Zohar was Written For Us · Second Addendum

Zohar Concealed in Etz Chaim Introduction 0:00

You know, it says in the introduction to עץ חיים that the זהר really wasn't meant to be revealed in those generations and therefore it was written in a way that it's as if it wasn't written, because it's written in such like a hidden way that they didn't understand what it said, so it was as if it wasn't written then. That's why he was allowed to teach it, even though like they weren't ready for it.

And he says, so then what was the point of writing it? So he says it because it was written for the generation before משיח that they will open it up and they'll know, they'll know what it's saying and they'll be able to learn it. So really, it was written for us, all these things. We're ברוך השם doing pretty well. Well, first of all, even before you pick up the זהר, when you learn חב״ד חסידות, a lot of the זהר, in fact, a lot of the זהר is quoted.

That's what people joke, the reason why you have to be forty before you learn זהר is because then you already learned the whole thing in חסידות, it was quoted already. You learned the whole thing in quotes. First of all, you know, I mean like I did look up things in זהר before. Like once I was looking something up, and it was this whole thing about the קול of יעקב and whatever, and I knew what he was talking about because it explains it here.

So a lot of the things of the זהר are already explained, so you know what it's talking about. All the concepts of the זהר are explained in חסידות. It's the same concepts, just translated into easier terms for us.