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Five World s, and None Real

there are five spiritual worlds: Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. The only thing

that is real is the world of Ein Sof (No End). We also explained
that the word Olam (World) comes from word Ha’alama (concealment).
Therefore, the worlds are incomplete appearances of 

the Creator. The only place
where He is completely revealed
is therefore the world
of Ein Sof, where there are
no limitations, hence the
name Ein Sof, no end to our
perception of the Creator.
The Upper Worlds affect objects in the worlds below, as all
the worlds are essentially the same reality—that of Ein Sof. For
example, if you thought about doing something, and knew for
certain that that thought would come true, then your plan would
be experienced as existing in you, even before the thought has
actually been carried out. Our body knows this process very well;
this is why the stomach produces digestive juices before the food
actually gets there. In that sense, the thought of eating is a higher
world, which creates the lower world where the eating occurs.
But in both worlds the event (substance) is the same—eating.
Because our thought is not limited, you could say that it is in the
world of Ein Sof, and our body is in one of the lower worlds.
Keep in mind that although Kabbalah speaks only about
the spiritual worlds, it uses physical examples, such as eating, to
explain them. Although the examples are used to understand
how things work in spirituality, don’t be misled into thinking that
there is physical eating (as in the last example) in spirituality.