{"id":39652,"date":"2020-03-06T08:25:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T06:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyzohar.com\/?p=39652"},"modified":"2020-03-06T08:25:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T06:25:46","slug":"purim-the-reading-of-the-megillah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.dailyzohar.com\/?p=39652","title":{"rendered":"Purim &#8211; The reading of the Megillah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many people in the world that don&rsquo;t have a Jewish community to join and listen to the reading of the scroll of Esther on the day of Purim.<br>\nThe Daily Zohar received from the Brandwein family the recording of the megillah reading by Rabbi Avraham Brandwein ZT&rdquo;L, son of Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi Brandwein, ZT&rdquo;L.<br>\nPlease share this link with your friends.<br>\n<strong>Happy Purim to all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/159664081\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading of the Megilah by Rabbi Ben <a class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Zion&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Zion is the connecting point of Yessod of Malchut. It is called &amp;quot;Mount Zion&rdquo; because it is the higher level where we can see the Light. It is the center of the world. The first letter of &#1497;&#1505;&#1493;&#1491;,&nbsp;Yessod, is Yod to tell us that it includes the light from the highest level. The word &#1497;&#1505;&#1493;&#1491; has a numerical value of 80 to tell us that it is spread from the level of Chokmah&nbsp;down with the ability to connect to&nbsp;Malchut. Jerusalem is Malchut and below Yesod.Jerusalem of the lower level is dark without the light from the &lsquo;Mount of Zion&rsquo; that brings completion and fulfillment.Jerusalem is considered &amp;#039;sick&amp;#039; without the constant flow of Light from the Holy Temple. That is why Jerusalem is a code word for the soul&rsquo;s yearning for the light, feeling sick without it.This aspect is revealed in the name &amp;#039;Jerusalem&amp;#039; itself (Check the term Jerusalem).&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;\/div&gt;\"  href=\"https:\/\/staging.dailyzohar.com\/?glossary=zion\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex='0' role='link'>Zion<\/a> Mutzafi &#1513;&#1500;&#1497;&#1496;&rdquo;&#1488; (<a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Jerusalem&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Jerusalem, &lsquo;&#1497;&#1512;&#1493;&#1513;&#1500;&#1501;&rsquo; is numerically 586, same as &lsquo;Shofar,&rsquo; &lsquo;&#1513;&#1493;&#1508;&#1512;,&rsquo; which is the aspect of connection to the upper levels.The actual pronunciation of the name is &lsquo;Yerushalayim&rsquo;, which normally requires the letter Yod &#1497; to be present just before the last letter of the name. Instead, we find only the &lsquo;chirik&rsquo; with is a vowel that comes under the Yod to pronounce it correctly. Interestingly, the English word is pronounced like the Hebrew name without the missing Yod.We find 622 times the incomplete form of the name &lsquo;&#1497;&#1512;&#1493;&#1513;&#1500;&#1501;&rsquo; and only five times the complete and proper form of the name &lsquo;&#1497;&#1512;&#1493;&#1513;&#1500;&#1497;&#1501;&rsquo; in the Bible. (tap here for the search tool I used)The five times the name appears are related to the Holy aspect of Jerusalem.The letter Yod &#1497; represents the Light from&nbsp;Keter&nbsp;and&nbsp;Chokmah,&nbsp;and the name without the Yod that appears 622 times in the Bible has the numerical value of the word &#1489;&#1499;&#1514;&#1512;, &lsquo;in&nbsp;Keter,&rsquo; revealing where to find the missing Light that Jerusalem, &lsquo;&#1497;&#1512;&#1493;&#1513;&#1500;&#1501;&rsquo; needs to be &lsquo;healthy.&rsquo;The verse expresses the desire of the body (Jerusalem, Malchut) to connect to the Light (Yessod) it needs.The complete name will be expressed on all levels when Mashiach removes the negativity from the world and brings the third and everlasting Holy Temple.Our body is the aspect of Malchut, and the soul desires to connect to God and draw Love and Light from Yessod, which is the &lsquo;Beauty and joy of the whole earth, as the verse above expresses.Here are a few links to additional and important studies related to the flow of Light from Keter to Malchut.&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.dailyzohar.com\/?glossary=jerusalem\" data-gt-translate-attributes=\"[{&quot;attribute&quot;:&quot;data-cmtooltip&quot;, &quot;format&quot;:&quot;html&quot;}]\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Jerusalem<\/a>)<\/strong><br>\n<span class=\"zlPUpmFOEgJvtZraBYCL4AnQS1csWRe5uwo03HNKkiyGjhXV76Db2q9IT8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#1492;&#1512;&#1489; &#1489;&#1503; &#1510;&#1497;&#1493;&#1503; &#1502;&#1493;&#1510;&#1508;&#1497; &#1511;&#1493;&#1512;&#1488; &#1488;&#1514; &#1502;&#1490;&#1497;&#1500;&#1514; &#1488;&#1505;&#1514;&#1512;\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pE-cGD2YwMA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading of the Megilah by Rabbi Avraham Branwein ZT&quot;L<br>\nhttps:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/159664081<\/p>\n<p>Reading of t he Megilah by Rabbi Ben <a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Zion&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Zion is the connecting point of Yessod of Malchut. It is called &amp;quot;Mount Zion&rdquo; because it is the higher level where we can see the Light. It is the center of the world. The first letter of &#1497;&#1505;&#1493;&#1491;,&nbsp;Yessod, is Yod to tell us that it includes the light from the highest level. The word &#1497;&#1505;&#1493;&#1491; has a numerical value of 80 to tell us that it is spread from the level of Chokmah&nbsp;down with the ability to connect to&nbsp;Malchut. Jerusalem is Malchut and below Yesod.Jerusalem of the lower level is dark without the light from the &lsquo;Mount of Zion&rsquo; that brings completion and fulfillment.Jerusalem is considered &amp;#039;sick&amp;#039; without the constant flow of Light from the Holy Temple. That is why Jerusalem is a code word for the soul&rsquo;s yearning for the light, feeling sick without it.This aspect is revealed in the name &amp;#039;Jerusalem&amp;#039; itself (Check the term Jerusalem).&amp;amp;nbsp;&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.dailyzohar.com\/?glossary=zion\" data-gt-translate-attributes=\"[{&quot;attribute&quot;:&quot;data-cmtooltip&quot;, &quot;format&quot;:&quot;html&quot;}]\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">Zion<\/a> Mutzaphi &#1513;&#1500;&#1497;&#1496;&quot;&#1488;<br>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pE-cGD2YwMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Purim - The reading of the Megillah - Daily Zohar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Purim - The reading of the Megillah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Reading of the Megilah by Rabbi Avraham Branwein ZT&quot;L https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/159664081 Reading of t he Megilah by Rabbi Ben Zion Mutzaphi &#1513;&#1500;&#1497;&#1496;&quot;&#1488; 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