Part 8 · Chapter 43

The Ari's Text

Now you know the reason to what has become known and clarified, that all the Behinot NHY of any Partzuf from the Partzufim, always come as supplements, not as the core. This is why they are considered outside the Guf.The reason is that in the Rosh of the Partzufim of Atzilut, which is AA, where all the other Partzufim of Atzilut clothe and hold, its NHY have nothing to rely on in it, in Atik Yomin. This is because only the ZAT de Atikclothed the First seven de AA, and there is only He’arah in NHY de AA, which stems from Yesod de Atik and expands in them. For that reason this whole issue continues in every NHY of all the other Partzufim.

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1Its NHY have nothing to rely on in it, in Atik Yomin. This is because only the ZAT de Atik clothed the First seven de AA. This means the true NHY de Rosh Atik, from its creation, which are at Komat Keter. These NHY do not clothe AA at all, but only from its Behinat Guf, which are from Komat Hochma, found in HGT de Atik, which are Behinat ZAT de Atik.Since it is so, AA itself, being Behinat Keter de Nekudim, lacks NHY de Kelim and GAR de Orot. This is so because its GAR are from a lower degree, and since AA is considered the general Keter de Atzilut, and it lacks its GAR, hence, all the degrees descending after it are found to be lacking NHY de Kelimand GAR de Orot. This is so because the GAR of each of them is GAR of its inferior degree, and its own GAR are missing from it, as we have explained regarding AA.It is written, “all the Behinot NHY of any Partzuf from the Partzufim, always come as supplements, not as the core.” This is because the Partzuf does not acquire its own NHY unless by joining and Hitkalelut with the Elyon to a single Partzuf, as we have explained regarding AA becoming one Partzuf with Atik by the MAN de AVI that it received. This He’arah is considered an addition, not as the core of the Partzuf, but rising and falling, as we will write below.