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

READING: SUNSET MONDAY

Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 214

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

This Zivug is made in Atik on its Yesod, but not on Malchut, since Malchut de
Atik is concealed until the end of correction. Like Yesod de ZA during its ascent
to AVI, this Yesod is called Chai Olamim. The difference between them is that
Yesod de Atik is called “No one else but you can see the Creator,” for a Zivug on
Yesod elevates Ohr Hozer and clothes Ohr Yashar with it. This screen is defined
in AVI, below Atik, as wings that block the Upper Light. This shows that the
screen possesses a force of restriction, law, judgment. This is why Ohr Hozer is
also called “the Light of Restriction.” Thus, Ohr Hozer exists in AVI.
Conversely, the screen in Yesod de Atik, of which it is said that there “the
Creator no longer hides from you” (Yeshayahu, 30:20), while it does raise Ohr
Hozer, it does not conceal the Creator thereby, does not have the properties of
wings. This is the reason why it is called Chai Olamim (reviver of worlds).
Nevertheless, it remains concealed until man attains that level himself, as is
written: “Only your eyes shall see the Creator.” There are no wings or anything
else there that conceal Him from outsiders’ eyes, for no restrictions are imposed
and everything is revealed. And neither are there any restrictions in Ohr Hozer,
but only mercy and benevolence, as in Ohr Yashar.
The name Chai Olamim implies that a Zivug is made not on ten Sefirot of
Ohr Yashar from Above downwards and ten Sefirot of Ohr Hozer from below
upwards, and not on the whole of the twenty Sefirot, i.e., not on Malchut herself,
but on Yesod de Malchut. In this instance, there are nine Sefirot of Ohr Yashar
and nine Sefirot of Ohr Hozer, as Yesod is the ninth Sefira: 9 + 9 = 18 = 10 + 8 =
Yod + Chet, which is pronounced in reverse order as Chet-Yod (Chai), for this is
the Returning Light. The word “life” (Chaim) is derived from the word “alive”
(Chai), for he who is able to make a Zivug on Yesod receives the Upper Light of
life, Ohr Hochma.
Tremendous Upper Light manifests in Atik as a result of this Zivug. This
is because all the worlds and all that inhabit them join Nukva, and together
they attain true perfection, the level for which they were initially conceived and
created by the Creator.
Hence, it is said that word flies in the firmament, which signifies the creation
of Ohr Hozer from below upwards, which leads to Ohr Yashar descending from
the Creator, from Above downwards. And the clothing of Ohr Hozer on Ohr
Yashar creates a firmament, because the screen that appears in Malchut for the
creation of Ohr Hozer comes as a result of the good deeds of the righteous, their
MAN (requests for spiritual ascent) aimed at pleasing the Creator. So then, after
this screen makes a Zivug with the Upper Light, it becomes a firmament, with
the help of which, the righteous attain the full height of the degree on which
they have now made a Zivug.