Part 15 · Chapter 37

The Ari's Text

Afterwards, from then on, until Solomon built the First Temple, she was on all the Shabbatot face to face, in the sixth aspect, as above; and on all the six weekdays she was back to back, in the third aspect mentioned above — that she was in a complete Partzuf of ten Sefirot, from the chest and below, and also the light of the five [Sefirot] of ZA illuminated in her always. And this is the reason for the remembrance of the exodus from Egypt, for it was a great redemption in relation to her being, at first, in the days of the exile, only in the second aspect — a Partzuf of ten Sefirot, in the back, from the chest and below, without the illuminations of his five [Sefirot] in her; unlike the destruction of the First Temple, as will be said, with the help of God.

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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1A great redemption in relation to her being at first, in the days of the exile, in the second discernment without the illumination of the first five; which is not so in the destruction of the First Temple. That is to say, that in the destruction of the First Temple the third discernment likewise remained in the Nukva, which is a Partzuf of ten Sefirot back to back from the Chazeh [chest] and below with the illumination of the first five from above downward, namely just as she was corrected through the redemption from Egypt; and nevertheless it is called there a destruction, while here it is called a great redemption. And this is what he resolves here: that it is called here a great redemption because at first, in the days of the exile of Egypt, she was in the second discernment, which is back to back from the Chazeh and below without the illumination of the first five; therefore, after she attained in the redemption from Egypt the illumination of the first five from above downward, this was reckoned at that time as a great redemption. Which is not so in the destruction of the First Temple: since before the destruction she was in the sixth discernment, namely in the place of the upper AVI, and because of the destruction of the Holy Temple she descended to the third discernment, which is back to back with the illumination of the first five from above downward, this was reckoned a complete destruction. And the reason is well understood, that the very same third discernment which is reckoned a great redemption in Egypt is reckoned a great destruction in the destruction of the Holy Temple, for everything is according to the time, as explained.