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We're now going to do something of great value,
we're going to start a shiur (talk) on the Zohar
The Sacred Zohar.
This is a very complex concept
profound, difficult
and the most difficult thing is to decode
the messages it contains.
Before we start and to give time for everyone
to arrive
I would like to hear your ideas
on what you think the Zohar actually is
I'd like to hear your ideas
to get some idea
of what you've heard, what you believe it to be.
Then we'll put your ideas into focus
and after that
begin the class
because
for 5 minutes I'd like to listen to some
of your comments
about
your ideas on what it is.
It's the Soul of the Torah,
the Soul of the Torah
in all its deepest meaning.
The most profound aspects of the Torah
the wisdom
and the deepest meanings of the Torah.
To be able to understand it ...
The Torah uncovered
without klipot (Hebrew = shell, husk)
the written Torah and also the oral tradition.
Does anyone have anything to add?
Secrets - secrets of what?
secrets probably obtained by
a system of extraordinary perception or meditation.
Could you repeat that please, I liked what I was hearing?
Probably obtained through a system of meditation, of some special perception
beyond what is considered normal.
OK, now I have some idea of what you think the Zohar is
Any more ideas?
Good. So now
we shall start the class on the Zohar, today is
October30th 2011 and we are at
the Yehiel Foundation
Yehiel Foundation
and we are about to begin a shiur on the Sacred Zohar
and, of course, on its author Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai
and we're going to start by describing
what exactly the Zohar is, first the basic concepts, who Rabi Shimón Bar Yohai is
and after that
we'll go directly to the secrets of the Torah.
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai was a rabbi
who lived in Galilee, which today is part of Israel,
During the Roman Occupation
after the destruction of the Second Temple
at the end of the First Century
and the beginning of the Second century of the Common Era.
He died in Meron
on the 18 Iyar
and during his life this man was extremely vocally critical of
the Roman Governor
against the Governor
who condemned him
to death. He escaped from the Romans and hid in a
cave for 13 years with his son and his followers
to escape this sentence
and during these 13 years his wisdom evolved
to an extraordinary
level, and without him the Zohar
would never have been bequeathed to us.
He was a pupil of Rabbi Akiva Ben Josef
and the secrets
to which
he refers
did not originate in this world.
The Zohar is written
in Aramaic
and is a commentary
parasha (passage from the Torah) by parasha
the biblical text, in other words from the Jumash (the Torah in book form as opposed to the scroll)
although it also has
an introduction entitled 'Preliminaries'
which is quite thorough
and says that the Secrets of the Torah
gathered together in the Zohar or 'The Splendour' or 'The Book of Splendour'
or, in other words,
that which explains what we ourselves are incapable of explaining,
comes from another world.
In the cave where he spent 13 years
he was visited by
beings who were not human
beings called
angels, prophets
extratrrestrials, beings from another dimension,
and there were three in particular.
First the Angel Metatron
who is the chief of all the angels.
He is an
eminence in the spiritual world
within the structure
of spiritual forces
who have no physical manifestation.
Metatron is the uppermost.
He appeared to Rabbi Shimob Bar Yohai
to explain the secrets of the Torah.
He expained
the evolution of humanity from its beginnings to its
end
and expained how
he was going to redeem the world.
He expalined all of the Torah
and then
during
the process of studying
the Torah in these 13 years
he is visited by the prophet Elijah,
Elijah the Prophet,
and is also visited by
Moses
who is referred to in the Zohar as
'the faithful Shepherd'
Moses is called the faithful shepherd
the texts of Moshe Rabenu, Moses,
are the most profound texts to be found in the Zohar.
The Zohar is
structured
like a conversation
between
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai and his followers
who are 4 in number.
One of these is Rabbi Eleazor, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yoheji's son
Rabbi Yosef Hiya
Rabbi Yehuda
and Rabbi Isaac
and these 4 pupils
with Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai
and they're going to have ...
