Part 12 · Chapter 202

The Ari's Text

Afterwards, during all the nine months of the Ibur, the NHY in every edge of the VAK of BaN joined together, by means of the NHY in every edge of the new VAK of MaH also coming. And behold, in the Ibur there were three included in three, for there were six Malchuts.

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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1NHY in every edge of the VAK of BON, and so on, and therefore the matter of the Ibur is only the discernment of NHY alone — except that it is in every single edge of the VAK: Meaning, even though we say that the entire Ibur is nothing but the discernment of NHY alone, the meaning is not merely three Sefirot of NHY, but the meaning is three Sefirot of NHY within each and every Sefira that is in it. And from the discernment of the vessels, three vessels of HBD are regarded within each vessel of its own, meaning only one third of what is required to be in each Sefira of it. For in every complete Sefira there must be RTS [Rosh-Toch-Sof], which are HBD, HGT, NHY, and now there is only one third in each Sefira, for the array of the vessels is the bottom third, and the array of the lights is the upper third, as above (page 1196, the passage beginning “and according to.” Study it there well, the whole continuation). However, know that although the ARI writes here that they are only six edges, in each of which there is NHY — in truth ZA also has ten Sefirot, and now in the Ibur one third grows in each Sefira of these ten Sefirot, and likewise in nursing two thirds grow in each Sefira of them. And there is no contradiction in this, as will be written before us.