Part 13 · Chapter 81

The Ari's Text

And you already know that Netzach is included in the Hesed, which is the right line, and Hod is included in the Gevura, and therefore these NH are hinted at in the skull and the brain, in which are the HG of Atik, and they are hidden there, and from there they go out through that membrane, which is the Tifferet, and from there the NH go out in the aspect of hooks. And this is the secret of the hairs being called in the Tikkunim, page 102, side B, two hooks, as it said, "and every strand is the measure of the letter Vav." And it seems to me, by my life, that these hairs are the secret of the lower beard, upon the two testicles of Atik, for in this pattern the beard of ZA was made, in the NHY of AA; and see there.

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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1These NH are hinted at in Galgalta and the brain, in which are HG of Atik, and they are hidden there, and from there they go out through that membrane: Meaning, that these hairs are a returning surrounding light, which already existed in the vessels at the time the coupling was made upon the screen of phase three; however, it could not remain and clothe in Galgalta and Mocha Stimaa [the concealed brain], because of the Mem of Tzelem [image] that rides upon them, and therefore they went out from Galgalta and Mocha Stimaa, and became surrounding light in the discernment of hairs above Galgalta. As above, in the adjacent item. Thus the hairs are the discernment of the lights that go out from Galgalta and Mocha Stimaa. And this is what he says: “and from there they go out through that membrane.”
2The two testicles of Atik, etc.: This was already explained above, that they are the discernment of the NH of Atik that is above the Yesod, since they are corrected in the discernment of Mem of Tzelem [image], and therefore they have no dealing either with the Katnut [smallness/infancy] of the screen of the Yesod, or with its Gadlut [greatness/adulthood]. See there. It was also explained that there is hidden this Butzina de Kardinuta [the lamp of darkness], which is the secret of the Malchut of restriction one, from which are the discernments of heat for the raising of MAN [Mayin Nukvin]. And this is the secret of why they grind MAN for the righteous, as will be said below. And by force of the heat of the Malchut of restriction one, the AHP of Hochma are raised, which are the discernment of the hairs. Thus the hairs go out from the discernment of the two testicles of the male. For from the Malchut of restriction two alone the MAN of the raising of AHP could not be imagined, since it is lacking from them from the beginning of its formation. As will be said below.