TUESDAY PRAYER: YESOD-MAIN READING OF THE WEEK – THE ZOHAR BOOK

READING: SUNSET MONDAY

Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 150.

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

The strengthening of the impure forces from the properties of the letter Shin
occurred as a result of her properties joining the impure properties of falsehood,
forging spiritual purity of the letters Kuf and Reish: falsehood would be unable
to exist in the world, for it would be recognized at once, had the letters Kuf and
Reish not put Shin at the head of the word SheKeR (falsehood). And when truth
stands at the head of the word that designates the property of falsehood, man
naturally tends to err.
There are two sources of impure forces: the first is a small luminescence
(Ner Dakik), which the pure force itself (the Creator) sends to the impure forces
(desires) so as to sustain them. This is done so they would not disappear until
there is a need to “punish” the sinners with them. However, these are small
forces—their height is not great, for they receive only a small luminescence,
sufficient to sustain their life.
This small luminescence descends into the impure forces from the letter
Kuf, which results in these impure forces becoming similar to man in the
worlds BYA, as a monkey in comparison to a human being, as it is said: “The
Creator had made one opposite the other” (Kohelet, 7:14).
The second source of impure forces arises from the lower ones’ spiritual fall:
as a result of people’s evil, egoistic actions, the Light passes from the system of
the pure forces into the impure. And the first transgression is Adam’s sin, by
which the system of the impure forces assumed an identical formation to that of
the pure system, stationing itself opposite, parallel to it. As a result, the impure
worlds ABYA emerged opposite the pure ones.
The second source of impure forces is the letter Reish, which indicates that
the impure forces rise and attach themselves to the pure forces, right up to the
level of Bina of Malchut, designated by the letter Dalet.
As was previously stated, the twenty-two letters of Partzuf Malchut of the
world of Atzilut are divided in three groups of letters: units in Bina, tens in ZA,
and hundreds in Malchut.