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 189.

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

AVRAHAM

45. Rabbi Yosi said, “I heard from the great source of Light, i.e., from Rabbi
    Shimon Bar-Yochai, that BARAH is a concealed word, the key to which locked
    it up and did not unlock it. And since the key locked up the word BARAH,
    there was no world and no possibility of its existence, and nothingness enveloped
    all. And when nothingness rules, there is no world, nor its existence.”
46. So when did this key unlock those gates, and everything became ready for
    the existence and evolution of the generations? When Avraham appeared,
    as he is the property of Hesed (mercy), of which it is written, “These are
    the generations of Heaven and earth Be-Hibar’am (with which He built).”
    However, one should pronounce the word not as Be-Hibar’am, but as
    Be-Avraham (in Hebrew, these two words consist of the same letters, but in
    a slightly different order). Then, all that was concealed in the word BARAH
    was revealed as letters, meaning that the Kelim opened up to listen. And there
    appears the Pillar of Procreation, the sacred Yesod, upon which the world’s
    existence is based, for the word BARAH consists of the same letters as the
    word AVAR (passed).
    He asks: “When it is revealed, can one act and produce generations?” This
    question includes three questions:
    • When will it be revealed? When Malchut descends from the Eynaim
      (where she ascended as a result of Tzimtzum Bet) to her previous
      place in the Peh, which leads to the revelation of the forty-nine gates
      of Hochma;
    • When can it be used? When Ohr Hochma clothes in Ohr Hassadim, as
      a result of which AHP can receive Ohr Hochma, for unless it is clothed
      in Ohr Hassadim, MI = GE cannot shine within ELEH = AHP, as the
      Light is not yet suitable for reception and use by the lower ones;
    • What does it mean to produce, multiply generations? Generations
      are the souls that exist in the worlds BYA, begotten by ZA de Atzilut.
      After ZA receives the Lights of Hochma and Hassadim (the Light of
      perfection), this Light enables him to make a Zivug with Nukva and
      beget the souls of the righteous.