Nefesh HaChayim, Reb Itzele's Long Annotation

[Translator’s note: In the 1824 first edition and all subsequent editions until roughly 1989, this Annotation is printed alongside the text of Gate 1. Only later was it broken out of the text and placed between Gates 1 and 2.](Regarding the matter of the tzellem that the Ariza”l split into three aspects: tzaddik, lamed and mem.)