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Daily Zohar #397 – How to build a soulphone? (Part 2)

Monday, August 30th, 2010

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Tikkun 21 – 138

To assemble the soul phone we use the following elements.

Palm Branch – Is shaped like a spear and it represents the Sefirah of Yesod and the letter Vav of the YHVH name.
Hadas – 3 branches to represent the upper triad of Chessed, Gevurah and Tiferet.
Arava – 2 willow branches for Netzach and Hod
Etrog – in a goldish green color for Malchut.

The first six elements are bundled together as one to represent Zeir Anpin. The Etrog fruit is Malchut and when we put Malchut and Zeir Anpin together with the blessing that makes the spiritual connection with the physical representation of the Zeir Anpin, we are able to connect to the light of Chassadim and bring it into our heart and life.

Using the soulphone

To use the Lulav and Etrog, we do four sets of 18, חי, shaking. Four is for letters of the YHVH in the aspect of Zeir Anpin. On each day of the seven days of the holiday , we connect to different Sefira of Zeir Anpin using the YHVH. First day is Chessed, seconds day is Gevurah and so on.

Every day we have 18×4 = 72 sets of shaking for the purpose of dialing the codes and establishing a connection from Zeir Anpin to Malchut on all levels of the YHVH.

Before we start the shaking process we make a blessing that connects the Lulav and Etrog as Zeir Anpin and Malchut. After this blessing we shouldn’t disconnect the two until the end of the 72 set of shaking.

The 18 shakings are made from three movements in six directions. South for Chessed, North for Gevurah, East for Tiferet, Up for Netzach, Down for Hod and West for Yessod.

For each direction we do the followings (the order of the letters changes for different Sefira)

Step out and shake to the letter Y
Step out and shake to the letter H
Step out and shake to the letter V

After connection to each letter we step back and touch the chest (heart) to connect the letter to the H of Malchut. This way we wire all the spiritual connection in the sphere around us to the center which is us. Everyday add another layer for a different Sefira.

This meditation and actions are for men but women can make the blessings of the connection with one set of shaking.

The above is general description of the process to understand that there is a spiritual technology. It is not a matter of belief or ritual. It comes from the Torah and the Kabbalists. For exact meditation with the Hebrew letters check the writings of the Ari and kabbalistic prayer books.

During this special time of the year, the light of Chassadim is revealed in the world and with the tools described above we can draw it into our lives and for the whole world.

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Daily Zohar #395 – What’s so special about the Israelites?

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

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Tikkun 21 – 136

Shavuot, which is seven weeks after Passover, is also the aspect of Jacob as the chariot to the central column and Zeir Anpin.

It is said in Genesis 29:27 “ מַלֵּא, שְׁבֻעַ זֹאת; וְנִתְּנָה לְךָ גַּם-אֶת-זֹאת, בַּעֲבֹדָה אֲשֶׁר תַּעֲבֹד עִמָּדִי, עוֹד, שֶׁבַע-שָׁנִים אֲחֵרוֹת”
“Fulfill the seven of this one, and we will give you the other (Rachel = זֹאת =Malchut) also for the work which you shall work with me yet seven other years”

Shavuot connects us to the work of Jacob, which leads us to Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. The ‘seven’ that is mentioned in this verse is about the future work of Jacob.

Laban ‘cheated’ Jacob and made him work seven more years for Rachel. Jacob accepted it because he understood that this is a divine plan that will give him strong hold of the central column.

The first seven years, Jacob worked for Leah and when he connected with her it was in concealment of the dark. Leah was the aspect of Binah, which is the Sefira above our world and it can not be revealed until we make an action in Malchut.

When the light comes down from Binah to Malchut through the seven Sefirot it’s called Direct Light, Ohr Yashar. When the light is reflected from Malchut with the actions of restrictions it creates Returning Light, Ohr Chozer.

Seven sefirot coming down from Binah and seven going back up are total 14, which is numerical value of יד, hand.

God, YHVH, has three hands, one for each column. Together it is 14×3= 42, which we already know is the power of creation and the Ana B’Koach.

Rachel represents Malchut and the next seven years Jacob worked to create returning light. This work made him the chariot of the central column. The Torah tells us that only after Jacob connected to Rachel, Leah could have children. The light of Binah can not be revealed without Malchut. The children of Jacob, Israel, are the manifestation of the light of Binah in Malchut. That is why the Israelites are עם סגולה, nation of the central column and by the hard work of Jacob we merited having the Torah whose gift we celebrate on Shavuot.

