Teil 16 · Kapitel 102

And if so, you will now see how much the sin of Adam caused — bringing down the worlds to such a deep descent: for it is impossible for us now to raise the worlds even in the afternoon prayer of the Sabbath, except [to the state] they were in then, in the addition to the Sabbath, in the afternoon (bein ha-arbayim). And especially in all the aforementioned distinctions: for then it was done by itself, and the externality of the worlds also ascended — unlike now, as mentioned. And this is one great flaw that he caused in all four worlds of ABYA.