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

READING: SUNSET MONDAY.

Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 199

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

54. Who among you turns darkness into Light and savors bitter as sweet even
    before he came here, that is, while still living in the other world? Who among
    you hopes and waits each day for the Light that shines when the Lord distances,
    when His greatness grows and He is called the King of all kings of the world?
    For he who does not wait for this each day while living in this world, has no
    place in the other world either.
    The Creator’s goal is for man to fully attain Him while still living in this
    world, to feel Him as he did prior to descending into this world, prior to
    incarnating in a physical body. From this the division of people of our world
    into two groups is clearly evident, and the voice appeals to them.
    The voice emphasizes to each group their main advantage. To the souls
    of the first group, it says that they turned darkness into Light. These are the
    souls of the world of Atzilut, for the Creator created two opposite systems in the
    worlds BYA: the system of darkness and bitterness opposite the system of Light
    and sweetness. Therefore, in the Torah of the worlds BYA there is a division into
    suitable and unsuitable, pure and impure, permitted and forbidden, holy and
    unholy, whereas the Torah of the world of Atzilut, which consists wholly of the
    Creator’s names, contains nothing impure whatsoever.
    And the sinner Laban is regarded as a holy name in the world of Atzilut,
    as well as the Pharaoh. And all the names that represent impure forces in the
    worlds BYA become corrected in the world of Atzilut, exalted and pure spiritual
    objects and forces with corresponding holy names. Therefore, the souls that
    have attained the Light of the world of Atzilut transform all darkness into Light
    and all bitterness into sweetness. In other words, the whole difference between
    the holy, pure, and good, and their opposites lies in the correction of the desire
    and in acquiring an anti-egoistic screen over the will to receive.
    And to the second group the voice said that they’re waiting for the Creator’s
    help, and He will rise (Shechina, His manifestation to the lower ones) from the
    dust (in their sensations). But those who do not wait for Him, being preoccupied
    with other aspirations, will not rise from the dust, and the sensation of the
    Creator will remain concealed from them.