Part 14 · Chapter 94

The Ari's Text

And however, the brain that goes out from the Hochma has spreading only up to the brain, and its spreading is through the hairs of the upper head, for through it it spreads into the thirty-two paths. And this is because the light passes from the upper hairs, through the lower hairs, to the brain of ZA. And as we say in the Idra Rabba: 'and it shines and flows in those hairs, to the hairs of ZA, and from this his brain is corrected, and then that brain flows into the thirty-two paths.' And this indicates the extreme smallness of the light, because of the abundance of its concealment.

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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1and its expansion is through the hairs of the upper head, for through it it expands into the thirty-two paths, etc. As explained in the adjacent item, that the whole preparation of ZA to receive the Hochma is through the Katnut [smallness/infancy] that he receives from the hairs of the Reisha [head], for by this his Gadlut [greatness/adulthood] was prepared to receive Mochin of AB. As written before us.