📕 TUESDAY PRAYER: YESOD-MAIN READING OF THE WEEK – THE ZOHAR BOOK
READING: SUNSET MONDAY
Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 240
ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson
Each degree in the attainment of the Upper Worlds has its own name. All
the Creator’s names: Moshe, Pharaoh, Avraham, the Temple, Sinai—every single
word in the Torah—are degrees of perception of the Creator, degrees of attaining
Him, for nothing exists besides man and his Creator. Everything else that exists
in the world, as it seems to us, are the various degrees of our perception of the
Creator Himself. He may appear to us as this world, and He may appear as the
world of Assiya, as Yetzira, Beria, Atzilut, or He may be revealed completely, without
partial concealments of the spiritual world or total concealment of our world.
Thus, the word Olam (world) is derived from the Haalamah (concealment).
- He opened and began. It is written, “Benayahu (Benaiah) Ben (the son
of) Yehoyada (Jehoiada).” This narrative is beautiful, but it serves to show
us the exalted secrets of the Torah. And the name Benayahu Ben-Yehoyada
indicates the secret of the Light of Wisdom, Ohr Hochma. Ben Ish Chai
is the righteous who revives the worlds. Rav Paalim means that He is the
Master of all that transpires, and that all the forces and Supernal Troops
stem from Him. He is called the Creator of Force, the Master of all, and He
is in everything.
It is written in Prophets: “Benayahu, the son of Yehoyada,” (Shmuel II,
23:20). Here, The Zohar reveals to us the exalted secrets of the Torah, for the
holy name of Yehoyada consists of two: Yod-Hey-Vav, the first three letters of
HaVaYaH, and Yeda (knowledge).
Keter of the world of Atzilut is called RADLA (unattainable head), whereas
Atik itself surrounds all the other Partzufim of the world of Atzilut—AA, AVI, and
ZON. Atik is called Makif (surrounding), for the other, lower Partzufim cannot
attain it or its Zivug. Moreover, they cannot attain anything that comes from it.
In other words, there is nothing descending from Atik to the lower Partzufim.
Even AA is concealed from them; hence, it is called the “concealed Hochma.”
However, it is not defined as unattainable, like Atik, for it contains a Zivug on
Ohr Hochma. Nevertheless, this Light does not descend to the lower ones, but
only a small luminescence from it, called He’arat Hochma, reaches them.
And all the Light that fills the worlds through the 6,000 years comes from
AVI and YESHSUT, who are called Hochma of the thirty-two paths or thirty-two
forces (Elokim) of creation, i.e., thirty-two types of He’arat Hochma. This Light of
Hochma is the result of Bina’s ascent to AA, where she receives Ohr Hochma and
shines downward. Therefore, all the Light of Hochma that is revealed through
the 6,000 years, before the end of correction, is no more than the Light of Bina,
which received Ohr Hochma upon ascending to AA.