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

READING: SUNSET MONDAY

Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 185.

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

There are many types of GAR: GAR of Ohr Neshama, Haya, or Yechida. Each
of them contains countless individual degrees and details. Hence, it is written,
ONE UPON THE OTHER. Yet, as long as Malchut stands in NE, all these
degrees of Light remain concealed and unknown.
A gate signifies a vessel—a desire to receive the Light. In the spiritual world,
there are no bodies, only desires. The desire itself is called “a body.” If there is no
desire, there is no body, as there is no vessel to receive the Light (pleasure). The
bigger the desire, the “bigger” the body. However, all the bodies are similar in
structure; just as a human body in our world consists of 613 parts, the spiritual
body consists of 613 spiritual parts (desires).
If one is able to use one of the desires of his spiritual body for the Creator’s
sake, such action is referred to as a Mitzva (commandment, good deed). The
received Light is called “Torah.”
A spiritual Partzuf has a Rosh (head), the place where decisions are made.
It contains only those desires that are known to be fit with a screen (resistance
to the desires) to use them spiritually, altruistically, and to “reverse” them from
“for one’s own sake” to “for the sake of the Creator.” If one has fulfilled all 613
commandments of the Torah and the seven Mitzvot (plural for Mitzva) of the
nations of the world (620 Mitzvot in all), he thereby ascends 620 degrees and
completely merges with the Creator.
To observe all the commandments means to completely fill one’s spiritual
Partzuf with the Light of the Torah by fulfilling observant commandments
(Mitzvot Aseh—positive Mitzvot) and prohibitory commandments (Mitzvot Lo
Taaseh—negative Mitzvot). The fulfillment of the later lies in the unwillingness to
receive the pleasure that is found within them.
There are two types of desires or gates: when they are closed and receive
nothing, and when they open and receive the Upper Light. When they are
all closed, there are fifty of them. However, only forty-nine of the fifty can be
opened. There are ten Sefirot KHB HGT NHYM or five Sefirot KHB ZA-M (as ZA
consists of six Sefirot HGT NHY). However, Malchut also consists of these six,
and hence includes all ten Sefirot. And since each of the five Sefirot consists of
ten, in all they make up fifty.
However, since a Zivug is made not on Malchut, but on Ateret Yesod, Malchut
de Malchut itself does not receive the Light. Instead, Light is received by the four
Sefirot KHB ZA that precede Malchut. Each of them consists of ten, hence 4 x 10 =
40 plus nine Sefirot from Keter to Yesod in Malchut herself yields 40 + 9 = 49.