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 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
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