1. What is A Thin and Frail Ohr?
2. What is a Selected Ohr?
3. What is a Renewed Ohr?
4. What are First Orot?
5. What is Achor?
6. What are Alephin?
7. What is Et?
8. What are Two Distances?
9. What is Only He’arah?
10. What is Habata?
11. What are Hey ה Hey ה?
12. What are the Heyin?
13. What is a Preparation to Receive?
14. What is a Histaklut through Achor?
15. What is Histalkut Aleph?
16. What is Histalkut Bet?
17. What is Inversion of the Panim Downward?
18. What is Hitkalelut?
19. What is Hitpashtut Aleph?
20. What is Hitpashtut Bet?
21. What are Yodin?
22. What are Ten Exits and Ten Entrances?
23. What are YV?
24. What is The Descent of the Degree?
25. What is Generality?
26. What is Keter de Shorashim?
27. What is Keter de Anafim?
28. What is Matei ve Lo Matei?
29. What is A Filling?
30. What is Malchut de Shorashim?
31. What is A Giving of Orot?
32. What is the meaning of Histalkut?
33. What are the Anafim of the Peh?
34. What are Panim?
35. What are Panim and Achor de Kli?
36. What are Panim and Achor de Masach?
37. What is Pashut (lit. Simple) without Filling?
38. What Needs its Mother?
39. What is Reiah of the Eynaim?
40. What are the Shorashim of the Sefirot?
41. What is Shoresh Above?
42. What are Shorashim Elyonim?
1. What is A Thin and Frail Ohr?
The Komat Ohr extending on a Masach of Aviut de Behina Aleph is called “A Thin and Frail Ohr”, as it does not extend anything of Behinat GAR.
(Item 29 and Ohr Pnimi there)
2. What is a Selected Ohr?
Two Behinot Orot are contained in each Reshimo: the first is a residue of Ohr Yashar; the second is a residue of Ohr Hozer that a residue of Ohr Yashar is clothed in it. The part of the Ohr Yashar of the Reshimo is called “Selected Ohr”, and the part of the Ohr Hozer of the Reshimo is called the “Inferior Ohr” in it.
(Item 50 and Ohr Pnimi there)
3. What is a Renewed Ohr?
The Ohr extended by a Zivug de Hakaa, which comes to the Partzuf, is called “Renewed Ohr”. The Orot that exist in the Partzuf from the time of Hitpashtut Aleph, being the Reshimot that the Orot left there after their departure, are called “First Orot”.
(Item 52)
4. What are First Orot?
See answer No. 3.
5. What is Achor?
A Behina that does not operate in the Kli, whether for bestowal or for reception, is called Achor, or Achoraim.
(Item 15 and Ohr Pnimi there)
6. What are Alephin?
A measure of Koma educed primarily on Aviut de Behina Aleph is called HaVaYaH de Alephin.
(Item 56 and Ohr Pnimi Sub Header “In Yodin”)
7. What is Et?
Malchut is called Et. It implies that it contains the alphabet from Aleph to Tav. It is so because the Malchut is the Shoresh of the twenty-two Otiot, and for this reason they are called Otiot.
(Item 30 and Ohr Pnimi)
8. What are Two Distances?
If there are two distances without Ohr between a Kli de Hesed and a Kli de Keter, meaning when HB are empty of Ohr, the He’arat GAR is prevented from the Partzuf.
(Item 40)
9. What is Only He’arah?
A giving of Orot in the Sefirot from one to another is through the Hizdakchut of the Masach. First, all the Orot contained in Masach de Behina Gimel come to Kli de Keter.
After the Aviut de Behina Gimel is purified to Behina Bet, whose Koma is unsuitable for Keter, it gives it to Hochma. Also, after Behina Bet purifies to Behina Aleph, and that Koma is unfit for Hochma, it gives it to Bina, etc. similarly.
There is a Behina of giving of Orot from Sefira to Sefira through a Zivug and procreation, and this is called He’arah, not “Giving of Orot”.
(Item 35)
10. What is Habata?
Receiving or giving of a Sefira from another is called Habata, since they look at each other.
(Item 15 and Ohr Pnimi, sub header “Parts”)
11. What are Hey ה Hey ה?
The general Histalkut de Hitpashtut Aleph is called “The First Hey” of the name HaVaYaH, and the general Histalkut of Hitpashtut Bet is called “The Last Hey de HaVaYaH”.
(Item 25 and Ohr Pnimi, par. “We understand”)
12. What are the Heyin?
The measure of the Koma of Behinat Malchut is called HaVaYaH in filling of Heyin.
(Item 56 and Ohr Pnimi Sub Header “In Yodin”)
13. What is a Preparation to Receive?
When there is a corrected Masach in the Partzuf at a suitable measure of Aviut fit for a Zivug and to extend the Ohr Elyon, the Partzuf is then considered to have a “Preparation to Receive” the Ohr Elyon.
