332) There are two firmaments\u2014beginning and end\u2014and one is equal to the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The beginning is the eighth firmament, in which all the stars\u2014small and great\u2014are stuck. It is the upper, hidden firmament that sustains everything and from which everything emerges. It is the eight from below upwards and it is the beginning, bringing everything out from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
333) Such is the eighth firmament from above downwards, in which all the stars are stuck, all the lights and the candles. It receives everything and it is the end of everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The firmament is the Parsa, the new Sium from the second restriction, which brings Bina and TM of each degree out and lowers them down to the degree below them. During Gadlut [greatness\/adulthood], the Parsa\u2014firmament\u2014returns to the Sium of the first restriction, and brings the Sefirot Bina and TM back to the degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a whole, there are three Parsas [plural of Parsa] in the world of Atzilut. The first firmament is in Peh of AA. It brings Bina and TM outside of Rosh of AA, and into the degree of AVI, leaving only Keter and Hochma in Rosh of AA. It is the first firmament because there is no second restriction in Partzuf Atik, but either a fissure or no fissure. The second is the middle firmament in Chazeh of AA, which brings Bina and TM of HGT of AA to the place of YESHSUT and ZON below the Chazeh. The third is the bottom firmament at the Sium of Atzilut, which brings Bina and TM of ZON of Atzilut to BYA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here The<\/em> Zohar<\/em> speaks only of the first and last firmaments. It says, \u201cThere are two firmaments, beginning and end, and one is equal to the other. The firmament at Peh of AA is the beginning of everything and the firmament at the place of Ateret Yesod of ZA ends the whole of the world of Atzilut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The beginning is the eighth firmament. All the small and great stars are stuck in it. Stars are Mochin, and both Katnut and Gadlut depend and come from the first firmament. This is so because when it brings Bina and TM of Rosh AA outside, Mochin of Katnut are imparted upon all the Partzufim. And when the firmament returns to the Sium in the first restriction, Bina and TM of Rosh of AA are brought back, and the Gadlut is imparted through all the degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the hidden, upper firmament. It is called \u201chidden\u201d because it is below the hidden HS of AA, who sustains everything, all the types of Gadlut, and from whom everything come out, all the types of Katnut. It is the eighth from below upward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AA is Hochma of MA, and it is eight Sefirot, HB, and HGT NHY from Ateret Yesod to Hochma. This is why it is regarded as the eighth, and the beginning from which everything emerges, since no Mochin are extended to ABYA from Partzuf Atik before it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So is the eighth firmament from above downwards, the firmament at the place of Ateret Yesod of ZA, the eighth from above downwards, when beginning to count eight Sefirot from AA, from Hochma to Yesod. All the stars are stuck in it, all the lights and the candles, from which all kinds of Mochin come to the Nukva and to all the lower ones, the dwellers of BYA. This is so because when it brings Bina and TM of ZON outside of Atzilut, the Nukva and all the lower ones are in Katnut. And when the second restriction is cancelled, bringing back Bina and TM of ZON of Atzilut, all the lower ones receive Mochin of Gadlut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It receives everything, taking from the upper ones all the Mochin for the lower ones, and this is the Sium of everything, for it ends the whole of Atzilut. We could ask, \u201cBut isn\u2019t Malchut ending Atzilut, and not Yesod?\u201d The whole of Partzuf Malchut is built from Ateret Yesod. This is the reason why the Sium is regarded as Ateret Yesod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the eighth firmament is the beginning of everything, and all the lights that it receives from the upper ones depend on it, and from it, they come out to all the Partzufim of Atzilut, similarly, all the lights depend on the eighth, bottom firmament, which it receives from the ones above it. And from it, they come out to all the worlds, to Nukva and to BYA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 334) The beginning and the end, meaning the two firmaments, are in one form. Hence, the lower firmament\u2014the river that stretches out and whose waters never stop\u2014is all to equalize the end with the beginning. This is why it is written, \u201cAnd God placed them in the firmament of the heavens,\u201d the lower one. They are there to illuminate the earth, the Nukva, and BYA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 335) And even though the upper firmament and the lower firmament are in one form, the difference between them is that the upper firmament sustains and nourishes the upper world and all those upper discernments, and the lower firmament sustains and nourishes the lower world, the Nukva, and all the lower discernments in BYA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 336) But is that hidden eighth firmament not the upper world itself? Can it be that it nourishes the upper world, which means that it is a different discernment than the upper world? 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