Part 13 · Chapter 47

The Ari's Text

The third head, which is called the Hochma, the Mocha Stima'ah of AA, has in it also three other names: Yod-He-Vav-He, Yod-He-Vav-He, Yod-He-Vav-He, in the filling of MAH of Alpin, in the vowels of the second head, which are Segol in place of Tzere. And there is added in these a second change, that also in place of the vocalization of Kamatz, in these there is the vocalization of Patach instead of the Kamatz. And all three of them — inner light, surrounding, and surrounding of both of them — are in the aspect of particularity. But in the aspect of the generality, all these three discernments are only the aspect of the inner light alone of the three heads 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

1Mocha Stimaa [the concealed brain] of AA, etc., in the aforementioned vowels of the second head, which are Segol in place of Tzere, etc.; in these, the vocalization of Patach instead of Kamatz: The meaning is that the place of the revelation of Hassadim in their root, which is through the coupling face to face of HB, is hinted at in the turning of the movement of Tzere to Segol, as above. And the discernments of the reception of the illumination of Hochma are hinted at in the turning of Kamatz to Patach, as above in the passage beginning “letters,” study it there well. And therefore the aspect of the Heys in the HaVaYaHs of Mocha Stimaa, which are the aspect of the Bina that turned from posterior to face, come also in Mocha Stimaa in the movement of Segol. And the Kamatzim that function in the HaVaYaHs of the air, which are the aspect of the Ketarim of the MA, which is Mocha Stimaa, are turned here to Patachin, whose meaning is that according to the size of the measure of the contracting that functions in the Keter of Mocha Stimaa, so is the size of the light opened in Mocha Stimaa, as above in the passage beginning “letters.” Study it there well.