📕 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 237

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

It is impossible to take with you anything from a previous degree. Hence, one
must start anew from the lowest level of Ibur, called THE DONKEY DRIVER.
Ohr Haya de AVI is called YESH (Yod-Shin), where Yod is Hochma and Shin is Bina.
And, of course, they are more important than the Ohr Neshama that was in the
Partzuf before them.

88. Rabbi Elazar and Rabbi Aba rejoiced, wept, and said, “You sit on the
    donkey, and we shall drive it.” He replied to them, “Have I not told you that
    it is the command of the King that I act as I do, until the other donkey driver
    appears” (this hints at the Mashiach, who, as it is said, will appear poor and
    riding a donkey). They said to him, “You have not even told us your name!
    Where do you dwell?” He told them, “My dwelling place is wonderful
    and very precious to me. It is a tower that soars in the air, grand and unique.
    Only two live in this tower: the Creator and I. That is the place, in which
    I dwell. And I am exiled from there in order to drive the donkeys.” Rabbi
    Elazar and Rabbi Aba looked at him, and his words were unclear to them, for
    they tasted sweeter than manna and honey. They said to him, “Perhaps you
    will tell us the name of your father, so that we could kiss the earth at his feet?”
    He responded, “What for? It is not my habit to boast of the Torah.”
    After they have attained the greatness of the donkey driver’s degree, they
    could no longer bear his small state of Ibur, which he inhabited for their sake.
    Hence, they told him that since they have already attained Ohr Hochma, he has
    done enough and can leave the state of Ibur. And should a need arise to add
    anything else to them, they would be able to enter Ibur on their own, and he
    does not need to suffer for their sake.
    However, the donkey driver warned them beforehand to not ask him his
    name, for they still require revelations of secrets of the Torah. Once again, he
    hinted that it is the degree of Ohr Yechida that they lack, which is implied here.
    This degree signifies the reception of the Light of the King Messiah’s face,
    which he mentioned by hinting at the poor donkey driver, as described by a
    prophet (Zachariah, 9:9). And he is commanded by the Creator to help them
    attain Ohr Yechida.
    This is why they asked him about the type of his soul: “For you did not wish
    to reveal your name, as we have not yet received from you that which we must
    attain. But if so, at least tell us where you live, what is your degree? At least then
    we will know what we lack, what else we must receive, attain from you.”