I titled this commentary The Ladder [HaSulam], for my commentary functions like a ladder. If an attic is full of treasure, you need only a ladder to ascend, and then all of the good in the world is available to you.

The ladder is not the goal in itself. If you rest on the rungs of the ladder, you will never reach the attic or achieve your goal. The same is true of my commentary on the Zohar. Words are not adequate to fully explain these infinitely deep matters. Yet, in my commentary, I was able to provide a path, an introduction, for all people so that they can ascend and understand the depths of the book of the Zohar itself. That is the real goal of my commentary.