Part 14 · Chapter 199

The Ari's Text

*Also know that from the two Mochin of Hochma and Bina, called the inheritance of Aba and Ima, illumination is drawn to him in his two faces, as it is said: "May the Lord make His face shine upon you." Two faces, right and left, from the side of Hochma and from the side of Bina. But from Daat it is drawn into the body, into the halls and chambers, which are the VAK. And now the Partzuf of ZA is completed in the aspect of its inwardness, which is the fifth aspect.

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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1The inheritance of AVI: an illumination is drawn to him in his two faces etc. but from the Daat it is drawn into the body, within the halls and chambers, which are VAK [six ends]. That is, as written above (in this part, item 94), that the brain of Hochma has no expansion except until the brain, and this indicates a very great diminution of light, on account of the abundance of its concealment.
See there. And this is because the Mochin of HB are corrected in the Mem of Tzelem [image], as is known. And the entire revelation of the Hochma of ZA is in the Daat, which expands from above downward into the Guf [body] and fills the Adrin and the Achsadrin. Adrin means inner chambers, and they hint at the HGT of ZA until his Chazeh [chest], where the Hassadim are still in concealment; and Achsadrin means outer chambers, and they hint at the NHY from his Chazeh downward, where the Hassadim are revealed in the illumination of Hochma. Therefore he divides the expansion of the Daat into two discernments, into Adrin and Achsadrin, since they are two distinct bestowals, as explained.