HOD: MAIN READING OF THE WEEK: The Zohar Book

Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 103.

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

THE MOTHER LENDS HER CLOTHES
TO HER DAUGHTER

(Continuation)

The reflected pleasure is called Ohr Hassadim. Essentially, this is not a Light,
but rather Malchut’s intention to receive only for the Creator’s sake. However,
this intention is that necessary and sufficient condition for the subsequent
reception of Ohr Hochma from the Creator. For after Malchut repelled all the
Light (expressed her intention to not receive for her own sake), she thereby
met the condition of Tzimtzum Aleph (first restriction) to only receive the Light
of Hochma in the intention for the Creator’s sake, which is called Ohr Hozer
(Returning Light) or Ohr Hassadim. And now she can receive Ohr Hochma, the
pleasure that the Creator wants to bestow upon her.

However, by receiving this Light, Malchut is no more a mere recipientcreature.
Now, like the Creator, she bestows pleasure upon Him! In this
manner, the creature attains the degree of the Creator, becomes equal to Him
in properties, for it wants to bestow everything. This is called “being filled with
Ohr Hassadim.” Moreover, Malchut receives and enjoys, for if she does not feel
pleasure, she will not please the Creator.

Therefore, Malchut receives, meaning she is filled with Ohr Hochma, full of
wisdom and pleasure, from both bestowal and reception for the Creator’s sake.
And herein lies the perfection of the Creator’s Creation: she becomes perfect
and similar to the Creator. And this is the perfection of the Creator’s works: His
creation can ascend to His level independently!

One can imagine one’s path from the lows of our world up to the ultimate
spiritual peak—the Creator—as a passage through a suite of rooms. In all,
between our state and the Creator there are 125 connected, walkthrough
rooms. Each room has its own properties, and only those who possess the same
properties can be there. If, regardless of reason, man changes his properties,
he is automatically moved as though by an invisible current to a room that
corresponds to his new properties.
This is how one can move between these rooms: an infinitesimal inner
change of properties evokes influence of a spiritual force-field upon man,
and he immediately moves to his new place of equilibrium, where his inner
properties completely coincide with the external properties of the spiritual
field. Hence, there are no guards at the rooms’ entrances/exits; as soon as man
changes himself so as to match the properties of the next, higher room, he is
automatically transferred there by the spiritual current or field.