Part 16 · Chapter 12

The Ari's Text

And behold, something similar to this is also in particular — that is, also in each and every world of the four worlds it was in this manner. For when the aspect of the world of Atzilut was being sorted, at first was sorted the particular discernment that is of the portion of Atik Yomin of Atzilut; afterward the one inferior to it was sorted in AA; afterward the one inferior to it was sorted in Aba and Ima; afterward the one inferior to it, in ZON; and afterward, in this manner, all the parts of BYA went on being sorted.

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

1Something similar to this is also in particular, etc., and likewise, in this manner it was in the particular of the particular, etc., and likewise, in this manner, in the ten Sefirot included in each and every Sefira. After he explained the four worlds in general, that each higher one is more choice, he says that so it is in particular, that is, in the five particular Partzufim in each and every world, which stand one below the other and are called Atik, AA, AVI and ZON — for Atik was sorted from the choicest, and the one inferior to it for AA, etc. And in this manner in the particular of the particular; for in each Partzuf of these five particular Partzufim there are, in itself as well, five Partzufim one below the other, and in them too this rule applies, that each higher one was sorted from the more choice. And in this manner in the ten Sefirot that are included in each and every Sefira; for at the time of the coupling that is made by the upper light with the screen that is in the vessel of Malchut, the Sefirot were included one in the other (as written in the Inner Observation, Part 2; see there). And behold, in them too this rule holds precisely, that each higher one was sorted from the more choice vessels. And see in the book Beit Sha’ar LaKavanot (item 146), where it is explained how there come out of every coupling twenty-five Partzufim whose level is equal; and each higher one is emanated first.