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Baruch Hashem Ba Nefesh :
as a goal of global Tikkun -- it is understood that the Zohar must be spread through out -- BUT the PRICE of a ZOHAR set is hurting to some- are there ways and things that i can do to get Zohar’s out there ?? please advise …Todah
I agree so very much and if you find a way please let me know as I would love to have a Zohar in my home but finances are tight with me and mine.
I bought all the five volumes of the Zohar by The Soncino Press,Ltd
Soncino.com in a local Judaica store. It costs me £98.00 not cheap but online it seems to be about $500.00!
Hope that helps.
Enjoy your studies with full of light..
D x
You can access the complete Zohar online at http://UnityZohar.com and also http://Zohar.com
if you want a printed edition call the Kabbalah center 1 (800) Kabbalah and check with them if you are qualified for free or discounted Zohar.
You can shop on line for low prices. You can read and download Zohar in PDF format from http://ha-zohar.com
It is better to make an effort and have ownership of the Zohar by purchasing a Zohar set.
Thank you Zion, as always, for your kind concern and loving help!!
I thank G-D every morning in my daily morning prayers for you. You truly and selfishly guide many souls to the light…. I call you my ‘teacher’….
i am hoping to gather enough money to buy a Zohar but the one iI want would have to have comments in English. If I give you this link can you tell me where I will be able to purchase on just like this?
https://www2.kabbalah.com/k/index.php/p=zohar/zohar
Thank you!!
Zohar.com has the complete copy of the English version of Zohar Hasulam. The commentary is a translation from Rabbi Ashlag Hebrew version.
Call (800) kabbalah and ask for the English version of the Zohar. They have specials from time to time and give complete sets for free to different public organizations. (School, Police, government offices, Hospitals etc.)
Thank you, my friend!!
שלום וברכה .. Thank for posting the ע,,ב שם.. יש לי ספר נחש נחשת, וכתוב שם ע,ל,מ אם ״מ״ ,, and your website provides with he letter “ם”‘,, I know the gematria is same, which one you prefer and why, thank you again!!!! May השם guard you!!!
Reuben, Which article are you referring to?
if I understand your question correctly then it is common to write the letter as final when it is referenced as a name by itself. If it is a sequence like from the original verses of the 72 names, it is shown with regular Mem.
for example in the Ana B’Koach we write
אבגיתצקרעשטננגדיכש וכן הלאה
when you write them as sequence of six letters you write as follows
אבגיתץ
קרעשטן
it is not error to to write either ways.
The regular Gimatria is the same for both forms of the letter but Sofit letter can get different value in some calculation.
ך -- 500
ם- 600
ן -- 700
ף -- 800
ץ -- 900
א -- 1000 The Alef can get 1000 as it is its name. איכה ירדוף אחד אלף
Let me know if this is the answer you were looking for.
Hi Zion, I want to ask you a question, I hope you can answer me? Is the Daily Zohar site affiliated with the Kabbalah Centre at all? What about yourself, are you a teacher at the Kabbalah Centre? Many thanks and G-d bless, Sharon Olney
Sharon,
The Daily Zohar is not affiliated with any organization. It will not be an organization like the ones that are already there. The DailyZohar is a silent organization without offices, classrooms, or physical gatherings. It does bring together students from all over the world and from all organizations together for a spiritual hug and study on a daily basis. It is a place where everyone can connect and study the sacred Zohar text daily.
In Tube.DailyZohar.com we bring videos about many kabbalah subjects from most organizations and teachers. (and we keep adding)
I am not a teacher in any org or classroom. I don’t want to create another school or organization that will add another aspect of separation to the global Kabbalah community.
I encourage everyone to belong and support their local communities while having a consciousness of unity beyond the border of their community. The Daily Zohar is here to add Kabbalah study of the Tikunei Zohar to all people. This study is related to the global and personal Tikkun of the people.
