Part 12 · Chapter 271

The Ari's Text

But in the nursing there were other gradations in them. Namely, at first the Mochin were in the aspects of the simple Names of Elokim, and from Aleph-Lamed-Mem it became Elokim. It thus follows that the Mochin of Aleph-Lamed-Mem are of the pregnancy, and the Mochin of the Yod-Hei within the Aleph-Lamed-Mem are Mochin of the nursing, which are in their internality. And understand this well. But while they are still simple Names of Elokim, there is no distinction between this Mochin and that Mochin, except in the aspect of the form of the letter Hei of Elokim.

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

1There is no distinction between this Mochin and that Mochin, except in the aspect of the form of the letter Hei of Elokim: For although the discernment of Yod-Hey was added here in the nursing, which is HB, nevertheless the Yod, which is the discernment of Hochma, has no revelation at all in the discernment of the names of Elokim, except in that it is clothed and hidden within the discernment of Bina, for the name Elokim is attributed to Bina and not to Hochma, as is known. And even within Bina herself, it is not revealed except from the Chazeh [chest] downward (as above, page 897, item 48), namely in her posterior. And therefore the distinction between these three Mochin, HBD, is not recognized except in the Hei of Elokim, which is the discernment of Bina.