Part 16 · Chapter 182

The Ari's Text

Also the part of the externality of the vessels is divided into three other parts, which are the aspects of Ibur, Yenika, and Mochin, as is written with God's help. And the truth is that it would have been fitting for the externality to be only two parts, corresponding to the two Ohr Makifim. But elsewhere he wrote explicitly that there are three aspects of Ibur, Yenika, and Mochin in the externality alone, just as there are in the internality.

Inner Light

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1And the truth is that it would have been fitting for the externality to be only two parts, corresponding to the two surrounding lights. But elsewhere he wrote explicitly that there are three discernments of IYM [Ibur, nursing, and Mochin] in the externality alone, just as there are in the internality. That is, the root of the separation of these external ones from the Guf [body] of the Partzuf is by reason of the ascent of Malchut to the place of Bina, and there remained in the Guf only the vessels KHB, and the ZON of the vessels were lacking, and Haya and Yechida of the lights, as written above at length; and if so, these vessels needed to be designated to receive the two surrounding lights. And he says that it is not so, but they receive only three inner lights, called IYM, which are VAK [six ends] and the Mochin of VAK, while the surrounding light of Haya and Yechida is not in them at all, but they receive illumination from afar, as above in the adjacent item.
However, we have already written above that truly there are two discernments of ZON that separated from the inner vessels: one is the ZON of the Rosh [head], and they truly became vessels of the surrounding lights of Haya and Yechida, called the surrounding lights of circles and the surrounding lights of straightness. And there are ZON that separated from the vessels of the Guf, and they could not become surrounding vessels, for there are no vessels of circles and surrounding ones except only from the discernment of GAR [first three] and Rosh, and not from the Guf; and they are the ones that became the discernment of external vessels, and there is nothing in them of the surrounding light, only illumination from afar, and their principal illumination is only inner light, called IYM. And remember this.