The Zohar is structued like a conversation
a debate
on different subjects 0:08:39.500,0:08:42. of the Torah
between the pupils and their Master
between the Master and Metatron
between the Master and his pupils and Elijah the Prophet
and between the Master and his pupils and Moses.
And here we have something
totally metaphysical
because
Metatron was Enosh (grandson of Adam and Eve)
Janoch
Elijah the Prophet is from another era 0:09:10.670,0:09:13. and Moses as well 0:09:13.550,0:09:16. and the Zohar talks of them as if
they are people whio were present,
physically with them, in their body 0:09:23.820,0:09:27. and who materialised to explain
secrets
which, in this world, we can't possibly explain.
The Torah
as we know it
is the biblical text
and consists of a series of 0:09:42.560,0:09:47. stories
some 0:09:48.880,0:09:50.0 terrible
some beautiful 0:09:52.670,0:09:55. but which all contain 0:09:55.980,0:09:57. a hidden message
within them
called 'The Secret Codes of the Torah'
and these codes came down decoded to Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai and to all his
followers
in the cave
I just mentioned
in a way that allows us to consider the Torah as
the body
of a pedagogical
message
and we can consider the Zohar to be the soul of this body
or rather
a little more than the body. To understand what the Torah is just as when
we want to get to know a person
his physical appearance can give us an idea but when we speak to him
and see what kind of personality and
what qualities or shortcomings he has then we see the soul of that person
and we get rather a different idea than that which his physical appearance
gave us.
It's the same with the Torah
in its tales and
stories
we get
an idea but after, when
with the secrets of the Zohar, we get to its soul
and then begin to know G-d and His
enormous depths -
there is a
law to
the secrets of the Torah
as follows:
if you don't know Him
and it's not possible to know G-d
just as it's impossible to know a person without interacting with them
it is not possible to interact with G-d without knowing the secrets of the Torah.
just like nobody can have
faith
with any great certainty
or have love for his Creator
if he doesn't know the secrets of the Zohar
and doesn't know the Divine Essence
which underlies these texts.
if we want to know how G-d is we have to study the Zohar.
And, if my class is successful,
and this is a big 'if' because
I've never before given a class on the Zohar in this way 0:12:12.310,0: although I've studied it for more than 20 years I've never, i
way, taught it.
I could say that I'm a lover of G-d
but if my class is successful after 0:12:24.260,0:12:26.560 we have immersed ourselves in the secrets of the Zohar
all of you wiil be lovers of G-d too
otherwise I will not have done my job correctly.
This is the effect it's had on me let's see if it happens to you.
In real terms
the codes that are in
the Torah and revealed in the Zohar
have one sole objective:
to induce happiness in whoever studies it,
total and absolute happiness.
Later on we'll understand why there are so many unhappy people -
actually it is because they don't study the Zohar, nothing else,
because the Zohar will teach us how to control events, will teach us
to connect with the spiritual world, will teach us how to open the doors
to the world above, it will show us
the essence of our Creator
and only the study of it will bring us enormous happiness,
I want you to know something.
In previous classes
we
defined
the different levels of the soul.
What are they called?
From the bottom: Nefesh
which is
the vegetative
or animal
soul.
Ruaj
which is
the animal
emotional soul.
Neshama, which is
the intellectual
soul
Haya
which is the spiritual
soul.
Yejida
which is the soul of G-d fused with 0:14:39.760,0:14:43.590. those who attain this level.
Nefesh Ruaj Neshama Haya Yejida 0:14:46.239,0:14:49.500
We know that
Moses got to the level of Haya, Moshe Rabenu.
That means
he connected
with the soul of G-d
connected with Divine Thought
Yejida
is the soul of the Messiah
which blends with the soul of G-d and with Divine Thought,
it's a fusion. Yejida comes from the word Yijud which comes
from Adjut 'union'
in other words it has merged,
or, I
I can be in touch with someone but this person remains separate from me
but I can be fused with them and so this person is inside me.
So, we have Nefresh Ruaj Neshema Haya and Yejida
and the Zohar
can take us up to the level of Yejida.
