📕 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 207
ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson
However, in this case, he should have said that the Torah performed the
deed in 400,000; yet, he said that the Light emanated by Ima is not used on
400, but only on 370, for although the Torah had reached the zenith of the
firmament, it still could not reach GAR of the last, Supernal Hundred. Hence,
there are only 370, while the Upper Thirty are absent in Ima.
The same applies with regard to thousands—the Light of Aba does not use
GAR of each thousand, but only VAK, i.e., 600 instead of 1,000. Instead of the
GAR of each thousand, it uses thirteen (Hochma of the “thirty-two Netivot (paths
of) Hochma”). The number thirteen signifies Hochma of the “thirty-two Netivot
Hochma,” the weak Light of Hochma, called the holy Apharsemon.
It is therefore said that the Torah attained 370 Lights, and each of them divides
into 613 beams; thus, in the 400 of Ima, thirty of the Upper Light of Hochma are
absent, which leaves it with only 370. And each thousand lacks the Upper 400
(GAR of Hochma). Instead of using the thirteen paths of the holy Apharsemon, each
thousand contains no more than 613, for all the supernal secrets are concealed in
Rabbi Shimon’s assembly. And the Creator Himself sealed them, for He ascends
and becomes adorned with the achievements of all the righteous in the Torah.
We know from the Talmud (Sanhedrin, 99:1) that everything the prophets
ever said refers only to the days of the Mashiach’s coming, but in the future
(Yeshayahu, 64), everyone will behold the Creator themselves. For all the degrees
and levels that refer to the days of the Mashiach will then be corrected, and all
the secrets of the Torah will be revealed, everyone will attain complete revelation
of the Light, of the Creator, as it is said, everyone will see with their own eyes
(sight implies GAR de Hochma).
From the aforesaid, it becomes clear that there exists an opportunity to
correct one’s individual Malchut de Malchut even before all the souls achieve it in
the future. In such a case, man reaches his individual level of attainment of 400,
although his general level cannot be higher than 370, as in the case of everybody
else. This is the degree that Rabbi Shimon, Rabbi Chizkiyah, and Achiyah ha
Shiloni had reached.
- The Mashiach said: “I have come here not to confirm the Torah of your
assembly, but only because the ‘owner of wings’ is on his way here. For I know
that he shall not enter any other assembly, but only yours.” Meanwhile, Rabbi
Shimon told him of the oath taken by the “owner of wings.” Right then
the Mashiach trembled in awe and raised his voice, and the Heavens shook,
and the Great Sea boiled, and the Leviathan stirred, and the entire world
threatened to overturn.