Zohar and Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah
on Partzufim
1100 — 1730 CE · 630 years apart
Text 1 (Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah) emphasizes Atik Yomin as the first partzuf of Atziluth, defined through the Sephiroth of Arich Anpin. Text 2 (Zohar Idra Rabba) emphasizes the completeness and integration of all upper and lower worlds in the form of Adam Kadmon, with particular focus on how Atika Kadisha and Zeir Anpin achieve their rectifications through this unified image. Both acknowledge Atik/Atika as primary and partzufim structure, but Text 1 focuses on taxonomic classification within Atziluth while Text 2 emphasizes integrative wholeness and the cosmic anthropomorphic principle. The Hebrew 'אַשְׁלְמוּתָא דְּכֹלָּא' (completeness of all) vs the classificatory 'נחשב לאצילות' represent different conceptual priorities rather than contradiction.
Zohar
1100
View on Sefaria →כַּד אִתְחַבְּרָן עִטְרִין וְכִתְרִין, כְּדֵין הוּא אַשְׁלְמוּתָא דְּכֹלָּא. בְּגִין, דְּדִיּוּקְנָא דְּאָדָם, הֲוִי דִּיּוּקְנָא דְּעִלָּאִין וְתַתָּאִין דְּאִתְכְּלָלוּ בֵּיהּ. וּבְגִין דְּהַאי דִּיּוּקְנָא כָּלִיל עִלָּאִין וְתַתָּאִין, אַתְקִין עַתִּיקָא קַדִּישָׁא תִּקּוּנוֹי, וְתִקּוּנָא דִּזְעֵיר אַפִּין, בְּהַאי דִּיּוּקְנָא וְתִקּוּנָא.
Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah
1730
View on Sefaria →חלק א:עתיק הוא פרצוף הראשון: הנחשב לאצילות, פירוש - הוא מספירות א"ק, כדלקמן, אבל נחשב לאצילות:
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