Part 8 · Chapter 19

The Ari's Text

*When the Tikun of the eighth Melech came, called Hadar, he first sorted out the Nitzotzot and the Kelim from among them too. Everything he sorted from them was but the female parts in all the Partzufim. It is so because in the beginning, it started to sort out the purest among them through the Ibur Elyon.From that Nukva de Atik was made, after the Ohr of the 248 Nitzotzin mixed with the Ohr of the Nekudat Keter that remained in Atzilut. Also, the Kelim of the Melachim mixed with the new Kelim of the new MA. Nukva de Atik and Atik were made of all of that, and it follows similarly in all of them.

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1He first sorted out the Nitzotzot and the Kelim from among them too. It means that besides sorting the Orot de BON, which are the Reshimot, he also sorts the Nitzotzin and the Kelim because by sorting the Orot and the Reshimot, the Kelim receive their correction too. This is so because the Reshimot correct and raise to themselves the Kelim that are related to them.This matter of sorting out means that he gives them from his He’arah, as we’ve explained above. The Rosh de Eser Sefirot of the new MA that came out by the Zivug Elyon de AB SAG clothes the place of GAR de Nekudim, and they receive Komat Keter from him.This is considered that the new MA sorted GAR de Nekudim and corrected them to be Behinat Nukvato him, meaning receive his bestowal. It is called “sorting” because each degree of the new MA sorted precisely those parts of BON related to his degree because all the Reshimot of BON from the GAR and ZAT rose to MAN at once (Ohr Pnimi item 17).The new MA sorted them gradually, one by one, meaning according to the appearance of his own degrees. This is because when Atik de MA was created, it sorted the better among the general MAN, meaning the GAR de Nekudim. He added them to himself, to Behinat Nukva de Atik, and then when AA de MA was created, it sorted the part that belongs to his degree. He added it to himself, to his Behinat Nukva and so on similarly. It is for this reason that it is called sorting.
2The female parts in all the Partzufim. All the males were made of the new MAN, and all the females were made of the Orot and the Nitzotzin and the Kelim that remained of Nekudim after the breaking of the vessels. However, in AVIand ZON there is Hitkalelut of the BON in the males, and the Hitkalelut of MA in the females too. This will be explained in its place.It started to sort out the purest among them through the Ibur Elyon. The beginning of the sorting is during the first Zivug of the ascent of MAN to Metzach de SAG that was in Rosh SAG itself. At that time only Komat Malchut came out (Ohr Pnimi item 17).Since that Koma and Ibur of the new MA had just come out, he immediately sorted for himself the Orot, Nitzotzin and Kelim that belong to him from the general MAN, in the same quantity and quality of the Behinot Ibur. They rose from BYA to Atzilut and were corrected there in the form of Gimelwithin Gimel, and we have already explained that the Komat Ibur is the three Sefirot NHY.They clothe the three Kelim Elyonim KHB because of the opposite value between Kelim and Orot (Ohr Pnimiitem 17). You find, that now they were sorted and only the best, highest Kelim among the Kelimand Nitzotzin that fell to BYA, meaning Kelim de KHB, rose from BYA by the Koma de Ibur. That is the meaning of the words, “in the beginning, it started to sort out the purest among them through the Ibur Elyon.”
3Nukva de Atik and Atik were made of all of that. He wishes to say, ZAT de Nukva de Atik. However, GAR de Nukva de Atik were not sorted even a little bit from the Nitzotzin and Kelim de BYA. Rather, she is made of GAR de Nekudim from the same Behinot that the breaking did not touch at all.