The Changes Stated with Regard to the Sefirot, Which Exist Only in Relation to Beria, Yetzira, and Asiya
After all of the above, it remains for us to explain all of the physical descriptions that the Book of the Zohar provides for the ten sefirot, such as above and below, ascent and descent, diminishing and expansion, smallness and largeness, separation and fusing, as well as numbers and the like, which the lower creations, through their good deeds or their bad deeds, cause to occur in the ten sefirot. These notions are surprising. How is it possible for the Divinity to act upon itself and be subject to changes of this kind on account of the lower creations?