Three Criteria for the Emergence of a Lower Partzuf 66. There are three criteria for the process of fusion through collision for the birth of a lower partzuf**.**¹⁶⁹ here refers to the emergent partzufim discussed in the preceding sections.

footnotes: ¹⁶⁹ “Lower partzuf

The first criterion is the partition that fuses with the supernal light through a fusion through collision, giving rise to the returning light and enclothing the supernal light. The height of the lower new partzuf will be commensurate with the measure of the enclothing of the supernal light (as explained inPetiḥa LeḤokhmat HaKabbala, section 21).¹⁷⁰ is a function of the height of returning light that the partition releases, as that returning light enclothes the previous partzuf. In this way, after the partition generated all the partzufim and the levels in the world of Nekudim, which did not endure but were broken and negated,¹⁷¹, a complex process that is explained elsewhere. and the partition was purified¹⁷² from all its five level****s of opacity and returned to the head of Sag (as explained in Talmud Eser Sefirot, part 8, sections 2 and 4), all the levels that had emerged in Nekudim left their remnants in the partition**.¹⁷³ Therefore, when the partition was incorporated in the fusion in the head of Sag, those previous remnants were renewed within it.**¹⁷⁴ of Atzilut.

footnotes: ¹⁷⁰ The height of the new partzuf ¹⁷¹ This refers to the breaking of the vessels of Nekudim ¹⁷² This purification takes place in the process that was explained previously, in section 63 above, through the beating of the surrounding light against the inner light. ¹⁷³ This refers to remnants of opacity. ¹⁷⁴ The renewal of these remnants gives rise to new releases of returning light to create the partzufim

At first, the partition generated its highest level, which constituted the remnant of the partzuf of Keter. This is called “Atik of Atzilut,” which is the opacity of the fourth level.¹⁷⁵, forming the partzuf of Atik, the Keter level partzuf of Atzilut. The other remnants that were in the partition migrated with the birth of Atik to the place of Atik. Once Atik was completed, a fusion through collision was performed upon its partition, on the uppermost level of the remnant in the partition within it, which is the third level*,¹⁷⁶. and generated the height of*Arikh Anpin¹⁷⁷ of the height of Ḥokhma. upon it. The remaining remnants in the partition, which had not yet had a** fusion through collision performed upon them, descended with the birth ofArikh Anpin to the place ofArikh Anpin. WhenArikh Anpin was completed, a fusion through collision was performed upon it, on the uppermost level of the remnant in the partition, which is the second level,¹⁷⁸. producing a height of Abba and Imma¹⁷⁹ of the first three of Bina as was described in sections 41 – 43 and elsewhere in the preceding sections. upon it, and so on in the same manner. Thus, all the partzufim emerge by means of a fusion through collision of the supernal light with the partition.

footnotes: ¹⁷⁵ This remnant generated returning light of a height of Keter ¹⁷⁶ This means it contained opacity up to the third level, able to generate returning light that could climb as high as a height of Ḥokhma ¹⁷⁷ This is a partzuf ¹⁷⁸ This opacity of the second level can generate returning light of the height of Bina ¹⁷⁹ This refers to a partzuf