Part 14 · List of Questions on Topics

Questions

When is the second Ibur for the need of the Mochin of birth?
What is the difference between the clarifications of the first Ibur and the clarifications of the second Ibur and onward?
What are the Mochin of birth?
Why is the raising of MAN at night, which is for the need of the Mochin of birth, called by that name, when it is only for the need of the vessel and the spirit alone?
Why do ZON rise to Aba and Ima as MAN also by day, while the souls rise only at night?
How can it be said that therefore ZON always rise as MAN, because the coupling of Aba and Ima never ceases, when for the need of the Mochin the coupling of Aba and Ima also ceases?
What is the meaning that the dominion of Malchut is only at night?
What are new souls, and what are old souls?
What is the renewal of old souls, in the manner of the vessel?
What is the difference between new souls in Panim bePanim and new souls in Achor beAchor?
Why did new souls come out in Panim bePanim in the time of the Temple, and after the destruction only in Achor beAchor?
For which Mochin is the coupling of midnight beneficial?
Where do the souls rise as MAN at night — to Leah or to Rachel?
Until how many years do the souls rise as MAN at night, at the time of lying down?
Why is there no foreskin in Aba and Ima, while in ZON there is a foreskin?
Who suffers from the flaw of the foreskin that covers the Yesod?
Why do the angels not rise as MAN?
Why are ZON and Aba and Ima not fit for the Mochin of birth except through an addition of power?
Sometimes it is said that Aba and Ima are in a coupling that never ceases, and sometimes that they lack NHY and Mochin.
Why do Aba and Ima not rise as MAN to Arich Anpin, except with the prior rising of ZON?
Sometimes it is said that the NHY of Arich Anpin raise ZON to Aba and Ima, and sometimes that ZON raise the Yesod of Arich Anpin to Aba and Ima.
How can it be said that at first the Yesod of Arich Anpin couples, and afterwards the Moach Stimaa, when the Mochin come from above to below?
How is the connection that every lower one arouses its upper one, up to the head of the degrees, and then every upper one returns to influence its lower one, level after level, until ZON?
What are the two kinds of influence required for the complete coupling?
Why does the complete coupling require the two kinds of influence?
Why is there no complete coupling except through that unknown path?
Why is the coupling of the unknown path dependent on the awakening of the lower one?
What are the two matters required in the Mochin of birth?
Why is the soul of the lower Hochma the radiance and luster of the upper Hochma?
What are the two aspects in the Yesod of ZA?
What is the meaning that the Yesod of Chai is in two worlds?
Why does the striking of the upper light also apply to the screen of Yesod?
What is the preparation made in the coupling of midnight, for the need of the coupling of birth, which is by day?
What are the two aspects that must be drawn every day for the need of the Mochin of birth?
Why is the coupling of ZA not with Rachel at midnight, but with Leah?
Why is one Nukva not sufficient for the clothing of the NHY of Ima?
When does Leah take the place of Rachel, and when does Rachel take the place of Leah?
Why is Rachel not fit to receive the coupling of midnight?
What is the difference between the Partzuf of Leah and that of Rachel?
What is the difference between Rachel, who borrows the vessels of Leah, and Leah, who borrows the vessels of Rachel?
What is the meaning that the NHY of Ima is an elongated aspect?
Why is the Nukva not diminished to less than the point of the Keter?
Why do the NHY of Ima enlarge Leah to the entire height of ZA, while she is still in the back?
Why does Leah take the lower nine of the additions of Rachel?
Why does Leah press her feet into the territory of Rachel, and they sit pressed together?
What is the meaning that therefore Rachel descends to Beria, because a part of the body cannot spread and clothe in another part within it?
Sometimes it is said that Leah takes the lower nine of the addition of Rachel, and the Malchut of Rachel descends into Beria. And sometimes, that the lower nine of the addition descended into Beria, and her Keter remained in Atzilut. And sometimes, that even the Keter descends into Beria, except that her lower nine are taken by Leah.
Sometimes it is said that the Holy One, blessed be He, sits and roars over His mate that has separated from Him, and likewise the Nukva roars over ZA, who has separated from her, from midnight until morning. And sometimes, that ZA and Rachel delight with the souls of the righteous.
Why are Leah and Rachel longer than the end of the feet of ZA?
Why does the clothing of the Keter of Rachel on the feet of Leah cause Rachel to remain in Atzilut and not descend to Beria?
Why is there no Daat in the head of the Nukva, as there is in ZA?
Where is the place of the going out of the Mochin of the Nukva?
Why are the Mochin of the Nukva not included in the place of the going out of the Mochin of ZA?
What is the difference between the coronet of Gevura of ZA and the Gevura of the Nukva?
Why is the revelation of the Moach Stimaa only in the thirteen corrections of the beard of Arich Anpin?
Why is the Mazal Notzer the Tifferet of the beard, and the Mazal Vnakke the Yesod of the beard?
