📕 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 222

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

And after one is caught in its toils, the male impure force makes a Zivug
with its impure Nukva, and, like heavy wagon shafts, they pull man into an abyss
so great and dark that he doesn’t even realize that he is in darkness. On the
contrary, he considers himself wise and righteous. The male part only catches
man, binds him, and then brings him to the impure Nukva and casts him at her
feet. Only then does he falter, falls into the great abyss and perishes.

71. Rabbi Shimon said to his friends: “I beg of you not to utter any discernments
    from the Torah, no matter what you may hear from the Great Tree of Truth,
    so that you would not assist the impure Nukva in slaying multitudes of people
    for naught.” They all opened and mouthed: “Save us, O Merciful One! Save
    us, O Merciful One!”
    Rabbi Shimon said that if you have attained the discernment yourselves,
    then you are allowed, but if not, you must listen to the Great Tree (the great
    learned sage, whose wisdom and purity can be trusted) to learn how to work
    for the Creator.
72. Come and see, the Creator created the world by the Torah. And He looked
    into the Torah not once, not twice, not thrice, and not four times. Only after
    that did He create the world. This should show people how not to err.
73. Opposite these four times, the Creator saw, counted, prepared, and
    investigated what He had created. It is therefore written, “Beresheet (In
    the beginning) Barah (created) Elokim (the Creator) Et (the)”—four words,
    corresponding to the four above. And then, it is written: “Heaven”—opposite
    all four words, for the Creator looked into the Torah before He began to
    manifest His thought into reality.
    The four words signify four time periods or four Sefirot H-B-ZA-M. ”Saw”
    designates Hochma, “counted”—Bina, “prepared”—ZA, and “investigated”—
    Malchut. After these four, the Creator created what He created.
    We find the same in the Torah: Beresheet is Hochma, Barah is Bina, Elokim is
    ZA, and Et (the) is Malchut, which includes everything from Aleph to Tav—all the
    letters and all the properties. Hence, she is designated in the Torah by the word
    Et = Aleph-Tav (from the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Aleph, to the last,
    Tav). And after these four, He created the Heavens and the earth, i.e., revealed
    the next, lower degree, below Malchut.