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chevron_rightIntroduction of The Book of Zohar
The Rose
The Rose (Mirrors of the Sulam [Ladder)
The Flower Buds
Who Created These
Who Created These of Elijah
Mother Lends Her Clothes to Her Daughter
The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba
Hochma [wisdom], on which the World Stands
Lock and Key
BeHibaraam [When They Were Created] – BeAvraham [In Abraham]
The Vision of Rabbi Hiya
You Are in Partnership with Me
The Donkey Driver
Two Points
On the Night of the Bride
Heaven and Earth
Among All the Sages of the Nations of the World, There Are None Like You
Who Is This
Rejoicing in Holidays and Not Giving to the Poor
Torah and Prayer
Rabbi Shimon’s Exit from the Cave
The Commandments of the Torah, the First Commandment
The Second Commandment
The Third Commandment
The Fourth Commandment
The Fifth Commandment
The Sixth Commandment
The Seventh Commandment
The Eighth Commandment
The Ninth Commandment
The Tenth Commandment
The Eleventh Commandment
The Twelfth Commandment
The Thirteenth Commandment
The Fourteenth Commandment
General Explanation for All Fourteen Commandments and How They Divide into the Seven Days of Creation
Explanation of the Division of the Fourteen Commandments into Ten Utterances
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chevron_rightBeresheet - 1
He Carved a Carving in the Upper Light
The Brightness of the Firmament
Taamim, Nekudot [points], and Otiot [letters]
And the Land Was Tohu [Chaos] - 1
Let There Be Light
Let There Be a Firmament
Let the Waters Gather
Let the Earth Put Forth Grass
Let there Be Lights - 1
The Two Great Lights - 1
Explaining the Names Matzpatz, Matzpatz
The Two Great Lights - 2
Illuminations of Light and Illuminations of Fire
Three Lights
Moses and Jacob
Let Us Make Man - 1
I, I am He
Let Us Make Man - 2
A Prayer for the Poor
The Sling-Stone
Creates Worlds and Destroys Them
Five Kinds of Mixed Multitude
Moses and Two Messiahs
Pure Marble Stones
A River Comes Out of Eden
And Placed Him in the Garden of Eden
Idolatry, Bloodshed, Incest
And the Lord God Formed Every Beast of the Field
And the Lord God Built the Rib
Moses’ Hevel
Bad Mixtures
The Correction of the Lower World from the Upper World
And the Land Was Unformed [Tohu] and Void [Bohu] - 2
Three Letters Tov [Tet-Vav-Bet]
The Correction of PBP de ZON
The Voice of the Lord Is Upon the Waters
Opposite the Frame
Bet Resheet
The Hidden Light
If My Covenant Is Not Day and Night - 1
The Separating and Connecting Firmament
These Waters Conceived and Begot Darkness
If My Covenant Is Not Day and Night - 2
Let There Be Lights - 2
Let the Waters Swarm
And God Created the Sea Monsters
Let Us Make Man - 3
For He Did Not Shower Rain
And the Lord God Commanded the Man
And the Serpent Was Cunning
And the Lord Set a Token for Cain
Sin Crouches at the Door
Aza and Azael
This Is the Book of the Generations of Adam
My Spirit Shall Not Abide in Man
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Seven Palaces in the Garden of Eden
Seven Sections of the Upper and Lower Earth
Seven Sections of the Upper Earth
Seven Halls of the Upper Earth
Preface to the Seven Halls
Seven Halls of AVI of Beria
Let There Be Light - 1
And There Was Evening and There Was Morning
Let There Be Light - 2
Let There Be a Firmament
Let the Earth Put Forth Grass
Lights without Vav
Let the Waters Swarm
Let Us Make Man
And God Saw All that He Had Done
And the Heaven and the Earth Were Completed
And on the Seventh Day God Completed
Which God Has Created to Do
Sukkah [Hut] of Peace
And the Lord God Built the Rib
And the Lord God Formed the Man
Baal and Asherah
Reconciliation and Receiving Permission
One Who Sets Out on the Road
Voice and Speech
The Address of the LORD to My Lord
A Rising Flame
The World Was Divided into Forty-Five Colors and Kinds of Light
And They Heard the Voice of the Lord God Walking in the Garden
And the Children of Israel Were Stripped of Their Ornaments from Mount Horev
And They Sewed Fig Leaves
And He Drove Out the Man
And the Man Knew Eve
If You Do Well
When Cain Killed Abel
This Is the Book of the Generations of Adam
He Created Them Male and Female
And Enoch Walked with God
And the Lord Saw that the Wickedness of Man Was Great in the Earth
And He Was Saddened in His Heart
My Spirit Shall Not Abide
The Fallen Ones Were in the Earth
I Will Blot Out Man
Come, Behold the Works of the Lord, Who Has Wrought Desolations in the Earth
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Noah and the Ark
Go See the Works
Good Is a Man Who Is Gracious and Lends
Drink Water from Your Cistern
And the Earth Became Corrupt
Had He Not Sinned, He Would Not Have Begotten Offspring
And God Saw the Earth
The Lord Has Done What He Devised
For After Seven More Days
And Noah Begot Three Sons
The Judgment of Hell
The End of All Flesh
Shrill Your Voice, Poor of Anatot
That Jew
The Offering
I Lifted Up My Hands in Prayer
And I Bring a Flood of Water - 1
I Said, “I Will Not See the Lord”
And I Bring the Flood of Water - 2
And I Will Establish My Covenant
And He Healed the Ruined Altar of the Lord
Come You and All Your Household
The Earth Is the Lord's, and All that Fills It
The Wicked Perish from the World
The Difference between Moses and the Rest of the World
And Noah Went into the Ark
And Lifted Up the Ark
And He Blotted Out the Universe that Was Upon the Face of the Ground
And God Remembered Noah
And Noah Built an Altar
And the Lord Smelled the Sweet Fragrance
And God Blessed Noah
And the Fear of You and the Dread of You
I Have Set My Bow in the Cloud
This Stone, which I Have Set Up as a Pillar
The Sons of Noah Who Came Out of the Ark Were...
