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63 The Doctrine Of Tikkun more of the vitality of holiness, to push it away and expand into additional areas of being . This deficient state, a state of primordial metaphysical confusion, finds its most prominent expression in the concrete historical reality of the Jewish people . According to the Kabbalists’ symbolic principle mentioned in our first chapter, everything that exists, everything that is or moves within reality, is really a most profound symbolic expression of the inner dynamics and of the hidden processes of the divine being . The things here below constitute an opaque reflection of the worlds above . Whatever occurs above, for better or for worse, is reflected in the changing events and situations of those who dwell below . When the Breaking occurred, and divine sparks that were torn away from their position and forced into a place which is not theirs, were exiled ‒ this exile above was reflected also in the state of those below, in the historical situation of the House...
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