Part 15 · Chapter 162

The Ari's Text

And from that coupling two MNTzPCh are drawn: one into the Yesod of Ima, and one into the Yesod of Malchut; and one is drawn to Hochma, and one is drawn to the side of Gevura. And by means of that side, that second MNTzPCh is drawn to the Yesod of Malchut. And these doubled MNTzPCh are more sweetened, for Hochma is Gevura at its root; for this reason the Hochma of AA was clothed with the Gevura of Atik.

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1And two MaNTzePaCh are drawn from that coupling: one into the Yesod of Ima and one into the Yesod of Malchut; and one is drawn to Hochma and one is drawn to the Atara of Gevura, and by means of her that second MaNTzePaCh is drawn. Meaning that in that coupling as a whole, from the time of the ascent of MAN until its coming to its place, there are two kinds of MaNTzePaCh. The first she receives from Ima and not by means of ZA, that is, at the time of her inclusion in the upper Ima in the coupling of HB; for then it is truly reckoned that Hochma bestows the MaNTzePaCh upon the Yesod of Ima, that is, upon the MAN of Ima, save that since the Nukva is included in Ima, she therefore receives this MaNTzePaCh as well. However, this reception does not suffice for the Nukva; rather, she must receive that MaNTzePaCh a second time from ZA, after their descent to their own place, as above. And then it is reckoned that the MaNTzePaCh is bestowed upon the Yesod of Malchut, that is, after she has attained the MaNTzePaCh by means of ZA, he already bestows upon her, to her own Yesod, upon her own MAN. And this is what he says, “one into the Yesod of Ima and one into the Yesod of Malchut,” as above: that the first she receives by means of her inclusion in the Yesod of Ima, and the second she receives upon the MAN of her own, which is reckoned as the Yesod of Malchut.
And this is what he says, “one is drawn to Hochma, and one is drawn to the Atara of Gevura, and by means of her that second MaNTzePaCh is drawn.” That is to say, that the first is drawn from Hochma to Bina, who is Ima, and she is there in the discernment of male Gevurot; for this level of Hochma emerges upon the Mazlin, which are from the discernment of the first restriction, and which are reckoned as mighty judgments at the beginning, as above (page 1747, the passage beginning “The male”); see there. And therefore this MaNTzePaCh is reckoned as not sweetened for the need of the Nukva, since she must receive from the Atara of Gevura that is in the Mochin of ZON, by means of the Malchut of Ima that is not included in the Mochin of ZA, where the Mochin of the Nukva emerge anew in the Rosh of ZA, and afterward he bestows upon her by means of his NHY, as above in the words of the ARI (in this part, item 156); see there. And then the MaNTzePaCh are sweetened in the secret of doubled MaNTzePaCh, that is, from the Atara of Gevura that is in the Mochin of ZA, and from the Malchut of Ima that is there; and they are sweetened as much as they need, in the secret that the judgments are at ease at the end, since they become the Mochin of the Nukva, as above. And this is what he says, “it is drawn to the Atara of Gevura, and by means of her that second MaNTzePaCh is drawn,” that is, to the Atara of Gevura that is in the Mochin of ZA, which Atara of Gevura participates with the Malchut of Ima; for then the Mochin of the Nukva emerge upon the two of them, and from there they expand to the Yesod of Malchut, that is, the Yesod of the Nukva, as explained.
2The doubled MaNTzePaCh are more sweetened, since Hochma is Gevura at her root; for this reason the Gevura of Atik clothed within the Hochma of AA. Meaning: that by means of the renewed emergence of the Mochin of the Nukva in the Rosh of ZA, the doubled MaNTzePaCh were made there, that is, from the Atara of Gevura of ZA and from the Malchut of Ima, as above in the adjacent item. And then the judgments are at ease and are sweetened as much as they need, as above. But so long as they are from the discernment of the emergence of the Mochin in AVI, who clothe the GAR of AA at the time of the coupling — for Aba clothes the Keter of AA, and Ima clothes the Mocha Stimaa [the concealed brain] of AA, and it is found that Ima then clothes the Gevura of Atik as well, since the concealed Hochma clothes upon the Gevura of Atik, where the discernment of the Malchut of the first restriction is hidden away, as above in Part 13 — therefore in this level of Hochma that Ima receives there, there is the discernment of the Gevura of Atik, which is a hard Gevura by reason of its being from the first restriction. And this is what he says, “for this reason the Gevura of Atik clothed within the Hochma of AA,” that is, the concealed Hochma of AA within which is the Gevura of Atik, where Ima clothes at the time of the coupling. And this is a further reason, in addition to the reason explained in the adjacent item. And therefore this MaNTzePaCh, which the Nukva receives at the time of her inclusion in the MAN of the upper Ima, is not sweetened as much as it needs, for there is still in it the discernment of hard judgment, which is not fit for the separate Nukva; and therefore they descend from there to the Mochin of ZA and are sweetened there in the secret of doubled MaNTzePaCh, as above. And she receives them by means of ZA himself, by way of his NHY, and then they are more sweetened.