## Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah Chapter 67

###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 67:1
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**קיפול רגלי א"א:**

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
*The legs of Arich Anpin sustained the broken vessels; the folding of the legs repaired and elevated them.*


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 67:2
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**קיפול רגלי א"א היה הכח הראשון שניתן לכלים הנשברים להתעלות. ומשם והלאה יכלו להיות כל העליות שבהם. והאמת, שהכלים היו תלוים באלה הרגלים, ובתחלה היו מתקיימים על ידם למטה. ובהקפלם - ניתן גם בכלים כח החזרה למעלה. וזה מה שא"א הוא שורש לכל, וזה היה החלק של א"א, שבו היו נשרשים הכלים בזמן רדתם. ואחר כך נשרשו גם בחג"ת, כשנתוסף בהם התיקון:**

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
**The folding of the legs of Arich Anpin was what first gave the broken vessels the power to ascend, making possible all their subsequent ascents. The truth is that the vessels were dependent upon these legs. At first they were sustained through them down below. Then, when the legs were folded up, this gave the vessels the power to return and go back up. It is in this sense that Arich Anpin (of the first Atzilut) is the root of everything. The legs were the part of Arich Anpin in which the vessels were rooted during the time of their descent. Then afterwards (as a result of the folding of the legs) they also became rooted in Chessed-Gevurah-Tiferet as the extent of their repair increased.**


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 67:3
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חלקי המאמר הזה ג'. ח"א, **קיפול רגלי א"א,** והוא ענין קיפול רגלי א"א. ח"ב, **והאמת,** ענין הקיפול הזה איך גורם, מה שגורם לכלים. ח"ג, **וזה מה** וכו', טעם למה בא"א היה ענין זה:

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
This proposition has three parts. **Part 1: The folding of the legs of Arich Anpin…** This explains the concept of the folding of the legs of Arich Anpin. **Part 2: The truth is…** How this folding causes what it causes to the vessels. **Part 3: It is in this sense…** This explains the reason why it was in Arich Anpin that this occurred.


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 67:4
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חלק א:
**קיפול רגלי א"א היה הכח הראשון שניתן לכלים הנשברים להתעלות,** שאנחנו רואים שהוצרכה עליה זאת של הרגלים, להעלות הכלים למעלה בפעם ראשונה, ולא הוצרך עוד בעניני הכלים שום דבר מא"א. אך הענין הוא, שלהביאם לידי עליה - הוצרך כן. ומשם והלאה, בכח הקיפול הזה יעלו כל העליות הראויות להם. וזה: **משם והלאה יכלו להיות כל העליות שבהם,** שזאת היתה הפעולה, שחידש ענין זה של עליה בכלים:

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
<sup class="footnote-marker">**NOTE 1**<sup class="footnote-marker">**NOTE 2**, *Shaar Zeir Anpin* ch. 2). Here, however, the folding of the legs of Arich Anpin is explained as a general preparation for the repair of the vessels, out of which all the Partzufim were subsequently built, including that of Arich Anpin. The intent may be that there was already a similar folding of the legs in the overall Arich Anpin or Adam Kadmon in relation to the broken vessels, which were seven Nekudot or “points” in the relative category of Zeir Anpin. Thus in the present Opening, Arich Anpin may refer to Arich Anpin of the ten Nekudim – i.e. to their Keter, which was not broken. This is the source of the upper three Sefirot of the first Atzilut, which were not broken, and which rectify Atzilut-Beriyah-Yetzirah-Asiyah – including Arich Anpin, which is the Keter – of the second Atzilut.**Part 1: The folding of the legs of Arich Anpin was what first gave the broken vessels the power to ascend...** We see that this raising of the legs was necessary in order to lift up the vessels for the first time, and nothing further was required from Arich Anpin with respect to the vessels. It was to give the vessels the ability to ascend that this folding of the legs was necessary, and from then on, through the power gained thereby, they can rise to all the heights befitting them. **...making possible all their subsequent ascents.** It was this action of folding the legs that initiated the ability of the vessels to ascend.


