Part 14 · Chapter 195

The Ari's Text

And not only that, but it does not sink like the Yesod of the female, whose light is small, because it is lights of Gevura, as above. Rather this, being a great light of Hesed, becomes a Yesod that protrudes and is long, from the abundance of the light added to it from the Mazal itself of the beard of Arich Anpin, which reaches to his head, not through Aba and Ima, but from the Mazal itself. And this matter is a most wondrous light.

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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1A Yesod that protrudes and is long, from the abundance of the light added to it from the Mazal, etc., not by way of AVI but from the Mazal itself. It has already been explained in the adjacent item that there is no completion for the Yesod of ZA except through the NHY of Keter, and that the discernment of AB does not suffice for him; and this is by force of his first root, which is drawn there from the NHY of the inner AK, which is the Partzuf Keter of AA, in the secret of Vav and a point to the AVI of the Nekudim, as is known. Therefore his coupling of Neshikin [kissing] is made in the Peh [mouth] of AA that clothes the Peh of Atik, and he did not bend the Peh of his head downward to the place of the new Peh of his HBD, as above, because he must bestow upon the Yesod of Gadlut [greatness/adulthood] of ZA only from the discernment of Keter, which is the Peh of Atik. And this is what he says, “this, being a great light of Hesed, becomes a Yesod that protrudes and is long, etc., not by way of AVI but from the Mazal itself” — that is, that he did not descend to the Peh of his HBD, where AVI stand, since they are only in the level of AB, like AA permanently; and therefore he did not descend to clothe in the Roshim of AVI, but coupled in the place where he stands, his Peh being in the place of the Peh of Atik, and the thirteenth Mazal rose there and served as the discernment of MAN [Mayin Nukvin] for the emergence of the level of the Hochma of the thirty-two paths for the sake of ZA, as above. Thus AVI did not participate at all in this coupling for the need of the Yesod of ZA, since the coupling was made above their level, that is, in the level of Keter, in the Peh of Atik. And so the level emerged by means of the Mazal itself, without the participation of AVI. And this is what he says, “not by way of AVI but from the Mazal itself”; for if AA were clothed in the place of AVI, ZA would not receive from the self of the Mazal, but only through the clothing of the Yesodot of AVI (as above, in this part, item 95). This is not so now, when he receives through the self of the Mazal, without any clothing in the garments of the NHY of AVI.