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Parashat Lech Lecha

from the Holy Tanna Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai

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Contents – Zohar Chok, Parashat Lech Lecha Tefillot Before Learning the Zohar...……………………i Day 1 – Parashat Lech Lecha – 76b.…………………….1 - Coming close to Hashem through tzedakah and Torah learning.

Day 2 – Parashat Lech Lecha – 78b……………………14 - The final judgment and accounting before death.

Day 3 – Parashat Lech Lecha – 81b……………………26 - Avraham’s test in descending to Mitzrayim.

Day 4 – Parashat Lech Lecha – 83a……………………37 - The ascent of the nefesh during nighttime sleep.

Day 5 – Parashat Lech Lecha – 85a……………………46 - Losing spiritual levels through association with bad people.

Day 6 – Parashat B’reishit – 47b..………………………54 - Resting on the Seventh Day, Shabbat.

Day 7 – Parashat Yitro –88b...….……………………….60 - The 2nd and 3rd Shabbat meals and the spiritual power of Shabbat.

Lashon HaKodesh translation of the Parasha...……….73 Tefillah After Learning the Zohar...……………………82 Extras……………………………………………………85

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Tefillah Before Learning

Tefillah Before Learning the Zohar

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A Kabbalistic Unification

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A Kabbalistic Unification To Say Before Learning The Zohar from the Sefer 'Sod Hashem'

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Tefillah for Healing

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Tefillah for Healing and for Salvation from Difficulties

ĘČý ĤĀ Ļø üĕ ĕ ýĜ øŁĚü ďēĀ Čþ Ę ĀŊ čĐŖČ ý ĕ üĜĕĤý Đú ÿđ ,ŝŖĚ ĀŊ ŝĞú Ĥý øĘ ŕĀ čø Đÿ ČĀ øđ Ęĺþ ĐĻý Ğú Ħ ÿđ øĢĚü ĕ ÿĘĞĀ Ę ýŁģÿ Ěø ĕ üĜĕĤý Đú ěČ Āė øđ) Ġ"čĠ ... ĦŅė øĒ üĘ ĺŖďŒĀ Đÿ ĤĐāÿ ņĐÿ ĤĠþ ĝý øŁ ďāĚ øĘ üĘ ĕŐü ĦČþ ěŌý ÿĒĚø ĕ üĜĕĤý Đú ÿđ ,ĕďāü ČĚŅ ø ĕĺü Ġø ÿĜ øŊ ŅĐČý ŐĀ Ĥø üĕ øđ] ŅĐģý øĒēÿ øĕ ŖĤčĀ Ńø ē ÿĘĺø üĕ ęĈŔý Đÿ [... ęĕ üĜ ĀŁ øĘ] [ ... ĦĞŅĺ ÿ øĕ] [...ĦČŅĠ ÿ Ĥø üĘ] (ŖĦĺĀ ŒĀ ÿŁ ĔĤý ĠĀ øĕ ŜĕĤü Čú ÿĕ øđ ĘČý ĤĀ Ļø üĕ ĕ ýĘŖē ĤČĀ ĺø ŜŖĦ øŁ đĕďĕĀ üł Đ"ĝĀ ĺŅ ø đĕĤĀ čĀ Čý ē"Ěÿ Ĥø üŁ ğŅłĐÿ ĦČŅĠ ÿ ĤŅø ĺĠþ þōĐÿ ĦČŅĠ ÿ Ĥø üŁ .Đ ĀĘĝþ ěĚý ČĀ [... ęĕĚü ēú Ĥÿ øđ ĐĞŅĺ Ā øĕ Ĥčÿ ďø üŁ ŅĐĞĕý ĺŖĕ ü øđ] [ęĕĚĕü Ğü øō ÿŁ đĕĦŖĜ Ā ĺŅ ø đĕĚĀ Āĕ I hereby receive upon myself the positive mitzvah of 'V'ahavta L'reiecha Kamocha' ('And you will love you friend like yourself'), and I hereby love every single one of the Jewish people like [I love] my own soul and my own possessions, and I hereby invite my mouth to learn in the Sefer HaZohar HaKadosh for the merit of _____ ben/bat _____, for their [healing...] [salvation from...][that they should have children][etc]. Hashem will send His word and He will strengthen him [and He will heal him with a healing of the nefesh and a healing of the body in his 248 limbs and his 365 sinews among the rest of the Jewish people who are ill, and He will lengthen his days and years with pleasantnesses] [and He will save him with a word of salvation and compassion...] Amen, Selah.

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Lech Lecha Day 1

– Lech Lecha 76b – Coming close to Hashem through tzedakah and Torah learning. The Zohar begins with the verse (B’reishit 12:1) where Hashem tells Avraham:

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.!#" %$ &')( *& - and so he therefore brought himself close on the emotional level.

