KabbalaOnline.org Terumah 5783 The Holy Zohar Insights on the Torah Reading
KabbalaOnline.org Terumah 5783 The Holy Zohar Insights on the Torah Reading
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The World as a Walnut
The Zohar
As
Rabbi Aba explains, the way the Tabernacle, where the holy Shechina
dwelt, was built, was similar to her dwelling place in the spiritual world of Atzilut. The Tabernacle was like a station
built to receive a transmission. This station gathered the force of the Shechina
from every side and from above (in the spiritual world) and below (in the
physical world). Until Moses
built the Tabernacle, the spiritual power of G‑d was not openly transmitted to a place on
earth. As a result, the world was a dwelling place for the " kelipot",
spiritual powers seemingly removed from the presence of the Holy. By building a
place for worship and praise of the Holy Presence on earth, Moses broke the
power of the kelipot and caused divine abundance to flow into
the world. (RaMaK)
[So
the way the Tabernacle was built was likened] to the physical body. In the
same way as a person's consciousness [literally "brain"] influences
from within its encasing, so too the holy spirit is made within a body….
This is the secret of the holy Shechina that contains the
Above and Below, the secret of the holy spirit, that is connected in the
spiritual world and revealed in the physical world. The Shechina is
always drawn down from the spiritual to manifest in the physical; this is the
secret of the Tabernacle as a "body" built to receive the
"brain" within its shell. This was all done in accordance with Moses'
vision.
The
holy spirit of the Shechina, became dressed, as it were, in the body of
the Tabernacle. This was in order that a different spirit would be infused in
it - a higher finer brightness - the light from the name Havayah, the
"masculine aspect" of G‑d. All was united together and included one within
the other, entering and dressing each within the other, until the Shechina
united with this world, which is the outermost shell from the spiritual world.
This dressing, represents the drawing down of the Infinite into the finite
through a series of layers such as those that were the skins over the
Tabernacle. (RaMaK)
The
shell of This World is the most physically manifested of all [the
three shells that are the contraction of the spiritual light which seem to
create entities separate from their source. These shells, or kelipot,
are] like the shells of the walnut growing on its tree. The outer, green
shell, is not the hardest shell [it is soft and damp], whereas the shell
beneath it is hard [like wood]; this is like the negative spirit [i.e.
tendencies] that govern the physical body. Beneath this shell is another,
finer, shell - the membrane which covers the brain [the source of the
spirit and consciousness in man].
Zohar Page
140b; translation and commentary by Simcha-Shmuel Treister
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