Part 15 · Chapter 73

The Ari's Text

And it follows that at the time of the sawing she takes the Gevurot from ZA, and he remains only with the Hasadim, and he takes the inner aspect. (And it seems to me that NRN is called the inner aspect of the worlds. And also in another place, see there: the small Tzitzit is the Katnut, which is the Asiya within Yetzirah, and the large Tzitzit is the Gadlut within Yetzirah. And in another place it was explained that both are called the external aspects of Yetzirah. And in another place, see there — from the Ari, of blessed memory — that everything the male gives to the female at the time of the sawing, even what was given to her from Ima, is only the Gevurot, and they are called Achoraim.)

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

1Everything that the male gives to the Nukva at the time of the sawing, even what is given to her from Ima, is only the Gevurot, and they are called posterior. For both the Gevurot that were given to her through the illumination of the name BON by means of Ima and not by means of ZA — which is the first coupling of BON, that completes the AHP of the Nukva, as above in the adjacent item — and the second coupling of BON, which likewise sweetens the AHP of the Nukva with a greater wholeness: behold, both of them come only to complete the vessels of her posterior, which are the AHP, as above, and therefore both of them are regarded as the discernment of posterior, and likewise as the discernment of BON. Only the second coupling, which is by means of ZA and which gives her the lights themselves, is what is regarded as the discernment of face and as the discernment of MA, as above in the adjacent item.