“Circumcision” of Egoistic Desires

554The seventh commandment is to circumcise after eight days and remove the filth of the ‎foreskin. (Zohar for All. “Introduction to The Book of Zohar“. The Seventh Commandment. #223)

This commandment has only an inner meaning. We define to ourselves what our egoism means, and as we develop, as it is written, on the “eighth day” we do “circumcision” to ourselves.

It means that we remove the egoistic inclination of our nature in which we were born and develop and leave for ourselves only the non-egoistic part of the desire, which helps us to develop spiritually, act correctly with each other, and leads us to love between us.

In other words, the commandment of circumcision is that when a person discovers some desires in himself that he cannot correct, he cuts them off and does not use them.

The eighth commandment is to love the proselyte who comes to be circumcised (Zohar for All. “Introduction to The Book of Zohar“. The Eighth Commandment. #228)

This means that we should help in every possible way those people who have not worked on themselves and have not tried to overcome the evil inclination (egoism) but have already developed a tendency to do so and attract them to us.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” 12/10/23

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