Part 10 · Chapter 5

The Ari's Text

And also, it is known that now, in their ascent in the secret of Ibur, it is the phase of their ascent in the secret of MAN, and they cause a coupling in AVI, and bring down male and female drops. And through these drops these Nekudot become bound together, and then the phase of their vessels is clarified, and they ascend upward in the secret of Ibur, and are corrected there.

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.

Not matched to a seif

1Their ascent in the secret of MAN, and they cause a coupling in AVI, etc.: That is to say, the records of ZAT — which are the discernment of GE bound to the AHP of AVI, as above — are included in the MAN [Mayin Nukvin] of AVI themselves, and AVI truly couple upon their own MAN. Rather, through the inclusion of the records of ZAT within them — an inclusion that arouses in AVI that discernment of MAN of Katnut [smallness/infancy] suited to the discernment of those records, that is, fitting for the level of the Ibur [impregnation].
Thus it is found that the whole level of MAD [male waters] and MAN that went out through this inclusion belongs to these records, which are ZAT, since they were the cause of the measure of this coupling; and AVI themselves have no need at all for the measure of this level.