Part 14 · Chapter 103

The Ari's Text

*Know, that just as we want to draw NHY to ZA, we make a coupling for KHB, so that they give Mochin to ZA, and then through this power NHY are added to him; so too AVI, in order for them to have NHY, must first make a coupling with AA.

Inner Light

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1A coupling for HB, so that they give Mochin to ZA, and then through this power NHY are added to him. It has already been explained in the previous parts, this innovation that was made in Atzilut: that the Partzuf is not completed at one stroke, as in the Partzufim [pl. of Partzuf] of AK, but at first its anterior vessels are corrected and are sorted out of BYA — namely the vessels of GE as far as the Chazeh [chest], which include HBD HGT. And a second time, at the time of Gadlut [greatness/adulthood], it again needed the coupling of its upper one, that it should draw to it from the illumination of AB SAG of AK; for through this illumination it lowers the bottom Hey from the Einayim and raises its AHP from BYA, which are the posterior vessels from the Chazeh and below, called NHY. And this applies in every single degree that is newly sorted out of BYA.
2So too AVI, in order for them to have NHY, must first make a coupling with AA. That is, the AVI of the level of AB, who from the side of their fixed state are regarded as the discernment of VAK and as lacking the NHY of vessels and the GAR of lights. And although they are always in a coupling that never ceases and are joined in one wall face to face, as is known, so that they are found to have NHY of vessels and Mochin as well — nevertheless those GAR are of the discernment of the SAG of MA, that is, the fixed Mochin that came out in the five Partzufim [pl. of Partzuf] of Atzilut. However, it is known that these AVI are the sortings of the AVI of Nekudim, who were there in the level of AB; and from this discernment there is in them only VAK alone, for their GAR Atik took, as is known. And they lack, in their fixed state, the NHY of vessels and the HBD of lights. And this has already been explained in Part 9, that there is in AVI, from the discernment of BON, only the ZAT of AB alone. And the level of SAG that they have in their fixed state, although it suffices for them to be face to face in a coupling that never ceases, nevertheless does not suffice at all for the discernment of the GAR of AB that they lack; and likewise the level of SAG cannot sort anything of the NHY of vessels that belong to AB, since these are of the discernment of revealed Hassadim in the illumination of Hochma, while the level of SAG is entirely covered Hassadim, as is known.