Editing The Power of Growth (section)

== Origin and Root ==
All flavors such as sourness and sweetness in plants originate from the spiritual sweetness that exists in the spiritual power of growth (where the sweetness is greater than in the physical apple). Our Sages of blessed memory said, "There is no grass below that does not have a mazal above that strikes it and says 'Grow!'" All the flavors, sweetness, and sourness that exist in the power of growth flow down from the mazalot (celestial influences) above, and the mazalot receive from the angels, and the angels receive from one another from above until the highest levels, and the source of them all is the word of Hashem – '''which is''' the source of all pleasures. Sweetness is an aspect of kindness (chasadim) and sourness is an aspect of severity (gevurot), and all the variations of physical flavors below are according to the quality of the combinations of attributes above. The word of Hashem refers to the ten utterances written in the portion of Bereishit, where from the utterance "Let the earth sprout forth..." all types of vegetation were created, and from the utterance "fruit tree..." all types of fruits were created with various flavors of sweetness and sourness.