The Book of Zohar, Weekly Torah Portion, Selected Excerpts

The Book of Zohar, Weekly Torah Portion, Selected Excerpts

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The letter Samech is such a beautiful letter, an attribute that saves and raises a person from the kingdom of the shells (Klipot) and gives him power, support, and confidence, a home. It is a round letter, like the womb for an embryo that provides him with shelter but cannot develop him.

It only helps a person exit the shells and acquire the attribute of Samech, which means the ability to be free of the domination of the shell, the ego. But in order to develop more, he needs to return to the egoistic forces, to the shells, and to take as much as he can correct from there, and thus grow by the correction.

It turns out that instead of being beneficial the letter Samech becomes harmful, since it’s in a person’s way of developing. It’s like a mother who loves her child very much, until she simply strangles him in her arms, holding him without letting him be independent and grow.

In order to grow there must always be two opposite forces working mutually in order to reach the goal, by the middle line. It’s impossible to manage without the letter Samech, which surrounds a person, provides him with a safe shelter, and guards him. A person hides in this attribute and can be free of the domination of the shell, the ego, and break away from it.

But what happens after he breaks free? He has nothing in this state, he cannot do anything! He must descend into the shell again and when he is protected by the forces of bestowal, continue to develop himself.

Therefore it’s impossible to create the world by the letter Samech. No letter and no attribute have the powers that can bring the world to the desirable correction. For each attribute there is an opposite attribute. This is done on purpose so that we can develop.

My matter is a desire to receive. First I have to change my intention of “in order to receive” to a neutral intention and then to “in order to bestow” by which I begin to use my desire to receive “in order to bestow.” This means that first I use my desire negatively, “in order to receive,” and then I begin to use the same desire positively, “in order to bestow.” So there have to be two opposite forces that operate on me, one against the other, and by these two forces I reach the middle line.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/27/13, The Zohar

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of  Baal HaSulam, “A Speech for the Completion of The  Zohar“

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 10, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Item 12, Lesson 52

Writings of Baal HaSulam  “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Being,” Lesson 7

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The question is why wasn’t the world created by the letter Nun which is so good and beautiful? The letter “Nun” stands for 50, meaning “50 gates of Bina,” a whole correction, the breaking from the enslavement in Egypt, the receiving of the Torah. All this depends on the letter “Nun.” It matches the Sefira of Yesod of smallness with which we must work until the end of correction.

The Zivugim (couplings) are made in Yesod, which means in faith above reason, from the bottom up, until the end of correction. Apparently this letter is flawless and it rightly demands that the world be created by it and promises to bring it to the end of correction.

It’s all true, with one exception, this letter is powerless! If it weren’t for the letter “Samech” that can constantly count on smallness, Nun wouldn’t be able to do anything. So it’s impossible to perform corrections by this one attribute alone. The letter “Samech” must participate in every action in order to provide this support, the Light of Hassadim, and then, thanks to it, the attribute of Nun can operate in the Sefira of Yesod and not fall to Malchut. On the whole, all the letters are needed, and it’s impossible to bring the world to the desirable correction by that attribute, although the letter “Nun” actually has all it takes, except for its own power.

If you descend from Tifferet to Yesod, you are already in danger, since you begin to work with Malchut. This type of work is possible only from the bottom up, and so you need to keep yourself from falling and not starting to receive in the opposite direction: from the top down.

Who is helping you resist this temptation? There must be someone above to hold you by a rope, so that you will hold on to it and not fall. It’s as if I am being lowered into a well full of snakes and am held a bit above them, but very close.

It turns out that you are so close to Malchut, and you can rise and convey its fears and anxieties upward in order to sanctify them. But you totally depend on the rope you are suspended by; you totally depend on the upper, on the letter “Samech” that holds you.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/27/13, The Zohar

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The 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet reflect the attributes of the 22 spiritual Sefirot by their form, the way they are drawn, and their signs: nine in Bina, nine in Zeir Anpin and four in Malchut. Each letter stands for a certain Sefira and reflects the way it differs from the other letters, so while reading The Zohar, we can be impressed by the text as if we are in these spiritual Sefirot.

This is what our inclination should be while reading, since the letters are like musical notes for our inner strings, for the attributes of the Creator that enter the created being’s desire to receive and summon in him feelings and impressions. The desire begins to calibrate and tune itself, like a musical vessel, according to the spirit of The Zohar and that spirit touches the strings of your soul and plays on it, like on King David’s violin.

This is how we want to feel The Book of Zohar, so that the Light that comes from it will reach us, fill us, and vibrate our desires. These letters are an invitation to a meeting, to a mutual impression with the Creator. So let’s try it!
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/27/13, The Zohar

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “The Agenda of the Assembly 2“

The Book of Zohar – Introduction

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 10, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Item 11, Lesson 51

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” Lesson 6

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “Concerning Above Reason,” Lesson 2

The Book of Zohar – Introduction, “The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba,” “Lock and Key,” Item 43, Lesson 24

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 10, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Item 10, Lesson 50

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” Lesson 5

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “Concerning Above Reason“

The Book of Zohar – Introduction

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 10

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings“

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “A Prayer of Many“

The Book of Zohar – Introduction

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 1, Part 1

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Preparation to the Lesson

Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “The Need for Love of Friends”

The Book of Zohar – Introduction, “The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba, the Letter Yod,” Item 32, Lesson 21

Talmud Eser Sefirot, Vol. 3, Part 10, “Histaklut Pnimit,” Item 5, Lesson 48

Writings of Baal HaSulam, “The Love for the Creator and Love for the Created Beings,” Lesson 3

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