The Five Partzufim of AK
26) Thus we have thoroughly clarified the issue of the Masach that has been placed in the Kli of Malchut—the Behina Dalet after having been restricted—and the issue of the five kinds of Zivug de Hakaa within it, which produce five levels of ten Sefirot one below the other. Now we shall explain the five Partzufim of AK, which precede the worlds ABYA.
You already know that this Ohr Hozer, which rises through the Zivug de Hakaa from below Upwards and dresses the ten Sefirot of the Upper Light, suffices only for the roots of the Kelim, called “ten Sefirot de Rosh (head) of the Partzuf.” To complete the Kelim, Malchut of the Rosh expands from those ten Sefirot of Ohr Hozer that clothed the ten Sefirot de Rosh and spread from it and within it from Above downwards to the same extent as in the ten Sefirot de Rosh. This spreading completes the Kelim, called “the Guf of the Partzuf.” Hence, we should always distinguish two discernments of ten Sefirot in each Partzuf: Rosh and Guf.
27) In the beginning, the first Partzuf of AK emerged. This is because immediately following Tzimtzum Aleph, when Behina Dalet was banned from being a receptacle for the Upper Light, and was erected with a Masach, the Upper Light was drawn to clothe in the Kli of Malchut, as before. Yet, the Masach in the Kli of Malchut halted it and repelled the Light. Through this striking in the Masach of Behina Dalet, it raised Ohr Hozer up to the level of Keter in the Upper Light, and this Ohr Hozer became a clothing and the roots of the Kelim for the ten Sefirot in the Upper Light, called “ten Sefirot de Rosh” of “the first Partzuf of AK.”
Subsequently, Malchut with the Ohr Hozer expanded from her and within her by the force of the ten Sefirot de Rosh into ten new Sefirot from Above downwards. This completed the Kelim of the Guf. Then, the full measure that emerged in the ten Sefirot de Rosh clothed in the ten Sefirot de Guf, as well. This completed the first Partzuf of AK, Rosh and Guf.
28) Subsequently, that same Zivug de Hakaa repeated itself on the Masach erected in the Kli of Malchut, which has only Aviut of Behina Gimel. And then, only the level of Hochma, Rosh and Guf, emerged on it, since the absence of the Masach in Aviut of Behina Dalet caused it to have only four Kelim, KHB Tifferet. Hence, the Ohr Hozer has room to clothe only four Lights, HNRN(Haya, Neshama, Ruach, Nefesh), lacking the Light of Yechida. This is called AB de AK.
Following, that same Zivug de Hakaa repeated itself on the Masach in the Kli of Malchut that contains only Aviut of Behina Bet. Thus, ten Sefirot, Rosh and Guf, at the level of Bina emerged on it. This is called Partzuf SAG of AK. It lacks the two Kelim, ZA and Malchut, and the two Lights, Haya and Yechida.
Afterward the Zivug de Hakaa emerged on a Masach that has only Aviut of Behina Aleph. Thus, ten Sefirot, Rosh and Guf, emerged at the level of Tifferet, lacking the three Kelim, Bina, ZA, and Malchut, and the three Lights, Neshama, Haya, and Yechida. It has only the Lights Ruach and Nefesh, dressed in the Kelim Keter and Hochma. This is called Partzuf MA and BON of AK. Remember the inverse relation between the Kelim and the Lights (as mentioned in Item 24).
29) Thus we have explained the emergence of the five Partzufim of AK, called Galgalta, AB, SAG, MA, and BON, one below the other. Each inferior lacks the Higher Behina of its superior. Thus, Partzuf AB lacks the Light of Yechida, Partzuf SAG lacks the Light of Haya, as well, which its superior, AB, has. Partzuf MA and BON lacks the Light of Neshama, which its superior, SAG, has.
This is so because it depends on the measure of Aviut in the Masach on which the Zivug de Hakaa occurs (Item 18). Yet, we must understand who and what caused the Masach to gradually diminish its Aviut, Behina by Behina, until it divided into the five levels that exist in these five kinds of Zivugim (plural for Zivug—coupling).