Part 9 · Chapter 2

The Ari's Text

But at the second time of each and every Partzuf, there was already one who would raise MAN [Mayin Nukvin]. For AA [Arich Anpin], after he had been corrected through what Atik clarified in order to correct him — of itself, at the first time — now, when Atik returned a second time to a discernment of Zivug [coupling] with his Nukva, Arich is found already corrected, and it is he who raises the MAN to Atik. And in this same order it proceeds through the rest of the degrees.

Inner Light

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1AA [Arich Anpin], after he was corrected through what Atik clarified, of itself, at the first time, etc. — he raises the MAN [Mayin Nukvin] to Atik: And you must remember what was explained in the previous part (page 626, the passage beginning “And Arich”; and page 725, Action 6), that before the Gadlut of the upper one came out, not even the Ibur [impregnation] of the lower one could come out. For at the time the Katnut of Atik came out from the head of SAG, the phases of his AHP were flawed, because of the bottom Hey found in his Nikvey Einayim, and how much more so the degrees below his AHP, which are not fit for coupling at all. Only after Atik rose as MAN to the head of SAG for the sake of his coupling of Gadlut, and through the coupling of AB SAG the bottom Hey descended from his Einayim to the Peh, and his AHP returned to the phase of a head — then Atik raised up to himself the phases of the screen and records of AA, and then the level of Katnut of AA was born, namely, his phases of GE, which are the phase of the vessel of the head, which is above the point of restriction of his Nikvey Einayim, since the power of restriction is not discernible at all above Bina, as above, in the adjacent item. However, the AHP of AA are still in their flaw, for although the illumination of the coupling of AB SAG lowered the bottom Hey from the Einayim of Atik, this does not at all benefit AA, since he is a degree lower than Atik, and therefore the power of restriction in his Nikvey Einayim is worse than in Atik, and the illumination of Atik does not suffice for him. Rather, only after AA was born and corrected in his phase of Katnut, he then returns and rises as MAN to Atik, and restores AVI [Aba ve Ima, Father and Mother] of Atik to face to face, so that through the illumination of their coupling upon his MAN, the bottom Hey descends also from the Nikvey Einayim of AA, and his AHP too return to the phase of a head, and then he acquires the Mochin of Gadlut. Study it there well.
And this is the meaning of: after AA was corrected the first time by Atik of itself — namely, by virtue of the Gadlut of Atik, which raises up to itself the GE of the lower one, since it is with him in a single phase (as above, page 626, the passage beginning “And Arich”) — then, at the second time, AA already rises of himself in order to attain his own Gadlut, through the illumination of the coupling of AVI of Atik, which lowers the bottom Hey from his Nikvey Einayim.