Part 16 · Chapter 59

The Ari's Text

The answer to that is that when it is written in a different place that the lowest degree in the higher Olam is greater than everything below it, it does not relate to quantity and a measurement of limited space. Rather, it is discerned in the quality of the Ohr itself being better than everything below it. In that aspect of quality and merit it contains everything that is below it. In comparison, we see that the last drop in a human being’s brain contains everything that exists below it in the entire human body. It is so although we see that it is not so with respect to the size of the place. Moreover, a single organ of the body such as the thigh of the leg is bigger than the size of the entire head.

Inner Light

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1Quantity and a measurement of limited space. Rather, it is discerned in the quality of the Ohr itself. This must not be confused with an imaginary place. Rather, quality means the number of disparities in form in the degree without differentiations of merit and importance in it. This is how he explains that it is true that the smaller degree in the Elyon is greater than everything below it.Yet, this is still a qualitative difference, not a quantitative difference. For example, Malchut in the Elyon is greater than all the Olamot and Sefirot below it. Hence, it is impossible for the two Sefirot below her to be in Malchut de Elyon. According to the quantity there is only one form in Malchut de Elyon, which is why it is considered as merely one Sefira.For that reason she cannot accept within her two Sefirot that have two different forms from one another, which necessarily require two separate places. The reason is that the Sefira is the Behinat Ohr, and the place is the Behinat Kli related to it.Thus, the four Sefirot of Yetzira cannot be in the place of one Sefira of Malchut de Atzilut, but it requires four Sefirot of Malchut de Atzilut. This is because every Sefira requires its own unique place, as every disparity of form in the Ohr necessitates a disparity of form in the place, which is the Kli.