We'll demonstrate this.
You have noticed that there are 5 levels, right?
There is a Hebrew letter whose value is 5. Which is it?
The letter Hey
The letter Hey
has a numerical value of 5
and in the word 'Zohar'
you have the letter Hey.
What did we say has 5 levels?
The levels of the soul, isn't it?
OK, so Zohar you write like this:
Zayin
Hey, Resh
We can see that the letter Hey is in the middle
the letters that remain are two that when joined together
form a word in Aramaic - Raz:
Resh
and Zayin
Resh and Zayin
which in Aramaic mean 'secret'
The secret of what??
Of the letter Hey
What is the letter Hey?
The 5 levels of the soul.
What, then, is the Zohar?
It's the secret of how the 5 different levels
of the soul function in man:
Nefesh, Ruaj, Neshama, Haya and Yejida.
In other words the Zohar will stimulate
these 5 levels of the soul.
And, of course,
who is capable of stimulating all the levels of the soul?
Nobody in this world!
And why? Because the soul is not
something recognized
in the scientific world
neither is it accepted from a logical
viewpoint, nor by the 5 senses.
The soul is an essence that eludes
our rational
perception.
Therefore we need to access another type of perception
This is what the Zohar tries to do, to lead us to this new
type of perception.
So, we have said that
the Zohar is a commentary on the Torah parasha by parasha
The first parasha (Torah section) is Bereshit
which is 'The Beginning'. The second is 'Noah' and the third 'Lej Leja'
but before we go on to
this parasha, I mean that in the sections of the Torah
there are a series of preliminaries
which are conversations
between
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai
and his pupils
in which thetre are a variety of subjects
of all types
and as I want to teach the Zohar from the first part of the first parchment scroll
to the last page of the last parchment
I'm going to deal with the preliminaries as well.
So, today's class and the next two or three classes
will be about the preliminaries. We aren't starting on the Torah commnetaries yet.
It's an open ended topic about all the other topics - this is what 'The Preliminaries'is.
It begins like this:
Rabbi Izkya says:
They're commentaries, a kind of open conversation
just as the rose grows with thorns
just as my loved one grows amongst the girls
that's what it says
it's a commentary
and it seems quite obscure
we have to decipher this metaphor
because the Zohar is full of metaphors which you have to
uncover.
So, who is the rose?
The rose is the people of Israel
they're called the rose
and so
it's very important that you note
down
the language of the Zohar
because the Zohar will give definitions of words
so that if we make a dictionary of these definitons
later, when the Zohar uses
these metaphysical words
we'll need to know what it's saying.
So the first
word of our dictionary of the Zohar is that 'rose' means Israel
the People of Israel
Let's see what the 'thorns' represent
let's see, who is 'the loved one'?
All this must be decoded
and we're starting
creando un diccionario to put together a dictionary
to enable us to understand the Zohar
Could you repeat the sentence?
'Just as the rose grows with thorns
so my loved one
grows among the girls
Why does
Hakadosh Baruju (G-d)
call the People of Israel 'the rose'?
I would underline these words which are going into our dictionary because
later on, in the same notebook you'll have
200 or 300 words
which will become your dictionary for understanding the Zohar.
It says
why is the rose
sometimes white and at other times red?
White
is the symbol of Compassion and Mercy
and red is the symbol of hardship, harshness
So it is that sometimes
there is well-being
and sometimes hardship and suffering
and so it is for the People of israel
but it also says, which is very nice,
that the rose of which it is talking has 13 petals
and what are these 13 petals?
The are the 13 qualities of Mercy of our Creator.
In other words this is a people
which has to strive to have the same qualities as its Creator
and there it is identifying
just as a father has a son
and wants him to have the same virtues as he has
so it is aligning with the
13 attributes of Compassion. That's to say that above all we have to be a compassionate
people
and if we aren't
then one has to ask oneself
if one belongs to the People of Israel.
A Jew who doesn't possess the attributes of compassion
would be a contradiction.
