HOD: MAIN READING OF THE WEEK – THE ZOHAR BOOK

Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 145.

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

At first, the left leg of the letter Tav also descended below the writing line.
But the Creator saw that the impure forces would then be too closely connected
to pure ones, so He severed this connection and returned the left leg of the
letter Tav back to the writing line, to the level of the pure forces.
As a result of this shortening, the left leg of the Tav doubled in thickness,
as it folded in two, and no Light passes to the impure forces anymore. On the
contrary, it even becomes the Creator’s seal by holding the impure forces at bay
and preventing them from stealing the Upper Light, for as soon as any impure
forces touch it, they instantly die.
And all the life-force necessary for the sustenance of the impure forces is
passed by the Creator through the letter Kuf, because, being the first letter of
Malchut, it is remote from them; thus, there is no fear or risk that its connection
to the impure forces would become too strong.
Malchut consists of only four letters from Above downwards: Kuf, Reish,
Shin, and Tav. Kuf is the first, Tav is the last, and below it are the impure
forces. Therefore, if they receive the Light they need according to the thought
of creation from Kuf, the furthest letter from them, the impure forces have
no way of “stealing” more Light than Malchut, who consists of four letters, is
obliged to give them.
This is why this letter is called Kuf, to show that it gives strength to the
impure system of ABYA—a fake (nonexistent) man, just as a monkey (Kof in
Hebrew) resembles a human being.
And it misleads people by pretending to be the truth and claiming that its
path leads to the attainment of spirituality, the Creator, Lishma, the sensation
of the Creator. However, the pure forces maintain that only with the help of the
Torah can man attain adequate correction of his properties so as to merge them
with the Creator.
And this is what the letter Tav claimed: because it is the Creator’s seal of
truth, it stands at the end of the pure system and does not allow the impure
forces to cling to pure ones, and pose as if they are pure. This is why its
properties are worthy of becoming the basis for the creation of the world—so
that via the analysis of good and evil, purity and impurity, inhabitants of this
world may be sure that by acquiring its properties they will achieve the goal
of their creation.