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

READING: SUNSET MONDAY.

Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 195.

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

It is impossible to constantly “translate” the words of the Torah or The
Zohar into a language we can understand, that “ground” signifies egoism and
“dust” refers to the impure forces, that “crying out” implies raising MAN, and so
forth. All the words and definitions in the text of The Zohar should be perceived
sensuously rather than literally, as physical actions of our world. In other words,
whatever The Zohar speaks of is related only to inner, spiritual sensations and
experiences of one who perceives the spiritual realm.
All the worlds constitute the “environment,” the spiritual sphere, within
which the Creator made His only creation—man (Adam). Everything else was
created only in order to help man to achieve his spiritual mission of becoming
like his Creator.
Just as in our world, the world itself and all its inhabitants, except man, are
robots operated by their animal nature, rather than creatures with free will, in
the spiritual worlds, all the spiritual beings, except for the soul, are operated by
their spiritual nature. Upon being born in our world, man, too, is an animal
without freedom to act against his egoistic desire to receive pleasure. He usually
stays that way throughout his existence on earth, being not at all different from
the still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature, automatically following orders
of his inner master, egoism.
Only with the help of Kabbalah can one gradually receive Upper, spiritual
strength, and consequently acquire freedom of choice, that is, liberate himself from
the influence of the impure, egoistic forces, and become free in his desires, like the
Creator. However, such an opportunity is only given to one who can control his
automatically-driven, egoistic nature: according to the strength of his screen, man
ascends (moves inwardly, in his sensations) from this world to the spiritual.
After creating the spiritual worlds as a home for his future creation, the
Creator created the creature (soul, Adam). The soul constitutes the desire to
delight in the sensation of the Creator, of His Light. The sensation of the
Creator is called “Light.” There is nothing else in the entire universe besides
the Light and the soul!
Although the soul itself is Malchut de Malchut (the only egoistic creation),
the Creator imparted onto it the property of altruism, having created it mixed
with the Kelim (desires) of Bina, thereby demonstrating how wonderful it would
be to be like Him.
While performing altruistic actions, the soul (Adam) decided to use its
natural egoism, Malchut de Malchut itself, to receive the Creator’s Light with
altruistic intentions. Yet, when it began to let the tremendous Light of Yechida
into Malchut de Malchut, it could not resist and wished to enjoy it egoistically.
This change in the soul’s desires is referred to as its fall.