Why is the Mazal Vnakke not discerned as the Malchut of the beard, but only as the Yesod?
What is the meaning that the thirteenth correction is a Yesod comprising male and female?
Why do ZON in the secret of the Ibur cause the Mazal to be aroused in its clothing in Aba and Ima?
Why is the middle third of Tifferet the place of revelation for Hochma?
Why is Hochma discerned as the service of all?
Why is there no spreading for Hochma in its place, except until its descent to ZA?
What is the point that, since Aba and Ima are included in the Mazal, they are therefore considered like the Atika?
What is the meaning that just as the Moach Stimaa sealed the essence so that it is not revealed except through the hairs, so Aba sealed the essence so that it is not revealed except through his clothing?
What is the meaning that from the Mazal was made a single head that includes Hochma and Bina?
Why are Aba and Ima lacking a head at times, even though they are included in the Mazal?
Why, for the need of the Katnut of Aba and Ima, do they not need the coupling of the mouth of Arich Anpin?
What is the meaning that through the coupling of the mouth of Arich Anpin the four lower corrections were made, and they join with the eight upper ones, and Aba and Ima are included in them?
Who caused Aba and Ima to be included in the Mazal?
What is the meaning that Arich Anpin bends his head downward from the end of the mouth, and the throat is included in his head literally?
Why is only the ninth part of the Tifferet made into the whole body of Aba and Ima?
Why do the four lower corrections join in the head of Arich Anpin?
Why is the coupling of the mouth of Arich Anpin not for the need of its own essence, but to give GAR to Aba and Ima?
What existence of light is made through the surrounding lights of the hairs of the head and of the beard?
Why does the rising of ZA to the NHY of Aba and Ima cause the going out of his lower beard?
Why does he not count the middle segments of the arms of Arich Anpin, at the time that they become HBD?
Why are the two shoulders of Arich Anpin considered the portion of ZA?
Why does ZA not receive the two coronets from Arich Anpin itself, but only in the clothing in Aba and Ima?
What is the meaning that since the Hochma and Bina of ZA are actual drops, they therefore illuminate more than the two coronets?
Since ZA takes all four Mochin — Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gevura — from the NHY of Aba and Ima, which are in the place of the two shoulders of Arich Anpin, then what is the difference between Hochma and Bina and the two coronets?
What is the meaning that the Hochma and Bina of ZA are drops drawn from the Hesed and Gevura of Arich Anpin?
What are the two aspects in the Tifferet, which are the five Hassadim in Daat?
Why are the five Hassadim and five Gevurot in Daat called by the name two coronets?
What is the meaning that ZA is made by Aba?
Why does holiness always leave its root in its place, even though it descends below?
Sometimes it is said that from the HGT of Arich Anpin only a surrounding light is drawn. And sometimes, that from the two shoulders of Arich Anpin are drawn to him the two coronets, which are the Daat of ZA.
Why, in the six aspects of the Mochin of ZA, are the inner ones considered more than the surrounding ones?
Why are the two coronets bounded by their clothing in the Yesod of Bina, until both of them become one aspect?
Why does ZA nurse from the Keter of Arich Anpin, while Aba and Ima nurse only from the Hochma of Arich Anpin?
Why does the surrounding light of the fourth aspect illuminate all the Mochin of ZA, while the surrounding light of the Tefillin illuminates only his face alone?
Why is the going out of the surrounding light of the Tefillin at the forehead of ZA, opposite the Daat?
Why is the striking of the locks of the hairs needed, so that the surrounding light of the Tefillin is revealed?
How do the locks of the hairs illuminate the head of ZA, when they reach only to the tops of the shoulders of Arich Anpin?
Why is the surrounding light of the second aspect of the Mochin of the Nukva only the aspect of skin?
What are the three aspects that apply to the state of the head and beard of Arich Anpin?
What is the difference between the bending of the head of Arich Anpin for the need of the Mochin of Aba and Ima, and the bending of his head for the need of ZA?
What is the meaning that when Arich Anpin bends his head in the aspect of the thirteenth Mazal, it illuminates the Hochma of ZA, called Abraham?
What is the meaning of "when Abraham came, the created one returned to become a member"?
What is the difference between the Lamed-Mem surrounding lights of the Tzelem and the surrounding lights of the six aspects?
Why is the beard of Arich Anpin from Hochma, and the beard of ZA from Daat?
Sometimes it is said that the beard of ZA is drawn from the thirteen strands and white ones, and sometimes that it is drawn from the thirteen corrections, and sometimes that it is drawn from the thirteen covenants.
Why, in the Mincha of Shabbat, does ZA rise only to the four lower corrections?
How is the drawing by ZA of its six corrections, from the thirteen corrections of Arich Anpin?
Why do the two lower Heys of the two first HaVaYaH of the beard of Arich Anpin need to illuminate in the correction of Vnakke of ZA?
Why do the Vav and Hey that ZA takes from the second HaVaYaH of Arich Anpin become for him Yod and Hey?