Zohar Ha'Azinu - Section 8 - Skull of Atika Kadisha

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Zohar Sulam Commentary on Parasha Ha'Azinu Section 8

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SYNOPSIS:

Here Rabbi Shimon talks about the skull of the head of Arich Anpin, and the flow that spreads and shines from it. We hear about the dew of plenty that drips every day to Zeir Anpin and with which the dead will be resurrected in the time to come. Within that head the supernal wisdom is hidden that is called the supernal brain; it can be comprehended only by itself.

Pasook 35. from the Zohar Sulam Commentary on Parasha Ha'Azinu

גּוּלְגַּלְתָּא דְּרֵישָׁא חִוָּורָא, לָאו בֵּיהּ שִׁירוּתָא וְסִיּוּמָא. קוּלְטְרָא דְּקִטְפוֹי, אִתְפְּשָּׁט וְאִתְנְהִיר, וּמִנֵּיהּ יַרְתוּן צַדִּיקַיָּיא ד' מְאָה עָלְמִין דְּכִסּוּפִין לְעָלְמָא דְּאָתֵי. מֵהַאי קוּלְטְרָא דְּקִטְפָא, דְּהִיא גּוּלְגַּלְתָּא חִוָּורָא, נָטִיף טַלָּא כָּל יוֹמָא, לְהַהוּא זְעֵיר אַנְפִּין, לַאֲתָר דְּאִתְקְרֵי שָׁמַיִם, וּבֵיהּ זְמִינִין מֵיתַיָּיא לַאֲחַיָּיא לְזִמְנָא דְּאָתֵי. דִּכְתִּיב וְיִתֶּן לְךָ הָאֱלֹהִים מִטַּל הַשָּׁמַיִם. וְאִתְמַלְּיָיא רֵישֵׁיהּ וּמֵהַהוּא זְעֵיר אַפִּין, נָטִיף לַחֲקַל תַּפּוּחִין. וְכָל חֲקַל תַּפּוּחִין, נְהִירִין מֵהַהוּא טַלָּא.

Transliteration

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Translation

The skull, NAMELY KETER, of the white head, NAMELY THE HEAD OF ARICH ANPIN, WHICH IS WHOLLY WHITE, THE SECRET OF THE REIGN OF CHESED, has neither beginning nor ending FOR REVEALING CHOCHMAH, THE SECRET OF SUPERNAL CHOCHMAH AND LOWER CHOCHMAH. FOR THE FLOW OF CHOCHMAH AND THE FLOW OF CHASSADIM ARE JOINED IN IT INTO ONE LIGHT OF CHASSADIM. Its joint flow spreads and shines FROM IT, and from it the righteous receive 400 desirable worlds for the World to Come. From the joint flow, which is the white head, dew drips, NAMELY PLENTY, daily to Zeir Anpin, which is a place called heaven. With it, THAT DEW, the dead shall be resurrected in the future to come, as written, "therefore Elohim give you of the dew of heaven" (Beresheet 27:28), NAMELY THE DEW OF ZEIR ANPIN THAT IS CALLED HEAVEN, and His head is filled. From Zeir Anpin it flows to the field of apple trees, WHICH IS MALCHUT, and the whole field of apple trees radiates with this dew.

chanoch's Commentary

Are you asking yourself "what is being said here?". Various names are being said and the implication is that they are the same thing. Yet in Hebrew a different name implies a change from a previous or a lower level or condition. Let us look at the term skull. In our body the skull means all of the bones that cover the brain like a klipah Chas V' Shalom. In kabbalah the word skull is gulgalta. This is a term used in the Church for centuries and is actually the term of Kabbalah that indicates clearly that the Church was taught Kabbalah yet in a non kosher manner. Gulgalta in Aramaic means skull. When one does the Tikune HaNefesh chart during the Ana Bekoach it is the Aramaic used for the keter, since the skull implies the head of the body. The head of Arich Anpin imples the keter of the male aspect of the three components of what was said earlier to exist yet not be aware of its existence. It is representing the concealed chochmah. Revealed Chochmah in modern Kabbalah is called Light of Chochmah or the light of wisdom and in order for it to be revealed it must by revealed by a vessel called Light of Chassadim or Light of Loving Kindness. As this light follows its paths to spread everywhere it congeals into a physical but not physical item referred to as dew. This dew this unifty of Chochmah with Chesed in its congealed state will be used to resurrect the dead. The field of apples is a metaphor for Malchut which when filled by the dew of the resurrection receives its own light which it does not have until the dew reaches malchut and begins to shine as the light of Malchut. Remember Malchut has no light of its own.

Pasook 36. from the Zohar Sulam Commentary on Parasha Ha'Azinu

הַאי עַתִּיקָא קַדִּישָׁא טָמִיר וְגָנִיז. וְחָכְמְתָא עִלָּאָה סְתִימָאָה, בְּהַהוּא גּוּלְגַּלְתָּא מִשְׁתְּכַח, וַדַּאי בְּהַאי עַתִּיקָא, לָא אִתְגַּלְיָיא אֶלָּא רֵישָׁא בִּלְחוֹדוֹי, בְּגִין דְּאִיהוּ רֵישָׁא לְכָל רֵישָׁא. חָכְמְתָא עִלָּאָה, דְּאִיהִי רֵישָׁא, בֵּיהּ סָתִים, וְאִקְרֵי מוֹחָא עִלָּאָה. מוֹחָא סְתִימָא. מוֹחָא דְּשָׁכִיךְ וְשָׁקִיט. וְלֵית דְּיֵדַע לֵיהּ, בַּר אִיהוּ.

Transliteration

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Translation

This Atika Kadisha, WHICH IS ARICH ANPIN, is hidden and obscured, and concealed supernal Chochmah OF ARICH ANPIN is in that skull, WHICH IS KETER OF ARICH ANPIN. Surely only the head alone was exposed in that Atika, because it is the beginning (or: 'head') of every beginning. Supernal Chochmah, which is a head, is hidden within it, THE HEAD OF ARICH ANPIN, and is called the supernal brain, the covered brain, the subdued and quiet brain. None can comprehend it save it itself.

chanoch's Commentary

This appears to be in conflict which is what is taught earlier that this level of consicousness can not know of its own existence. the resolution of the conflict is the skull knows what it covers yet nothing below it can reazlie that it is covered by something.