Part 15 · Chapter 142

The Ari's Text

However, after ZA has already grown in the male and female sides within him, then the mochin depart, and the mochin of Bina and Gevura of Aba and Ima come alone within the Nukva, and she grows completely. And behold, all these mochin, called the aspect of back to back, are completed; and afterward the new mochin of face to face come, and they enlarge both of them as at first.

Inner Light

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1All these Mochin, which are called the discernment of back to back, were completed; and afterward the new Mochin of face to face come and enlarge both of them as at first. As is written above, that at first the Nukva must receive the completion of the vessels, which is called the building of her posterior, and then she receives only the discernment of the Mochin of BON, which are the Bina and Gevura of Aba and the Bina and Gevura of Ima, both of them being clothed in the NHY of Ima. And there are in this the three discernments of IYM [Ibur, nursing, and Mochin], for in the Ibur [impregnation] she is included in the Nukva within his Guf, as above, who is the discernment of BON alone, as above. And after the Gadlut [greatness/adulthood] of ZA in the Mochin of Neshama, the separated Nukva too begins to be revealed and clothes him back to back from the Chazeh [chest] downward, ZA again bestowing upon her only the discernment of BON alone, that is, the discernment of nursing, meaning the discernment of VAK of BON. And afterward, through the raising of MAN [Mayin Nukvin] to receive from Ima not by way of ZA, as above, she receives her NHY of vessels and the GAR of the lights from the discernment of BON, that is, the Bina and Gevura that she takes from the NHY of Ima, as above. And with this all her IYM from the discernment of BON is completed. And after this she repeats all these three discernments of IYM from the discernment of MA, which are called the Mochin of face to face. And this is what he says, and they enlarge both of them as at first, that is, through the three discernments of IYM, as at first in the Mochin of BON.