📕 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 236

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

The property of Samech is the property of the Light itself, which the soul
receives from Sefirot HBD HGT of AVI (above the Chazeh), and which AVI pass
to ZON when the letters are in Katnut, and support them (the Hebrew word for
support is Somech, derived from the letter Samech) so that ZON will not fall from
the world of Atzilut.
The letter Chaf, Hassadim, is unwilling to leave its place and join Hochma,
as it needs to connect the Upper Partzuf to the lower one. Thus, it must always
remain in its place, for all the degrees are constant, and only the soul changes
while moving from one degree to another within the worlds. This is why the
soul is called the “inner part” with regard to the world (the external part)—the
soul exists and moves about within the world by changing its properties.
Hence, the Light of the soul did not wish to join the letter Yod (degree of
Hochma, the soul of Rabbi Hamnuna-Saba) as it descended to help Rabbi Elazar
and Rabbi Aba. This is because they needed a new Light that would build a new
degree within them, the degree of Ohr Haya, whereas each new degree is built from
scratch, from the state of Ibur (conception). As that happens, the entire previous
degree with all of its Light disappears. Similarly, in their case, the new degree
starts with Ibur and reaches the level of Haya. This resembles a seed that must
first abandon its present form and rot, in order to become a tree afterwards.
It is therefore written that it came to me without the Light of HBD HGT
de AVI, called Samech, the Light of Hassadim. Samech is the property of mercy, a
selfless desire to give, pure spiritual altruism. Hence, it is unwilling to join Yod,
Ohr Hochma. Yet, Ohr Hochma cannot enter and fill the Partzuf without first
being clothed in Ohr Hassadim, for this clothing of Ohr Hochma in Ohr Hassadim
means that the Partzuf receives Ohr Hochma not for itself, but for the Creator’s
sake. But Ohr Hassadim, Samech, does not wish to receive anything within itself;
it wants nothing to do with Ohr Hochma! This is why the letter Yod wept, being
unable to fill the Partzuf with its Light, for Hassadim refused to accept Hochma.
It is written in this regard: Hence, I must now disappear, and you, the donkey
driver, go to the state of Ibur, to rebuild the degrees of gradual development of
a new Partzuf-state with you: Ibur (embryo), Leidah (birth), Yenika (nursing), and
Mochin (maturity).
And know that such is the order of creating (begetting) each new degree:
every time one is to attain a new degree, he must undergo (in his properties) a
complete disappearance of the previous degree (level of attainment, Light), and
begin anew. He must receive new attainments, from the lowest new degree, Ohr
Nefesh (Ibur), to Ohr Ruach (Yenika), and so on, as though he had never attained
any spiritual level at all.