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Kabbalists say we can return to that divine image. “According to Genesis 1:27, the human being is created in the image of God,” writes Daniel Matt. “The sefirot are the divine original of that image. As Primordial Adam, they are the mythical paragon of the human being, our archetypal nature. The human race has lost this nature, but if one were to purify himself, he would reconnect with the sefirot and become a vessel for them. This is what the Patriarchs attained and, to a greater degree, Moses.” <ref>Daniel Chanan Matt, trans., ''Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment'' (Ramsey, NJ: Paulist Press, 1983), p. 34.</ref> | Kabbalists say we can return to that divine image. “According to Genesis 1:27, the human being is created in the image of God,” writes Daniel Matt. “The sefirot are the divine original of that image. As Primordial Adam, they are the mythical paragon of the human being, our archetypal nature. The human race has lost this nature, but if one were to purify himself, he would reconnect with the sefirot and become a vessel for them. This is what the Patriarchs attained and, to a greater degree, Moses.” <ref>Daniel Chanan Matt, trans., ''Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment'' (Ramsey, NJ: Paulist Press, 1983), p. 34.</ref> | ||
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{{POW}}, vol. 37, no. 40. | {{POW}}, vol. 37, no. 40. | ||