Part 9 · Chapter 44

The Ari's Text

These seven times are, in their general categories, four — they are the last five — for then a discernment of a name began in her, as above in the third discernment. Likewise, the fifth and sixth discernments are both one matter. Thus they are only four degrees, and they are the initials of Nekeva [female] — though not in the order of its letters — namely: Nun, Naarah; Kuf, Ktana [minor]; Bet, Bogeret [mature]; Hey, the Hey of HaVaYaH, as above. This is the reason a woman is called Nekeva: as an allusion to these four times, implied in its letters.

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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1These seven times, in their general categories, are four — they are the last five, for then a discernment of a name began in her, as above in the third discernment: For the name Nekeva [female] indicates the secret of the rib that was taken from the Adam of Atzilut, who is ZA, and He built her up into a complete Partzuf face to face with ZA, as stated ahead; and since the beginning of the building came through the hole that was made in the posterior of ZA, she is called by the name Nekeva, as will be said below. Therefore, before she received the form of the rib in its full completeness, which is her first substance, she does not yet rise to a name. And understand this.