Part 12 · Chapter 84

The Ari's Text

And then Gadlut returns, which is the Neshama, the NHY of Aba and the NHY of Ima. And another clarification is needed for the lights alone — for the Mochin of Yenika that rise upward — and the Mochin of Gadlut come out in the inner NHY; and they enter in seven years, which are from the age of thirteen until twenty.

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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1Another clarification for the lights alone, for the Mochin of nursing that rise upward: Meaning, that for the return of the Gadlut of ZA, which is the Neshama, then a second clarification is needed, which is called second Ibur, which is through the ascent of the lights of nursing upward to AVI, as MAN [Mayin Nukvin]; through this coupling the bottom Hey descends from Einayim and returns the AHP to Atzilut, and then ZA attains ten complete vessels. And this is what he said, that another clarification is needed for the lights alone, for the Mochin of nursing that rise upward. As explained. And what he specifies, “for the lights alone,” is to inform us that the ascent of MAN is not to the discernment of the vessels of the Partzuf of nursing, but to the internality within them, which are the lights alone, as said in its place.
And you already know that in this second Ibur there are two couplings, as in the first Ibur, which are: one for the completion of the vessels, which takes place immediately after the completion of the two years of nursing; and the second coupling is for the drawing of the Mochin, which takes place after nine years and one day, and the discernment of Tzadi of Tzelem [image] enters him until thirteen years and one day, and the discernment of Lamed and Mem of this Tzelem enter him in the seven years from thirteen years and one day until twenty years, as explained in Etz Chaim, Gate 25, Discourse 8. Study it there well.
2Enter in seven years, which are from the age of thirteen until twenty: Meaning, that the completion of the entry of the Mochin of Gadlut is in these seven years, for what enters him are the surrounding lights of the Lamed-Mem of Tzelem of Gadlut, as above in the adjacent item. And since the Lamed-Mem of this Tzelem are the essence of the Gadlut, he therefore does not here count the Mochin of Gadlut from the discernment of the Tzadi of Tzelem, which enter him from nine years and one day until thirteen years and one day.