R' Ashlag Ch. 33 (sect. 1)

Chapter Thirty-Three:

Rabbi Yehudah Ashlag's "Introduction to the Zohar"

-- as translated and commented on by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

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"That now leaves us with the sixth inquiry to explain."
-- See 3:4.

"(As we'd stated), our sages said that all the upper worlds as well as this corporeal world were created for man’s sake alone. But isn’t that strange? After all, why would G-d bother to create all that for man, who’s so insignificant and hasn’t a hair’s-breadth of worth in comparison to all we see before us in this world -- to say nothing of the upper worlds. And besides, why would man need (for there to be) such august and hallowed worlds?"

(c) 2005 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

(Feel free to contact me at feldman@torah.org )

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