Introduction to the Book of Zohar (PDF) - Kabbalah Media Archive

P R E FAC E T O T H E B O O K O F Z O H A R
material of the book, which is white. The luminescence around and
inside letters gives them their shape, which reveals the wisdom of a
book to us.
That is to say, on the one hand, we read the letters; while on the
other hand, we read the white color around each letter. Only by superposing
the two notions of Infinity, by elevating our sensations, our
letters, to the level of the World of Infinity, where they merge into a
single whole, and the attainment of the true wisdom takes place.
This is the essence of the Ten Sefirot de Atzilut. They are similar to
the white color, and nothing can be known of them: neither quantity,
nor changes. However, at the same time, the shining of white onto
the Worlds of BYA, which are the three colors of letters, creates the
Kelim of Ten Sefirot de Atzilut.
29. From the above, one should understand that the splitting of the
World of Atzilut into three components, as described in “Corrections
to Zohar”, are “He, His light and His actions which are one”.
If in our present state we feel the universe around us and ourselves
in it, we can complement that picture with the Creator and His influence.
As a result, we come up with a pretty complex picture. In reality,
however, when we ascend to the spiritual world and enter the World of
Atzilut, the Creator, His influence on us, the universe that we perceive,
all merge into a single whole called “the Creator’s merging with the creation”,
endless, limitless, boundless Oneness.
Such merging takes place at the level of the World of Atzilut and
higher, when “the Creator, His light, and His actions are one,” hence Atzilut
emanates the white color in spite of the fact that there exists only a simple unity
with nothing from created beings. This is because the Creator means Divinity
itself (the property of bestowal), whose essence we do not comprehend. “His actions”
constitute the ten Kelim HuBTuM existing in Him, which were likened to
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