(Ohr Pnimi, item 6, sub header “Preparation”)
14. What is a Histaklut through Achor?
When the Kli de Panim is cancelled and still receives through its Achoraim, such as after the Aviut de Behina Dalet has been cancelled, and it receives He’arah de Behina Gimel from its upper Behina into its Behina Gimel, it is considered to be looking at the Ohr Elyon through its Achoraim. This is because Behina Gimel is considered Achor with respect to Behina Dalet.
See Panim and Achor de Masach.
(Ohr Pnimi, item 15, sub header “It looks”)
15. What is Histalkut Aleph?
It is the Histalkut Orot to the Maatzil that was made in the Olamot for the first time, which is in Partzuf Keter de AK.
(Item 60)
16. What is Histalkut Bet?
It is the second Histalkut that was made in the Olamot, which is Partzuf Hochma de AK.
(There)
17. What is Inversion of the Panim Downward?
The more Av in the wall of the Kli is called Panim because the Zivug Elyon is made on it and the Ohr extends through it, but the part that is not so Av, is called Achor since it does not operate in the Kli. If the Ohr Pnimi departs from the Kli and the Kli receives Ohr from a low Koma, and this Koma is suitable to the measure of the Aviut in this Kli, that Ohr will be received in the part that is not so Av, suitable for that Koma.
It turns out that it now turned its Panim downward, the Av part in the Kli has been cancelled and its Achoraim are upward, as the Achor part of the Kli has now become the receiver of the Ohr.
If, for example, the Kli is of Behina Dalet, the Ohr Pnimi de Behina Dalet has departed, and the Kli receives Ohr from its adjacent Behina Gimel. Thus, the Kli receives only in the part that is not so Av, called the Achor of the Kli, meaning in the Aviut de Behina Gimel found there.
You find that the Achor has become the Panim of the Kli, and the previous measure of Panim in it is cancelled. It is now completely inoperative in the Kli; and this is considered turning its Panim downward.
(Ohr Pnimi, item 15, sub header “At that time”)
18. What is Hitkalelut?
Sometimes, two Orot from two Behinot can incorporate and unite with one another and receive He’arah from one another like one Behina. It can be depicted in three ways:
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Either they are both without Kelim, meaning ZON that rise to the Rosh and incorporate there in both Zivugim;
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or they are both in two Kelim, meaning in Hitpashtut Bet when ZON are incorporated there in He’arat Keter and Hochma when they are in two Kelim de Behinat Keter;
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or in the second Behina of Hitpashtut, called Partzuf Bina de AK, where ZON de Keter have only one Kli there and receive He’arah from each other.
(Item 25 and Ohr Pnimi, par. “However”)
19. What is Hitpashtut Aleph?
Hitpashtut indicates a descent of the Ohrfrom above downward to Hitlabshut in the Kelim. Any Hitpashtut is called Guf, and Hitpashtut Aleph refers to the Guf de Partzuf Keter de AK, which is the first Guf in the Olamot.
20. What is Hitpashtut Bet?
This is the Guf of Partzuf Hochma de AK, called Partzuf AB de AK. There is another, second Behina of Hitpashtut Bet, which is Partzuf Bina de AK, called Partzuf SAG de AK.
21. What are Yodin?
The measure of Aviut of Behina Gimel and Behina Bet is named Yodin.
(Item 56 and Ohr Pnimi Sub Header “In Yodin”)
22. What are Ten Exits and Ten Entrances?
When the Orot entered in the Kelim of Hitpashtut Bet, they came by way of Matei ve Lo Matei. In the beginning they all came to Keter. After they are Lo Matei in Keter, they came in Hochma. After they are Lo Matei in Hochma, they came in Bina etc. similarly. Thus, the Orot made ten exits and ten entrances until the Ohr reached Malchut.
(Item 22)
23. What are YV?
Yod implies the Behinat Nekudim of Hitpashtut Aleph, meaning the Hitpashtut Orot from Hochma down, which is found there. The Vav implies the Behinot Nekudim de Hitpashtut Bet, which is also from Hochma downward. However, there is no insinuation for the Ohr Keter de Hitpashtut Aleph and Hitpashtut Bet in the four Otiot HaVaYaH.
24. What is The Descent of the Degree?
In Hitpashtut Bet, Ohr Keter did not return there, but remained in the Peh. Hence, Ohr Hochma came and clothed in Kli de Keter, and Ohr Bina in Kli de Hochma etc. It follows, that Keter descended to the degree of Hochma, and Hochma descended to the degree of Bina etc.
(Item 10)
25. What is Generality?
When the Zachar and Nekeva receive He’arah from each other, it is called “Generality”. There are three kinds of Generality:
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When they are without Kelim, meaning when they ascend to Malchut de Rosh;
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When they are in two Kelim, when he is in AB;
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When they are in one Kli, which is in SAG.
