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

READING: SUNSET MONDAY

Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 241

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

A is called Yeda (knowledge) because it gives Ohr Hochma to Bina, and
knows all the routes of Ohr Hochma into Bina and through her on to the lower
ones. While making a Zivug, AA itself does not pass its Light downwards, but
as AVI ascend to AA, they receive Ohr Hochma, called “thirty-two streams” or
“paths of wisdom,” which can be attained by the lower ones.
Everything that is written in The Zohar refers to all the souls in general.
However, there are exceptions that are not normally studied. There exist special,
exalted souls that merit becoming a Kli, MAN for the great Zivug of RADLA
after their exile, and to receive from this Zivug in the Upper World the degree
of Yechida. These are the souls of Benayahu Ben-Yehoyada, Rabbi Hamnuna-
Saba and a very few chosen others. These exalted souls reveal themselves to the
righteous in this world, and as a result, the righteous merit delighting in Ohr
Yechida, which shines only in such exalted souls, while still being in this world.
Therefore, the name of Benayahu Ben-Yehoyada indicates that it stems from
the inner wisdom, the unattainable Light of Hochma of Atik. This name also
causes the concealment of the Light of Hochma, for the name Yehoyada: Yod-Hey-
Vav + Yeda means that only he who attains the first three letters Yod-Hey-Vav of
the Creator’s name HaVaYaH shall attain Him, and no other shall.
Therefore, this name remains concealed in its place. At first, the donkey
driver explains the quality of this Zivug in Atik—its height, the power of the Light
that emerges onto it in Rosh de Atik, which the name of this Zivug, “Ben Ish Chai
Rav Paalim ve Mekabtziel,” indicates. And then he explains what is concealed and
what descends to the souls.
It was already stated that this Zivug takes place at the end of the correction of
the entire Malchut. Hence, it includes all the individual Zivugim and the degrees
that emerge on them through the 6,000 years. All the Lights accumulate into
one. All the types of MAN combine into one and ascend to ask for this Zivug,
which includes all the suffering and punishments gradually accumulated during
the 6,000 years.
Hence, the height and greatness of this Zivug and the degree of Light that
emerges from it are infinite, and it destroys all the impure forces once and for
all. Yesod de ZA, from which the Light of this Zivug (the combination of all the
Lights over the full course of the 6,000 years) is emanated, is called “Ish Chai Rav
Paalim”—a vivid man of many actions. However, Malchut, which contains within
her all the MAN, suffering, and work performed during the 6,000 years, is called
Mekabtziel (gathering one).