February 7th, 2010
Tikkun 19 – 9
The unification of Zeir Anpin and Malchut require a purification of the vessel in order to receive the Light and it must be through water.
The prayer of Shema Israel has 248 words, which relates to the body. רחם, Womb, is the place where a child grows in concealment until it is ready to come out to the world. The womb must be full with water to protect the process of continuous growth. The spiritual transformation into physical requires water. Our body is over 3 quarters water for that reason, if we lose some of it then our life is in danger because the water is life.
To cleanse our spiritual essence we need to immerse in a body of water that cannot be below a specific size in order to be used as a tool of spiritual cleansing. It is called a Mikveh. A large natural body of water is also good. The water must be a combination of lower waters and upper waters (rain). This connects Malchut to Binah and with all that comes inside, that connection is purified.
A seed of a man is actually a drop of water that comes from Binah down to Malchut. In the special meeting in the dark, the soul can come from the supernal levels and connect to the lower physical level.
Water was created from the word of God that when the 10 Sefirot as the letter Yod, י, mixed with the Light אור, it created the Air, אויר. It continued in the condensing process from spiritual to material, it created water that was separated to upper and lower water.
Water includes all the four elements in itself, Water, Air as the form when it is evaporated, an attribute that reveals the light in the water. The desire to spread out is part of the water and if not frozen it will always seek to go back to its original state of spread out light.
The Earth part can be found in the minerals that are in the water. They are the elements that connect the water to ‘earthly’ energy.
Fire is the natural temperature of the water that lets it evaporate at any non-freeze state.
Water contains all the energy the world needs. Recent discoveries tell us how to transform water into energy. As kabbalists we are not surprised that the molecular weight of water is 18, which is Chai, Life, חי.
When are you going to dip in the Mikveh, Ocean, spring or Lake?
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February 6th, 2010
Tikkun 19 – 8
The thought of the creator to create the material world formed a point, Y, י, opened with five extensions, H, ה, then extended as a line, V, ו up to the fifth level, Hod and formed the spiritual vessel. From that foundation the world was created.
That is the secret of Kamatz Katan (meaning small but big in the spiritual aspect) 
pronounced like the word כל, Kol, (menaing ‘all that…,’), relates to the Sefira of Yessod. It brings the light to Malchut like Keter bestows light on the Sefirot below it.
The line above represents the border between the unknown to the known that is defined with the name YHVH, the spiritual system below, and the element of time.
Kamatz represents Keter, Patch for Chokmah and Tzerei for Binah.
When the Kohen blesses the people he conceals his hands under the prayer Shawl. He starts with fists closed, then when he raises them above the level of his eyes and opens the palms, with five fingers in each hand in the aspect of the original five streams of light and the 10 fingers for the ten Sefirot.
The three verses that they recite from The Torah connect to the energy of the first time the light was initiated in the Menorah in the Tabernacle.
The hands are not just tools that help us do our regular activities; they are channels of Light and can draw down blessings from the supernal.
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February 4th, 2010
Tikkun 19 – 7
Binah is upper waters, represented by the letter H ה and Malchut is lower waters and is represented by the lower H ה of the YHVH name. They are connected with the letter V ו that represents Yessod.
The work of the Tzddik is to be like Yessod to connect upper and lower using the Vav ו as a pipe to channel down the light.
The sages say that the Holy One is strict with the Tzaddik even if it is like “single hair”. The term that the Zohar uses is “single hair” and it is here to describe the importance of a high level connection. When the Tzaddik is at the level of Yessod, the upper channels open to “pour” down the light. It is done through the “hair” of Arich Anpin.
The name Arich Anpin means “long face” and it is the energy that had started the process of creation.
It is the source that brought the light from the unknown and concealed light.
The hair has the aspect of light channeling to the world.
Women’s hair as Malchut, has the biggest capacity to draw light or any other energies. (That is why you almost never see a woman naturally bald). For the men, it is the hair from the eyebrows level and down that help in channeling the light.
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February 3rd, 2010
Tikkun 19 – 6
Our individual and the generational Tikkun is counted during the six millennia toward the revelation of the light of the Final redemption. We are in the year 5770 close to the end of the sixth millennia since creation. It is the time of ‘Friday Night’ and the gate is soon to be opened forever as intended on the first day, before the sin.
The sages tell us that the time of Mashiach will be like a day that is all Shabbat.
The dew in the verse refers to the name YHVH without the H of Malchut in its expanded (spelled out) form יוד הא ואו with numerical value 39, same as dew טל.
The same dew is for the resurrection of the dead which is the upper light of YHV that will bring the life force that awaits us from the day of creation.
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February 2nd, 2010
Tikkun 19 – 5
When we prepare for Shabbat and elevate it with our consciousness and actions, we are opt to receive more from its light.
Song of Songs 5:2 “פִּתְחִי-לִי אֲחֹתִי רַעְיָתִי יוֹנָתִי תַמָּתִי–שֶׁרֹּאשִׁי נִמְלָא-טָל, קְוֻצּוֹתַי רְסִיסֵי לָיְלָה.”
“…Open for me, my sister, my wife, my dove, my flawless one my head is filled with dew, my hair with the drops of the night”
The Zohar quotes this verse to show the desire of Zeir Anpin to connect to Malchut and deliver the light.
Our work fills our spiritual vessel with the light in the level of Zeir Anpin and on Shabbat it has the opportunity to connect to Malchut and transfer the light. We need to be ready with purity and rest to be able to receive that light at a higher state. The stronger the connection, the more blessings this light can bring in.
