the breaking of the vessels de Nekudim, all together rose to MAN to this Ibur. The Rav said above (item 2) that they contain all the Partzufim from Olam Atzilut and BYA, all of them (see Ohr Pnimi item 4). This is because all four Achoraim of the Upper AVI and YESHSUT, contained in the three Kavim KHB, rose and regrouped above (Ohr Pnimi item 2), as well as the seven Orot of the Reshimot that remained of the seven Melachim that fell to BYA.The four Achoraim de AVI and YESHSUT contain all the Partzufim de GAR that came out in Atzilut. Also, the seven Orot contain the ZON, four Olamot Atzilut and BYA. Thus, all the Olamot contained in the MAN that rose to the Zivug to Keter, and thus must all be corrected by this Zivug de Ibur.You already know that there is an opposite value between the Orot and the Kelim. In the Kelim, the Elyonim grow first, and in the Orot it is the opposite, the Tachtonim clothe first. Hence, Komat Ibur, called NHY clothes Kelim de KHB.It turns out that by the above-mentioned general Zivug, all twelve Partzufim came out from the Behinat Ibur, one below the other, KHB de Atik and Nukva, and afterwards KHB de Arich Nukva. After that KHB de AVI, then KHB de YESHSUT, then KHB de ZON, and then KHB de Yaakov and Leah. All of them came out by the single Zivug Elyon, though they came one below the other in a gradual order.