Daily Zohar 1206
Daily Zohar 1206
Zohar Pinchas, Vol. 20 (English)/Vol 15 (Hebrew)

Hebrew translation:

Pinchas 383-385

Rabbi Pinchas, Rabbi Chiah and Rabbi Yitzchak were waiting for the morning light after their night study. Rabbi Chiyah looked up to the sky and saw a comet, which is a star moving in the sky with a trail of light behind it. He asked for the meaning of this phenomenon and Rabbi Pinchas answered that the Holy one created all of them, small and big. When they are called by name, they run with a wand of light to praise their creator.

Psalms 147:4 “ מוֹנֶה מִסְפָּר, לַכּוֹכָבִים; לְכֻלָּם, שֵׁמוֹת יִקְרָא.”
“He assigns number to the stars; He gives them all their names.”

This Zohar study reveals to us that we are all part of one system that is created and recreated every second. From our point of view it looks like God created the world and left it for us to do our part but the scientific fact is that the whole universe is a pattern of energies that is held by the thought of the Creator. If he changes his ‘mind’, everything will cease to exist in an instant.

Rabbi Pinchas, who was the father in law of Rabbi Shimon and the two students, acknowledged the presence of God in everything by quoting Isaiah 40:26

“שְׂאוּ-מָרוֹם עֵינֵיכֶם וּרְאוּ מִי-בָרָא אֵלֶּה, הַמּוֹצִיא בְמִסְפָּר צְבָאָם; לְכֻלָּם, בְּשֵׁם יִקְרָא, מֵרֹב אוֹנִים וְאַמִּיץ כֹּחַ, אִישׁ לֹא נֶעְדָּר. ”

“Lift up your eyes on high, and see: who has created these? He that brings out their host by number, He calls them all by name; by the greatness of His might, and for that He is strong in power, not one is missing.”

The aspect of counting and numbers is the process of limiting the Light of the Creator into something of a lower level that we can experience in our senses and be able to connect to it on some level.

Giving names is the assigning of purpose and a mission to a specific part of the whole. With the name, it can fulfill its purpose.

If you know a little Hebrew, then you can see the relation between the name, שם and the ‘action’ words משימה (mission), לישם (to apply), נשמה (soul).

“He calls them all by name”, we may not grasp it but as the Zohar teaches us, EVERYTHING around us has a meaning and a purpose. ‘He is strong in power, not one is missing’. EVERYTHING!

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Daily Zohar 1205
Daily Zohar 1205
Zohar Pinchas, Vol. 20 (English)/Vol 15 (Hebrew)

Hebrew translation:

Pinchas 380-382

King David was walking on a river bank saying ‘Master of the world, was there a man that praised and gave thanks to you like me?’

While saying that, a frog appeared in front of him and said ‘David, don’t be proud, I did more than you because I gave all myself when God said (Exodus 7:28) “וְשָׁרַץ הַיְאֹר, צְפַרְדְּעִים” “And the river shall swarm with frogs” (from the second plague on Egypt) and in addition I praise God day and night without a break.

Then King David said Psalms 131:1
“יְהוָה, לֹא-גָבַהּ לִבִּי– וְלֹא-רָמוּ עֵינַי;
וְלֹא-הִלַּכְתִּי, בִּגְדֹלוֹת וּבְנִפְלָאוֹת מִמֶּנִּי. ”
“YHVH, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in things too great or in things too wonderful for me.”

In the world of Malchut, even King David, the symbol of humility that always put himself below God and others was tested for his pride. God sent him the frog to remind him to be humble. King David immediately corrected himself and added Psalms 131.

Pride is an expression of the desire for the self. It creates individuality while in the eyes of God we are not so. It doesn’t matter if we are proud of our positive actions, meditation for others, giving donations and Tzedakah. Everything in this world is just a tool in our hands to better our souls by doing for others.

King Davis sums it up in six words in 1 Chronicle 29:14 “כִּי-מִמְּךָ הַכֹּל, וּמִיָּדְךָ נָתַנּוּ לָךְ.” “for all things come of you, and of your own hand we give to you.”
Get it? Get it!

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Daily Zohar 1204
Daily Zohar 1204
Zohar Pinchas, Vol. 20 (English)/Vol 15 (Hebrew)

Hebrew translation:

Pinchas 378,379

Leviticus 16:22
“וְנָשָׂא הַשָּׂעִיר עָלָיו אֶת-כָּל-עֲו‍ֹנֹתָם, אֶל-אֶרֶץ גְּזֵרָה; וְשִׁלַּח אֶת-הַשָּׂעִיר, בַּמִּדְבָּר”
“And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land which is cut off; and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness”

The lower level of the soul that is called Nefesh, is responsible to keep the body alive in this world. It circulates in the body and when it stops moving, life stops and the soul is separated form the body.

On Yom Kippur the high priest in the Holy Temple used to take two goats, one to open channel of light and cleansing and the second became a scapegoat. The priest channeled all the negativity and impurities of the people to this goat and sent it away to the desert.

The Zohar explains that the burden of all transgressions of the people made the goat heavy, which in Hebrew is כבד. It is the same word for liver.

Our consciousness and actions change the soul and it affects the blood. The heart accepts only pure energy and the liver absorbs the negative energies that took hold in the blood because of our actions.

Sam-el, the angel of the negative side, takes the list of all of our sins to the upper court on Yom Kippur but as he goes higher, he becomes heavier and falls like the scapegoat and breaks into pieces. On Yom Kippur, we connect to this event to separate ourselves from the negativity we brought on ourselves and become pure to receive the Light for the coming year.

On the physical level, we should know that every thought and action affects our souls and at the same time the blood. Anger and lies leave DNA marks in the blood and we must deal with it before it becomes a serious health issue.

The DNA is a code that is carried with the soul through several life times. The family line is connected by a line of shared correction process. If someone carries a ‘condition’ in his genes, then it is inherited by the Tikun process of the family.

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