Editing Sefer HaZohar (section)

==== The Alter Rebbe ====

* The Zohar is mentioned many times in the book of Tanya.
* Maharam Halevi Yafe said in the name of the Alter Rebbe: There are three ways to remove foreign thoughts during prayer, etc., and also the language of the Zohar is beneficial for the soul even if one does not understand what he is saying.
* "Someone who is greatly occupied with business should study mostly Zohar even if he does not understand it, for what does it matter if he does not understand—even so, it is a segulah (spiritual remedy)."
* Learning the holy Zohar removes blockage of the heart.
* Rashbi writes about one who studies the Zohar that "they will leave exile." That is, in the merit of studying the Zohar, Israel will leave the exile.
* "One who studies the holy Zohar in this world will not sit in shame in the World to Come."
* "There are 13 things that remove all hindrances to prayer, etc., and the third is engagement and study of the words of mussar (ethical teachings) found in the Zohar, from the word 'illumination,' for it illuminates in a place of darkness, which is the heat of truth."
* The Tzemach Tzedek writes that he heard from the Alter Rebbe, who heard from his teacher the Maggid of Mezritch, that the Baal Shem Tov said not to study the wisdom of Kabbalah without studying Chassidus together with it, because one who is coarse and understands things literally and makes them material, can come, God forbid, to heresy.
* The Alter Rebbe used to give sermons on the Zohar to his sons and asked the Mitteler Rebbe to write them down. In the year תקע"ו/1816, these sermons were printed in the book "Biurei HaZohar" (Explanations of the Zohar).