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Daily Zohar #392 – What would you do to earn this hug?

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

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Tikkun 21 – 133

The queen went to exile with her sons. Outside the walls, a watchman makes sure that the queen has everything she needs to provide for her children.

Now the faithful watchman will never leave his post until the time comes and the queen and her children finish with their exile and no longer have the limits of the walls.

The queen is the Shechina and the Israelites are her children. The watchman is Zeir Anpin, in the aspect of the Holy One Bless be He that will never leave his place until we come to the Final Redemption and we all have the Light of Binah and the upper Sefirot in our lives.

Psalms 3:9 “לַיהוָה הַיְשׁוּעָה; עַל-עַמְּךָ בִרְכָתֶךָ סֶּלָה”
“for YHVH the salvation, your blessings upon your people, Selah”

The Zohar tells us that Zeir Anpin has no permission to leave his place until the Final Redemption. This amazing understanding is here to tell us that we live inside a system with rules.

If we connect to the system we can fulfill our mission in life and move on to a better/another mission until the Final Redemption.
At the end of the Tikun, Zeir Anpin (male) and Malchut (female) will be back together and we could go up to Binah, Mother and Chokmah, Father. Like the ultimate parents, they will hug and care for us. We will then experience no more pain and suffering in our lives.

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Daily Zohar #391 – Light skin

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

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Tikkun 21 – 132

When the light that reaches Malchut is elevated to Binah by our spiritual work of restrictions and sharing, the light gets transformed into light of chassadim and create Ohr Makif, Surrounding light.

The Holy One Bless be He, which is the aspect of Zeir Anpin, covers himself with this light like a Talit, טלית.

The surrounding light reveals the Holy name YHVH and that is why the Talit covers the head and has 4 Tzizit with 32 strings.

The Talit reveals and draws the light of a spiritual connection in all the 7 Sefirot of Chessed to Malchut. A proper wedding is done under a talit and not under some fine and expensive fabric because there is a good reason for it. As we explained in the previous Daily Zohar, the wedding creates holiness and the revealed light increases the surrounding light of the couple.

A person without a family does not need to wear a talit because he has not yet connected to the continuation process. His spiritual work is to elevate himself to a level where he can join with the one to marry and join with holiness to keep the circuit of life.

When Adan and Eve sinned, they lost the direct connection with the light in the garden of Eden. They had to have a tool to draw the light, otherwise they would have died.

God immediately made them skin garments. That has the same aspect of the Talit. It is an element of separation and tool for revelation. From this point on they had to work to earn the light, be together and bring children to the world to create the continuity of life.

For advanced students:
Talit, טלית
טל – Literal meaning ‘Dew’. It represents the upper three letters of the name YHV in its expanded form.
מילוי יהו = יוד-הא-ואו
י – for the 10 Sefirot
ת – is the final letter and represents Malchut.

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Daily Zohar #390 – Why do babies smell so divine?

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

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Tikkun 21 – 131

When the light is drawn from the right column, Chessed and returned with the left column, Gevurah, it creates unification and holiness. The process of ‘run and return’ is the driving force of the universe and that is why everything is in movement. Making all our actions with continuation creates affinity with the light of the Creator that sustains that movement (the force behind the 137 constant, Electron, Neutron, Proton). We are in the world of Wheels, גלגלים, meaning waves and circles. Wholiness is Holiness. I know that this is not an English word but that explains the concept.

A bride is called כלה, and the name represents ה, for Malchut and כל for Yessod. When the bride comes to connect with the groom she goes into a process that brings holiness as it unifies the right and the left.

The bride circles the groom 7 times, followed by seven blessings to ‘knot’ the 7 sefirot together as one and to connect them to the Tree of Life.

At the night of the wedding, the groom and the bride come together to manifest the earlier process and complete the circle. The groom’s meditation is to draw the light from Zeir Anpin and his soul level of Ruach into the bride. Her meditation is be like an empty vessel, ready to receive and channel the light that was drawn down earlier by the groom. This creates continuation in the world and brings the life and light force to their lives.

This same meditation should be made on every connection even if it is not for the purpose of having children. The light that comes down is like a child and it can manifest in different areas in the life of the couple.

Immediately after God built the woman (וַיִּבֶן יְהוָה) by separating her from Adam’s body, the Torah explains

Genesis 2:24 “עַל-כֵּן, יַעֲזָב-אִישׁ, אֶת-אָבִיו, וְאֶת-אִמּוֹ; וְדָבַק בְּאִשְׁתּוֹ, וְהָיוּ לְבָשָׂר אֶחָד”
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh”

Man and woman should seek the state as God created them, one body. That will bring back the original Wholiness. (It’s complicated but soul mates or not, the consciousness should be there.)