These Three Sons of Noah
And Noah Began and Planted a Vineyard
Bat-Sheba and Uriah
He Was a Mighty Hunter before the Lord
And the House, While It Was Being Built
עיר ומגדל
The Gate of the Inner Court
And the Lord said, “Behold, They Are One People”
chevron_rightLech Lecha
Listen to Me, You Stubborn-Hearted
On What Does the World Stand?
And the Lord Said unto Abram
And They Went Forth with Them from Ur of the Chaldees
Go Forth to Correct Yourself
And I Will Make You a Great Nation - 1
But From the Wicked Their Light Is Withheld
And I Will Make You a Great Nation – 2
And Abram Went, as the Lord Had Spoken to Him
And Abram Took Sarai
And Abram Passed Through the Land
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And Abram Went Down to Egypt
And It Came to Pass, When Abram Came to Egypt
The Creator Plays with the Souls of the Righteous
And the Lord Plagued Pharaoh
At Night My Soul Longs for You
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And He Went on His Journeys
And There Was Strife between the Herdsmen of Abram's Cattle and the Herdsmen of Lot’s Cattle
And the Lord Said to Abram, After Lot Had Separated
Like an Apple Tree among the Trees of the Forest
And It Came to Pass in the Days of Amraphel
O God, Do Not Keep Silent
Melchizedek King of Salem
After These Things
The Word of the Lord Came Unto Abram in a Vision
Rabbi Hiya Went to See Rabbi Elazar
Bless the Lord, You His Angels
And Abram Said, “...What Will You Give Me?”
For Who Is God, Save the Lord? And Who Is a Rock, Save Our God?
מחזה שד"י, מחזה סתם
The Creator Makes Couplings
Night and Midnight
A Small Hey and a Big Hey
Sayings for the Brit Milah [Circumcision]
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chevron_rightVaYera
And the Lord Appeared to Him
Man’s Soul Rises from the Earth to the Firmament
The Soul at the Time of Its Demise
When Rabbi Eliezer Was Sickened
And Behold, Three Men - 1
Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord
Behold, Three Men - 2
And He Said, “I Will Surely Return” - 1
And Sarah Will Have a Son
Her Husband Is Known in the Gates
And He Said, “I Will Surely Return” - 2
And the Men Rose Up from There
Do I Hide from Abraham?
I Will Go Down and See
And Abraham Will Surely Become a Great Nation
If As the Outcry That Has Come to Me, They Have Done
Would You Indeed Sweep Away the Righteous with the Wicked?
And the Two Angels Came to Sodom
The Garden of Eden and Hell
And the Lord Rained on Sodom
But His Wife Looked Back
A Land without Scarcity
And Lot Went Up from Zoar
Ammon and Moab
And He Said, “She Is My Sister”
Standing to His Right to Accuse Him
And Shall Behead the Heifer There in the Valley
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
And the Lord Visited Sarah
And the Lord Did to Sarah
Your Wife Shall Be as a Fruitful Vine
The Calculation of the Time of the Messiah
The Son of Hagar the Egyptian
The Signs of the Messiah
And God Tested Abraham
And Saw the Place from Afar
Abraham, Abraham
In All Their Affliction He Was Afflicted
chevron_rightChayei Sara
They Carried – And Cast Him into the Sea
And Dumah Rises and Calculates
A King Who Becomes Servant to a Field
One Who Diminishes Himself
And the Life of Sarah Was
And the Cows Took the Straight Way
And I Will Put Enmity between You and the Woman
Your Eyes Have Seen My Golem
To Mourn for Sarah and to Weep for Her
Dumah Takes Them in According to the Calculation, and Takes Them Out According to the Calculation
And Sarah Died in Kiriat Arba
The Serpent of the Firmament
Types of Witchcraft – in Women
The Cave of Machpelah - 1
Four Hundred Shekels
The Cave of Machpelah - 2
And Abraham Was Old, Advanced in Days
The Righteous Have Several Places
Eden Dripping on the Garden
About the Revival of the Dead
You Will Not Take a Wife from the Daughters of the Canaanites
בתורה כל החיים
Behold, Rebecca Came Out
Prayer, Outcry, Tear
And Isaac Brought Her into the Tent
And Abraham Took Another Wife
Unto the Sons of the Concubines – Abraham Gave Gifts
Who Gave Jacob for a Spoil?
