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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 secrets of the Torah are the inner processes that take place in our desires under the light’s influence. By attaining the most profound processes in the universe, man corrects the animal level of his desire (by comprehending the Creator’s actions, he becomes similar to Him at the deepest levels of his desire) and extends the soul’s point of Neshama, which develops in 248 and 365 of its organs. Naturally, this part too consists of 248 and 365 sub-parts, albeit on a different level. If the world of Assiya is a general inanimate movement devoid of the intention for the Creator’s sake, the world of Yetzira is a yet undefined general intention, and the world of Beria is an advancement by way of the Torah and commandments. The world of Beria may be characterized as the light and the Kli. This is a very high spiritual level of the secrets of the Torah and the tastes of the commandments. In the picture you see the still (Shoresh, 0), the vegetative (Aleph, 1), the animal (Bet, 2) levels of desire. These are desires on the level of Neshama, i.e., of absolute bestowal, when man acquires the property of Bina. 244
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 part, still, vegetative, and animal, in the world Assiya of the Sefira Bina helps the person’s Partzuf Neshama to receive the complete light from the Sefira Bina. This is also called a “pure animal”, because it is meant for the correction of the animal level of the person’s body. The nature of its luminescence is the same as that in the animal level of the material world described above; it gives the individual a sense of life to each of the 613 organs of the Partzuf. Thus, they feel independent of the Partzuf to the degree that the 613 organs become the 613 Partzufim and each of them contains its special, individual light. Man is isolated from others in our world. Unlike plants that turn towards the sun, he can move independently. In contrast to plants and animals that are born and die at a certain time (it is less pronounced in animals than in plants, although they mate at specific periods of the year), man is entirely free in his movements, in the sensation of the past and future, in his contact with the world, etc. The soul that reaches the level of Neshama is similarly individual. When this completely individual Partzuf Neshama emerges, the superiority of this light over the light of Ruach in the spiritual world is equivalent to the difference between the animal, vegetative, and still levels of nature in the material world. In addition, a point of the light Haya is placed in the Partzuf Neshama. Further, man continues developing the level of Haya. 49. When a person merits receiving the great light called Neshama and the 613 organs of this Partzuf are each shining with its complete light aimed at him, each of them as a separate Partzuf, the person discovers an opportunity to observe every commandment with the true intent. A special light of every commandment is shining upon every organ (desire) of the Partzuf Neshama (Baal HaSulam speaks of the 245
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