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
These actions raise the outer part of the nations of the world,
prevail over the inner part, and consequently the destructive elements
within the nations of the world prevail over Israel.
Thus, through suffering, everything facilitates the return to a state
where Galgalta Eynaim, the souls of Israel, draw the Upper light to
the world.
68. Do not be surprised by the fact that even an individual person,
through his or her deeds, can cause an elevation or degradation of
the whole world. This is an unalterable law that the whole and its
parts are as identical as two drops of water. Everything that occurs
in the whole occurs in its parts as well, and vice versa. Furthermore,
whatever happens in the parts happens in the whole, because the
whole is only revealed through the manifestation of its individual
parts, according to both their measure and quality.
We are all dependent on one another. Until all of us have their vessels
corrected, no one will be able to achieve full individual correction.
The complete, truly absolute correction is when not only I am corrected
through the world, but through me the whole world reaches the same
state. We are all parts of one universe, one closed system, one soul called
Adam, which emerged from the zero point.
Kabbalah correlates the notion of the zero point with the creation
of Adam. What is Adam? Adam is the spiritual point in man’s heart.
We all originate from this point, from which all the Kelim of HaBaD,
HaGaT, and NHY
– Tohu, Torah, and Mashiach – began to emerge.
Baal HaSulam writes:
So certainly, the influence of every soul, i.e., each one of us, may
lower or elevate the whole system, all the Kelim of HaBaD, HaGaT,
and NHY.
This is how we can understand what is written in “The Zohar” that
through the study of this book and the practice of the true wisdom,
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