I respect and study from all Kabbalah teachers. Each org or teacher have their own style that attracts different type of people. The common ground is the Zohar and Rabbi Shimon. That is exactly what DailyZohar.com, UnityZohar.com and RabbiShimon.com offers to all, a judgment free zone to study Kabbalah and be one with all.
Love to all.
Dear Zion,
Thank you so much for your response to me, it is most truly appreciated!
I can’t tell you how happy I am to hear from yourself what the Daily Zohar site is all about.
It’s actually a place that I’ve always dreamed of, ever since I started studying Kabbalah.
Just a place where people who love the Zohar and want to study it and connect to it can come together and share in its splendour and in turn share it with others as well. I love the simplicity of your organization!
I also love how you encourage people from all communities to come together in the one place. And there’s no better place than the Daily Zohar!
I’ve studied with the Kabbalah Centre (for 6 years), Bnei Baruch (for 3 years) and have been following courses most recently by Shaul Youdkevitch at Live Kabbalah. While I’ve gained a lot from these places, I was still searching for the place where I feel that Kabbalah, the way that it’s meant to be taught, and the Zohar, can be truly expressed and shared in a community with others where there’s truly no agenda. I do understand that no one in life is perfect (if that were the case then Moshiach would be here, Hashem be willing). And so while I’ve been left disappointed and perhaps even burned by these other organizations (not all of them, just some and I’m not naming them) I don’t bear a grudge against them, although I do hope and pray that they will see the Light and change their ways so that they don’t hurt more people as well. Unfortunately, I learned the hard way that places that teach the holy Kabbalah and Zohar can fall susceptible to the evil inclination’s clutches -- I found it unbelievable at first, but then I gradually learned to accept the painful truth. But of course I then understand that it’s all up to me to do that too, that I need to change, and places like this will change as well (somehow). That’s my understanding of the world according to Kabbalah anyway!
I stumbled upon your site most recently of all and I think that it’s really wonderful. Do you subscribe to the teachings of Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag at all? Because I feel that Rav Ashlag was the greatest Kabbalah teacher of our generation.
But most of all I wish to thank you Zion, for this wonderful work that you do, for bringing the Zohar to ordinary people like me, and for bringing all of us from all over the world who love the Zohar to the one place where we can unite with each other through the Light of the Zohar.
In the meantime I will promote your site to as many people that I know who study Kabbalah as possible (I have over 1200 Kabbalah friends on Facebook and still accumulating) and I post your daily Zohar teachings on my profile and also just yesterday I posted about your Unity Zohar project and urged people to join in.
May Hashem bless you always.
Love and Light,
Sharon
Sharon, It is good that you don’t bear grudge against the big organizations because they do their best while requiring a lot of money to maintain buildings, events and stuff. Every student should support them with the same proportions that they add to their spiritual growth.
The Daily Zohar doesn’t have buildings or classrooms to maintain, except for Internet hosting services, which I do myself with the support of people that make donations. (We do not ask for donation and will always continue providing Daily Zohar study even without people’s support. I never ask for money but when some money is accumulated in the account, I expand and add new features to the sites. Tube.DailyZohar.com, MyZohar.DailyZohar.com, UnityZohar.com and soon also Hebrew.DailyZohar.com and other exciting projects waiting to manifest)
The Daily Zohar is a spiritual gathering place where students of Kabbalah from around the world can have a seat in the front row and study free of charge.
Love and thanks to all that come and give me the spiritual energy to continue.
Zion, I know that ultimately the responsibility lies with myself. And so I will never hold a grudge or have hate in my heart, besides this is not what makes the Creator happy, and so I will never ever do it.
But just so you know, Zion, that people can and do get caught up in organizations that “sell” Kabbalah, especially the ones that make it out that only they have the sole wisdom and the correct way of teaching it. And they do teach it very well, especially the Zohar, but before you know it and if you don’t watch yourself you find yourself paying anything that they ask just so you don’t disconnect from the teachings, and G-d forbid, “disconnect from the Light”. They teach that most of all, that the worst thing is to disconnect from the Light.
And so they say that in order not to disconnect you need to do their Zohar classes, consciousness and holiday classes, enrol in their Universities, and pay thousands of dollars to attend their huge holiday events (you will need to incur the cost of your own airfare especially if you’re from a far away place such as Australia of course). This can add up to a LOT of money.
But then on top of that they urge you to tithe, because of course this gets you the “most Light”. So of course you give them 10% of your income.
But then they say that you need to help and share as this will give you the “most Light”, and the best way to share is by volunteering at the local branch of this organization’s study group in your area. They don’t tell you that you need to pay for all the expenses involved in running the study group as well, such as the rent for the premises where you hold the classes, and that this involves quite a lot of your time, organizing classes, emailing and contacting students, collecting their money -- all of which goes to the big organization, absolutely none is given to the volunteers. The organization doesn’t believe in giving money to their own study groups, because after all the volunteers are doing this work so that they can get the “most Light”, and for this to be effective, THEY CAN’T RECEIVE ANYTHING IN RETURN.
Yes that particular Kabbalistic teaching is used very well. One needs to be able to share without wanting to receive anything in return, for this to be a true act of sharing. And so, the volunteers get nothing for their efforts from the organization.
Can you see how this teaching can be manipulated so that the students/volunteers can be used and exploited for everything that they’re worth?
What the organization doesn’t explain is why if this is the case that one shouldn’t receive, that they charge a substantial amount of money for everything that they do and all the money goes to them? Why are they receiving if this is the case? And one hears the spiel about needing millions of $$ to run a Kabbalah organization, to pay for the cost of maintaining buildings etc…
As they are not required to provide financial documents as they are a tax-free organization that supposedly runs as a charitable one, no one knows for sure where all the money goes.
And so the potential for fraud as well becomes obvious. Not least of which when you hear that the IRS is starting to investigate them for dubious financial practices, such as millions of $$ missing from a charity that was supposed to receive them to build schools to poor orphan children in a destitute country.
And so that is the gist of my experience with the “big organization/s”, Zion. The fact that a hapless volunteer can be made to give most of their money, their time, and their effort to the organization, and still would be told that they need to give more. That not only should they pay for all their classes, pay for attending expensive international events, tithe 10% of their income, but they also need to give all of their time and effort for FREE to volunteer and help out at their local study group, and not only that, but to PAY for this privilege.
And they’re able to use these tremendous resources from their volunteers/paying students for free because they tell them that they’re serving the Light, and they’re not supposed to receive anything in return for their sharing.
With Hashem’s help I was able to free myself from the extraordinary “spell” that this organization had placed on me, simply because it had manipulated Kabbalistic teachings.
I’m only sorry that I wasn’t able to help my friends who were in the study groups to see the truth as well. I believe that because of their great fear that they will “disconnect from the Light” if they disconnect from the organization that stops them from acknowledging the truth. I however was not afraid. I knew that if my heart was really pure, that the Light will always be with me. And that’s what gave me the strength to leave.
Can you see how these types of organizations have the elements of a full-blown cult?
So that is my concern about these big organizations, Zion. Not enough accountability on their part (financially and in every other way), and meanwhile the way they exploit their followers is beyond belief.
What this experience taught me is that one needs to keep one’s eyes open at all times even in the presence of supposedly elevated teachers. One shouldn’t place one’s trust in the wrong people, even ones that teach the Zohar and Kabbalah in a really good way.
So in fact I’m grateful for the experience. Sure I spent a lot of money, but I received a lot of money in return somehow, in unexpected ways. This is the thing I believe with the Light -- if one serves the Creator with a pure heart, even if one is tangled up with impure people, Hashem will still bless one and help one always.
So there’s my story Zion. I have great hopes for your site and want to support you in every way. I believe in the power of tithing especially to places that help spread the Zohar to the world, and so I’d be willing to donate money to your site regularly. I’ll just speak to my husband -- it was after I met him that my eyes were opened about the “big organization”, as he smelled right away that something wasn’t right. If I can convince him that you’re the real deal, we can start giving you financial support straight away.
I pray that you are the genuine article and your heart and intentions are pure, and you can spread the teachings of the Zohar which you are so blessed to be knowledgeable of, to as many souls as possible.
May Hashem bless you always.
Love and Light,
Sharon
Could hard working earned money that was used for organization also mean that now in your second step there could be more important issues for you like empathy, compassion, self-examination, feeling other’s people pain withs senses more pure?
I am sure people who read and study n DZ are hard-working people very aware of community servicing but there is no guarantee that one day DZ would not become successfull corporation with nobble enterprise ideas.
Could be the issue that sometimes there are many strange circumstances how to help each other in correction process?
Dear Ivan,
I’m absolutely positive that the whole experience that I gained from that place is part of my tikkun process. And you’re right, it has helped take me to my next level of awareness/consciousness/understanding/love of everything that’s going on around me. Since I left the Big Organization I’ve gotten married (to a Jewish man although he wasn’t raised in the Jewish tradition, although I’m most certainly helping me to walk the path of Torah now) and have a child, a beautiful family.
I’m more open to spreading the wisdom of Kabbalah without feeling inhibited (we were prevented from sharing knowledge when I was part of the big org because they didn’t want to give it out for free) as I feel that Kabbalah should be shared for free to anyone who wants to learn.
It’s difficult enough to find people with the desire in their heart to change their ways and study Kabbalah, and the study and the work is not exactly the easiest undertaking -- and so to me by charging people for every single class and lesson, that Kabbalah has this price, means that you impose limits on it being learned and studied by more and more people. I found that very much so to be the case when I was in the big org. Countless students approached me when I was involved in the study group wanting to learn, and I tried to help them, but when they realised that they couldn’t afford the studies, they were simply turned away. Not welcomed again until they could pay the fees. And this broke my heart terribly, as I so wanted to share the knowledge with them, and in fact I did in my own way, my publishing a newsletter with the weekly consciousness, etc…but I was soon censored from doing this.
I’m not against money as such to support the Kabbalah places of learning. Absolutely not. In fact, I believe that if each student who was serious in their study tithed their income to the place of learning, then the place would be able to survive if not thrive, and therefore spread the teachings of Kabbalah and the Zohar to more and more people.
The problem is when the place of learning starts charging people to learn Kabbalah. I believe that this is wrong, because the intention then is to get the money, money becomes the priority.
And that’s exactly what I felt about the big org. It was actually a Big Business. It was all about the money. Money was actually their god.
Of course, you’d never hear them say that! Of course, they told their followers the complete opposite of that. And as a believer, you don’t doubt what they say.
Unless you truly listen to the Light and have the courage to know that you can only rely on Hashem and no one else, no matter what the big orgs say, and you can have the strength to free yourself from them. In my case, I was also blessed with meeting my now husband, who helped me to see the truth as well. Hashem worked through him to free me. If he hadn’t, my plan was to surrender my whole life to try to work as a full-time chevre (teacher, worker) at the big org for free, working day and night for them to raise money. I’m so very grateful and thankful that my life didn’t turn out this way!
I have no problem with DZ being a financially successful enterprise, Ivan. But like I said, I hope that the purpose of its financial success is so that it can spread Kabbalistic and Zohar wisdom, nothing more and nothing less. Because if not, it can easily fall into the trap of “false idol-worship” that the Zohar warns us about.
I absolutely believe that strange things do occur in one’s correction process. But I believe that they all happened for a reason, perhaps more people needed to have their eyes opened about what people can do to use Kabbalah to use and exploit others in this world, to do in fact the complete opposite of what Kabbalah is all about, but because the wisdom in it is so full of Light and so true, unscrupulous people can all too easily misuse its wisdom to control others. Perhaps it wasn’t their original intent, perhaps it’s not intentional, but the outcome is the same anyway. But it doesn’t make it any less evil. THAT’S the lesson that I learned most of all, Ivan. Even places that seem to have the most Light, can actually contain the most darkness, someone just needs to switch on the light or light a candle to reveal it.
Sharon, Ivan and all, Let me make it clear. The Daily Zohar will never ask for money for teaching and spreading the study of Zohar and Kabbalah. The Daily Zohar will soon celebrate three years (on Lag B’Omer) and I can say that I never asked people to donate money. I asked my brother that already expressed his desire to contribute before to help in paying for the big development of the transliteration program for the Entire Zohar. Few people approached me and offered to donate and share the merit of the Daily Zohar projects. If they ask if I need help I answer that everything is fine. If they ask how can they donate then I refer them to the link on the site. This policy will not change. I have my day job to support the family so I am not dependent on donation. Everything that comes in goes toward expansion and adding more features to the Daily Zohar. There are many projects in mind but I develop them as the budget permits. No urgency as it is all from the light. All projects are to provide more free services for the world. I can not even think about developing something using donation money and then ask others to pay for the service.
This explanation is not an invitation to donate but to explain the policy and testify to it so no one could come and change my mind. It is a promise. I am happy for everyone that come to the Daily Zohar and keep his candle lit. This is a great reward by itself.
The Daily Zohar doesn’t have any plans to be an enterprise like other orgs and the opposite is true. I DO NOT want to have building(s), classrooms and stuff to maintain. I see my work as purely spiritual. The Daily Zohar is intended to be a spiritual fountain of the Zohar for everyone to come, drink and carry their filled vessel with light to share with others. The Zohar is a connection to the Tree of Life that is ultimate sharing, light and life.
The Creator, bless be He, guided me into this work not as a business or money making system but to channel and share the gifts of knowledge I receive. I am trying to connect all kabbalah teaching from one portal, which is http://Tube.DailyZohar.com. It is where I gather videos related to Kabbalah from all organizations and teachers that publish it for free. It is okay for people to learn from everyone else. The system is about spreading light not just the Daily Zohar.
My goal is to keep more people connected to the Zohar and its light. The Daily study of the same Zohar section by many thousands of people around the world has power that will be revealed when we reach true spiritual unity. Few thousands people hugging shoulders in one physical place is a great emotional experience but having thousands of souls around the world reading the same Zohar everyday is a powerful vessel that draws awesome light. My goal is to have 600,000 people subscribed to the Daily Zohar having the same Zohar in front of their eyes. Can you imagine that?
With love to all.
>>>The Daily Zohar will never ask for money for
>>>teaching and spreading the study of Zohar and
>>>Kabbalah.
A lot of friends will be glad on that. This way money could be donated more directly for someone who has no opportunity for hard work or study and invite him/her on morning run or evening run and during that talk about the sparks of Light and preserving, growing trees and discussing among trees about Zohar, DZ while running, hiking.Maybe the reason why sometimes students needs organization with their rules and aditional barriers in access because this way protection for flowing money on some other way is spent or initiate desire for changes that could raise consiousness on the world behind our vision.
Thank you Zion. In our present world it is very hard to believe that someone would put themselves out for others as much as you do! To me you are a true righteous person a true Tzadik. I won’t deny it but I also had my doubts. I always ask Hashem to give me an answer when I am unsure by opening the Torah. You had exceptional reviews! And so did the holy book of the Zohar.. I have been doing this for many years and always get a very precise answer to my questions.
Love and blessings
D x
Thank you Zion. If you keep on this path, you will surely achieve your goal, with the help of Hashem, and all the people that you help to connect with the Zohar. I will pray for you always that you do and you will!
Love and Blessings to all,
Sharon
If a person follows the System then the light will guide him to wherever he needs to be. I explained that in previous articles as having a good GPS. You will hold the steering wheels but following the instruction will get you safely to your destinations. If the light tells you get up and move, you do so (Like Abraham in Lech Lecha). If you feel that you learned everything from a specific teacher then listen to the light (GPS) for the next instruction.
(G-od P-iloting S-ystem)
That is so true! GPS, I like that. Just like Abraham, we should just obey the Light. The Light is the one that tells you what to do that has nothing to do with your own desires whatsoever, but is still within you somehow. We just follow with joy and everything is revealed eventually. G-d’s plan for us.
I hope I am not out of line,I hope this post is ok… I would like to welcome Sharon to our DZ family. It sounds as if you have a lot of wisdom and light from G-d to add to our comment threads. I am glad you have found us and G-d willing I think we all look forward to your sharing of wisdom and light.
Thank you Hashem for Zion and this site.
Love Light and Blessing to all
Deborah and all, you can never go out of line here unless you use negative words against others.
I am not censoring comments unless they are from the evil side (or Spam comments).
Commenting and asking questions is a way to increase our vessel.
Dear Zion,
Thank you for not censoring me. I don’t believe that I’m coming from the evil side. I was conscious of not speaking lashon hara when I wrote my posts. I have been struggling with this since I had my experience with the corrupt place/s. Is it lashon hara when one is speaking one’s own truth based on one’s experience? No bitterness, no negativity is involved, but simply a desire to warn others not to make the same mistake of falling for their ways? In the end, I felt that warning others is not lashon hara. If I’m wrong, then may Hashem help me.
There are sites that warn about the Kabbalah cults but I ignored them at the time that I was involved in the big org. But I’ve been reading of other people’s experiences and I know that I’m not alone.
I’m not saying that the whole experience was negative. In fact I changed a lot about myself when I was involved with the big org. That’s something that I can’t deny. They helped me a lot (but yes, for a big price). That’s why I tried to help them in return, from the inside, to alert them to what was going on, this business with their obsession with money above all else to the detriment of helping people, but I realised that they weren’t interested in what I had to say. They had been doing this for over 30 years, making hundreds and millions of tax-free $$. I’m afraid the words of a nobody such as myself fell on their deaf ears. And so I left them and now speak out from the outside, but only when it’s necessary. (And after much prayer).
That place helped me to an extent. But I think now that I could’ve learned Kabbalah better elsewhere. That place didn’t teach the true meaning of love others as you love yourself, it didn’t practice it. So the community was a rather false one.
Stick to the Zohar, the teachings of Rav Yehuda Ashlag and the great Kabbalists, and you will always be protected. That’s my motto these days.
That’s why I’m loving the Daily Zohar site, Zion. And that’s why I shared my experiences with you, because I pray that your site will not fall into the same trap as well. I sincerely doubt it to be honest with you. Just keep doing what you’re doing, this wonderful work that you do. Hashem will take care of the rest
He always does!
Love and Light, Sharon
Thank you Sharon, You have a great motto, share it with others.
Blessings,
Zion
Thanks Zion. I will!
Thank you for welcoming me, Deborah. I hoped that my posts weren’t out of line as well, but I found myself needing to share the whole experience that I went through to all of you, because it could happen to you too, and I need to do something to make sure that doesn’t happen. Hopefully, Chas V’Shalom, it never will happen to any of you. But that’s my experience for what it’s worth. I shared it for the purpose of helping others not to make the same mistake.
Love and Light to all.
Thank you Zion and Sharon. I am sure you(Sharon) have signed up for the DZ readings and I am looking forward to reading your insights and comments. As I have gain so much from all the DZ family.
Light-Love and Blessings to all!!
Thank you Deborah! I’m just happy to hear from others who are on this site and connecting to the Zohar daily. It gives me so much joy!
Love and Blessings,
Sharon