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And after Adam HaRishon sinned with the Tree of Knowledge, which is the world of Assiya — which he was commanded not to eat from, since he had no part in Assiya but only from Yetzira and above, as said above — and since he transgressed and ate from the Tree of Knowledge, which is Assiya, he caused a flaw in all the worlds, and all of them descended from their degree in this way: Yetzira became clothed in Assiya. Thus, the Land of Israel, which corresponded to Yetzira, receives from it only through Assiya, since Yetzira is clothed in it. And likewise Beria is clothed in Yetzira, and the Nukva of Atzilut became clothed in Beria, and ZA became clothed in his Nukva. And so likewise with all those above him — all of them descended from their degree.

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1With the Tree of Knowledge, which is the world of Assiya, which he was commanded not to eat from, since he had no part in Assiya: namely the world of Assiya as it is now, which was then solely the place of the shells, for the Sium of Assiya was then at the place of the Chazeh of Yetzira, as above. And the reason is that ZON then sorted only from the discernment of the nine first [Sefirot] of the sparks and vessels that fell into BYA, which are the 288 sparks — this comprising only Yetzira and Beria from the time of the kings — but from the discernment of the 32 last sparks, which are the discernment of the Malchut within them, called the Lev HaEven [the 32 of the stone], nothing at all had yet been sorted from them. Hence the Assiya of then concluded at the place of the Chazeh of Yetzira as it is now, which is likewise the place of the Chazeh of Yetzira that existed at the time of the kings. And from there downward it was entirely the discernment of the shells, since nothing at all had been sorted from them for holiness.
And this is what is meant by, “with the Tree of Knowledge, which is the world of Assiya, which he was commanded not to eat from, since he had no part in Assiya”: namely, as explained, that nothing at all was sorted within the MAN of the soul of Adam HaRishon from the discernment of Assiya, but only from Yetzira and Beria alone. Hence there is nothing in his soul at all from the discernment of Assiya. And since the discernment of the Lev HaEven, which are the 32 last sparks of the 320 sparks that fell in the breaking of the vessels into BYA, no longer stand for independent sorting — for all the sortings are only in the secret of the 288 sparks alone, that is, from the nine first within them — hence Adam HaRishon was forbidden to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, which is the secret of Assiya. For eating is a matter of sortings, as is known.
And the reason that only the world of Assiya is the discernment of the Tree of Knowledge, and not Assiya and above, is that Daat is not revealed except after the cessation of the Yesod of Ima, that is, from the Chazeh downward, as the ARI wrote above, item 77, that the body of man is divided into two parts: down to the Chazeh the Yesod of Bina expands and the lights within it are covered, and from the Chazeh downward the lights are revealed; see there. Hence the illumination of Daat, which is the covered HG that are from the Chazeh and above, are called by the name Tree of Life, after Ima, who is called the life of the King, since there the posterior of Ima rule, as above. And the illumination of Daat that is from the Chazeh downward, which is the revealed HG in the illumination of Hochma, are called by the name Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, since there is the rule of the shells, called evil, and the sparks of holiness within them are called good; and the Creator forbade him to sort the good from the evil, as explained above, for there are no sortings except only in the 288 sparks, and the last 32 are fully corrected through them, but sortings do not apply to the last 32, since the Creator gave them over to the place of the rule of the shells.
Hence only the world of Assiya alone is the discernment of the Tree of Knowledge, for it has been explained above that the aspect from the Chazeh downward of the level of the Neshama are the ten Sefirot of Assiya. Hence, in relation to the generality of the Partzuf of ZAT of Nekudim that fell into BYA, the Malchut of Yetzira, which is the place of the Chazeh of that Partzuf, is found, and all ten Sefirot of the world of Assiya are the aspect from the Chazeh downward of that Partzuf. Hence there is the place of the Tree of Knowledge, and there is the place of the shells — which are the discernment of the Lev HaEven that cannot be sorted, except in the secret of the verse, “and I will remove the Lev HaEven from you, etc.” For through the sortings of the 288 sparks, they too are corrected, as above; and as further explained in its place. (And see Gate of the Verses, Siman 2, the passage beginning, “And from the Tree of Knowledge.”)
And thus the difference has been explained well between the Partzuf of the Neshama of Adam HaRishon and the general Partzuf of ZAT of Nekudim that fell into BYA: for the soul of Adam HaRishon had no part at all from the world of Assiya of the Partzuf of ZAT of Nekudim, and it concluded, in their measure, still above the four lower ones of Yetzira, as explained. For this part, which is from the Chazeh downward of the Partzuf of Nekudim, is the discernment of the Tree of Knowledge, in which the dross was not sorted at all, and hence this place remained in the discernment of shells.
2Caused a flaw in all the worlds, etc.; Yetzira became clothed in Assiya, etc.: for in his eating from the Tree of Knowledge — meaning that he wished to sort the good and the sparks of holiness from there, as above — behold, it was not enough that he sorted nothing at all from there, but he further caused, by this, that all those sortings that had already been sorted by ZON, from the MAN of the Vav and the point, reverted and fell from all the degrees of Atzilut. In such a way that the ten Sefirot of Yetzira fell to the discernment of Assiya, whose place is the place of the shells, and became mixed there with them until holiness was no longer discernible there. And Beria fell to the discernment of Yetzira. And the nine Sefirot of the Nukva of Atzilut descended to Beria; and likewise all the Mochin from the upper Partzufim, which had been raised through the MAN of the Vav and the point, reverted and were nullified and descended from them, and only the Mochin that came out through the MAN from the two upper aspects remained — back to back, and face to back — which were in Nekudim, over which rising and descending do not apply, since their coupling never ceases. (As above, page 671, the passage beginning, “And already.”)
Now, in truth, the soul of Adam HaRishon and the Partzufim of Atzilut had even greater ascents still, as the ARI writes before us. But taking into account the state that all the Partzufim attained at the time of the birth of the soul of Adam HaRishon, it is found that the sin of Adam HaRishon caused each and every one to descend only one degree from what it had been — that is, it reverted and lost that degree which it had attained by virtue of the coupling that came out on the MAN of the Vav and the point.
In such a way that AA of then, who had already attained the degree of Atik, descended to AVI of then, which is in truth his place that he had before the rise of the MAN of the Vav and the point. And so all of them: for AVI of then descended to the place of ZON of then, Aba descending to the place of ZA and Ima descending to the place of Nukva; and ZON reverted to back to back as before, it being reckoned that ZA of then descended to the place of Nukva, and the nine Sefirot of Nukva descended to Beria as it is now. And Beria, which was then in the place of ZON, descended to Beria as it is now; and Yetzira, which was then in the place of Beria, descended to the place of Yetzira as it is now; and Assiya, which was then in the place of Yetzira as it is now, fell to the place of Assiya as it is now. Thus each one fell only one degree. And this is what is meant by, “and all of them descended from their degree in this way: Yetzira became clothed in Assiya, etc.”: for the lower one that rises to the place of the upper one becomes exactly like it, as is known. Hence the Assiya of then, which was in the place of Yetzira as it is now, indeed became Yetzira itself. And so it is found now, after the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, that it reverted and fell to Assiya, that Yetzira is found clothed in Assiya. And so with all of them. Understand this well.

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