Is he a Jew or isn't he?
What are the thorns?
The thorns are
all the nations
who do not have these 13 attributes
or rather
who judge others
with harshness.
Whoever judges with harshness is called: thorn
and whoever judges with compassion is called th People of Israel
and here we see how serious it is to criticize others
because when we criticize
with harshness
we are no longer the rose
we are the stem with thorns.
Has anyone ever picked up a rose and been pricked by the thorn?
The rose is very pretty but the stem can hurt you
similarly, we must be careful about what we say
we could change from being
the petals of the rose to being the thorny stem.
And now we begin
to talk of the 'middot'
or virtues.
It also says
that there are roses with 5 petals.
What do the 5 petals refer to?
They refer to
the human hand with its 5 fingers
which holds up the Kiddush Cup
the cup of wine for the Sabbath and the holy festive days
which is called the Cup of Blessings
and what does this mean?
That this is the People
destined to bring down blessings.
That is how it is defined.
So the 13 petals is a People
which possesses the 13 attributes of compassion
and the 5 petals
represent a People who
hold up the cup of wine or bring down blessings
and all this we obtain from decoding
the metaphors.
And here begins another topic: they say
'The Light was concealed
and enclosed within the alliance'.
What is the Light?
And what is the alliance?
And why does the Light have to be enclosed within the alliance?
We see that from the literal meaning
we don't understand a thing. 'Light'
in Hebrew is 'Or'
Alef Vav Resh. I'll write it down.
Its numerical value is 207
Or, Alef Vav Resh
1, 6 and 200
Alef has a value of 1, Vav 6 and Resh 200
Total 207
and we said that the word Zohar
is Raz He: Secret of the letter Hey.
So imagine: the word Raz is a Resh
and a Zayin
which make 200, and Zayin is 7, so we have 207
so each time we talk of light
we're talking of Raz
or the secret.
The secrets of this world
were concealed
and enclosed
in the 'berit'
or the alliance
which means that this world holds secrets. Where are they? In a strong-box?
What is the strong-box?
The Berit.
What is the Berit?
Where does the word Berit, alliance, appear in the Torah
What is the-strong box in which the secrets are enclosed?
Well, we know the Brit Mila
which is the pact of circumcision.
The secrets are hidden in the pact of circumcision.
There's also the Sabbath called Brit Olam
the alliance of the world.
There are the tefilin (filactories)
which is also an alliance or a pact.
There is the rainbow
which is an alliance G-d made with the world
when the Flood receded
and Noaj (Noah) escaped
with all his family
and G-d swore an oath
and said 'I'll swear an oath to the world
that I will never again destroy the world
or its inhabitants'.
And there is also
the alliance of the heart, the Brit Lev
an alliance with human qualities
and now we'll re-read the text:
The Light was concealed and enclosed
within the Berit
But the Berit always
refers to, so says the Zohar ha Kadosh
Berit
BERIT, Brit B-E-R-I-T,
what does the Zohar say? It says
the the Berit is the principle of fertility
which means that all that we have talked about
which is
the union of the Saturday Sabbath,
the alliance of the rainbow and the allianc
of the circumcision
is talking of the fertility principle. What is
the fertility principle among the Berit we've been talking about?
The Brit Mila
which means
that in the secret of the circumcision
that in the circumcision are hidden
and locked up the secrets of the Torah.
Because it is written
that the Berit is the symbol
of the principle of fertility which penetrates the rose y impregnates it.
Such complicated terminology!
So
What is the principle of fertility which penetrated the rose and inseminated it? What is the Rose?
The People of Israel
Now we're learning something
and who inseminated the People of Israel?
The Creator
And when he inseminated them where lies the secret?
The day of the circumcision and how do you deal with all this
How does one handle the Brit?
It say
it talks of the principle of fertility
it isn't talking about Shavuot (Jewish religious festival)
but the prinicple of fertility
which means
that the secret of G-d is in the *** of Israel
and note how it tells it -
The light was hidden and concealed in the Berit,
the symbol of the principle of fertilty which pentrated the rose and inseminated it
now you can understand
now we've decoded it.
