Introduction to Sulam Commentary Chapter 80
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פ. ואחר שקיבל בחינת העיבור מחדש, חזר ויצא מן הראש דעליון, והלביש את הגוף דעליון. ועל ידי הלבשה זו ינק שוב את האורות מעליון. ואורות היניקה האלו הורידו את העובי דשורש לבחינת עובי דבחינה א', דהיינו שהורידו המלכות מן המצח, אל מקום נקבי העינים. ואז יצאה על המסך קומת בחינה א' בשלמות, שזה נבחן להתפשטות החג"ת מתוך הנה"י (כנזכר לעיל אות ע"ו). ונמצא שהשיג בחינת יניקה חדשה, שהוא סוד קומת הרוח.
- Then, after the lower partzuf receives a renewed aspect of gestation, it returns and emerges from the head of the upper partzuf and enclothes the body of the upper partzuf. By means of this enclothing, the lower partzuf again draws the lights from the upper partzuf.²⁴⁸ activates illumination from the upper one, as in the first round of gestation, infancy and brains described in the preceding sections. These lights of this drawing of light bring down the opacity of the root to the opacity of the first level.²⁴⁹ leads to the descent of the partition from the “forehead” of the head of the upper partzuf down to the “aperture of the eyes” of the head of the upper partzuf. This means the partition transitions from having a level of opacity of the root (associated with the forehead, the Keter) to opacity of the first level (associated with the aperture of the eyes, the Ḥokhma). That is, it brings down the Malkhut²⁵⁰ has a partition resting on it. Thus, a “descent of the partition“ means that the level of Malkhut and its partition have descended. from the forehead to the apertures of the eyes, and then the complete height of the first level emerges upon the partition,²⁵¹, just like in the first round of gestation and infancy. This height of ruaḥ is the vessels and light of the gestated level of Ḥesed, Gevura and Tiferet that have now emerged in the phase of infancy. which is considered the spreading out of Ḥesed, Gevura and Tiferet from within Netzaḥ, Hod and Yesod (as stated in section 76, above). The lower partzuf thus attains a new aspect of infancy, which is the mystical meaning of the height of ruaḥ.
footnotes: ²⁴⁸ The lower partzuf ²⁴⁹ As in the previous round of gestation, infancy and brains, the drawing of the lights of the upper partzuf ²⁵⁰ Malkhut ²⁵¹ Once the partition possesses opacity of the first level, it engages in a fusion through collision that generates a height of ruaḥ