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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 spiritual light of the vegetative level is able to shine in a special way to each of the 613 organs of the Partzuf Ruach. Every organ expresses its special power of this act. When the Partzuf Ruach is born, it receives the point of a higher level that is the point of the Partzuf Neshama. The same principle works in the worlds AK, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. Each world is at its own level of GE, its AHP always being at the level of the lower world. Their ends overlap, as in a telescopic antenna, while none of them exists by itself. It turns out that no Partzuf has an independent, free part. In any of them, we see that its entire top, GE, dresses onto the upper Partzuf, whereas its bottom, AHP, sits inside the lower Partzuf. In other words, all of our thoughts or desires are connected with either the upper or the lower level. Therefore, development is only possible thanks to this connection. I cannot possibly rise higher 242
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 than my own level, unless I bond with the Upper level and receive desire, MAN, from the lower level. Every one of us is just a link in a chain and can only rise if he connects with the upper Partzuf and pulls all the others up. It is impossible to advance alone, without being connected with the group. 48. However, when a person attains the secrets of the Torah and the tastes of the commandments, he corrects the animal level of his will to receive. By doing this, he expands and builds the point of Neshama that dresses into the 248 and 365 organs of his body. We have studied how man advances in the worlds Assiya and Yetzira. In the world of Yetzira, he already has a different attitude to his duties and responsibilities. Unlike in Assiya, where he was not aware of what he was dealing with, in Yetzira he already distinguishes between the desires of bestowal and reception and acts accordingly. The next level of correction, the world of Beria, is where man studies the secrets of the Torah and the tastes of the commandments. In Beria, he begins to treat his desires (created in us by the Creator) and the light, the power that he receives from above, in a very different way. What is his attitude to it? How does it feel to be between something that the Creator created in him and the power that He sends to him now? Man receives the Kelim and the light, and has to position himself correctly between these two sources of desire and pleasure. At the level of Beria, he continues advancing, while attaining the secrets of the Torah and the tastes of the commandments. The Torah is the most general light that influences us. What is the meaning of “the general light’s secrets” and “the tastes of the commandments”? Man already reaches a level where he feels the light of Hochma (wisdom), from which he attains the secrets, i.e., how the light created the creation, how it corrects it, adapts it to itself, and absorbs it. The 243
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