A baby grows inside a circular shaped womb and his/her blood is circulated with the mother’s. The divine life force is still in his body when he is born. Before it becomes contaminated by earthly matters, his body and flesh smell divine, especially the head.

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Daily Zohar #389 – What is your letter?

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

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Tikkun 21 – 130

The Zohar tells us that the Shechina is the משכון of YHVH and that is why he dwells within us.
משכון, means pawn, pledge. The root of this word, שכן, means neighbor, dwelling, and Shechina. The understanding is that YHVH will come back for his pawn, pledge, dwelling.

Exodus 25:8 “ וְעָשׂוּ לִי, מִקְדָּשׁ; וְשָׁכַנְתִּי, בְּתוֹכָם”
“And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell (שכן) among them”

The Holy Ark and the Torah that is stored in, are the aspect of the dwelling place for YHVH. Every Israelite soul has a root in one of the letters in the Torah. That gives us constant connection to YHVH.

The seven candles of the Candelabra in the Holy Temple represent the seven sefirot. They serve as channels of the light to the Torah and the Shechina in Malchut.

On that it was said Proverb 6:23 “ כִּי נֵר מִצְוָה, וְתוֹרָה אוֹר;”
“For the precept is a candle, and the Torah is light,”

The candle is the vessel, which is Malchut and the Torah is its Light.

When we connect to the Torah with our deep studies, we light our candle.

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Daily Zohar #379 – Register in the Book of Life.

Monday, August 9th, 2010

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Tikkun 21 – 120

The righteous people are written in the Book of Life ספר החיים on Rosh Hashanah because they keep the connection to חי, life, which is the clinging to the Tree of Life. חי is numerically 18, which represents the 9 Sefirot of direct and 9 of returning light.
(Malchut doesn’t have light of its own)

Deuteronomy 4:4 “וְאַתֶּם, הַדְּבֵקִים, בַּיהוָה, אֱלֹהֵיכֶם–חַיִּים כֻּלְּכֶם, הַיּוֹם”
“And you that cleave to YHVH your God are alive every one of you this day”

For those that their actions are mixed with good and bad, the judgment is done on Yom Kippur. The ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur gives us the opportunity to make Teshuvah, repentance, to remove the negativity from our path.

Ezekiel 33:19 “וּבְשׁוּב רָשָׁע מֵרִשְׁעָתוֹ, וְעָשָׂה מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה–עֲלֵיהֶם, הוּא יִחְיֶה”
“And when the wicked turned from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful (following the spiritual laws and connect to the central column) and right (elevates light), he shall live.”

The Zohar relates Yom Kippur to Noah’s Ark. If we are worthy then we can be on the ‘Life saving’ ship and if not,
Genesis 7:21 “וַיִּגְוַע כָּל-בָּשָׂר…”
“And all flesh perished…”
As we are getting closer to the end of the Tikkun, we won’t have opportunities to come back to life to complete our correction. Every action we do now must be part of the correction process. There’s no rest on Friday when we’re working for ‘Shabbat’.
Our sages said that “אין מקבלים גרים לימות המשיח”
“No acceptance of converts in the days of the messiah”

When the Tikkun is completed then there’s no more work left to elevate that light.
No matter if you are a Jew or not. The conversion process is to accept and follow the pure system of YHVH, which is the Tree of Life.

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Daily Zohar #378 – The life of water

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Holy Zohar text. Daily Zohar -378.

Tikkun 21 – 119

Genesis 6:19 “ וּמִכָּל-הָחַי מִכָּל-בָּשָׂר שְׁנַיִם מִכֹּל, תָּבִיא אֶל-הַתֵּבָה–לְהַחֲיֹת אִתָּךְ: זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה, יִהְיוּ”
“And of every living thing (חי) of all flesh, two of every sort shall you bring into the ark, to keep them alive (חי) with you; they shall be male and female.”

The Zohar explains to us that the count of the animal that came into the Ark is as two and two, seven and seven. These numbers add up to 18 (2+2+7+7), which are the cycle of 9 sefirot of direct light and 9 sefirot of returning light and this represents life as in חי.

