The Sefirot are ten modes or attributes through which G‑d manifests Himself. Each of these worlds has a spiritual infrastructure, the most basic component being the Sefirot. You are He who binds them together and unites them and inasmuch as You are within them, whoever separates one from another of these ten Sefirot, it is considered as if he had effected a separation in You.Īs previously discussed, Tzimtzum is the concealment of the Or Ein Sof which allows a Seder Hishtalshelut, a “series of intermediary stages” or worlds that makes the creation of the finite world possible. You are He who has brought forth ten “garments,” and we call them ten Sefirot, and revealed worlds and through them You conceal yourself from man. You are exalted above all the exalted ones, hidden from all the hidden ones no thought can grasp You at all. In the words of Tikkunei Zohar: Elijah opened his discourse and said: ‘Master of the worlds, You are One but not in the numerical sense. However, as previously mentioned, they are not G‑d, and the Kabbalists warn that one should not pray to them. Everything that happens in the spiritual worlds takes place through the medium of the Sefirot.
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