The Importance of Learning Zohar Daily

A tikun Above in a single hour

If an individual is able to learn and understand the commentary of just one ma’amar, he will complete a tikun Above in a single hour — what he would otherwise accomplish only in an entire year of learning p’shat.

Reading the holy words has great value

For someone who is not well versed in the Kabbalah and does not understand it, the study of the Holy Zohar, even by simply reading the text, carries the same value as if he studied the text in depth.

That means that if an individual learns Zohar for even one hour, and even if he only recites the text, it is as if he studied the revealed Torah for an entire year.

Learning with joy is a thousand times greater

When he learns the Zohar with joy, he increases his merits by a thousand. As it is written in Orchot Tzaddikim: when a person studies with joy, it is a thousand times more valuable than one who does not study with joy.

One hour on Shabbat equals a thousand

Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim, zt”l, wrote: one hour of Torah study on Shabbat is worth one thousand hours of Torah study on a weekday.

One million years of learning

“Therefore the rulers said — let us make a calculation”: the rulers, those who rule over their inclinations, said “let us make the ultimate calculation for the world.”

How can one hour of study of the Holy Zohar on the holy Shabbat be equal to a million years of learning p’shat on a weekday? Let us make the calculation: one hour of study of the Holy Zohar equals an entire year of studying p’shat; on Shabbat multiply that by 1,000; and if the learning is done with joy, multiply by another 1,000. The final total value of the learning is one million years.

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One hour of Zohar every week

Request from every yeshivah, kollel, or other Torah institution that you support to incorporate at least one hour per week of Zohar study into the curriculum.

And begin yourself: set a fixed time each day — even a few minutes — to read from the Holy Zohar, and on Shabbat add a full hour, learned with joy.