Genesis 8: 4 “וַתָּנַח הַתֵּבָה בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי, בְּשִׁבְעָה-עָשָׂר יוֹם לַחֹדֶשׁ, עַל, הָרֵי אֲרָרָט”
“And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.”

Noah’s Ark rested on the mountain of Ararat on the 17th day of the seventh month. This is the time after we go through the judgment process of Rosh Hashanah, on the first of the month, then after receiving the verdict on the 10th day, Yom Kippur.
The work of High Priest, the Kohen Gadol, on Yom Kippur drew down the Light of Chassadim to the world. In our time his work is replaced by our global connection on the same day.

On the 14th day, which is the Holiday of Sukkoth that we celebrate for seven days, we start collecting the light of chassadim. On this Holiday we do the action of “Nisuch Hamayim”, which is a connection to the light of chassadim through water. When this was done in the Holy Temple it created a great joy because it manifested the work of the Kohen on Yom Kippur.

The action of nisuch hamayim is done by transferring water from one vessel to another to manifest this special light in our lives. It connects the supernal waters, which is the energy source to the lower water, which is the physical water.

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Daily Zohar #377 – Will you float?

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

Holy Zohar text. Daily Zohar -377.

Tikkun 21 – 118
(Continue from previous article)

When the drop reaches Malchut and if it does not go into a vessel it creates a separation between the light and the vessel and the waters go to the impure system, Sitra Achra.
These create judgment like at the time of the Flood.
It said Genesis 7:19 “וְהַמַּיִם, גָּבְרוּ מְאֹד מְאֹד–עַל-הָאָרֶץ; וַיְכֻסּוּ, כָּל-הֶהָרִים הַגְּבֹהִים, אֲשֶׁר-תַּחַת, כָּל-הַשָּׁמָיִם”
“And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.”

The people of that generation drowned in the judgments they created. Noah and his family connected to the word of God and that gave them the ability to ‘float’ above the judgments and survived the Flood.

What was their protection?
The word for Ark is תיבה, which also means ‘a word’. תיבה is also בת יה, meaning daughter of YH יה. This reveals the source of the word while coming from the upper three sefirot. Y is Keter and Chokmah and H is Binah.
The Hebrew words are a creative force and each word is a defined term with its own energy pattern.

The Zohar is Noah’s Ark for our generation. When we connect to the words of the Zohar it brings us up to the higher levels, which are Chokmah and Binah or YH. It is our ‘floating device’ to escape judgments that the world is experiencing now..

Genesis 7:17 “וַיִּרְבּוּ הַמַּיִם, וַיִּשְׂאוּ אֶת-הַתֵּבָה, וַתָּרָם, מֵעַל הָאָרֶץ”
“and the waters increased, and raised the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth”

No matter how high the water is, if we have the ‘floating device’ then we are safe.

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Daily Zohar #376 – It is not good that the man should be alone

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Holy Zohar text. Daily Zohar -376.

Tikkun 21 – 117
(Continuing previous Daily Zohar subject # 366 on)

Jeremiah 14:8 “מִקְוֵה, יִשְׂרָאֵל, מוֹשִׁיעוֹ, בְּעֵת צָרָה”
“the pool of water, Israel, Its salvation in time of trouble.”

From the source of the supernal waters, Chokmah, a drop, which is the Yod, comes down through the levels and each Sefira takes its part from this drop. The tenth part is for Malchut, which is the dry land and vessel (we discussed in previous daily zohar).
The tenth is the process that we should correct and elevate with our actions. This is the reason we tithe. We must elevate the tenth up to the spiritual. If we keep it down, then there is no returning light and revelation.

To bring life to this world we draw a drop of light from our brain down through all the levels of the body and out through the level of Yessod, which is the penis in our body. The male brings the water to the female, the dry land and the vessel.
The vessel is described as ‘dry land’ because it depends on the male waters to be ‘fruitful’.

The man’s semen is called זרע, literally means seed. The first two letters have the numerical value of light אור and the letter ע is 70 to represent the world of action and the length of the base tikkun process in Malchut. The man’s seed is light transferred to Malchut to bring life.

This also explains Genesis 2:18 “וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים, לֹא-טוֹב הֱיוֹת הָאָדָם לְבַדּוֹ; אֶעֱשֶׂה-לּוֹ עֵזֶר, כְּנֶגְדּוֹ”
“And YHVH ELHYM said: ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help for him.’”
The keyword here is עֵזֶר and כְּנֶגְדּוֹ which brings the parallel duties of the men and the women. This is also why when Adam was created we see the name YHVH first time appear in the Torah.

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