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
The fourth period is the work after rising from the dead. It means
that the desire to receive that completely disappeared, died and was
buried, rises from the dead in its biggest and worst appearance, as it
is said, “In the future, the dead will rise with all their defects”, and
then turn them into receiving for the sake of giving.
Some special individuals are given this work during their lifetime in
this world.
Baal HaSulam says that there are people, who complete this work
and reach the levels that are above the “resurrection of the dead”, when
Lev HaEven becomes completely corrected. This is the level we are destined
to achieve.
33. Now, there is the sixth analysis left to understand. As it is said
by the sages, all worlds, upper and lower, were created only for man,
not for anything else. At first glance, it seems very strange that the
Creator has tried to create all of this for such an insignificant creature
like man, who is like a grain of sand in this world in comparison
with the whole universe, let alone with the spiritual worlds.
The matter concerns man’s feelings, his mental and spiritual parameters.
How can we compare ourselves with the Upper Worlds, when
even our world, our universe is a tiny grit in the great cosmos with regard
to the smallest level of the Upper World?
We are told that man is created to become the master of all the
worlds, to include all of them within him, and that nothing exists except
for man with all the worlds within him. How can this be? It utterly contradicts
our ideas about ourselves, and the universe that we know by our
sensations.
It is even stranger to realize why man needs all these Upper spiritual
worlds? What is this universe for? How can we use it? We do
not even properly know our own planet. We have no idea
of what is a couple of miles below us, or a couple of parsecs
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