Part 12 · Chapter 102

The Ari's Text

There is also a second Ibur of the Mochin immediately after the two years of Yenika, for the sake of the VAK of Gadlut; and there is a second Ibur after nine years and one day, for the sake of the GAR of Gadlut. And all of it is true. It will also be explained with this that the Mochin of the simple Elohim are the inner ones in the aspect of VAK, and afterwards the simple ones spread downward in the VAK of the body, and then the actual GAR of the Mochin of Yenika enter, and they are the aspect of Elohim in their fillings, as it seems to me.

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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1There is a second Ibur of the Mochin immediately after the two years of nursing, for the sake of the VAK [six ends] of Gadlut, and there is a second Ibur after nine years and one day, for the sake of the GAR [first three] of Gadlut: As said in the adjacent item, that these two Iburs are both included in the second Ibur. Study it there well.
2The Mochin of the simple Elohim are the inner ones in the discernment of VAK [six ends], and afterward the simple ones spread downward in the body, and then the actual GAR [first three] of the Mochin of nursing enter, and they are the discernment of Elohim in their fillings: Because a filling indicates the discernment of the screen and coarseness upon which the coupling is made. Therefore, in the Katnut of nursing, when he does not yet even have the Gadlut of the vessels, there is in him no coupling of his own at all; rather he nurses from his mother’s breasts, namely from what the mother couples on his behalf. Therefore the Mochin are reckoned as the discernment of Elohim without a filling. But after the two years, when he rises for the second Ibur and attains the Gadlut of the vessels — at which time the GAR of Ruach are also drawn into him — he already has the discernment of a coupling of the illumination of the vessels; therefore the discernment of the names Elohim in their fillings are reckoned in him, for the fillings indicate the discernment of the coupling made in him.
And as for his saying that the simple Elohim descend downward into the body at the time when the Mochin of Elohim in their fillings enter the Rosh — this has already been explained above: that in the two years of nursing, the Mochin of Katnut of nursing are found in the Rosh, in his HB, and in the body there is no illumination at all of the Mochin of nursing. But after the coming of the GAR that clothe in the Rosh, then the Mochin of Katnut are pushed down to the ZAT. See there.