{"id":13565,"date":"2025-12-31T19:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&p=13565"},"modified":"2025-12-31T19:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:19:18","slug":"the-upper-worlds","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/the-upper-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Upper Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Behold that before the emanations were emanated and the creatures were created, the upper simple light had filled the whole existence. And there was no vacancy, such as an empty air, a hollow, but all was filled with that simple, boundless light.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…And when upon His simple will, came the will to create the worlds and emanate the emanations, to bring to light the perfection of His deeds, His names, His appellations, which was the cause of the creation of the worlds, then the Ein Sof restricted Himself, in His middle point, precisely at the center, and … a place was formed, where the Emanations, Creations, Formations, and Actions might reside.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ari, The Tree of Life <\/em><\/a><\/a>[1<\/a>]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this chapter, we will deal with the structure of reality and the upper worlds. This information will allow us to better understand life and help us see what hides behind the words in The Book of Zohar<\/em>. We exist in a reality that includes the Creator, the creatures, and the system through which the Creator connects to the creatures. Through that system, the Creator leads us toward the purpose of Creation\u2014to do good to us, meaning to allow us to be like Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like a loving father, the Creator wishes to share with us all that He has. But the Creator must make us evolve to become independent; hence, He must activate His influence on us from both sides, with mercy and with judgment. Although both stem from Him, they appear to us as contradictory forces and are perceived by us as effects of good or bad, mercy or judgment, light or darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we experience life\u2019s events we must keep in mind that even in what appears to be the most detrimental situation, He wishes only to do good to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we remember to connect everything to Him, and remember that He is benevolent, then we reconnect those two lines\u2014mercy and judgment\u2014to the same source. And since we are the ones who connect them in our hearts and minds, we are the ones who achieve Dvekut<\/em> [adhesion] with the Creator, meaning to become like the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, when we try to do it, we discover that it is very difficult to connect all the bad and good things to the Creator, to understand that everything comes from Him only for a good purpose. We find ourselves asking Him for the strength to be able to unite everything to Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studying the wisdom of Kabbalah in a group is the means that promotes us and directs us in this process. During the study and the work in the group, our egos grow and seem more intense, meaner, and crueler with each stage. Our egos try to mislead us into thinking that there is someone other than Him, and that He is not only benevolent. As a result, we are compelled to turn more and more to the Creator to receive more strength from Him to overcome the ego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We overcome, and the ego intensifies. We overcome again, and it intensifies again. Stage by stage we rise until we succeed in exposing and correcting all the ego that was hidden in us to begin with. At that point, we achieve complete bonding with the Creator, Dvekut<\/em>. We become like Him. This makes us infinite as well, allowing us to see the whole of reality without any boundaries between life and death, to understand and to feel everything, to be filled with light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To allow us to perform the entire process, the Creator created a communication system between Him and us. Through it He leads us from above, and through it we can ask from below and receive His assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This system is divided into several parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Its top is the world of Ein Sof <\/em>[Infinity], where the Creator\u2019s power is out in the open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Below it is the world of Adam Kadmon <\/em>[Primordial Man], where the Creator divides His bestowal into five types, according the level of our egos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Below Adam Kadmon<\/em> is the world of Atzilut <\/em>[Emanation], which is a system of guidance and governance that divides into five parts: Keter <\/em>[Crown], Hochma <\/em>[Wisdom], Bina <\/em>[Understanding], Zeir Anpin <\/em>[Small Face], and Malchut <\/em>[Kingship]. They are also called Atik<\/em> [Ancient], Arich Anpin<\/em> [Long Face], Aba<\/em> and Ima<\/em> [Father and Mother], Dechar<\/em> [male] and Nukva<\/em> [female].<\/p>\n\n\n\n