Zohar Project Volunteers who made the Texas Outing a huge success
“For five years we’ve had no hurricanes in Miami. You want to know where our energy comes from? Where creation and miracles come from? These people are the reason!” said Karen Berg on December 31st as she congratulated and applauded the extraordinary efforts of the recent Zohar Project team, whose latest undertaking resulted in 4,400 Zohars distributed during a five day Zohar Outing from Galveston to Corpus Christi along the coastline of Texas.
Zohar Project Volunteers give a Pinchas Zohar to a young man on the Texas coastline
This recent endeavor was a great triumph after 11 challenging months of preparation, focus and commitment from a very dedicated team of volunteers from Miami, Boca Raton, New York and Houston, who participated in making all the necessary arrangements. “There were so many obstacles—from within, from without—every step of the way was a struggle… at a point we became punch-drunk from it,” states Michael Stevenson, who worked on the planning of this recent trip.
A Sacred Zohar given to a water treatment plant
Over Chanukah, the holiday of miracles, and between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, 52 enthusiastic Zohar Team volunteers devoted their vacation time to embark on the mission to distribute Zohars throughout Texas in order to protect the coastline from natural and man-made disasters. The excitement and energy levels of the field volunteers were so high on this mission that not only did they distribute every Zohar that was originally sent (3,600), but they completed the job in two thirds of the time they had to do it.
The Texas Outing Team Leader, Vicki Kitzen, then proposed two options to the group; either call it a day and go on vacation a day early, or contact the international office in Los Angeles and get a hold of more supplies. They put it to a group vote and it was unanimous. Another 800 Zohars were shipped overnight, and were again placed almost as quickly as they had been received.
“I call them the Navy Seals of Zohar! And you can quote me on that! We are working with the Navy Seals of Zohar,” says Vicki. “It was a true merit to work with each of these people. It was the most wonderful partnership. Even in wrapping up the event; it’s usually a lengthy process to clean up and input the data into the system — where Zohars were placed, areas visited, all those details — but two volunteers sat one day and entered the necessary facts and figures that would have ordinarily taken months to do. No aftermath. Everything was just put in a box and wrapped in a bow. People were just FLYING!”
Nueces County firefighters receive a Sacred Zohar
All in all, 619 Sacred Zohars and 3877 Pocket Pinchas were distributed through the steadfast efforts of an enthusiastic and passionate people looking to share the Light of the Zohar, as spoken by one such volunteer:
“It can be challenging to approach strangers with a book in Aramaic, which they may probably never be able to read – and suggest to them to have it. And yes, it may take great certainty and practice to really feel beyond the 1% — beyond the logic, or beyond what it looks like, and aim directly from your heart, from your soul to theirs. But you learn to focus, to feel, to care – that these people may have no tools, protection or Light to keep them safe like we do – to keep this in your mind, heart, and soul when giving them just what they need. That inner feeling ‘sells’ the Zohar with no boundaries.
You meet people you may never have met otherwise in your life. You spend the most inspiring, close moments with people like you, crazy enough to leave their safe and comfortable homes to be out there for others. I’m in total awe each time I watch my outing ‘mates’; their love, dedication, excitement, and altruism. I’m in awe and always very grateful for getting to know these volunteers on a closer level than the usual greetings of ‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, or ‘Shabbat Shalom’. I’ve formed deep, strong and amazing friendships through the Zohar Project that I can never appreciate enough. Other than that, the energy, the Light, the feeling of handing a Zohar to a stranger is very hard to put into words.” ~ Sarah Talmi, Team Zohar Volunteer
Ever present is the awareness that there is still so much to do and accomplish for our world. “We must acknowledge that it is through appreciation that we are able to build enthusiasm for future endeavors,” said Karen Berg during the Zohar Project’s wrap-up meeting. “The world needs more healing and we are at the frontline of that. It’s a marvelous thing to see such a great group together; fighting, working together in harmony to bring about the end of chaos from natural disasters. I thank you from myself, the Rav, and all the Centres around the world, and more than that, I hope we will continue to gather together to bring more enlightenment, and the end of suffering and chaos.”
The power of Kabbalah to transform people’s lives can also manifest in unexpected ways, touching even those who are indirectly associated with the wisdom. Adriana Beltran, owner of the printing press in Colombia, Colombo Andina de Impresos, relates how Kabbalah Centre books – in Spanish – brought Kabbalah into her world, transforming her life and resulting in a partnership between her company and The Centre:
Titles available in Spanish now include The Power of Kabbalah, True Prosperity and God Wears Lipstick, with additional publications – such as Satan: An Autobiography, Kabbalistic Astrology, Secrets of the Zohar and more – coming soon. Kabbalah Centre books in Spanish are available from the online store 
That was the question I asked a crowd of some 350 people in Mexico City when I gave my lecture on Kabbalah and Christianity on November 10. I’ve been fortunate to have given similar lectures across the world, in places like Moscow, London, Manila, Auckland, Sao Paolo, and Antwerp.
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