Part 16 · Chapter 48

The Ari's Text

After Adam ha Rishon sinned in Etz ha Daat, which is Olam Assiya that he was commanded not to eat from since he had no part in Assiya but only from Yetzira upward. Since he broke it and ate from Etz ha Daat, which is Assiya, he flawed all the Olamot. Hence, they all descended from their degree because Yetzira clothed in Assiya.

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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1In Etz ha Daat, which is Olam Assiya that he was commanded not to eat from since he had no part in Assiya but only from Yetzira upward. The meaning of the Mitzva that he was told not to eat from Etz ha Daat stems from the Sium Raglin of the three Olamot BYA that was on the current Chazeh de Yetzira. This was the end of the zone of the Kedusha and from there down was Mador ha Klipot.It is so because only the first nine of the eight broken Melachim were sorted, which are the 248 Nitzotzin. However, their Malchuiot fell from the Chazeh down to the general place of BYA, which are the eight Malchuiot. Each of them consists of four Behinot, which are 32 in Gimatria, and they became the Klipot that are not good for anything, called Lev ha Even (The Stony Heart).This is so because they are not sorted at all before the end of correction when Malchut de Tzimtzum Aleph that was concealed in RADLA will appear. Then, even SAM will be a holy angel, as then “He will swallow up death for ever.”It is written, “he was commanded not to eat from since he had no part in Assiya but only from Yetzira upward,” meaning the current Assiya that is clothed in Mador ha Klipot and has contact with the above Lev ha Even. This is because the past Assiya ended entirely above the Chazeh of the general place of BYA which is above the current Chazeh de Yetzira.Because of this Sium he was given the commandment of prohibition on eating the Etz ha Daat so that he would have no contact with the Klipot that cling to Assiya, meaning the Achoraim of Assiya that remained Achor be Achor. He was forbidden to eat the Etz ha Daat, meaning to extend He’arah to the Achoraim since the Shefa would reach the Kelim in the above-mentioned Lev ha Even, and he would die as in the case of the breaking of the vessels.
2Since he broke it and ate from Etz ha Daat, which is Assiya, he flawed all the Olamot. Hence, they all descended from their degree because Yetzira clothed in Assiya. It means in the past Olam Assiya too, when he stood at the first six of the current Olam Yetzira. It was therefore considered Olam Yetzira since the Tachton that stands in the place of the Elyonbecomes like him (see item 60). Hence, now after the sin of Etz ha Daat he fell to the Behinat current Assiya that stands clothed in Mador ha Klipot. Also, the reason why the eating of Etz ha Daat caused the Hitlabshut of Assiya in the Klipot will be explained below (item 52).