It says
'just as the the symbol of the alliance
is made up of 42 grains of fertile matter
the symbol of the alliance
is made up of 42 grains of fertile matter, that's what it says
and, once again, we're faced with
words which need decoding
42 - what do you think? What is it? Ana Bejoaj is a poem
What is the Ana Bejoaj?
It is the intials of the 42 names of G-d.
Where are they engraved,
the 42 names of G-d?
Just as the symol of the alliance, Brit
is made up of 42 grams of fertile matter
The 42 names of G-d are etched into the *** of the People of Israel
and these 42 names, see what the Zohar is telling us,
the same fertile material that constitutes the name of G-d
engraved ineffably are the 42 letters
with which was completed the work of the Creation
which tells us
how G-d created the world,
all the worlds and the entire universe:
with these 42 names
and where these 42 names are engraved I'll say it again,
it is made up of 42 grains of fertile matter.
Now we turn to a new topic
which is useful for the creation of
the dictionary of the Zohar,
of the vocabulary of the Zohar. We've defined what the rose means
what the petals signify
what the alliance represents
what 'light' is, the meaning of the thorns and we're putting together our
dictionary.
la clase próxima In the next class
I'll be speaking of these concepts
without giving the definitions
so we need to learn
the dictionary by heart, if not we won't be able to follow everything
and other
words will be used from the dictionary. Rabbi Shimón Bar Yohai says
Flowers sprung up from the earth.
What are these flowers?
The flowers are the souls of the patriarchs.
On the first day of the Creation
G-d created the soul of Abraham.
On the second day of the Creation he created the soul of Isaac,
on the third day of the Creation G-d created the soul of Jacob.
On the fourth day
the demons fell to Earth
and coincided with with the creation of the planets.
The fifth day of the Creation
is called the day of the turtle dove
which is when G-d says
we are creating Man
Adam was born
and I say it in the plural
we are creating Man.
He hadn't done it yet
but he says: we are making Man.
Why? because he created the planets
on the fourth day
and the planets have a soul, an intelligence
capable of creating matter
G-d creates souls
the planets create matter
the planets will create the physical body
and G-d will create the soul within the physical body
and so G-d said on the fifth day
nothing should be made yet
we shall make the soul of Man.
He gives the order to the astral beings to create the physical body
and he breathes the soul in through the nose
of Man. later he will also say
something in the fist person plural
just as he said 'Adam was born' he'll say
'Naase veyishma'
the same words
'we will do
and we shall understand'
and what does it mean 'Naase Veyishm√°'?
it means the we shall keep the Sabbath
this is what 'Naase Veyishm√°' means.
And what is Shabbat? asks the sacred Zohar
it is the 'Olam Aba' -
the world to come
named also 'the country of life'.
Going back now to the flowers -
What are the flowers? What are the flowers?
They are the Patriarchs - the patriarchs
The zohar says, 'The souls of the Patriarchs are hidden
in the other world
which means
they are not from here
so from where have they come? - from another world
they come to inhabit,
in this world
the body of a true prophet.
This world or this universe?
from this world
they are not from this dimension
they're not from this universe
not part of our comprehension
not somethnig you can see with a telescope
they are fom another world
these souls are a different concept
parallel to ours but not possible to see.
But what was it saying about the flowers
it sai
flowers appeared on the earth which means
he brought souls to this world from
another world. The things Rabbi
Shimon Bar Yohai says!
So, if you don't keep this dictionary you're going to get lost.
So the souls of these Patriarchs are concealed
in another world from where they migrate
and come to this world to inhabit the body of a true prophet
and this is also what happened
to Joseph the Tzaddik, the patriarch Joseph
Joseph was also a prophet
and the sacred Zohar says -
that the flowers found shelter
in Joseph
which is to say
that Joseph had within him
the soul of Abraham, of Isaac and Jacob
not easy to comprehend
three souls
together in one physical body
and this teaches us a lot about the transmigration of souls.
