Part 12 · Chapter 230

The Ari's Text

Behold, there is no Partzuf of all the five Partzufim in all the four worlds of ABYA, in which each and every one does not have three vessels for each and every one of its Sefirot, and they are three vessels for the three aspects of NRN (Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama). For up to the Neshama, which is from Bina, from which comes the aspect of the letters, there are vessels. But from there and upward, which is opposite Chaya and Yechida in each and every Sefira, there are no more vessels, for there are there the cantillation marks (Ta'amim) and the vowel points (Nekudot), and not letters. And it is known that all the vessels were made from the letters.

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

1Three vessels for the three aspects Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama: It has already been explained above (page 1210, item 215) that these three vessels exist in every Partzuf, even in the Partzuf of Ibur, because after the coming of the Partzufim of nursing and Gadlut, they are included one within the other, and three vessels — external, middle, and internal — emerge in Gadlut, and likewise in nursing and likewise in Ibur; study it there well. And this is what is said here, that these NRN of Ibur and nursing are called externality, and only the NRN of Gadlut are called internality, which accords with the first interpretation, which reckons Ibur, nursing, and Mochin as sometimes in externality and sometimes in internality.
And this is what is said, “up to the Neshama, which is from Bina, etc., there are vessels, etc.; opposite Haya and Yechida there are no more vessels” — for it speaks here of individual Partzufim: the Partzuf of Ibur, and of nursing, etc., in which there are no vessels for Haya and Yechida, but they are clothed within the internality of the Neshama, as is known. However, in the inclusive Partzufim, there is no complete Partzuf that does not have within it all five Partzufim, even the Partzuf of Haya and Yechida, in all that completeness of the vessels, as in the Partzufim of NRN. Namely, likewise in three vessels: external, middle-internal, and lacking the particular Haya and Yechida — as is written in its place.