(See Hitkalelut)
26. What is Keter de Shorashim?
The Eser Sefirot of the Rosh are considered Shorashim of the Eser Sefirot of the Guf, and Keter de Rosh is Keter de Shorashim.
(Item 3)
27. What is Keter de Anafim?
The Ohr Keter of the Eser Sefirot de Guf is called Keter of the Anafim.
(There)
28. What is Matei ve Lo Matei?
Matei indicates the Hitpashtut Ohr Elyon to the Sefira; Lo Matei indicates Histalkut of the Ohr from the Sefira.
29. What is A Filling?
The measure of the Aviut in the Masach in the Kli, that the Zivug Elyon is made on is called “Filling”, since it is the cause of the filling of the Kli with Ohr.
(Item 56)
30.What is Malchut de Shorashim?
The Malchut of the Rosh is called Malchut of the Shorashim, since every Eser Sefirot de Rosh are called Shorashim.
(Item 3)
31. What is A Giving of Orot?
The matter of the giving of Orot from Sefira to Sefira is through the Hizdakchut of the Masach. First, all the Orot came to Kli de Keter. When Behina Gimel of the Keter purified to Behina Bet, she gave the Orot to Hochma.
When Aviut de Hochma purified from Behina Bet to Behina Aleph, she gave the Orot to the Kli de Bina etc. similarly, until the Ohr reached Malchut.
There is another matter of the administration of the Orot born by a Zivug and given from one Sefira to another. These are called “Only He’arot” (see Only He’arah).
(Item 37 and Ohr Pnimi, sub header “Any”)
32. What is the meaning of Histalkut?
There is a Behinat Reshimo, whose Ohr is going to return to the Partzuf, and there is Behinat Reshimo, whose Ohr will never again return to the Partzuf. For this reason it is considered to be in the form of Histalkut, meaning that the Ohr that departed from it will not return to the Partzuf.
(Item 59)
33. What are the Anafim of the Peh?
Eser Sefirot de Guf are a Hitpashtut Malchut of the Rosh. This is because Malchut de Rosh expands from her and comes to the Eser Sefirot from above downward, which are called Guf. Hence, the Sefira de Guf, are found to be the Anafim of the Peh, which is Malchut de Rosh.
(Item 1)
34. What are Panim?
The place of the designated Kli for bestowal or reception is called Panim.
35. What are Panim and Achor de Kli?
Each Kli is designated for dispensing of GAR, or dispensing of VAK. If the Kli dispenses GAR, then the place of the administration of GAR is its Panim, and the place of the administration of VAK is its Achor. If the Kli dispenses VAK, the place of the administration of VAK is its Panim, and the administration of GAR is its Achor.
(Ohr Pnimi item 40, par. “The meaning of”)
36. What are Panim and Achor de Masach?
The thickest Behina in the Masach is the side of its Panim, and the Behina that is not so Av is the Behinat Achor in it.
(Ohr Pnimi item 15, par. “You already know”)
37. What is Pashut (lit. Simple) without Filling?
When the Masach purifies from its Aviut, the Zivug stops from it, the Ohr departs from the Kli, and the Otiot are considered to be without filling. This is because the Kelim are the Otiot and the filling is the measure of the Aviut in the Masach. Since it purified from the Aviut, it lacks the filling.
(Item 58)
38. What Needs its Mother?
Ohr Hesed in Kli de Bina is considered a “Thin and Frail Ohr”. This is because it is from Behinat Zivug de Aviut de Behina Aleph, in which there is no He’arat GAR, being the Atzmut and sustenance of any Ohr.
Hence, it must remain in the Kli de Bina as long as it does not attain He’arat Hochma, so as to suck GAR from Behinat Kli de Bina. This is why it is considered needing its mother, meaning Bina. When it attains He’arat Hochma, it is considered to have attained its Gadlut and does not need its mother Bina anymore.
(Item 39 and Ohr Pnimi, sub header “The seven sons”)
39. What is Reiah of the Eynaim?
The Ohr Elyon that expands for Zivug de Hakaa is called Reiah, from the verse, “And God saw the light, that it was good.” It implies to Ohr Hochma, which is the Atzmut of the Ohr Yashar that expands from Ein Sof.
(Item 30)
40. What are the Shorashim of the Sefirot?
The Reshimo that her Ohr will not return to the Partzuf. For example, the Ohr Keter remains concealed under the Malchut of the Rosh and does not descend back to the Guf in Hitpashtut Bet, but only its Reshimo operates in Kli de Keter in its place. That Ohr Keter that remained above is considered a permanent Shoresh there, shining from there to its Reshimo.
(Item 59)
41. What is Shoresh Above?
Eser Sefirot de Rosh are considered the Shorashim of the Eser Sefirot de Guf.
(Item 9)
42. What are Shorashim Elyonim?
These are the Eser Sefirot de Rosh (see item 40).
(Item 40)