📕 TUESDAY PRAYER: HOCHMA-MAIN READING OF THE WEEK – THE ZOHAR BOOK
READING: SUNSET MONDAY
Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 209
ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson
WHO IS YOUR PARTNER
- Beresheet: Rabbi Shimon opened: “Put my words in your mouth. How
much effort should man exert in the Torah day and night, for the Creator is
attentive to those who study it. And with every word that man attains by his
efforts in the Torah, he builds a firmament.”
The Creator gave the righteous the power of His speech. And just as the
Creator creates the creature by the power of His word, so the righteous create
new Heavens by its power. This is why Rabbi Shimon opened his speech by
explaining the words, “In the beginning, the Creator created Heaven and
earth,” as the word Barah (created) also means “closing” and “limiting.” And
we must understand why the Creator had created it in such a closed form.
He answers, “To put the correction of Heaven and earth in the words of
the righteous, to make them His partners—participants in the creation of
Heaven and earth.”
There are two kinds of renewal of Heaven and earth that the Creator
enclosed in the mouths of the righteous: - The correction of Adam’s sin, the correction of the past. Even before
the creation of Adam, the Creator had made a secret correction of Heaven and
earth, as it is described in the beginning of the Torah, in the chapter Beresheet:
ZON de Atzilut ascended to AVI and to AA, while Adam ascended to ZON
and YESHSUT. As a result, Adam received the Light of NRN de Atzilut, for he
clothed YESHSUT and ZON de Atzilut, i.e., ascended to their level.
Adam is located within the worlds BYA and he ascends together with these
worlds. All the worlds can ascend above their permanent state or descend to
their places with Adam inside of them. Adam’s spiritual level and the Light that
he receives are determined by his location (see page 212).