Direct light (Kabbalah)

Kabbalah

The upper light that is drawn from Ein Sof and given in the partzufim, after the constriction (tzimtzum) and onwards. It is called by this name to indicate that it is not given in the > of the circular sefirot. The same applies to all levels that contain nothing of the opacity (ovyut) of the fourth level, except for the sefirot of the straight line alone. This is in accordance with the general rule that one who bestows does so only in something that is more opaque, which is the opacity (ovyut) of the fourth level (Talmud Eser Sefirot, v. 2, Q & A 3).

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“For they ‎unite in him.” There is no unification of Ḥokhma and Bina for the [sake of the] lower ones, in which Bina returns to be Ḥokhma, except ‎through the ascent of Ze’er Anpin to them as feminine waters. In the phase when the Ze’er Anpin ascends to the Bina as feminine waters, the Bina then ascends to the head ‎of Arikh Anpin and receives Ḥokhma to transmit to Ze’er Anpin, but not for [Bina] itself. [This is because] the nature [of Bina] in its ten ‎sefirot of direct light…

Sulam on Zohar, Introduction 241:5

[The Zohar] continues: “declare” means that “they illuminate etc.” “Declare [mesaprim, which is similar to the language of “sappir,” sapphire]” is the mystical meaning of the great [fusion through collision] that will occur in the future, as in the phrase: “A wife converses [mesapperet] with her husband” (Berakhot 3a). “Sapphire [sappir]” is the name of the holy Divine Presence, as in the verse: “And there was under His feet the like of a paved work of sapphire stone” (Exodus 24:10)…

Sulam on Zohar, Introduction 128:7

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