Part 13 · Chapter 187

The Ari's Text

Now the reason why these two Names of Elohim are changed and become Metzpatz and Metzpatz, we have already begun to explain above. And this is its complete meaning. Know that the eight white ways are drawn from the head through the sides of the face, as above, and they are two Names of YHVH. And those two Names shine in these two corners; and especially when they withdraw to the sides, as above. Then, even though the corners are Elohim, they become Names of YHVH like the whitenesses, except that they are interchanged in Metzpatz and Metzpatz, and not literally YHVH, because they are of the aspect of Elohim, as mentioned above.

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

1 The eight white ways are drawn from the head through the sides of the face, and they are two Names of HaVaYaH shining in these two corners: As stated in the adjacent item, that at the time of the coupling, when Arich Anpin and Radla [the unknown head] become one head, the hairs of the beard rise and join with the hairs of the head into one level, and then they receive from the returning surrounding light. And it is now found that the whiteness and the hairs of the head become literally one and the same discernment; and it is discerned that the whiteness bestows upon the fine hairs, and they become Yods, and the Vavs descend to the thirteen corrections of the beard, as above. And what is stated, that the corners remain in the discernment of Metzpatz — the intention is after this coupling, for then they return to their fixed discernment, which is the discernment of Vavs, and the corners return to the discernment of Metzpatz. As stated in other places.