Part 12 · Chapter 45

The Ari's Text

And what was already clarified of them became the Hod, Yesod, and Malchut of ZA, and came out with him when he was born. And through the milk these parts expanded in their place in ZA, and ZA was a son of complete VAK. For at first, in the Ibur, only the three middles were clarified in him completely, and the three lower ones were clarified somewhat, in the secret of their inclusion within the three others, in the secret of three included in three, as above. And when the three lower ones finished being clarified, then they did not need to be included above, and they expanded, and he was completed in complete VAK. And this is the secret that was explained: that at the time of Yenika he has VAK. And understand this.

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1At first, in the Ibur, only the three middles were clarified in him completely, etc., and through the milk these parts expanded in their place in ZA, and ZA was a son of VAK: You already know that everything discussed here concerns Malchut of ZA, that is, the Nukva within his body, as above. It is also known that the whole height of the Partzuf depends on the measure of Malchut within it, that is, on the screen and the coarseness on which the coupling with the upper light is made. Therefore, during the Ibur, since the coupling there was made only in the external vessels of AVI, meaning in the screen of the discernment of the root, his level is only the level of NHY, which is the light of Nefesh, and the discernment of his vessels is only HGT, lacking NHY; for regarding vessels it is reckoned that the upper ones grow first, as is known. And this is the secret of “three within three,” that NHY are included in HGT. Thus he lacks the NHY of vessels for as long as he is at the level of Ibur. By this you will understand better what was said, that Hod, Yesod, and Malchut were not clarified at the time of the Ibur. However, Netzah, since it is of the discernment of ZA, that is, of the discernment of HGT — as is known, that the root of ZA on the side of the vessels is Netzah, and on the side of the lights is Tifferet — is therefore reckoned among the discernment of HGT that are clarified even at the level of Ibur, as above. Hence it counts only Hod, Yesod, and Malchut, for the main subject discussed here is from the discernment of the vessels.
And this is what he said, “and through the milk these parts expanded in their place in ZA, and ZA was a son of VAK”: meaning that at the time of birth a new coupling of AVI is made on phase one, as above, page 1128, the passage beginning “in her belly.” See there. And the level that comes out through this coupling is the level of complete VAK, which is Ruach and Nefesh; Ruach clothes in the vessels of HGT and Nefesh in the vessels of NHY. Thus he now has new vessels of NHY, and this is what is meant when it says that HGT expanded out of NHY — that is, that the level of Ruach was revealed, and then the light of Nefesh descended and enlarged the vessels of NHY, and the light of Ruach clothed in the vessels of HGT, as is known. However, although these Mochin came in the coupling of AVI at the time of birth, ZA does not yet receive them except through nursing, little by little, as will be explained ahead; hence it is reckoned that this level of Ruach does not expand to ZA except through the nursing of the milk.
However, the measure of the clarification of Malchut of ZA is not yet fully completed here through the nursing; rather she still needs to receive the measure of the screen of phase two and phase three, and likewise also the separated Nukva of ZA, who after the sawing takes all the Gadlut of the Nukva of his body, as is known. Then Malchut is reckoned as fully clarified from the discernment of Atzilut, at any rate, but she is not yet clarified from the discernment of BYA, whose clarifications of her continue until the end of correction.