Part 11 · Chapter 25

The Ari's Text

And indeed, the explanation of this mishna is as follows: there are two Kabin, one good, which is the secret of the three fillings of AV, SAG, MAH mentioned above, which are nineteen, thirty-seven, forty-five, in gematria one hundred and two, and it is from the phase of the face, which she receives at the time of the union face to face. And this is the Kav that the woman wants from it, and from abstinence. For the woman is the fourth Name, which is Ben, which is in Malchut called Challah, as mentioned above, and receives the three fillings mentioned, called the pure Kav.

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

1There are two Kabin: one is good, and is the secret of the three fillings of AB, SAG, MA, etc., and it is from the phase of the face that she receives at the time of the coupling face to face: It has already been explained in the adjacent item that these three fillings, namely AB, SAG, MA, are the completeness of the whole NRNHY. For the filling of MA is the coarseness of phase one, and it is the phase of Nefesh and Ruach. And the coarseness of SAG, which is the phase of the 37 sparks, is the phase of Neshama. And the coarseness of AB, which are the 46 sparks, is the phase of Haya and Yechida. And since all of these came in the secret of the correction of the lines — meaning the ascent of the bottom Hey to the eyes, and the inclusion of Malchut in every single Sefira in the secret of the left line, through which, by the coupling, they acquire the middle line, as above — therefore they were corrected thereby in the secret of the good 102, without any dross, as above, for Aba brought down the thirty-two Malchuts of the bottom Hey of the quality of judgment, and left there 288 sparks entirely pure in the secret of the right line, and the coarseness in it, namely the fillings of HaVaYaH upon which the coupling is made, were corrected in the secret of the redness of Ima, meaning the illumination of her five Gevurot, to the phase of the left line, so that in this way they are fit to bring forth GAR at the time of the coupling, which is entirely good without any dross whatsoever. And this is why it is said that the first Kav is good, and it is the phase of the face that the Nukva receives at the time of the coupling — namely, as explained, that through the correction of the lines of Aba and Ima, the three fillings of ZA were corrected, so that they became fit to bring forth GAR at the time of the coupling in the secret of face to face, at the time of the Gadlut [greatness/adulthood] of ZON.
2The Kav that the woman wants from it, and from abstinence, etc. — which, in Malchut, is called Challah: You must remember here all that was explained above concerning the soul of Adam HaRishon, who is called the Challah of the world. (page 683, item 93, and in Inner Light there, throughout the continuation.) It was explained there that all the five Partzufim of Atzilut are, in relation to the five Partzufim of Nekudim, only the phase of the expansion of the NRNHY of the Ketarim, lacking the nine lower Sefirot, meaning only the phase of Nefesh. See there. Thus the relation of the five Partzufim of Atzilut is one tenth part relative to the Nekudim, for the nine lower Sefirot are lacking here. And this is the secret of the one Kav that the woman wants more than nine Kabin of the Nekudim. For in the nine Kabin of Nekudim she could not stand, and the lights departed from the vessels, because there was not in them a correction of lines in the secret of the partnership of the quality of mercy with judgment. And therefore they were called nine Kabin and separation, for the lights separated from her, because of the disclosure of the bottom Hey of the quality of judgment of the first restriction, as above. But in the one good Kav that was corrected in Atzilut through the partnership of the quality of mercy with judgment together with the correction of lines, there is in it the phase of prayers, meaning attachment, for the lights are fit to be sustained in them. And understand this.