Part 12 · Chapter 205

The Ari's Text

And afterwards, in Gadlut, first the KHB in every edge of the VAK of BaN came, and the KHB in every edge of the VAK of MaH. It is found that already the VAK of ZA were completed, each one of the ten Sefirot of MaH and BaN. Therefore they are called the Mochin of the Gadlut of the VAK, of the names MaH and BaN. And understand this very much.

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

1In Gadlut, first the KHB in every edge of the VAK came, and so on; it is found that already the VAK of ZA were completed, each one of the ten Sefirot of MA and BON: This is the discernment of the Gadlut acquired in the first of the second Ibur, which comes immediately after the two years of nursing, when it acquires the completion of the vessels of AHP, by virtue of its raising MAN to AVI from the discernment of the posterior of the second division of Nekudim, which returns AVI to the discernment of Rosh. And nevertheless AVI are still found in the state of face to back, as above. And therefore ZA too attains ten complete vessels, through the lowering of the bottom Hey from Einayim and the return of its AHP to its degree; however, it can receive only from the posterior of Ima, and these are called the VAK of Ima of Gadlut.
And therefore these Mochin are called by the name Mochin of VAK, to indicate that although it has ten complete Sefirot, they are nonetheless only the discernment of VAK, for there is not yet a coupling in the discernment of its Rosh, and then the lights of Rosh are almost equal to the lights of HGT, for both of them are the discernment of covered Hassadim, and there is no illumination of Hochma there, which is called Rosh. And therefore the ARI explained above that it is now regarded that there are four thirds in each one of HGT, whose meaning is that two thirds of the GE of Rosh, and two thirds of the GE that are in HGT, are one degree. And two thirds remained in NHY, as above (page 1199, item 194). Study it there well.