Part 12 · Chapter 284

The Ari's Text

And behold, the milk that is drawn to the two breasts is through the letter Hei of Elokim that is between them, which becomes the channel of the milk that pours in the middle, to the two breasts, and expands to this side and to that side, in the secret of the Tifferet that decides between the two of them. And it is known that the milk is not equal in one aspect, for the milk drawn into the right breast will be sweeter than the milk drawn into the left breast.

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 milk that is drawn to the two breasts is the letter Hei of Elokim that is between them, which becomes the channel, etc., in the secret of the Tifferet that decides between the two of them: It has already been explained that all the degrees have no distinction except in the Hei of Elokim, which is the discernment of Bina herself, as above — that she is the discernment of the illumination of the five Gevurot of Ima, which is revealed in the Ibur [impregnation] in the secret of Aleph-Lamed-Mem of Elokim, and in the nursing of Katnut in the secret of Elokim, at which time the Hei of Elokim is expressed in three forms: Dalet-Yud, Dalet-Vav, and three Vavs. And in the Gadlut of nursing, when the very essence of the five Gevurot of Ima is revealed in the secret of the coupling, for the bottom Hey descends from the Einayim and comes to the place of the coupling, as above — then the Hei of Elokim is filled: with Yuds, and with Heis, and with Alephs, as above. Thus all the couplings are expressed only in the Hei of Elokim. And this is what it says, that the breasts themselves are the names of Elokim of Alephs, which are in HGT of AVI, for the coupling is made upon the screen of phase one, and every coupling is on the middle line, as is known; it thus follows that the place of the coupling is in Tifferet, and therefore the discernment of the Hei of Elokim is discerned there. And the letters Aleph-Lamed of Elokim are in the right breast, and Mem-Yud of Elokim are in the left breast, since through the coupling made in the Hei of Elokim that is in Tifferet, they are filled with the Mochin of nursing, called milk. Thus the Hei of Elokim that stands in the middle of the breasts is the channel that pours the flow of the milk to the two breasts, through which ZAT receive all the degrees of the names of Elokim by way of the nursing.