📕 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 219

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

Although one who is not familiar with the secrets of the Torah (the ways of
the Creator) so as to know how to protect himself and to not harm the Higher
Degrees tells himself that his intention is for the exalted goal, he deludes himself,
for he does not know that which his soul surely knows—that his intentions are
for himself. Terrible punishment awaits him, for he allows the impure forces to
destroy those who labor in the Torah. The Zohar explains: if one does not know
the exact meanings of the words, i.e., if he raises MAN to the great Zivug without
a thorough understanding of all the intricate details of the act, the reverse man
and the false tongue capture his word.
Klipot (one’s impure forces) also consist of male and female parts. The male
part is called “fruitless return,” and the female part is called “falsehood.” The
male part of the Klipa is not as bad as the female part. And when it is by itself,
it does not prompt one to lie by the Creator’s name; on the contrary, goodness
strikes his eye, yet the eye itself is evil. And he who falls into the hands of the male
impure force uses the Creator’s name in vain, for he detaches himself from the
Creator and receives no Light from Him, i.e., he utters words and seemingly acts,
but fruitlessly, for these actions are not the screen’s interaction with the Light.
Hence, the sages said: “The Creator says of all who is proud: He and I cannot
be together” (Talmud, Suta, 5:1), for his intentions are to receive everything for
himself, for his own benefit, for his pride and vanity, as the sensation of one’s
“I” is the greatest manifestation of pride. Hence, man falls under the power of
the evil eye. Consequently, the MAN that he raises receives no response from
Above, and he utters the Creator’s name in vain. Therefore, the male part of the
impure force is called empty, fruitless, false, vain, unsuccessful, and futile, for
the Creator cannot unite with him due to the dissimilarity of their properties.
If, however, one feels not his similarity to the Creator, but rather his
oppositeness in properties from Him, and perceives himself as the most evil of
all, he can then lower himself before the Creator, suppress all of his properties
out of hatred for them, and the Creator Himself will perform the remaining part
of his correction. However, one who is proud not only fails to understand the
extent of his remoteness from the Creator, he actually believes that he is entitled
to receive more than others, and that the Creator owes him something.
Nukva de Klipa is called “falsehood.” After one falls into the net of the male
part of the impure force, the latter makes a Zivug with its Nukva (impure, bitter,
and evil force), which, as a result of its connection to the male part, falsifies the
Creator’s name, descends and instigates man, and then ascends, complaints
against him, and takes his soul. However holy this soul was, Nukva de Klipa grabs
all of it for itself.