Question: What is the secret of reading The Book of Zohar? You say that what is written in it is about love and bestowal. However, is it possible to devote 100 volumes to that?! What is written there?

Answer: The Book of Zohar describes all the phases and stages of correction of the soul, and there are many phases and stages. They include 620 desires, each one of them requiring correction from absolute egoistic reception to absolute altruistic bestowal, from absolute hatred to absolute love.

Each one of the desires must be attached to all the rest of the desires so that they will become one single network. When a person creates this network, within it he begins to discover the upper world and the higher power, the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/17

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Question: The Book of Zohar was written in a very easy language; why is it difficult to understand it?

Answer: The people who wrote The Book of Zohar were on the highest peak of the ladder of attainment in the spiritual world, and so for them it was simple and easy.

And in truth everything is written in a very soft way, similar to a grandfather who tells his grandson an interesting story, but it is in fact difficult to attain these states. This is the property of the exposition.

Question: Why was it impossible to write it such that everything would be understood and we could read it like any other book?

Answer: We are in this world. How is it possible to understand what doesn’t belong to it?

Suppose that my friend and I know how to read music and I talk with him about musical notes, while you don’t understand anything about it. How could you understand? We don’t have a common language with you; there is not only no conceptual instrument, but also not a common emotional instrument. It is therefore impossible to transmit The Book of Zohar.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/17

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Question: Why do we study The Book of Zohar, but we don’t study the book Or Habahir (The Bright Light), which is also as ancient?

Answer: There are more ancient books than The Book of Zohar, but it is unique because it describes a person’s whole spiritual path, his continuous ascent, the correction of his soul. The other books are not meant for the continuous progress of the one who attains. This is the reason that The Book of Zohar is unique and special for us.

The main thing is that it was written from the top of the ladder of attainment. The people who wrote it were the greatest Kabbalists.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/17

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Question: How does reading The Book of Zohar change the reality of the reader?

Answer: We feel a certain volume, me and my world, which is basically the reflection of my internal spiritual state. If we change this state, we will accordingly begin to change our feeling toward ourselves and the world.

This is very convenient because you don’t need to change anything or to be convinced with regard to anything. You are not dependent on anyone! Change yourselves and the world around you will begin to change.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/17

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Question: Is it necessary to read The Book of Zohar again and again? Every time I read it I feel that I am delving into a new stratum of sensations.

Answer: Yes. I read The Book of Zohar from beginning to end dozens of times, including when I was working on adapting the text for, The Zohar for the People. Every time we study The Book of Zohar, the text is felt in a completely different manner.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/17

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Question: Why was The Book of Zohar written in Aramaic?

Answer: Aramaic is parallel to Hebrew. These are the two most ancient languages in the world, which also have the same alphabet. When we describe and present the attributes of the Light, they are described in Hebrew, and when we describe and present the attributes of the vessel (the desire) they are described in Aramaic.

The two languages complement each other because when we study the spiritual world, the desire and the Light are two completely different, opposite categories, distant from each other. Therefore, we usually use these two languages in order to indicate these differences, and this is how they have always been revealed.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/17

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Question: Is it possible to say that as long as The Book of Zohar was hidden, it was gathering power and energy? Or has humanity developed and reached a height from which it can perceive and understand it?

Answer: There is nothing sacred in a book. We need to understand that the concept of Kedusha (Holiness) means the characteristic of bestowal and love; it is not found in The Book itself and not among its pages. The Book of Zohar serves as a transmitter, a channel through which the higher force passes and influences us.

If the person who reads the text is interested in associating with it, then the text becomes a channel that leads to the upper Light and may not yet be felt by the person himself, but it is already influencing him. The person begins to feel inner changes and even gets used to such an influence from The Book of Zohar.

He later discovers further and further new characteristics, new feelings. And that is how he advances.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 2/5/17

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Question: What is the relationship between the Torah and The Book of Zohar? Is it preferable to know the Torah when studying The Book of Zohar?

Answer: It is impossible to know the Torah because from the first letter to the last, it represents a code, a single line of letters that informs us of the right sequence of correction for the soul. The Torah is the course for the correction of the soul. It’s just that it is presented in such a way that we read it as a novel. That’s why we shouldn’t relate to it as to some historical, legal, or educational treatise.

With respect to The Book of Zohar, it is written as a commentary on the five books of the Torah. But only a small part of it remains, that’s why it is presented as an incomplete commentary on the full Torah. Nonetheless, The Book of Zohar is tied to the Torah.

Question: The Torah, like The Book of Zohar, was also not written by a single person?

Answer: The Torah was dictated by Moses, others wrote it down. Throughout history there has been knowledge of holy books that have been written by a collective of individuals because attainment of the upper world demands unity between people for the mutual destruction of egoism in each other. That’s why the Mishna, the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud were also written by many people.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 2/5/2017

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Question: Does The Book of Zohar lose its effect when it is edited or translated?

Answer: Nothing is lost in the translation of The Book of Zohar. It all depends on the person who reads it.

There is no need to worry. Working on the sources to produce translations and different kinds of editing does not interfere with the connection with the book. Then it all depends on your desire that it will correct you and raise you all the way to the level of the Creator.

The level of the Creator is absolute love, absolute bestowal, when a person ascends above his ego and has not one thought about himself.
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Question: Is The Book of Zohar the good force? What will it bring into my life?

Answer: The Book of Zohar can give a person everything there is in his most secret and concealed desires, but only if he first creates and shapes himself as a vessel to receive it.

This is also written at the beginning of The Book of Zohar: “Open your hearts to me and I will open the world for you.”
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