Part 16 · Chapter 269

The Ari's Text

And in the world of Assiyah, the light of ZA which is there was also darkened, and only the light of the Nukva of ZA of Assiyah remained. And this is the secret of 'Malchut nests in Ofan.' And opposite this, a correction was added in the Klipa of Assiyah, in the aspect of the Atik which is there. And behold, 'I shall fill the desolated' has been well explained, in the summary of all the four worlds: how, according to the order of the diminution of the degrees of the light of holiness, an addition of the filling of light was made in the Klipot.

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.

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1And in the world of Assiya the light of ZA which is there was also darkened, and only the light of the Nukva of ZA remained etc. and a correction was added in the shell of Assiya in the discernment of Atik which is there. For the world of Assiya, at the time it was in Atzilut, served there in the discernment of the posterior to the light of Yechida, which is the level of Keter, called Atik; and after the sin, when it fell below the Parsa, there remained to it only the level of Malchut, which is “three within three.” And all these sparks that Assiya lost from the discernment of Atik — all of them fell to the shells of Assiya, and from them the Atik of the shell of Assiya was built.
And at first glance there is a contradiction to what is written in Etz Chaim, Gate 48, Chapter 4, that in Beria Ima was added to the shells, and in Yetzira Aba of the shells was added, and in Assiya AA of the shells was added; while here he says that in Beria AVI of the shells were added, and in Yetzira AA of the shells was added, and in Assiya Atik was added to the shell. And the matter is that there he speaks from the discernment of the BON of the five Partzufim, where AA is reckoned as Keter, AVI as Hochma, and YESHSUT as Bina, etc. And here he speaks from the discernment of the MA in the five Partzufim, where Atik is reckoned as Keter, AA as AB, AVI and YESHSUT as SAG, and ZON as MA and BON.