Unlocking the Zohar by Michael Laitman

Author:Michael Laitman [Laitman, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Judaism, Sacred Writings, Kabbalah & Mysticism
ISBN: 9781897448595
Google: RyAlGWtFxnUC
Amazon: 1897448597
Publisher: Laitman Kabbalah Publishers
Published: 2011-05-15T22:00:00+00:00

PREFACE

TO THE BOOK OF ZOHAR

1) The depth of wisdom in the holy Book of Zohar is enclosed and caged behind a thousand locks, and our human tongue too poor to provide us with sufficient, reliable expressions to interpret one thing in this book to its end. Also, the interpretation I have made is but a ladder to help the examiner rise to the height of the matters and examine the words of the book itself. Hence, I have found it necessary to prepare the reader and give him a route and an inlet in reliable definitions concerning how one should contemplate and study the book.

2) First, you must know that all that is said in The Book of Zohar, and even in its legends, is denominations of the ten Sefirot, called KHB (Keter, Hochma, Bina), HGT (Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet), NHYM (Netzah, Hod, Yesod, Malchut), and their permutations. Just as the twenty-two letters of the spoken language, whose permutations suffice to uncover every object and every concept, the concepts, and permutations of concepts, in the ten Sefirot suffice to disclose all the wisdom in the book of Heaven. However, there are three boundaries that one must be very prudent with, and not exceed them while studying the words of the book.

3) First boundary: There are four categories in the conduct of learning, called "Matter," "Form in Matter," "Abstract Form," and "Essence." It is the same in the ten Sefirot. Know that The Book of Zohar does not engage at all in the Essence and the Abstract Form in the ten Sefirot, but only in the Matter in them, or in the Form in them, while clothed in Matter4) Second boundary: We distinguish three discernments in the comprehensive, Godly reality concerning the creation of the souls and the conduct of their existence:

Ein Sof (Infinity);

The world of Atzilut;

The three worlds called Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya.

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