Part 13 · Chapter 186

The Ari's Text

Now, from these two corners, which are Metzpatz and Metzpatz, from there the thirteen corrections of the beard are drawn, which are the thirteen attributes of mercy, whose beginning is from "El Rahum" etc., as above. Therefore, before "El Rahum" etc., two Names, Hei Hei, are mentioned, for those two Names are the two Names Metzpatz and Metzpatz, which are Hei Hei in the interchange of Atbash, as above; and from them the thirteen attributes of mercy were drawn, namely "El Rahum" etc., and from them they are bestowed. And this is the secret of "YHVH, YHVH, El Rahum..." Understand this.

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

1From these two corners, which are Metzpatz and Metzpatz, from there the thirteen corrections of the beard are drawn, etc., and from them they are bestowed: As explained in the adjacent item, the discernment of the Mochin of Katnut that were beforehand in the two HaVaYot of the Nimin on the right and left of the hairs of the head of AA — these descend from there, at the time of the coupling, to the thirteen corrections of Dikna, namely the Vavin that were in those Nimin. And then the Chivaret [bright strands] is revealed within those Nimin, and they become Yods, and they join into one level, of GE and AHP, in the manner of AA and Atik; and likewise AVI and YESHSUT join into one Partzuf, and the illumination of Hochma is revealed in Dikna. And understand this well, that the intention here is not that he says that the Vavin descend to Dikna in the sense that they become Katnut — but rather in the manner that he says regarding every coming of new NHY, that the Mochin of HBD come to HGT, and the discernment of the light of Ruach that was in HGT descends to NHY, and the light of Nefesh that was in NHY descends to the new NHY; but the whole Partzuf becomes a Partzuf of Mochin of HaVaYot and Gadlut. And remember this.