Three huge souls
can enter one body
they came from another world and
this is what happened
to Joseph
the patriarchs came to inhabit
his body
when he arrived in the Holy Land
and the souls of the patriarchs came to reside in the Holy land.
it says- careful now -
the rainbow, what is it?
we said just a moment ago: it was a pact
which G-d made
not to destroy the world
after the Flood
he would never again destroy the world
it says
'when the rainbow appears
it is the moment to destroy those who are guilty
but
the guilty one will be saved'
because the patriarchs will appear due to the merits
of the children who study the Torah
in other words
the moment that the
rainbow appears
we have to understand
that there has been a decree to create a flood
the same as Noah's
and who
argues that this flood should
not take place?
The souls of the three patiarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who are on earth
and who say 'Stop!
and G-d says'Why should I stop?
And they say for three reasons. First because you're making a judgement
secondly because something good has happened What is it?
The little children who study the Torah. Who are the children?
Are they kids of 5 years old?
us
what do you mean 'us'?
could be the descendants
of the patriarchs
The little children are those who study 'the esoteric doctrine'
in other words
the Cabalists
because of the goodness of those who study the Kabbalah
the rainbow
summons up all its power and the guilty are not destroyed
due to
the goodness of the cabalists who study the Zohar - these are the
children
these are the ones who sustain the world
the cabalists
The Zohar. This preliminary part goes on to another topic of conversation and says
the word 'Mi'
Mem Yud
be careful because it's important. undersanding the Torah
The word 'mi'
mem Yud
signifies the secrets of the world above
the name of G-d 'Ele'
Aleph Lamed
Hey
signifies all those things which are visible
so if we have the world above and the world
below 'mi'is for the the secrets of the world above
'ele' is for the visible things
to be seen on earth
and this forms a name of G-d
with 'mi-ele'
and What is it?
Elohim
that's it
very good
'Bereshit bara Elohim'
which means in the beginnig He created
the secrets of the world above
and the physical, visible things.
Together
two things were created 0:45:13.629,0:45:15. and 'Bereshit' how is it read?
'Bet Reshit'
two beginnings
which means 0:45:19.690,0:45:20. he created
the world above
and the world below.
He created the secrets of the heavens
and all things tangible
but we can't live only with tangible things
because we'd be livng like crazy people with only one half of the big picture.
Imagine someone who loses the notion of time and believes
they're living in the Napoleonic Era
because they're missing a whole dimension
a whole dimension
so all those who exist only in the physical world
leave the spiritual world aside
they're missing
a parameter
in their lives 0:45:59.559,0:46:02. just like mad people
they're missing a dimension.
This is why we have the Star of David
because one triangle represents
the physical world and the other triangle
the secrets of the heavens
and they have to be balanced.
That's why it is the symbol of the people of Israel who acknowledge the two worlds
and there is another word which is 'ma' Mem Hey
which stands for the secrets of the Earth because the earth also has its secrets
Mem Hey
represents the secrets of the Earth.
That's why when we speak of Elohim we're not talking about gods plural
we're talking about
the secrets of the heavens
together with the tangible world which combine together
or rather the soul and the body
or in other words Elohim is not
a plural word (even though it ends in -im)
rather a concept.
Rabbi Shimon Bar yohai had a nickname
which they called him
in the Zohar they had a name for him
they called him 'The Sacred Lamp'
but the sacred Lamp is a code name.
What does Sacred Lamp mean?
las l√°mparas en santa The Sacred Lamp according to
the Zohar
means
the most profound mystery of
Divine Thought
so this is the vision of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai
He had experienced Divine Thought in its
most profound nature
and we are uncovering them here
or what we are actually studying
are the thoughts of G-d himself
and these secrets of the Holy One
are revelaed to us through
Rabbi Eliaza, the son of Rabbi
Shimon Bar Yohai
There are entire texts
which show what the prophet
Elijah had revealed to him.
