Part 14 · Chapter 42

The Ari's Text

And this is the secret of what our sages said, that at Chatzot the Holy One, blessed be He, enters the Garden of Eden to delight there with the souls of the righteous; and it is the aspect of the root point of Rachel, which has no coupling; however, she descended to Beria, and there He delights with the souls of the righteous.

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1And this is the secret of what our sages said, that at midnight the Creator enters the Garden of Eden to delight there with the souls of the righteous. And this is the discernment of the root point of Rachel, who has no coupling; however, she descended to Beria, and there He delights with the souls of the righteous. That is, as explained, that through the Mochin of midnight, all the vessels of ZA and Rachel are completed, down to BYA — for the HGT of ZA became HBD, and NHY became HGT, and from the Parsa downward, new NHY. And the Nukva is found now clinging to the point of the end of ZA of Atzilut, that is, at the point of the Chazeh [chest] of vessels and the point of the Atara [crown] of Yesod of lights, so that she is found in the very discernment of the Parsa; and also her nine points, which are Einayim and AHP that were in the shells, now rise from the illumination of the coupling of ZA and Leah, and join to her Partzuf; and consequently the souls of the righteous, too, that clung to the AHP of the Nukva, rise as well and join to the NHY of the Nukva. And therefore it is regarded that the root point, who has now merited bringing out her nine points and the souls of the righteous, delights with them very greatly, for she brought them out of the place of impurity, and brought them to the place of holiness. And you already know that the NHY of ZA that are in BYA also join to ZA and are completed from the discernment of vessels — ZA is called the Creator — and this is what he says, that the Creator enters the Garden of Eden to delight with the souls of the righteous.