As a result of the \u201ccoupling\u201d process, the MaH<\/i> and BaN<\/i> aspects continue along until they settle in the female in a sort of Hylic, amorphous lump that doesn\u2019t assume its full shape until its parts blossom (much like a zygote that starts off tiny though genetically all-encompassing). The \u201cpregnancy\u201d stage is a \u201cfleshing out\u201d period of the various lights, i.e., Sephirot<\/i> (like the zygote in its gestation process) which can then function. And \u201cbirth\u201d is the whole thing coming to fruition and growing more and more on its own.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how it\u2019s worded in the rest of Petach<\/i> 66:<\/p>\n
During <\/b>the \u201ccoupling\u201d <\/b>process the subdivisions of MaH<\/i> and BaN<\/i> are drawn downward until everything settles in the female. And everything that needs to exist in that light is contained there in general, no more and no less <\/b>than is necessary.<\/b><\/p>\n
This general formation must then to be subdivided into its parts, but it, <\/b>i.e., the \u201coffspring\u201d, isn\u2019t made manifest <\/b>there until all of those parts are fully manifested. As such, until that happens, it, <\/b>i.e., the \u201coffspring\u201d, <\/b>is concealed within the light it depends on in order to be completed by it. This is because the lights of the one<\/b>\u00b8 i.e., of the \u201coffspring\u201d, can only be completed through the lights of the other<\/b>, i.e., of the female from which it was formed. <\/b><\/p>\n
Once it<\/b>, i.e., the \u201coffspring\u201d, reaches the stage where all of its details are manifest then, even though each contains only the barest amount of illumination possible, it<\/b>, i.e., the <\/b>\u201coffspring\u201d, is then made manifest, since there\u2019s no need to differentiate its light any further, and it can only gain further ability and illumination <\/b>during the \u201csuckling\u201d process. <\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0“Birth\u201d occurs when it<\/b>, i.e., the \u201coffspring\u201d, is made manifest from the higher light outward.<\/b><\/p>\n
(c) 2014 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman<\/p>\n
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