Now,
when
we read the first sentence of the Torah
of the Bible
Bereshit bar-a Elohim
Bereshit 0:49:50.399,0:49:53. has a numeriacal value of 913
the same as the word 'Ibonenut', to meditate
What does this mean?
'Bereshit' means here 'meditation' or 'by meditation' 'Bara' 0:50:07.430,0:50:10. in Hebrew means 'I believe'
'Elohim' means 'That which I believe'
mi-ele
stands for the secrets of the heavens and the things we can see.
So by meditating
we can access the secrets of the heavens and create physical matter
which tells us that through meditation we can create physical
events and material -
this is what it's saying.
The first three words
of the Torah
Bereshit bar Elohim
through the medium of meditation
with the secrets of the heavens physical events can be created.
We'll have a break now
and then we'll do some meditation 0:51:18.539,0:51:23. and then we'll continue with, I think,
at least another 5 or 6 classes
maybe even more
but I don't want to pressure you because there's a lot of vocabulary
so we have to go on setting up a dictionary and I want to say that 0:51:37.199,0:51:39. when you get a bit more used to
taking notes we could have a notebook
specifically for vocabulary
one thing is the concepts, the other is the vocabulary
so that when we continue you'll have 0:51:53.479,0:51:55. the vocabulary of the Zohar
and you'll be able to decode what Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai is saying.
As you know we're in the month of Cheshvan
the month of Scorpio
the ruling planet is Mars.
It is a month of conflict 0:52:20.209,0:52:23. but the Hebrew letters
that reflect
this sign
of Scorpio with the planet Mars
itsletters bring Mercy to the world 0:52:39.019,0:52:41. then, if we meditate with them
in this difficult 0:52:42.469,0:52:43. month
we can be protected by these letters.
The letter that symbolizes, that represents
the planet Mars
is the letter Dalet 0:52:55.679,0:52:57. and the letter that symbolizes
the sign of Scorpio is the letter Nun.
Let's bring these two letters to the world 0:53:06.669,0:53:08. to soften
the harshness of this month. 0:53:13.419,0:53:16. So we shall meditate on
these two letters Dalet and Nun
to soften this month for ourselves and foreveryone else too.
So let's put our feet parallel
hands open on the knees
breathe in deeply 3 times
Now we visualize ourselves inside a gold Star of David
the size of this room 0:54:16.219,0:5 then we visualize another gold Star of David
we call up the letter Dalet
which is very large 0:54:30.429,0:54:34. and white in colour
and then we light it up
then we call up the letter Nun 0:54:42.909,0:54:49. and we light it up
now we
unite
the flame of the letter Dalet 0:55:00.219,0:55:03. with the flame of the letter Nun in one single flame
which rises through the point of the Star of David
which acts as a screen for us
as we are observers
and this light enters
the upper point
of our Star of David and enters
our cranium
and lights up our brain and goes down 0:55:29.569,0:55:34. to the heart and lights up the heart
then goes down to the liver and lights up the liver
then goes back up to the brain
and illuminates the brain
and then goes back to the heart
and illuminates the heart
then it accelerates its rythmn
like a piston it goes up and down
heart brain, heart brain, heart brain,
we expel this energy from our brain
and it swirls around us
like a cloud
of white-coloured energy
but which now rains down flakes of energy all around us magnetizing our aura
with the 2 intelligences of the Dalet
and the Nun
Now our being is magnetized and we make a circle and put our planet earth in the middle
as if it were a football
and we project
from our heart
to the earth
this energy of Dalet and Nun which we now possess in
our aura
which now leaves our heart to surround the earth
which is in the centre of the circle which we have just created
of course it's not fixed to the ground rather it's a globe
which is floating around us
and now we bring compassion and mercy to the world in this month of Cheshvan
and as we have seen in the class on the Zohar
that the 3 patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob are those that block harmful decrees
we see how these 3 souls descend to the world 0:58:31.389,0:58:38. to protect it.
