📕 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 215

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

This occurs because when this degree descends to the righteous through the
firmament, it clothes in Ohr Hozer (garment of this firmament), which, together
with the Ohr Yashar clothed within it, turn over and they descend below the
screen (firmament) and thereby become attainable by the righteous.
Those righteous that have achieved such perfection that they can raise
MAN to such exalted Zivug have already rid themselves of egoism completely
and have no desire to receive anything for themselves. Instead, they raise their
MAN (request) with the sole purpose of pleasing the Creator. Therefore, by
their corrections (MAN), they correct the screen in Malchut, and, by creating
Ohr Hozer in her, which ascends from the screen of Malchut upwards, make her
capable of a great Zivug. This is because all that ascends is altruism, bestowal,
repelling, and rejecting reception for oneself and egoistic pleasure.
Then there is a Zivug with the Upper Light, and the Upper Light clothes
in the ascending Returning Light. This descending Upper Light clothes into
the Returning Light and enters into the righteous that have raised MAN. The
expression “from below upwards” implies the repelling of Light by a person, and
“from Above downwards” designates a person’s reception.
And since the Upper Light comes to man through a firmament, it takes
the Light reflected from the firmament as its garment, and one receives the
Upper Light clothed in Returning Light. This means that, even after one already
receives the spiritual information of the entire degree, he delights in the Upper
Light that descends to him only to the extent in which he can please the Creator
thereby, i.e., to the extent of his strength, the magnitude of his screen, and the
amount of Returning Light that clothes the Direct Upper Light.
Such reception of the Upper Light (only to the extent of the magnitude of
Ohr Hozer created by man) is called the reception for the Creator’s sake. And
wherever one cannot find a way to bestow upon the Creator, he does not receive.
Hence, his reception is clothed in bestowal: the Upper Direct Light is clothed in
Returning Light, meaning the lower one receives only the clothed Upper Light
from the Upper One, i.e., only through the firmament.