Part 11 · Chapter 125

The Ari's Text

And also the reason, for you know that Chochma-Bina and Chesed, each includes seventy-two, and the Gevurot include all of them, which are two hundred and sixteen, as mentioned above regarding the secret of "and He passed, seventy-two, two hundred and sixteen." And the reason is that the Gevurot are needed for Malchut, the final Hei of the Name, and it must include within it all the phases of the three letters Yud-Hei-Vav that are above it, which are Chochma, Bina, and Chesed, each of which comprises seventy-two, and it is the totality of three times seventy-two, becoming two hundred and sixteen.

Inner Light

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1HB and Chesed, each includes seventy-two, and the Gevurot include all of them, which are two hundred and sixteen, and the reason is that the Gevura is for the sake of Malchut, the final Hei of the Name: And you must know that the Mochin are four: Hochma, Bina, Hesed, and Gevura. And they are the discernment of the ten Sefirot, for Hochma, Bina, and Hesed are the first nine Sefirot. And Gevura is the Malchut among them. And likewise they are called Hochma, Bina, Daat, where the GAR among them are HB, and the ZAT among them are Daat, for the Daat includes Hesed and Gevura, since Hesed is VAK, and Gevura is Malchut.
And therefore, there is a great difference between the HB and Hesed that are in the Mochin of AB, and the discernment of the Gevura among them, for the nine first ones, being of the discernment of AB, in which there is no beginning or root at all for the bottom Hey in the Einayim, are therefore regarded like in Akudim among the Partzufim of AK, where there is only one vessel, which is Malchut, but the nine first ones are entirely clean of the discernment of vessel and screen. But the discernment of the Gevura among them is the discernment of the vessel and the screen itself.
And this is what he says, “HB and Hesed, each includes seventy-two”: for in Gadlut, after the bottom Hey descends from there from the Einayim, then the discernment of the seventy-two is revealed in all the first nine Sefirot that are in the Mochin, only that they are three distinct discernments, for HB are GAR of the Mochin, and Hesed is ZA within the Mochin, as is known. But all of them are entirely clean of the discernment of coarseness and screen. As above.
And this is what he says, “and the Gevura includes all of them, which are two hundred and sixteen, and the reason is that the Gevura is for the sake of Malchut, the bottom Hey of the Name”: for she is the discernment of the coarseness and the screen upon which the coupling with the upper light is made, as above, which is the discernment of the bottom Hey of HaVaYaH. And therefore she includes all of them, since she raises the reflected light by which the whole level is measured, and there is no revelation at all to the level except by means of the reflected light that ascends from the coupling made upon her. Thus she includes the whole level, namely the Hochma, Bina, and Hesed, as above. And therefore the Gevura alone, her gematria corresponds to all of them, namely two hundred and sixteen, corresponding to three times seventy-two, which are in Hochma, Bina, and Hesed.