Part 9 · Chapter 109

The Ari's Text

Then these Mochin, called the Neshama [soul] of ZA [Zeir Anpin], were in the discernment of MAN [Mayin Nukvin] to Bina, and Aba and Ima coupled and corrected the Malchut not by means of ZA. The matter is that Leah had already been corrected, back to back, before Rachel — for first the illumination of Leah comes out, and afterwards the illumination of Rachel, and the two of them are still separate, though both receive their illumination by means of ZA. Afterwards, in the Nesirah [sawing apart], the two of them join together into one Partzuf, through the NHY [Netzah-Hod-Yesod] of Ima entering within them; and thus Rachel herself is found rising, back to back, up to the Keter of ZA, through her joining with Leah.

Inner Light

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1Then these Mochin, called the Neshama of ZA, were in the discernment of MAN to Bina, and AVI coupled and corrected the Malchut not by means of ZA: This has already been explained above in several places: that the matter of the Durmita [deep slumber] and the withdrawal of the Mochin of Hochma and Hassadim of ZA for the sake of the sawing, its meaning is the rising of MAN to AVI — for even the Gadlut of vessels she cannot receive from ZA, except through the rising of MAN to AVI, since she needs the coupling of AB SAG to bring down the bottom Hey from her Einayim, and to raise up the vessels of her AHP and join them to her degree, in order to complete her in ten Sefirot.
2At the sawing, the two of them join together into one Partzuf: For in Katnut, when the Nukva had only the GE of vessels, and lacked the AHP of vessels and the GAR of Lights, her stature was from the Chazeh of ZA downward. But now that she has attained her AHP, she has acquired ten vessels just like ZA himself, and therefore she joined with Leah into one Partzuf, since she now clothes the whole stature of ZA, for on the side of the vessels their statures are equal. However, on the side of the Lights she is still lacking, until the second coupling, as above, and therefore she clothes him from his posteriors, and not from the side of the anterior, until she attains the Lights as well, like ZA; and then she returns with him in an equal stature, from the discernment of the anterior of ZA.