KETER: MAIN READING OF THE WEEK: The Zohar Book

Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 104.

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

THE MOTHER LENDS HER CLOTHES
TO HER DAUGHTER

(Continuation)

What properties must one change in order to move from one room to
another within this spiritual field? He only needs to alter the type of pleasure
to which he aspires. We cannot help receiving pleasure, for such is the entire
material of creation, it is all that was created. However, we can change the object
of our aspirations, what it is that we wish to enjoy: either coarse reception,
reception of mere necessities, or the Creator being pleased with us that we
bestow to Him, that we receive because such is His wish.

Our “I,” the entity that feels pleasure is present in all of our desires, which
change ceaselessly in terms of both magnitude and the desired object. This
“I” never disappears. The only thing of which one should rid himself is the
sensation that he does something to please this “I.” One should aspire to sense
the desires of the Creator, how He is pleased with him (just as a mother is
pleased with her son’s achievements).

After Malchut decides to receive only for the Creator’s sake, i.e., according
to the force of her Masach (the force of resistance to her egoistic will to receive
pleasure), she receives Ohr Hochma only in accordance with the magnitude of
the Returning Light. Or, conversely, one may say that the magnitude of the
Returning Light determines man’s willpower and his desire to act for the
Creator’s sake.

However, the first nine of Malchut’s ten Sefirot are not egoistic, as they are
the Creator’s properties with which He wishes to correct Malchut. Only the last
Sefira of Malchut, Malchut herself, the single creation, called Malchut de Malchut,
is egoistic and remains under the ban of the first restriction: Ohr Hochma does
not enter where the will to receive pleasure is present. Therefore, the first nine
Sefirot can receive the Light of Hochma.

However, after the second restriction, in order to correct Malchut and impart
the properties of mercy (Hassadim) onto her so she would be able to desire to
“bestow,” acquire the properties of Bina, and convert her initial, primordial
egoism into altruism, Malchut ascended to Partzuf Aba, became Malchut in
Partzuf Aba in Bina’s place, while Bina found herself below Malchut. Bina herself
can receive Ohr Hochma without any restrictions, even when below Malchut.
However, Bina adopted the limitations of Tzimtzum Bet for the sole purpose of
correcting Malchut.

Therefore, due to the MAN raised by the lower ones, by man’s requests for
spiritual correction, the Light AB-SAG descends and lowers Malchut from the
level of Bina back to her own place: Malchut descends from Bina, and the Light
of attainment and wisdom is revealed.