Introduction to the Book of Zohar (PDF) - Kabbalah Media Archive

I N T RO D U C T I O N T O T H E B O O K O F Z O H A R
every one of us. We ought to long for the tremendous Upper Light to
descend upon all of us. There are many of us; we have a large group all
over the world. We go through many different states and live in different
conditions. With our combined effort, we can draw a very intensive Upper
Light that would correct us; we should only want it.
It all depends on the intensity of our desire. If it reaches its maximum
(it is really in our power), we will be corrected and achieve the first
spiritual level.
While we are in this state (of 6000 years), only the souls are corrected,
but not the bodies. This means that we must relinquish all the
desires to receive for ourselves called the attributes of the body, and
remain only with the desire to bestow known as a spiritual desire.
Plainly speaking, we do not correct the body itself during the six
thousand years. This means that we are unable to correct “Lev HaEven”
(heart of stone), our original egoism. We can only do it by ascending to
the higher-level called “AHP de Aliya”.
Even the souls of the righteous cannot be in the Garden of Eden (a
specific level in the world of Atzilut) after death (when one’s
egoism dies), but only after their bodies rot in the ground.
We have talked about the meaning of the “bodies rotting in the
ground”. We know that it constitutes a complete revocation of our egoism
(we perform Tzimtzum). Egoism becomes completely detached from
us and we only work with the properties we receive from Above - GE
(desires of bestowal).
All of our Kelim de Kabbalah (vessels of reception) are restricted. By
refraining from using them, we seemingly bury them in the ground to
rot. What does this “rotting” mean? It is as though we examine each of
those desires and acquire Kelim de Ashpa’a, GE (vessels of bestowal). Abstaining
from the use of these desires is called “decomposition” of these
desires. We will discuss it later.
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