Part 16 · Chapter 158

The Ari's Text

And we will begin to explain the ten Sefirot of the Nukva of ZA, in the aspect of the four worlds ABYA. Know that the Nukva of ZA of Atzilut has in her ten Sefirot, and in every Sefira there are three levels — the inner (Panim), the posterior (Achor), and the middle (Emtza'i) — and all these are the aspect of the body of the Nukva of ZA of Atzilut: for they are ten within ten, and another ten within them, being three garments (Levushim), each one comprised of ten. And these three levels that we have mentioned are the thirty names that the Nukva of ZA has, which are her body, as will be stated, with God's help. And these three aforementioned levels are clothed in BYA. (And the matter is the diminution of the moon.)

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

1And we will begin to explain the ten Sefirot of the Nukva of ZA in the discernment of the four worlds ABYA: Behold, up to here he explained the matter of the NRN [Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama] of BYA that they received from Ima through the clothing in the ZON of Atzilut — that the ten Sefirot of Neshama clothed in Beria, and the ten Sefirot of Ruach in Yetzira, and the ten Sefirot of Nefesh in Assiya — and they came out one from the other in the discernment of seal, as above. And now he begins to explain the discernment of the light of Haya that clothes in these Partzufim of BYA, for this reached them from the discernment of the clothing of the Partzuf of the posterior of the Nukva of Atzilut at the time of the diminution of the moon, as written in the item that follows.