📕 TUESDAY PRAYER: MALCHUT-MAIN READING OF THE WEEK – THE ZOHAR BOOK

READING: SUNSET MONDAY

Main Reading for PRAYER OF MANY, today with ENGLISH ZOHAR READING, page 243

ARVUT OF : Robin Anderson

The Zohar speaks of Rosh de Atik, where all the degrees and all the Light
of all the worlds are concentrated and concealed. It further explains how this
Zivug can occur up to the final correction, so it would combine all the degrees
emerging one after another during the 6,000 years. And it would emerge instantly
during the 6,000 years of the world’s existence, when the degrees are in a state of
constant ascents and descents, for as soon as a new degree, a new attainment of
the Creator, of the Light, is revealed, the present degree disappears. This occurs
due to the sin of the lower ones, who cannot retain this degree permanently
(world—Olam, from the word Haalamah—concealment. The complete revelation
of the Creator to His Creatures will take place at the end of the 6,000 years;
thus, the world-concealment will cease to exist).
So, whenever a degree disappears, it does so only from the sensation of one
who attains a new degree. In reality, this degree ascends to Rosh de Atik and hides
there, so as to, by joining other degrees, be manifested at the end of correction.
In the same way, Atik gathers all the degrees revealed in the world during
the 6,000 years, and conceals them within itself until the time of the end of
correction comes; WHEN IT CORRECTS THE LAST PORTION OF WHAT
IT MUST CORRECT, AND THUS CANNOT NO LONGER SIN. AND IT
NO LONGER NEEDS TO SIN TO CORRECT THE NEXT PORTION OF
EGOISM; HENCE, THIS FINAL DEGREE REMAINS PERMANENTLY
AND DOES NOT DISAPPEAR. Then, Atik gathers all the degrees, and they all
manifest simultaneously.

Everyone has his own Partzuf Atik. How can one accelerate his advancement
along the degrees of correction in this world and in the spiritual worlds? It is
written in the Talmud that an old man bends as he walks, as if he’s looking for
something that he had lost.
An old man symbolizes someone of wisdom, Hochma, for even without having
lost anything, he looks beforehand for things he can correct in himself, and thus
finds them. Hence, he does not require the previous degree of attainment to
disappear from him. And if one does not discover new egoistic properties in
need of correction within him, his previous degree disappears and a new one
begins. However, this process is considerably slower than when one acts like an
old man in search of shortcomings.
Throughout the 6,000 years, Atik is defined as unattainable. Therefore, its
head is called RADLA (an abbreviation for the Aramaic words, Reisha de Lo
Etiada, the “unattainable head”), whereas the name Atik is derived from the
word Ne’etak (isolated) from the lower ones, for it does not shine upon them.