Introduction to Sulam Commentary

55. You thus find that the root of Nukba127Nukba refers to the Malkhut-associated partzuf below Ze'er Anpin. In this context, the idea is that the root of this Malkhut lies upon the chest of Ze'er Anpin, as the previous sections explained. of Ze’er Anpin is the point of the chest, which is not missing from Ze'er Anpin even at the phase of immaturity, which is called “Keter of Malkhut.”128It is called this because this point in the partzuf ultimately becomes the Keter for the structure discussed at the end of the previous section. Additionally, those vessels of Tiferet, Netzaḥ, Hod, and Yesod of Ze’er Anpin, which fell to Beria, Yetzira, and Asiya at the phase of immaturity, and which return to Atzilut at the phase of maturity, divide into two partzufim, to Ze’er Anpin and Malkhut. They serve as Tiferet, Netzaḥ, Hod, and Yesod of the vessels for Ze’er Anpin, and as the Ḥokhma, Bina, Da’at,129See section 46 above, and the footnote there, for a more complete explanation of Da’at. Ḥesed, Gevura, Tiferet, Netzaḥ, Hod, and Yesod of the vessels for Malkhut.