Part 16 · Chapter 49

The Ari's Text

It follows, that Eretz Israel that was opposite Yetzira does not receive from it but through Assiya because Yetzira is clothed in it. Also, Beria is clothed in Yetzira, Nukva de Atzilut clothed in Beria and ZA clothed in its Nukva. Similarly, all the Elyonim of it descended from their degree.

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1Eretz Israel that was opposite Yetzira does not receive from it but through Assiya. Prior to the sin, Yetzira was in the place of Beria, the Upper four of Nukva de ZA in the place of Nukva de ZA and the lower six in the place of the Upper six of Beria. Then, Eretz Israel, which is opposite the Yetzira received from the current Beria.After the sin, the Upper six of Yetzira fell inside the past Assiya, and the bottom four of Yetzira fell to the place of the Klipot. This is so because from Chazeh de Yetzira downward they fell to Mador ha Klipot which is from the Chazeh down of the place of BYA.Thus, Eretz Israel cannot receive from its corresponding Behina, which is Yetzira, except through Assiya from before the sin, meaning according to the state that was in the first Behina when Adam ha Rishon was born.
2Beria is clothed in Yetzira, Nukva de Atzilut clothed in Beria and ZA clothed in its Nukva. Beria that stood at the place of ZA de Atzilut descended below Parsa because of the sin to the place of the bottom six of Yetzira from before the sin, meaning the state at the time of the birth of Adam ha Rishon. ZA, which stood in the place of Upper Abba, descended to the place of the Nukva, to its Behinat from the Chazeh down, belonging to its Nukva and became Behinat VAK without a Rosh.Thus, the principle state is the state of the Olamot prior to the sin, meaning in the first Behina at the time of the birth of the Neshama of Adam ha Rishon. ZA was in the place of Abba, its Nukva in the place of Ima and Beria in the place of ZA. GAR de Yetzira in the place of Nukva de ZA and her VAK in the place of the top six de Yetzira through the Chazeh.After the sin ZA fell from its Chazeh downward and became VAK without a Rosh, and Nukva a Nekuda. Beria fell below Parsa in the place of the bottom six of Yetzira and the top four of the past Assiya. Yetzira fell to the place of the bottom six de Assiya and the top four of Mador ha Klipot and Assiya fell all the way down to the Eser Sefirot of Mador ha Klipot.Know, that these bottom four of Yetzira from her Chazeh down when she fell to Mador ha Klipot are sometimes called Malchut de Yetzira because anything from the Chazeh down of any degree is considered Malchut.
3His Guf is from Olam ha Zeh, his Nefesh from Assiya and his Ruach from Yetzira, the place where his Guf first was. This is because the Guf of Adam is always from Malchut de Assiya, called “dust” and the Malbush Hitzon of its NRN is made of it (Ohr Pnimi item 43). The place of the sin when Olam Assiya was in the place of the first six de Yetzira up to the Chazeh, his Behinat Guf was also made of the Behinatcurrent Yetzira because the Tachton that rises to the place of the Elyon becomes like him.After he sinned in Etz ha Daat and all Eser Sefirot de Assiya fell to the place of the Klipot his Guf was made of Olam ha Zeh, which is Behinat Malchut of the current Olam Assiya. His Nefesh was made of the Upper nine de Assiya and his Ruach was made of the current Olam Yetzira in the place of the bottom six of the past Assiya.Also, his Neshama was made of the current Beria in the place of the bottom six of the former Yetziraand he completely lost the NRN de Atzilut that he had prior to the sin. You should also know that these NRN de Beria that the Rav mentions do not mean that they remained in him after the sin. This is because after the sin nothing was left in him but Nefesh de Nefesh, as the Rav wrote in Shaar HaPsukim. Rather, it means that after he had repented, he acquired NRN from BYA once again.