YESOD: MAIN READING OF THE WEEK – THE ZOHAR BOOK
Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 114.
ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson
THE MOTHER LENDS HER CLOTHES
TO HER DAUGHTER
(Continuation)
The reason for this is that the blessing of the seed, propagation depends
only on the lower world, MA, without a number, as it is said in the Torah that
Avraham complained that he is childless (Beresheet, 15:5), and the answer was:
“Look now toward Heaven, and count the stars. Will you be able to count them?
So shall be your descendants.” From this we see that the blessing of the seed
comes from the lack of a number, i.e., the name MA.
Hence, after all the perfection that Malchut attains from the Light of AVI
(MI), Malchut has an additional blessing from MA, which is called the “lack of
a number,” and both these degrees are included in her descendants—the souls
and generations.
- All of these 600,000 and all their innumerable hosts, He calls the names.
What does this mean: “calls the names?” If you say that He calls them by their
names, it is not so, for then it would have said, “calls by name.” However,
when this degree does not ascend in the name Elokim, but is called MI,
it does not beget and does not reveal those that are concealed within it.
And although they were all concealed within it, meaning that even though
the letters ELEH have already ascended, the “precious garment” of Ohr
Hassadim is still concealed. And while it is concealed, it is not called by the
name Elokim. For He created the letters ELEH and they ascended in His
Name—clothed themselves in “precious garments” of Ohr Hassadim, as a
result of which ELEH combine with MI, and are called Elo-im. Then, by
the power of this name, He brought them forth in perfection, defined as
CALLS THEIR NAMES, which means that He called by name and brought
forth every type and species to exist in perfection. Hence, it is said: HE
BROUGHT FORTH THEIR HOST BY NUMBER—called them all by
name, that is, by the name Elokim.
It was already mentioned that the perfection of the Light, which is the
Creator’s name Elo-im, descends to the souls, generations, descendants, two
degrees joined in one. This degree includes 600,000 from the Upper Degree,
and innumerable hosts from the lower, and the Creator’s name descends on
both of them.
The blessing of the seed depends entirely on MA, for it is determined by
Ohr Hochma, as this Light designates perfection. Whereas the Light without
a number, Ohr Hassadim, comes precisely from the name MA. As is already
known, Ohr Hochma is accepted only when clothed in Ohr Hassadim. Until such
clothing occurs, even though ELEH ascend to MI, the name Elokim (ELO-IM =
ELEH + IM) does not act.