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 67:5
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חלק ב:
**והאמת,** בלא זה גם כן היינו יכולים להבין שגם זה הקיפול היה התעוררות של אור חוזר שהגיע עד הכלים האלה. אך האמת בפרט, הוא זה שנאמר: **שהכלים היו תלוים באלה הרגלים,** דהיינו כי כבר שמעת, שגם בהיותם למטה, היתה באה להם הארה שהיתה מקיימת אותם. והארה הזאת באה להם משם, כי שם היו תלוים, כדלקמן בחלק ג'. ועל כן כשהוצרכה הארה - באה להם משם, ולשהוצרכה עליה - באה להם משם. וזהו:

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
**Part 2: The truth is...** Even without taking into account that, as it goes on to say, it is the legs of Arich Anpin that sustain the vessels, we could still understand this folding of the legs as an arousal of returning light that reached these vessels. Nevertheless, the actual truth is **...that the vessels were dependent on these legs.** For you have already heard that even when they were in their fallen state down below, a certain radiation (הארה, *he’arah*) still reached them, and that is what sustained them. The radiation came to them from there (i.e. from the legs of Arich Anpin), for that is the level on which they were dependent, as explained further in Part 3. Accordingly, during the time when they required a radiation (when they were down below) it came to them from there. And likewise, when they needed to ascend, the power came from there. Accordingly, the proposition continues:


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 67:6
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**ובתחלה היו מתקיימים על ידם למטה,** דבר זה נראה ממה שבעלית הרגלים הם עולים, שמע מינה שיש להם תליה באלה הרגלים. ואנו רואים שעד שהוצרכו הכלים להתעכב למטה, היו הרגלים למטה, ומאירים בהם, וכשהוצרכו לעלות - נתקפלו. מכאן נבין שהכלים תלוים באלה הרגלים כנ"ל. וכשהוצרכו לבת למטה, היו הרגלים למטה ומאירים בהם, וכשהוצרכו לעלות - נתקפלו, ועלו אחריהם. וזהו:

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
**At first they were sustained through them down below.** This is evident from the fact that with the ascent of the legs, the vessels also ascend. We thus infer that they had some dependency on those legs. We see that as long as the vessels needed to be kept below, the legs were down below and radiated to them, and when the vessels had to rise up, the legs of Arich Anpin were folded up. From this we can understand that the vessels are dependent on these legs, as stated above. When the vessels had to stay below, the legs were below and shined in them. And when the vessels had to ascend, the legs were folded and the vessels ascended after them.


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 67:7
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**ובהקפלם - ניתן גם בכלים כח החזרה למעלה,** הקיפול נעשה בכח ההתעוררות של החזרה, והגיע התעוררות הזה גם לכלים התלוים בהם, ועלו גם כן:

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
**Then, when the legs were folded up, this gave the vessels the power to return and go back up.** The folding of the legs came about through the power of the arousal of the return (החזרה, *hachazarah*), and this arousal also reached the vessels that were dependent upon them, and they too ascended.


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 67:8
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חלק ג:
**וזה שא"א הוא שורש לכל** - מה שייך [א"א] בכלים, אלא שא"א הוא שורש הכל, וגם אלה הכלים ודאי צריך שיהיו נשרשים בו:

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
**Part 3: It is in this sense that Arich Anpin (of the first Atzilut) is the root of everything.** What relation does Arich Anpin have to the vessels? Arich Anpin is the root of everything, and these vessels must also be rooted in Arich Anpin.


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 67:9
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**וזה היה החלק של א"א, שבו היו נשרשים הכלים בזמן רדתם,** פחות מרגלים לא יש, ובזמן רדת הכלים היו נשרשים רק בחלק כל כך תחתון, וזה כפי ערכם:

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
**The legs were the part of Arich Anpin in which the vessels were rooted during the time of their descent.**There is nothing lower than the legs, and during the time of their descent, the vessels were rooted only in such a lowly part because of their own lowly status.


###### Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 67:10
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**ואחר כך נשרשו גם בחג"ת, כשנתוסף בהם התיקון,** זהו תועלת הקיפול - שנשרשו גם בחג"ת, כמבואר בדברי הרב זללה"ה:

**138 Openings of Wisdom, translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum. The Azamra Institute, 2005:**
**Then afterwards (as a result of the folding of the legs) they also became rooted in Chessed-Gevurah-Tiferet as the extent of their repair increased.** This was what was gained from the folding of the legs – that the vessels also became rooted in Chessed-Gevurah-Tiferet of Arich Anpin, as explained in the writings of the ARI (*Etz Chayim*, *Shaar Zeir Anpin* ch. 2).