📕 TUESDAY PRAYER: TIFERET-MAIN READING OF THE WEEK – THE ZOHAR BOOK
READING: SUNSET MONDAY
Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 216
ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson
- And thus, every deed creates firmaments that appear before Atik, and he
calls them “new Heavens” or, rather, “renewed firmaments,” concealed by
Supernal wisdom. And all the other parts of the Torah that are not renewed
by means of Supernal wisdom appear before the Creator, ascend and become
“the lands of life” (Artzot HaChaim). They then descend and adorn one land.
And it becomes renewed, and a new land comes into being from all that was
renewed in the Torah.
The righteous are constantly raising newer and newer MAN, and thus
receive newer and newer degrees of attainments from Atik, with the help of the
firmaments created by the Upper Zivug. From these firmaments emerge new
Heavens, which are renewed in the degrees of Atik. These exalted attainments
of the righteous are therefore called the hidden secrets of Supernal wisdom, for
they descend clothed in the garments received from the firmaments.
Malchut is called “earth” and Bina is called “the lands of life” (Artzot
HaChaim). When Malchut attains all the degrees of Bina, she acquires the name
“the land of life.” Malchut is also called the “new land,” for she exchanges her
own properties for those of Bina. And everything that was previously Malchut
now becomes Bina.
Therefore, it is written that in the future, BON will become SAG, and MA
will become AB, for Heaven is ZA that now ascended to the degree of Atik (AB
or Hochma). The earth, Nukva de ZA, Malchut, became SAG, Bina. Hence, the
new land and the new Heavens are Malchut and ZA that became SAG and AB,
Atik and AA. - It is written, “When the new land and the new Heavens, which I make.”
It is not written, “I have made,” in past tense, but rather “I make,” in present
tense, for they are constantly made from the renewal and secrets of the Torah.
And it is written of this: “And I shall place it in your mouth, and in the
shadow of your hands’ garments, that I may take the Heavens, and lay the
foundations of the land” (Yeshayahu, 51:16). It is simply said “Heavens,” for
it implies the Heavens renewed by the Torah.
Everything that is described in the Torah is written in the present tense,
as there is no time in the spiritual; everything is written with regard to the one
who attains the Torah at that given moment. This is what The Zohar wants to
stress here: the matter concerns man’s constant work on himself, on his nature.
And the righteous that have already attained the Upper Light continue creating
newer and newer Heavens and lands, as is written, “The righteous ascend from
summit to summit,” and this process is infinite.