In the beginning, Rabbi Shimon stated, “The flower buds have appeared in the land; the time of pruning has arrived, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land” (Rashbi, Zohar for All, “The Flower Buds”).

Question: It creates the impression that the author clearly did not want ordinary people to understand what is written here. Or are there simply no other options to describe the state of connection with the Creator? What can be understood from all this?

Answer: The thing is that the spiritual forces that descend into our world and organize everything in it are called by different names at different levels. They form the world surrounding us. Therefore, a Kabbalist who wants to talk about it uses different levels of these forces in his narrative.

It turns out that, on the one hand, this can be described allegorically (that sprouts appeared from under the ground, the voice of the turtledove is heard in the sky, and so on), and on the other hand, it can be described by the actions of physical forces, and not by their branches.

In general, there are many possibilities to describe the actions of nature in order to bring a person closer to what he should do, to the realization of his abilities.

Question: Does that mean that the author didn’t intentionally write it in such a coded way? He just had no other choice?

Answer: Yes. In general, it should be understood that all of nature is revealed to Kabbalists, and they use the terms and designations that they consider closest to describing certain actions.
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From KabTV’s “Introduction of The Book of Zohar” 1/7/24

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