TUESDAY PRAYER: HOD-MAIN READING OF THE WEEK – THE ZOHAR BOOK
READING: SUNSET MONDAY
Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 153.
ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson
And had the letters Kuf and Reish not captured the letter Shin, such an
enormous system of impure forces, so capable of lying and falsifying everything
in the eyes of man, would not have come into being.
Therefore, the Creator answered the letter Shin: “Though you are good, you
will stand at the head of the word Sheker (falsehood) together with the letters
Kuf and Reish. Indeed, upon capturing you, with your power they will be able
to create an entire system of impure forces of falsehood and forgery. Hence, I
cannot create the world with your properties, for since there is an impure system
opposite from you, it is impossible to achieve the goal of creation with you.”
THE LETTERS KUF AND REISH
- From the aforesaid, it follows that whoever wishes to tell a lie will succeed
if he first tells the truth as a base on which the lie will then grow and start
to act. And this is because the letter Shin is a letter of truth, in which the
Patriarchs had been united, for the three lines in the writing of the letter
Shin ( ש) signify the three Patriarchs, who designate the Sefirot-properties
Hesed-Gevura-Tifferet.
The letters Kuf and Reish indicate the evil side, as they form the impure
side, called KaR (cold), which lacks warmth and life, for it draws its sustenance
from Malchut when she turns from living water into ice. However, to create an
opportunity to exist, these letters attach the Shin to themselves, thus creating the
combination KeSHeR (tie, knot), which embodies strength and survival.
For the Light of Hesed-Gevura-Tifferet of Bina, which she receives from Yesod
de ZA, creates a new ending in Malchut, a new Kli-desire to receive the Light
called “100 blessings” from ZA. And since Hesed-Gevura-Tifferet are called the
Patriarchs, and the Light that passes to Malchut descends from them, the letter
Shin that designates them is called “truth.”
By eliminating the sharp angle of the letter Dalet, the impure forces turn it
into the letter Reish. By this, they convert the word ECHaD into ACHeR, thereby
stealing Yesod of the pure Malchut, designated by Shin. Also, with the letter Shin
they build the Yesod of the impure Malchut, which leads to a very strong clinging
of impure forces to pure ones. This clinging is called KeSHeR, the reciprocal tie
joining pure and impure forces, a knot that is not easily severed.