We breathe deeply 3 times 0:59:21.019,0:59:22. to bring us back
and return to our physical bodies. 0:59:26.449,0:59:28. Now breathe out 0:59:28.899,0:59:34. and breathe in and out deeply 3 times 0:59:34.589,0:59:39. another time
0:59:41.849,0:59: and now we open our eyes
Did anyone visualize anything they can tell us about - Mateo?
I saw there were angels
with us
who helped us 1:00:22.309,1:00:27. protect our planet and blessed us all
1:00:33.729,1:00:36. Let's see, Josselien? 1:00:36.749,1:00:41. what it showed me ...
is that we shine our light
from our hearts onto the earth
and you said ...
and at this moment you saw
the 3 patriarchs
and
you said something to them
and then
they said something
you saw them and then you talked to them
very good
and then
1:01:10.959,1:01:16. there was a light 1:01:16.359,1:01:18. really bright
beautiful
not violent
but immense
which shone onto the earth
and Jacob the patriarch
was there - very big
I don't know why
it is this time and they were all there
together, they stayed together
all together 1:01:45.699,1:01:47. and then
you made us open our eyes and
then they left us
they went away.
I did everything you told us to
without anything else happening.
Something curious happened to me
during your
description 1:02:10.009,1:02:12. at a certain moment
I had the impression that there was a being 1:02:17.449,1:02:19. maybe a spiritual being
sky blue in color
beautiful
but completely formless 1:02:24.700,1:02:27. which
was flying all 1:02:29.659,1:02:30. around us
and then it flew out of the room
in this case
and then I thought
if it's me I'd better put a Star of David
but it wasn't me it was some other being that went round in circles
I felt attracted to it but then thought 'no', I thought it
was the same but no 1:02:50.079,1:02:52. I don't know what it was 1:02:52.799,1:02:58. and then I did the rest as best I could 1:02:58.939,1:03:02. Can you explain this to us?
it's because there are
dimensions that penetrate this dimension and through the medium
of meditation we can access them
with our physical eyes no, but through our 1:03:13.779,1:03:15. spiritual eyes we can
so the meditation allows us to connect with other worlds although
in your normal life you possibly connect with nothing.
It's only here when we meditate that we connect
and we can actually see things that with the naked eye we don't see
and
there can be intervention, we're not alone when we do the meditation
There is certainly intervention, perhaps more than you can imagine.
A sensation of happiness 1:03:45.939,1:03:50. and a huge amount of light as well.
I saw the patriarchs like focused light
I saw the patriarchs but like clouds not light
you told us that the 3 of them came down
stretching out their hands to our circle
and when you said to put the globe in the middle it was like the 3 clouds
were
like a single cloud covering the earth
like an umbrella?
it wasn't like light, more like a cloud.
I felt that each time I
enter this world 1:04:45.869,1:04:48. the meditaion grows, has more dimension
and I also notice
that each time
I do the meditation
I want to come back less
Oh! You feel good there, no?
I understand just what you mean!
I saw the 3 patriarchs
but more like shadows
but from the shadows I saw that
each one had his hand on the earth as if caressing it, caressing it
or supporting it and I noticed
that the three were stroking it
in a gesture of affection, playing with it 1:05:40.149,1:05:42. as if it was a toy ball,
they were just playing wih it
and it makes us happy.
it was clearly for me an orderly meditation
without....
Deborah?
Barbara? No
Sarah?
Well,
I tried to send
messages of health especially 1:06:23.099,1:06:24. to areas of conflict
to people
suffering and particularly
to people who are angry 1:06:33.339,1:06:38. and don't know how
to channel it and then the
m 3 patriarchs descended 1:06:42.189,1:06:44.639 but I could only see Jacob
I couldn't see the others
Ok very good
Ok we'll close the session 1:06:55.219,1:07:01. and you... you?
Well, the same guides who taught Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai 1:07:08.170,1:07:10. were here with us
and they supervised this meditation
so everything you've seen is not coincidence
so it is very nice that we've had guests at our table.
who are very welcome
not visible to all but nevertheless very welcome.