(!" #$%!&) ,'$ (&)* (+ ,-! , .+.! - That is what is meant by what is written (Tehilim 45:8):

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(!" #$%&') ( )'*" $+,-$ $./0. - Rebbi Yosei opened with the verse (Tehilim 84:2):

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!" #$" &% (' )*+!* !-, . - Said Rebbi Elazar (An important general principle to remember: When the Zohar writes ‘Rebbi so-and-so said’, it means that the Rabbi worked to awaken a certain spiritual root above to bring down this teaching. When it writes ‘Said Rebbi so-and-so’, as it states here, it means that the Rabbi was first inspired from above, as if the teaching was said by itself with the Rabbi simply transmitting it.):

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Regarding chochma being called ‘sister’, we find in the Tikunei Zohar and a few other places in the Zohar, about Moshe Rabbeinu, that “his sister stood from afar.” This hints to the fact that chochma (a flash of wisdom or insight) is like standing from afar because it is a surrounding light that comes into the mind. Further, Shlomo HaMelech says, “It says I will be wise, and it is far away from me.” The Gemara learns from this verse that a person should not say anything from the Torah unless it is as clear to him as the fact that his sister is forbidden to him. This seems to be a strange parable that the Rabbis are using here. But the great depth behind it is that the connection between brother and sister is drawn from the connection of chochma and bina, which correspond to the Yud and Heh of Hashem’s name. They are called ‘two friends who are never separate’, but the unification is a spiritual one, in the mind, just like the unification of brother and sister is something spiritual, in the mind - it has no physical manifestation. continued…

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What is special about Avraham and Sarah is that besides the unification of the lower seven sefirot that every couple has between them in their physical and emotional relationship, living in the world, they also merited to a unification in their upper three sefirot. This unification was completely spiritual and connected to the Shechina in everything, and only through Hashem’s chochma, the deepest levels. !

Because of that, he was afraid that in Mitzrayim, which is a very strong negative force, when they saw his high level of kedusha, they would try to grab it for themselves, chas v’shalom. As it says that Mitzrayim was like the other three sefirot on the side of evil, as there are 10 sefirot on the negative side opposite the 10 sefirot on the good side. Hashem made everything with its opposite. ! !

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.!"#$%&$ '$( )* +, +,&) -+ - “…and you speak to us…” At the Giving of the Torah, the Jewish people asked Moshe to speak because they could not handle Hashem’s direct communication from the level of Keter. The ‘you’ (Moshe) indicates the level of Chochma, whose source is from the Shechina. !

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The Zohar is explaining how chochma and bina are something like an intermediary between us and the light of the Keter, the Crown, which was revealed at the Giving of the Torah, in the 620 letters of the Aseret HaDibrot. So too, Avraham and Sarah, chochma and bina, were intermediaries to bring this light of the Keter into the world, through establishing a root in Mitzrayim. Generations later this level of the Keter saved their descendants who were slaves in Mitzrayim. While Mitzrayim had the opposing force of the kedusha on the levels of chochma, bina, and daat, they had no access to the Keter, because it has no opposite aspect on the Other Side. Thus, when Hashem revealed His Infinite Light through the Keter, with the 10th plague, Mitzrayim was completely subjugated, and our ancestors went out free. !

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!"#$%'& (& )% *+%*,-* %*./$ &0 - “My nefesh is yearning for you, Hashem, at night…” because the night represents darkness and withholding, and we know that yearning is increased through something being held back. Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

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!"#$" !"#%& % #(' )* !()" +$, -) - In the book of Rav Yeiva Sava, a Kabbalistic text written by this peer and colleague of the Rabbis of the Zohar, it explains our verse, “And he rested on the seventh day,” saying:

!"! $# %& ' !( - This is referring to the Yovel year, the 50th year, the culmination of the 7 sets of the 7-year shmitta cycle, when there is rest for the whole world. This is the level of drawing from Bina, a higher state of rest that is above Malchut, which draws us into connection with the upper Shechina. !

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– Yitro 88b – The 2nd and 3rd Shabbat meals and the spiritual power of Shabbat.

This is the piece for every Shabbat of the year, to complete the weekly cycle of the Chok L'Yisrael Zohar (you will notice that each parasha has only six days).

,!"#$" $%# &' ! "' "()*%+,& ,! "'%,. - %/ !0" 1$%, - On the day of Shabbat, about the Second Meal,

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.'! "#" $%& '%(&% #) *+ ,- "Then you shall delight upon Hashem..."

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.!" #$%& "'( )!*+! ,- " #. #-'/01' - and certainly this is His meal. At that time of the second meal, the King gives out all of his treasures, everyone puts on royal garments, and we are able to act in the most regal, highest way because the light of Atika is spreading out and raising everything, all of the partzufim, up to its level.

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.!"#%"$ & $')( *)+(,$ .*/0/)1 - are blessed from that completion.

,!" #$ %&'()*,+ " #&-.0/ 1) 2%3 45, "#(,% ' - A person must rejoice in his meals,

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,!"#$ %&$'(" #) !*$ ') ,$+*,-# ! *./0'1"2$1' " #) - that is supernal emunah, that is theirs, Yisrael’s connection to the Malchut, to the Shechina,

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,!#" %$ ' & ( ) *+, &-./ &01 & #( ,*)"2#( ) "3 $-+,&45( - At these meals, it is decreed upon Yisrael, the Jewish people,

.!"#%$ '& ()*+$ ,-.("! #$ - that they are the children of the King.

