📕 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 231

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

Hochma and Bina, called the “point in the hall,” are referred to as “distant
from ZON,” for they need the garment of Ohr Hassadim from the lower world,
Nukva, called MA. Malchut of the world of AK is the central point, called the
“lock,” whereas Malchut of the world of Atzilut (the point in the hall) is the
“key,” as the Light from ZAT de Bina (YESHSUT) can be received in it.
The circle is called AVI, the square—ZON. ZON ascend to AVI and thus
the square enters the circle. As a result, two properties appear in Malchut of
AVI: the “lock” (Malchut de Malchut, the central point or Malchut de AVI), and
the “key” (the point in the hall, Yesod de Malchut or Malchut de YESHSUT).
Malchut de AVI is called space, for she is unattainable, and he who wishes to
fill her with Light is punished by death. It is written about it: “You shall fear
My sanctity.”
The point itself is called “I,” and AVI is HaVaYaH that merges with it. And
they are defined as a single whole; hence, the point itself is referred to as AVI,
meaning that it is characterized as holy, as the property of AVI.
As was already mentioned before, The Zohar and the entire Torah speak
exclusively of spiritual degrees, the structure of spiritual worlds, and the
revelation of the Creator’s governance to us. There is not a word in the Torah
that refers to our world. The whole Torah is, as it is said, “The Creator’s sacred
names.” And those who reduce it from its spiritual heights to the corporeal level
with their commentaries cast it down completely.
Rashi says that the Torah only speaks in human tongue, but it tells us of man’s
spiritual paths toward his Creator. Therefore, when we read that one Rabbi went
to visit another, the real meaning is that one spiritual degree, called, for example,
Rabbi Elazar, passes to another spiritual degree, called, for example, Rabbi Yosi.
ZA has his own AVI, who are called the Upper AVI. The wife of ZA (Nukva
or Malchut) contains AVI, too, called YESHSUT. First, ZA attains the AVI of his
wife (YESHSUT or Ohr Hassadim). Then it rises to a Higher Degree and attains
the AVI themselves—Ohr Hochma (also called Ohr Haya).
The righteous who ascend the spiritual degrees are the constituents of
Partzuf ZA. Since the degree of Rabbi Elazar and Rabbi Aba is Ohr Hassadim (the
Light of Neshama), this ascent means it went to (spiritually) see (in Ohr Hochma)
another spiritual degree.