The first point Ramchal makes here is that the world of Nikkudim<\/i> <\/b>— which is the subject at hand — came about when <\/b>the world of Atzilut<\/i> with all its offshoots <\/b>i.e., the worlds of Briah<\/i>, Yetzirah<\/i>, and Assiyah<\/i>, were<\/b> fashioned<\/b> successively<\/b> much the way a craftsman produces something <\/b>(literally, \u201ca vessel\u201d) out of what\u2019s at first an amorphous piece of wood which proves to be <\/b>something orderly and beautiful when completed <\/b>(Petach<\/i> 36). <\/b><\/p>\n
It\u2019s vitally important to know about this realm because \u201cit is the true root of everything in the lower realms, which did not exist until we reached this level\u201d (Ramchal\u2019s comments here). His overriding point here, though, aside from introducing the various elements involved, is that God formed these worlds successively and in an orderly way, as that is the way He interacts with the universe, as we\u2019ve seen [1].<\/p>\n
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[1] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See 4:2 where we cited this quote from elsewhere in this work: \u201cThe very first thing to know about (God\u2019s) governance is that it\u2019s dependent upon sequence<\/i>, which is the first principle God wanted\u201d to exist in the universe (comments to Petach<\/i> 30),<\/p>\n
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