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Be sure you’re getting the PRINT edition if you go for it.
Unlocking the Zohar-Â Introductory book to the Zohar. I haven’t read through this one, but from what I’ve read it looks good. Let’s call it a beginner book through the lens of the Zohar.
Let There be Light – great set of especially inspiring Zohar quotes. I used it a lot.
The Kabbalist- Novel based on discussions with Dr. Laitman about Baal HaSulam’slife (Someone recommended it to me and I highly recommend it)
The Zohar: Annotations to the Ashlag Commentary – The Rose with commentary by Dr. Laitman based on his talks with RABASH
The Revelation of the Book of Zohar in Our Time – small pamphlet-like book of quotes.
Introduction to the Book of Zohar- Baal HaSulam’s long article of the same title, with commentary.
You can see all our books here. The one you refer to I believe there is no free PDF for.
No, we can’t reach spirituality that way. This is the ideal reality for reaching it, and from here precisely we will reach it. Only then this world can disapear from our perception. Each circle that connects, awakens further circles. This world exists as long as there are still those who have not corrected themselves. Afterward, this imagination disappears.
There are a couple of things here.
There is some interchangeability depending on what we want to emphasize. Like in school, if a kid is misbehaving, the teacher might say, “Should I call mom?” – meaning call home. Mom is a stand-in for both parents as Bina can be for AVI. The Partzufim don’t change, but what we call them might, depending on their function. Like I can be called dad, teacher, etc. If we want to deemphasize Atik because it’s practically irrelevant to the actions we’re talking about now, we can consider AA the Keter, because toward the Lower Ones, it is truly working as Keter because Atik can have no connection with the Lower Ones because it belongs to Tzimzum Aleph, and the Lower Ones belong to Tzimzum Bet. Too, we can decide to emphasize the Bina in AVI, or in some cases, it’s as if Bina is not working and instead it’s YESHUT, which is part of Bina.
There are additional sub-Partsufim as well as other names for them, and indeed a whole ocean that stands behind the few words we have to talk about this. So, it’s probably best to learn one text at a time. Zohar is also not really a study text that we can learn systematically. But I’m happy to keep answering…
These terms are sometimes flexible since AA and Atik are functioning as Keter. Sometimes Atik is not taken into consideration, in which case AA in as the Keter. Because Atik is hidden; it as if has no relation to the Lower Ones.