The unification of Zeir Anpin and Malchut is done on the holy level of Binah. Binah is a female aspect and it represents the desire of the Creator to bring the light to Malchut. A man and a woman’s connection on Friday night opens the gate for the light of Binah to fill the unification with blessings.
The verse above describes the light knocking on the door of his beloved one using 4 terms of endearment “אֲחֹתִי רַעְיָתִי יוֹנָתִי תַמָּתִי” . The first letter of each ארית sums up to 611, which is the same as Torah תורה, which is Zeir Anpin. This is to tell us that all connection should be following the guide of the Torah.
Friday night is also the best time for the father (as Zeir Anpin) to bless his children.
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February 1st, 2010
Tikkun 19 – 4
The two aspects of the Torah, which are the Oral and the Written are represented by the 53 Torah portions that are read on Shabbat.
The inner courtyard of the Holy Temple represents the written Torah and the outer yard is the oral Torah. The gate between them is opened only on Shabbat.
The 53 comes from Song of Songs 4:12 “גַּן נָעוּל, אֲחֹתִי כַלָּה; גַּל נָעוּל, מַעְיָן חָתוּם” “A garden is shut up, my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. “. Garden = גַּן= 53.
The gate to the Garden is locked during the six days and on Shabbat it is opened.
God created the world in a 6 day process and on the seventh day he opens the supernal gate to provide energy to his creation. The opening of the gate on the first Shabbat was supposed to stay open forever. Because of the Sin, the gate closed to separate between the Tree of Life that is inside the Garden (inner courtyard with the Holy of Holies) and the tree of Knowledge Good and Bad outside the gate (outer courtyard).
Genesis 3:24 “He drove out Adam…. and put the flaming sword to keep the way to the Tree of Life.”
Adam’s sin corrupted the balance in the Garden of Eden and created separation between the upper and lower.
This is the explanation to Song of Song 4:12 “a fountain is sealed”.
Since “the sin” we need to work to earn the Light. On Shabbat we receive the Light that we earned for the work we did during the past week. The light of Shabbat is given based on the individual spiritual vessel created that week. Our sages said “Whoever does the work before Shabbat, eats on Shabbat”. “מי שטרח בערב שבת, יאכל בשבת”
Shabbat is the resting day because it is all about receiving the light. Don’t close the gate to your light.
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January 31st, 2010
Tikkun 19 – 3
The written Torah is in the aspect of Upper waters, it exists in Binah and the Oral Torah is lower waters, in Malchut.
Binah was elevated to Malchut at the time of Creation to draw light of Mercy that was created by the effect of time. Malchut received the form of Binah but on the way down to its place, it was left without the light of Binah but with great desire for it.
This process created the desire for the vessel to reconnect to the upper waters, to Binah. To achieve that, Malchut needs to create similar elevation to Binah by the study and the discussion of the oral Torah. The study of the Torah and especially the secret behind it, opens the path to Binah and connects the upper and lower waters.
Yessod is the channel and tool to bring the flow down. If we are not making the connection to Binah through Yessod then the Zohar says that we are taking the world back to the original chaos, before the revelation of the Light.
Treating the Torah as a simple story is also like separating upper and lower waters. Every person in the world should learn the Hebrew letters and understand that there are great secrets concealed within each letter.
Rabbi Akiva said that he can write mountains of words to explain each letter in the Torah. The root word for Hebrew עברית is עבר means passage or a way to cross from one side to another.
The more ‘passages’ we make to connect upper and lower, the more light will be in the world and darkness will have to go.
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January 30th, 2010
Tikkun 19 – 2
On the first day (Genesis 1:3,4,5) God revealed his restricted light in the world using 5 times the word אור, Light.
Each of the 5 letter Alephs came with different light and the vowels [
] represent Chokmah and Binah as the Light for the vessel; Tiferet as the essence of the vessel, Netzach and Hod as the base and the power of the vessel as a creative force.
In every complete level there is a revelation of 5 lights, which are Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama, Chaya and Yechida.
In the process of restricting the Endless Light, to create the world of matter, the element of time is developed into effect and “distances” in the Tree of Life can be seen as years.
Year in Hebrew is שנה, also meaning “repeat”. One year is the time it takes the earth to complete a circle around the sun in order to “get” the “Light” and the energy of life.
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January 29th, 2010
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January 28th, 2010
Tikkun 19:1
בראשית , is Chokmah and the first and last letter of this word is בת, meaning daughter, which is Malchut.
The middle part of the Eye is called אישון and בבת עין, it represents the point where the light of the Creator started the creation process and formed the visible (material) universe starting with air אויר, by restricting the Light אור with the י, , 10 Sefirot of Chokmah. בחוכמה יצרת . עולמך.
The Light of Chokmah can be revealed only in Malchut because the higher light needs empty vessel. The other levels have different light and Chokmah can not be mixed with them.
Our eyes represent the level of Chokmah In Malchut.
Eye is עין with numerical value of 130 also = 10 times אהבה = 13, Love.
When we sum the values for the two eyes, we get 260, which is 10 times YHVH יהוה.
(To strengthen the eye sight on the spiritual and physical level visualize יהוה shining on each eye 5 times. Like the shape of the eye. One name shines on the right, one name on the left, top, bottom and center for the pupil.)
We see “reality” (as we commonly define the world around us that we perceive with our 5 senses) reflect through the eye lens (water) to the back bottom of the inner side of the eye ball.
A person may have all the ‘mechanical’ elements of the eye but he may not see “reality” because reality is what we interpret as real. The image inside the eye is presented upside down and the brain receives a stream of electrons that translate to a 3D image.
The Zohar calls this world, the world of lies because what we see is not real. It is what our brain is “instructed” to see.
Can you see it?
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