,!"#%$ '& $( !"%)" *+,'+ -./*0! $1 - And that they are from the palace of the King, that they have a vessel to receive connection to Ain Sof, to actualize what is intrinsically inside of them, that it should become experiential and expressed in what they do in the world - that they can do external, physical activities and be connected to the Shechina. So they are both intrinsically children of the King, and they are from the palace of the King,

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,! "#$%&'()*'& ()%+& ,$-(.! &/ - that they are the children of emunah, to spread out the light of Malchut in the universe,

,!"#$ #%&(' ) *+ *,!-$. ,%/ 0#'12* $3 4)(% ! - and one who has a defect in one of the meals, which is his root connection that can spread out into the world,

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,!"# #$%&(' !%)+* -, ./01* "! #$%& '( )*+",-' . *+/0' 1'# - and he shows that he is not from the children of the supernal King,

!"# !$%'& )( &* !"! #! $%& $%')( "! #$%& '( - that he is not from the children of the palace of the King,

.!"# $!% '& ) ( * + (, !& + *.0/ !"! $%# &(' )*!+ #, - that he is not from the Holy seed of Yisrael, because he does not actualize the meal and thus does not allow the root connection to manifest, even though he has it inside of himself all of the time. He therefore appears as if he does not have the connection, which is a big blemish for him,

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May it find favor before you Hashem my G-d and G-d of my forefathers, that what is written in the Torah should be fulfilled upon us now: "And I have put my words in your mouth and I have covered you with the shadow of my hand," to elevate, to lift up high, and to fix the destruction and ruins of the Shechina HaKedosha, to the adornment and upper curtain, and to the palace which sits on its foundation, to return the crown to its ancient glory and to fulfill for us what is written in the Torah: "And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun and the light of the sun will be sevenfold the light of the seven days." And the merit of the Rashbi HaKadosh and his son Rebbi Elazar, and Yotam ben Uziahu, to stand us up to fix the world from the day it was created until its end, according to His will and according to the ones who are in awe of Him. And in the merit of us being involved with this wisdom, bring the final redemption through it, and sprout salvation quickly, for the elevation of our powerful Shechina, quickly in our days. And to fulfill what is written in the Torah: "Elokim said, 'There is light.'"And the light of Hashem will shine on us. "On that day, Hashem will be One and His name will be one." Amen, netzach, sela, va'ed.

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The Power Of An Hour: Making Time To Learn The Zohar "There is a great obligation, and subsequently a great reward, for studying the Kabbalah. For study of the Zohar builds worlds, and if an individual is able to learn and understand the commentary of just one ma'amar, he will complete a tikun Above in a single hour – what he would otherwise accomplish only in an entire year of learning p'shat." (Kisei Melech - Tikunei Zohar, 43) "And for someone who is not well versed in the Kabbalah, and does not understand it, the study of the Holy Zohar, even by simply reading the text, carries the same value as if he studied the text in depth." (Kaf HaChaim, 155) The above comes to teach us that if an individual learns Zohar for even one hour, and even if he only recites the text, it is as if he studied the revealed Torah for an entire year. And when he learns the Zohar with joy, he increases his merits by a thousand, as is written, "When a person studies with joy, it is a thousand times more valuable then one who does not study with joy." (Orchot Tzaddikim, Gate of Joy) As well, Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim, zt"l wrote, "One hour of Torah study on Shabbat is worth one thousand hours of Torah studies on a weekday." (Ben Ish Chai, Parshat Shemos, second year) How can one hour of study of the Holy Zohar on the holy Shabbat be equal to a million years of learning the p'shat on a weekday? Let us make the calculation: One hour of study of the Zohar equals an entire year of studying p'shat, and on Shabbat multiply that by 1000, and if the learning is done with joy, then multiply by another 1000. The final total value of the learning is one million years, for only one hour of learning!

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"Question: Is a Baal Teshuvah permitted to occupy himself with the study of the Sefer HaZohar? Can he not repair his neshama with the study of nigla [the revealed part of the Torah]? Answer: A Baal Teshuvah needs to occupy himself very much with the revealed aspects of the Torah and mainly with the halachot in order to know the way he has to travel and the actions he is required to perform, until he will be proficient in the laws of the Torah, in particular the sections dealing with everyday conduct, specifically the section Orach Chaim of the Shulchan Aruch, as the Chafetz Chaim writes in his introduction to the Mishna Berura. The Baal Teshuva has a great level as it is written: 'In the place where Baalei Teshuvah stand, Complete Tzaddikim cannot stand there.' It is fitting for him to study the Sefer HaZohar, and especially the selections of the Zohar that appear in the Chok L'Yisrael, in order to purify his soul. And how good and comely it will be if this Baal Teshuvah will come to the level of bringing merit to other Jews and will awaken other Baalei Teshuvah to occupy themselves with the study of the Halacha and the Sefer HaZohar, and in this way the teshuvah of these Jews will be accepted by the Holy One Blessed be He." - Sefer Tikkun Olam

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