Part 14 · Chapter 59

The Ari's Text

And it is possible that blessing and freedom and to sustain everything — these three are: sons, life, and sustenance: sons, that is blessing, to bring out blessings to the Matronita through the Yesod, as it is taught here. Sustenance, that is freedom. Life, that is to sustain everything. And these three are not dependent on merit, which is Hesed, but are dependent on the Mazal — their union, to bring out sons, life, and sustenance to the world that is to come; and from there they are drawn to the holy King; and then it is written, 'with the crown with which his mother crowned him,' in the secret of his six extremities, which spread and shine in him throughout all his six extremities. And this is the matter of 'it spreads to its sides,' and springs and streams that are within Bina go out; and this son inherits the inheritance of his father and his mother, and the two crowns that were hidden in AVI, and now he inherits them, as is stated in the Idra Zuta.

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 are not dependent on merit, which is Hesed, but are dependent on the Mazal, etc., in the secret of her six extremities, which spread and shine in him. As written above, in the passage beginning “Bina spreads”: that the discernment of the Mochin of Neshama, which are for endurance and sustaining, is drawn from the GAR of Bina, which are the discernment of the light of Hesed, namely Hassadim covered from the illumination of Hochma; and they are the discernment of merit, since those Mochin are exceedingly refined and no restriction can touch them. However, sons, life and sustenance, which include the two kinds of bounty — namely blessing and freedom — and “to sustain everything,” cannot come from the GAR of Bina, but only from the discernment of the ascent of AVI to the GAR of AA, where they couple upon the MAN of the Mazal, as above; and then ZA can also receive from the ZAT of Bina, who bestow the illumination of Hochma, and therefore he has the two kinds of bounty. Study it there well.