R' Ashlag Ch. 42 (Part 1)

Chapter Forty-Two:

Rabbi Yehudah Ashlag's "Introduction to the Zohar"

-- as translated and commented on by Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

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42.

1.

"We’ve now explained the five worlds (Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Briah, Yetzirah, and Asiyah) that incorporate all of supernal existence extending from the Infinite Himself to this world. We saw in fact that they’re all interconnected and that each world corresponds to the five worlds (i.e., the five clusters of sephirot) of Keter, Chochma, Binah, Tifferet, and Malchut in which are garbed the five lights of Nephesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya, and Yechida, which (themselves) correspond to the five worlds."

"Now, aside from the five sephirot (clusters) of Keter, Chochma, Binah, Tifferet, and Malchut in each world, the four spiritual grades of mineral, vegetable, animal, and verbal (cited before) are found there, too."

(c) 2005 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman

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

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