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

READING: SUNSET MONDAY

Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 220

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

Naturally, this refers to one who works on himself and advances spiritually,
for whom working for the Creator’s sake is his life’s calling. Yet, he may
occasionally fail to observe precisely all the restrictions, and thus find himself
in such states. An ordinary person, however, who neither works on himself
nor studies Kabbalah, is obviously entirely unrelated to either pure or impure
spiritual forces.
For example, the male impure force says that one must study the Torah, but
then steals the results of his work for itself. As a result, man loses interest in his
studies, and must once more consolidate himself in his efforts and advancement.
And although he attains the Creator and the revelation of Light to a certain
degree, it is nonetheless fruitless, for all of his attainments vanish from him, and
he gains nothing from them.
Therefore, the Torah refers to it as the “reverse man,” for initially he ate
and drank and said “Go,” i.e., raise MAN to the Creator and receive the Light
for the sake of the exalted goal, but not for yourself. Thus, it pretends that it
is not the impure force, but its opposite. However, due to its property called
“fruitless return,” it then makes a Zivug with its Nukva (the great abyss), which
steals man’s soul and destroys him with its falsehood, and man is left without
even the slightest part of his soul that is holy and pure!
Hence, it is written that he skips through 500 Parsaot: initially, ZON of
the impure forces have only VAK in ZA and a point in Malchut. Consequently,
they can only be equal to ZON de Atzilut in their Katnut (small state), when
they are also VAK and a point, and have neither the power nor the place to
connect to Bina.
Nevertheless, thanks to the MAN raised by the lower ones, the male impure
force is given the opportunity to skip through ZAT de Bina, which sustain the pure
and holy ZON. ZON contain Sefirot HGT NH (Netzah-Hod) = 5 x 100 = 500, since
a Sefira in Bina equals 100. And this occurs thanks to the MAN raised by one who
is uncertain of his intentions (whether or not he acts for the Creator’s sake).
The “reverse man” then makes a Zivug with his Nukva on this false MAN,
and receives the Upper Light for the construction of his Partzuf, much like the
spiritually pure Heavens that were created on the pure MAN. Also, the new
Heavens created on the impure MAN are called “reverse,” “empty.” And since the
impure Malchut took part in this, these Heavens are called Tohu (abyss/chaos).