657. What Is Reality and What Is Imagination

Spirituality is called “that which will never be cancelled,” and the will to receive is called “corporeality,” since it will be cancelled and will eventually be inverted to work in order to bestow.

Reality means that anyone who comes there, to that place, sees the same form as the other. Conversely, in something imaginary, everyone imagines it differently.

When we refer to the seventy faces of the Torah, it means that they are seventy degrees. In each degree, the Torah is interpreted according to that degree. However, a world is a reality, meaning anyone who comes to any of the seventy degrees attains the same form as all the other attainers who came there.

From this extends what our sages say, meaning interpret the verses of the Torah and say that this is what Abraham would say to Isaac. The question arises, How did they know this? Because those who reached the degree where Abraham stood, they see and know what Abraham knew and saw. For this reason, they know what Abraham would say.

It is likewise with all the sayings of our sages that interpret the verses of the Torah, since they, too, attained the degree.