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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: “The background for the existence of all the other attributes”

The three higher Sefirot, called from their initials, ChaBaD (Chochmah, Binah, and Daat), create the background for the existence of all the other attributes and their various activities.

One loves or hates or pities, and this in turn stirs up thought processes that take form in words.

To be more specific, there are two stages: one is that of the thought before it is expressed in words, and the other, when the thought enters into words and becomes indistinguishable from them.

–Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz