It may seem that it’s more enjoyable to read The Zohar peacefully, without exerting any effort. But we must demand the intention for every word, and it’s not simple. We shouldn’t consent to simply read The Zohar and letting the words flow through the ears. Rather, each word should represent an opportunity to break into the text, as if being an entrance to it.
Read more »Being In One Intention With The Light
A question I received: It usually takes time to enter the flow of The Zohar’s text. How can we speed up this entrance?
My Answer: This depends on a person’s state. It takes me at least 20 minutes, sometimes up to 40, to begin feeling The Zohar and connecting to it, to begin working together with it in one shared breathing, floating on its waves.
Read more »Piecing Together The Language Of The Zohar
The Zohar, Chapter “Ki Tazria (When a Woman Delivers),” Item 162: “A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin…on the evidence of two witnesses.”
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Text of Parshah: Ki Tisa
The Main Thing Is The Intention
The Zohar, Chapter "BeHaalotcha (When You Mount the Candles)," Item 4: “It is as a bridegroom coming out of his Huppah (wedding canopy).” The sun, Zeir Anpin, spreads to the west, Malchut. When the west approaches, the north side, Gevura, rises up against her first, approaches the west, and mates with her in her place.
Read more »We Only Need Patience
When we read The Book of Zohar, we have to demand spiritual elevation. The demand can happen even through our sensation of being close to this book, the feeling that we value it, that we want it to shines upon us and perform changes inside us.
Read more »The Great Commission
When we are asked by leaders in our congregations to do something or to believe something in regards to Scripture, we should always be like the Bereans and test everything against Scripture itself (Acts 17:11)... the whole of Scripture (2 Tim 3:16-17). If a person feels "led by the spirit" to speak, behave, or believe a certain way, they should test that spirit (1 John 4:1) and see whether what that spirit is telling them to do is in agreement or disagreement with Scripture.
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Text of Parshah with Rashi: Mishpatim
A modern English translation of the full text of the Parshah with the classic commentary by Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, 1040-1105), universally regarded as the most basic tool for understanding the meaning of the text for schoolchild and scholar alike.
Read more »Are You Asking Yourself The Right Question During Zohar Study?
A question I received: While reading The Book of Zohar, I try to imagine what I am reading within my own desire, but this makes me disconnect from the text and submerge into my internal stresses. I then realize that I have lost focus and it is as if I am floating away, not understanding anything. What should I do?
Read more »Advancing From The Branches To The Spiritual Roots
All “holy” books describe the spiritual work that takes place in different parts of Malchut on various levels and in various combinations with each other. A person has to reveal all these phenomena inside himself. Then he will know what they are called even without reading about it in a book. He will know what is Esau, David, the names of different angels, and so on. He will learn all these processes inside his soul.
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"Now there was about this time, Yeshua (Eaysoos in Greek), a wise man, if it be lawful
to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive
the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the
Gentiles. He was Mashiach (Christos in Greek); and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the
principal men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first
did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine
prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and
the tribe of "Christians" (followers of Messiah), so named from him, are not extinct at this
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[Antiquities of the Jews, book 18, chapter 3, paragraph 3; Yosef ben Mattityahu a.k.a Josephus]
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