Shimon Sarfati, teacher at the Kabbalah Centre, shared that this section of the Zohar is especially powerful to meditate on when someone in our community is facing illness. For those who are already sick, scanning and listening to these verses activates one of the deepest healing forces the Zohar offers.
This is a revelation by Rav Shimon Bar Yochai to his son, Rabbi Elazar. He unveils the hidden secret of the body's inner organs, each one mapped onto the spiritual system: organs are Sefirot, columns, angels, forces. A complete map of how the physical and spiritual bodies mirror each other.
At the close, the companions weep: when Rav Shimon departs, who will reveal secrets like these, unheard since the days of King Solomon? Happy is the generation that hears them.
The spiritual root of illness
The heart is fire, the Throne of Judgment. The brain is water, the Throne of Mercy. The heart burns with such intensity that, without what balances it, it would consume the entire world in an instant.
The root of all illness, according to the Zohar, lies in the unchecked Left Column, which in human life manifests as ego, anger, jealousy, and reactivity. These are the forces that "heat" the body and open the door to illness. The fever, heat, and inflammation in nearly every illness are the physical expression of this unbalanced inner fire.
"One who allows anger to rule is as if he worshipped idols."
Zohar · Pinchas · Ch. 68How healing acts on the body
The lungs surround the heart like two wings. These wings carry the energy of two angels, Refael and Tzadkiel, the flow of Chassadim (mercy) that brings health and salvation. It is the cool wind of the lungs' wings that cools the burning heart.
The Zohar's image: "the wings of a dove covered in silver", silver is mercy covering judgment. What activates this healing wind is the voice of Torah and the reading of the Sh'ma, the Central Column, the balance between right and left.
When illness advances, the Shechinah wraps around the sick body the way sand surrounds the sea, holding back the waves, protecting the body from the fire so it does not destroy itself. It is the Light of the Shechinah that surrounds, sustains, and heals. Sharing this Light with those in need is what seals the defeat of the Angel of Death.
The map of organs, why scanning heals
The section walks through the body organ by organ. For each one, scanning and listening to the corresponding verses connects to the specific healing force:
- — Kidneys, Gevurah / Judgment. The reading remedies kidney disease.
- — Liver and spleen, opposing forces in balance. Verses 409–410 heal especially children; meditating on Mondays and Wednesdays strikes at the root, since those are the days these forces were formed.
- — Gall bladder, the source of anger and of the heat / fever in every illness.
- — Stomach, "one-sixtieth part of death"; verse 415 treats stomach ailments.
- — Trachea, lungs, and heart, the closing verses address circulation, breathing, and the heart.
How to meditate with this section
The verses appear in the video itself. No need to open any app, just follow with your eyes as the audio plays. The visual scanning of Hebrew letters acts on a deeper level than intellectual understanding: the Light works through the eyes.
As you scan, scroll down. The video follows you as a small picture-in-picture. See the Healing List just below and meditate on the names as the audio keeps playing, directing the Light of each verse to each person on the list.
When we meditate for another's healing and also desire that healing for ourselves, the Light becomes even more powerful. These are not two separate requests, they are one single movement of Light.
You can listen to this meditation upon waking, in the car, before sleeping, repetition deepens the connection.
Audio from the Zohar App · Kabbalah Centre
Healing List
Direct the Light of each verse toward each person below.
May this person receive healing
One name per submission.
How we meditate for healing
The Hebrew letters Mem (מ), Hei (ה) and Shin (ש) release the force of healing. As the Zohar plays, meditate with them and send Light to each name on the list:
מהש · Mem-Hei-Shin, the letters of healing
- Visualize the three letters. Close your eyes and see Mem-Hei-Shin radiating beams of Light, bathing your entire body in a flow of white Light.
- Send it to those who need healing. Meditate on the person's name, or visualize Mem-Hei-Shin radiating Light over their body.
- Moshe, the channel of healing. These same letters, rearranged, form the name Moshe (Moses): מֹשֶׁה = מֹהֶשׁ.
This special verse from Zohar Pinchas helps us amplify the healing energy. Meditate on it together with the letters Mem-Hei-Shin, as you send Light to the names on the list.
El Na Refa Na La Meditation
Five words. The oldest healing prayer in the Torah, Moses's cry for his sister Miriam's healing: "God, please heal, please."
It is not a phrase to understand with the mind. It is a sound code, a healing vibration that acts at a level far deeper than thought. Our role is simple: show up and connect.
Let it play. In the car, upon waking, before sleeping. The more you listen, the more this healing sound becomes part of you. And as it plays, direct that Light to each name on the list above.
Melody by Michael Berg · scan right to left.
Zohar · Pinchas · Chapter 68
To read and scan the verses beyond what appears in the video, open the Kabbalah Centre Zohar App.
Open in Zohar App →Consciousness of Healing in Kabbalah
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