Part 12 · Chapter 232

The Ari's Text

However, there is an examination to be made of what is said in the Shema, that the third vessel is called the internality of ZA. And likewise there, in the matter of the Shema, it appears that the third pregnancy of the Mochin is called internality. And behold, we have explained that the second pregnancy is in the externality, apart from the internality.

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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1The third Ibur of the Mochin is called internality, and behold we have explained that the second Ibur is in externality, apart from the internality: Meaning, there are two aspects of the second Ibur: the first is after the two years of nursing, for the sake of the VAK of Gadlut; the second is after nine years and one day (as above, page 1159, item 102). And therefore the second Ibur that comes after the nine years, for the sake of the GAR of Gadlut, is called here the third Ibur of the Mochin. And he raises a difficulty: since only the third Ibur of the Mochin is called internality, but the second Ibur, that comes after the two years of nursing, is externality, as above — if so, how are the Mochin of the Shema called the aspect of internal, when they are only the aspect of the second Ibur of the VAK of the Mochin, and so it is externality? Now, according to what was explained above (item 175, the passage beginning “There is not”), that the Mochin of the Shema of Yotzer already belong to the Ibur that comes after the nine years, except that at the time of the Shema it receives only VAK from them — the above difficulty is well resolved. And see page 1188, item 185, which states explicitly that from this coupling of the Shema of Yotzer, all the internal Mochin of Gadlut and the surrounding lights of AVI enter ZA. Study it there well. But certainly it does not yet receive them all at once, but rather they enter it gradually, in their own way. For now, at the time of the Shema, it receives only the aspect of their Ibur and nursing, and afterward, in the Amida, it receives the remainder gradually, as is written in the Sefer HaKavanot.