When you start to read The Zohar, you need to attune yourself to swim along with the flow of the material that the great authors of The Book of Zohar have prepared for us.

They tell us that the only creation is the desire to receive. This desire has two forms of perception of reality, perception of the Creator who created it.

There is a perception inside the desire directly, which is called top – down. Thus, the desire can feel only what we are feeling now within ourselves. This perception is called this world.

And there is another form of perception above the desire, outside of it, when I fill not myself, but supposedly others. This perception is unusual for us because we were not born in it.

It seems strange and alien to us, although the authors of The Book of Zohar say that this perception is natural because it comes from nature, from the Creator, and besides our small world that we feel in ourselves, all the other huge worlds are outside of us.

The Zohar directs us so that we also gain external perception outside our body. Therefore, we must adjust ourselves to the perception of reality that exists not inside, but outside of us in order to see in it what The Zohar indicates.

In whatever forms this book tells us—about events in this world, about fairytale characters like angels, spirits, palaces, no matter how real or unreal it may seem to us—in any case, it always tells us about what is happening in the form of perception outside of us.

Therefore, a person who wants to understand what The Book of the Zohar wants to tell him and what it wants to reveal to him within him, should set himself up in the same direction by striving not to fill himself, but to feel what is really outside of him.

This form of perception, of course, is in us, it only presupposes a person’s attitude to everything as to himself!
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/21/09, The Book of Zohar “VaYishlach (And Jacob Sent),” 12/21/09

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