HESED: MAIN READING OF THE WEEK – THE ZOHAR BOOK

Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 143.

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

Man’s speech is conceived in the lungs: as the air exits the lungs and
reaches the mouth, it turns to voice, and as it leaves the mouth, it becomes
speech. Two lips accept the voice from the two parts of the lungs (the left and
the right) and turn it into speech. Each lung consists of five parts so as to
pass to the five parts in the mouth: to the guttural letters AChHA, the labial
letters BOMoCH, the palatal letters GIChiK, the lingual letters DaTLaT and
the dental letters ZaSSHRaTZ.
The seven primary Sefirot of ZA are called “Seven Heavens.” The seventy
names of ZA originate from the seventy (7 x 10) Sefirot of ZA. ZA himself is
called “Heaven,” and Malchut is called “earth.” The Sefirot of ZA are also known
as Ruach (because of the Light of Ruach in them), which ascends to Bina (ears),
where it turns to sound, with Hochma in the left ear and Hassadim in the right.
THE LETTER TAV
Each of the twenty-two letters corresponds to a particular spiritual degree, on
which it acts. The letter itself is that spiritual degree. Hence, the letter Tav claims
that its properties are the most suitable for the creation of the world, that its
properties can bring the world to correction and to the goal of creation, for it
defines the property of “truth,” the Creator’s seal.
The impure forces exist solely on account of the miniature Light received
from the pure forces; this Light is called Ner Dakik (tiny candle). Without this
Light, the impure forces would neither be able to exist nor to function—tempting
man with the pleasures they received from the tiny spark of Light that fell from
the pure Sefirot. Therefore, the last, lowest pure degree lets a little bit of the
Upper Light down to the impure forces.
Without the support of the pure forces, the impure forces would instantly
disappear. A question arises: who needs them to exist and what for? Obviously,
the impure forces were created on a par with pure ones by the Creator Himself,
for there is no other power in the entire universe besides Him.
It was necessary to create impure forces in order to concentrate them in
the enormous desires to receive pleasure, in immense egoism. The system of
the impure worlds of ABYA serves as a kind of storehouse of desires to receive
pleasure, from which, to the extent of his correction, man can take more and
more new desires so as to correct them. Thus, by attaching uncorrected impure
forces to himself and correcting them, man can gradually ascend higher and
higher, up to the level of the Creator. For this purpose the Creator created
impure forces and sustains them through the system of pure ones.