Part 16 · Chapter 253

The Ari's Text

Therefore, from this blemish another blemish was also added, and it is that since the light of AA of Atzilut was blocked, it caused a diminution to the Nukva of ZA of Atzilut, and all her nine upper Sefirot departed from her, and there remained in her only the light of a single point alone. And then a correction was added and made to the Klipa of Atzilut, and it is that those nine Sefirot that departed from the Nukva of holiness were clothed in the nine first points of the Nukva of ZA of the Klipa of Atzilut, which is called Lilith the wicked, the wife of Samael the wicked, who is ZA of Atzilut of the Klipa.

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

1Since AA and Atzilut were blocked, it caused a diminution to the Nukva of ZA of Atzilut; all nine upper Sefirot would depart from her. And there remained in her only one point alone. For the Nukva has no existence of any building except through the Mochin of the Mazal, for ZA does not begin to build her before he attains the discernment of Neshama, which is received in two bendings of the head, from the Mochin of AB of the Mazal that come out in Atik, as above in the adjacent item. And if so, after the Mochin of the Mazal were blocked, for AVI returned to the discernment of the Mochin of SAG, all her nine first ones, which are received from AB of the Mazal, flew away from the Nukva, and she remained only in the point of the anterior vessels, which is the discernment of the Keter of vessels and the discernment of the Malchut of lights.