This is the highest world to which we have 'access'. It is at times described as the first world of emanation, as the world still able the grasp its connection to the ungraspable realm of Ain Sof. Some Rabbis place within this world only one Sefirah: Keter. Though there is a dynamism in placing in this elevated and transcendent world only the pinnacle of the Tree, there is something about both Hochmah and Binah that properly belongs here.

Looking at the written word (Atzilut), I note that it opens with a mother letter (Alef) and concludes with a double (Tav), within which are solely single letters. Furthermore, the beginning and end of the word reflects the beginning and end of the Alef-Beit: Alef → Tav.

It is 'as if' the pan of the alphabet is maintained at its endings, and the contents within allowed to be mixed and remixed in order for the creative act to later emerge from its hallowed womb.

From the throne of the Divine will emanate creation, beginning with the first two letters that also opens Genesis: Bereshit bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'arets (In the beginning Elohim created heaven and earth).

The realm of ideas descends upon human beings as gifts from the higher realms, to there be reflected within the receptable of the brain, heart and liver.

Within the tomb of the body of human beings resides the eternal essential nature. Here is the world of deeds, the kingdom of action, upon whose fields we may strive to allow that small breath within to find its independent and individual expression.

4-world division:

Atzilut - Nearness (emanation)

Sefirah's meaning

Keter = Crown

Aristotelean Category: Substance

'An individual may be considered in its proper being as distinct from its surroundings insofar as it is able to exist in itself as a unified centre of characteristics, interactions, and relations, in which case we are speaking of what falls under the category of substance.'

J. Deely Four Ages of Understanding, p76

4-world division:

Atzilut - Nearness (emanation)

Sefirah's's meaning

Hockmah = Wisdom

Aristotelean Category: Quantity

'An individual may be considered in itself according to the properties it has as a consequence of being a material substance, in which case we are speaking of what falls under the category of quantity'

J. Deely Four Ages of Understanding, p76

4-world division:

Atzilut - Nearness (emanation)

Sefirah's meaning

Binah = Intelligence, Understanding, Insight

Aristotelean Category: Relation

'[…] action and passion are not the relations of cause and effect but rather the foundations and terminations in subjectivity of those relations'

J. Deely Four Ages of Understanding, p76

4-world division (straddles both):

Atzilut - Emanation & Beri'ah - Creation

Title's meaning

Da'at = Knowledge

Aristotelean Category: not applicable

4-world division:

Beri'ah - Creation

Sefirah's meaning

Hesed = Love (Covenant) / Gedulah = Glorious

Hesed as a concept has evolved over time. In its early phase, it can be understood as closely related to the duty one has to him or her towards which their is responsibility or subordination. For example, the parent to child relationship; or master and servant. In that sense, the concept embodied both a care and covenant. In more recent times, its various manifestations are also reflected in the various Greek uses of 'Love' as Agape, Philos, and Eros, as well as that of a sacred covenant as found in the Old Testament between God and his people.

Aristotelean Category: Quality

'An individual may be considered again in itself but according to the properties it has as a consequence of being a specific type of material substance, that is, as a consequence of its form rather than its matter, in which case we are speaking of what falls in the category of quality'

J. Deely Four Ages of Understanding, p76

4-world division:

Beri'ah - Creation

Sefirah's meaning

Geburah = Force / Pahad = Awe

Aristotelean Category: Where

'An individual may be considered according to its relation to surrounding bodies in the environment, in which case we have the category of where or location'

J. Deely Four Ages of Understanding, p76

4-world division:

Beri'ah - Creation

Sefirah's meaning

Tifaret = Beauty

Aristotelean Category: When

'An individual may be considered in its relation to preceding events or individuals, in which case we are concerned with the category of when'

J. Deely Four Ages of Understanding, p76

4-world division:

Yetzirah - Formation

Sefirah's meaning

Netzach = Victory (eternity)

Aristotelean Category: Posture

'An individual may be considered according to the way it positions itself (crouched, upright, supine, etc.), in which case we have the category of posture'

J. Deely Four Ages of Understanding, p76

4-world division:

Yetzirah - Formation

Sefirah's meaning

Hod = Splendor / reverberation

Aristotelean Category: Vestition

'[…] an individual may be considered in terms of accountrements it assumes for protection, decoration, or whatever purpose, in which case we are speaking of what belongs to the category of vestition'

J. Deely Four Ages of Understanding, p76

4-world division:

Yetzirah - Formation

Sefirah's meaning

Yesod = Foundation

Aristotelean Category: Action

'An individual may be considered as the origin of some behaviour, in which case we are speaking of what falls in the category of action'

J. Deely Four Ages of Understanding, p76

4-world division:

Assiah - Action (manifestation)

Sefirah's meaning

Malkut = Kingdom
Matrix of physical world as spiritual substance.

Aristotelean Category: Passion

'The individual may be considered as acted upon by some other agent, in which case we are in the category of passion'

J. Deely Four Ages of Understanding, p76