R' Ashlag Ch. 15 (sect. 1)

Rabbi Yehudah Ashlag's "Introduction to the Zohar"

-- as translated and commented on by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

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Ch. 15

1.

"Now, when you reflect upon these three eras you discover that they’re fully and utterly interdependent; and so much so that if one were to somehow not exist, the others couldn't either"
-- To put it another way, it will be found, quite astonishingly, that if one of these eras in fact exists, then the two others *must* exist, too; for the three are *the* ingredients of the only dish there is. It thus follows then that if we who now experience the second era exist, then the first and third eras must exist, too.

(c) 2005 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

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