Part 8 · Chapter 91

The Ari's Text

And so it is found that the light that was now taken from these ten Ketarim in every single Partzuf — namely the Yechida, the Haya, the Neshama, and the Ruach in each of these Ketarim — is the secret of the supernal splendor that was taken from Adam HaRishon, and only the light of the Nefesh remained in those Ketarim. And this is the secret of the “soul of man” mentioned several times in the Torah.

Inner Light

This commentary hasn't been matched to individual seifim yet — items are shown in reading order, and the number beside each one counts the notes themselves, not the seifim of the Ari's text.

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1The light that was taken from these ten Ketarim in every Partzuf, etc., is the secret of the supernal splendor that was taken from Adam HaRishon: As explained in the adjacent item, that besides the nine lower ones of the vessels and the nine first ones of the lights that were lost in general, even in the Ketarim that remained in him the nine first ones of the lights are likewise missing, which are Ruach, Neshama, Haya and Yechida in each Keter of the hundred Ketarim that remained in him. However, there is a great difference between these two losses, for the nine first ones of the lights in general, and those of the Ketarim, that were lost to him did not fall into the Klipot [shells], but departed upward to their root, until Enoch came and took them back, as the ARI writes further on. But the nine lower ones of the vessels that were lost to him fell into the depths of the Klipot, and their correction will not be completed until the coming of Mashiach Ben David.