Part 15 · Chapter 21

The Ari's Text

And when the first man sinned on the sixth day, she returned below, under the Yesod, in his back, and remained there in the aspect of a point alone included of ten. And then those upper ten Sefirot within her did not return to ascend and depart and become hidden in Zeir Anpin himself, as at the time of the waning of the moon on the fourth day.

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.

Not matched to a seif

1They did not return to ascend and to depart and to become hidden in ZA himself, as at the time of the diminution of the moon on the fourth day; however, since it was because of the sin, they descended below into the shells. It has already been explained above that in the complaint of the moon there was there no deficiency at all, for she was using one Keter with ZA; only that she could not stand there because of the lack of Hassadim, as above. See there. And therefore there is there no descent at all to the discernments of shells; rather, the internality in her returned to Ibur into ZA, and from the externality the revealed head of AA was corrected. However, here there was a sin and a flaw, similar to the breaking of the vessels at the time of Nekudim; for through his sin he drew the lights of Atzilut to expand into BYA, and by this he spoiled all the sortings that had already been sorted from BYA, and returned and brought them down into the shells. And we have already elaborated on this above, at the end of part 8, page 687, the passage beginning “And know.” See there in the whole passage.