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These Are the Generations of Isaac
And Isaac Was Forty Years Old
And Isaac Pleaded
And the Children Struggled
The Meal of the Righteous in the Future
Association of the Quality of Mercy with Judgment
And the Children Struggled Together within Her
The Gathering of the Exiles and the Revival of the Dead
And the Boys Grew – for He Had a Taste for Game
For He Had a Taste for Game
And Jacob Cooked a Stew
And There Was a Famine in the Land
She Is My Sister
And Abimelech Commanded
And He Called the Name of It Rehoboth
And His Eyes Became Too Weak to See
He Called for Esau and Said, “I Do Not Know the Day of My Death”
The Best Garments of Esau
In My Distress I Called… and He Answered Me
The Blessings
chevron_rightVaYetze
And Jacob Went Out from Beer-Sheba – 1
Seven Havalim
The Brightness of the Illuminating Mirror
SAM and a Woman of Harlotry
And Jacob Went Out from Beer-Sheba – 2
Arise, O Lord
And Jacob Went Out from Beer-Sheba - 3
Prophecy, Vision, and Dream
And Behold, the Lord Stood Above It
And Jacob Awoke and Said, “How Awful Is This Place”
And Behold a Ladder Was Set On the Earth
And Jacob Made a Vow
Rabbi Hiya Said to Elijah
And He Looked, and Behold a Well in the Field
And Jacob Went Out from Beer-Sheba
I Will Serve You Seven Years
Upper Righteous and Lower Righteous
Four Knots
And the Lord Saw that Leah Was Hated
The Tribes
This Time Will I Praise – She Called His Name Judah
His Thought Was of Rachel
And Found Mandrakes in the Field
When Rachel Had Borne Joseph
Maidens of Song
Each Set Is Only in Three
Remembering and Visiting
Death and the Shadow of Death
Then God Remembered Rachel
Name Me Your Wages
The Rods - 1
And Jacob Took Him Rods of Poplar
Blessings Are Upon the Head of the Righteous
I Have Not Seen the Righteous Forsaken
And God Placed Them in the Firmament of the Heavens
Two Firmaments: Beginning and End
The Trees of the Lord Have Their Fill
The Rods - 2
The Lord Lives, and Blessed Be My Rock
He Does Not Withdraw His Eyes from the Righteous
The Offerings of My Bread
The Idols
And the Angels of God Met Him
chevron_rightVaYishlach
And Jacob Sent Messengers
I Have Resided with Laban
The Prayer of the Righteous
And Jacob Was Left Alone
And a Man Struggled with Him
Let Me Go for the Dawn Has Broken
The Sinew of the Thigh-Vein
And Bowed Down to the Earth
And Embraced Him, and Fell on His Neck
Please My Lord Pass Over before His Servant
And Built Him a House
You Shall Not Plow With an Ox and a Donkey
Put Away the Foreign Gods
And He Built There an Altar
And God Went Up from Him
Jacob – Israel
Every Beginning Is Hard
If Thou Faint in the Day of Adversity
As Her Soul Departed
And Jacob Set Up a Pillar
And Reuben Went and Lay with Bilhah. Now the Sons of Jacob Were Twelve
Who Is This Coming Up from the Desert?
These Are the Generations of Esau
These Are the Kings
Jacob, Israel, and Yeshurun
Fear Not, Worm of Jacob
Midnight and the Morning Prayer
Who Found the Seas in the Desert
I Will Thank the Lord with All My Heart
You Are My Hiding Place
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And Jacob Sat
These Are the Generations of Jacob
For He Pays a Man According to His Work
He Shall Not Go in to the Veil
Behold, My Servant Will Be Enlightened
And Israel Loved Joseph
Joseph Dreamed a Dream
His Brothers Went to Graze
Jerusalem that Is Built
And A Man Found Him
I Seek My Brothers
There Is Anger and There Is Anger
The Pit Was Empty, Without Water
Zion and Jerusalem
And He Called His Name Er
Come to Your Brother's Wife and Mary Her
What He Did Was Bad in the Eyes of the Lord
She Removed Her Widow's Garments
Joseph Was Brought Down to Egypt
The Lord Was with Joseph
His Master's Wife Cast Her Eyes
As She Spoke to Joseph Day after Day
His Sin Waters the King of Egypt and the Baker
Let a Double Portion of Your Spirit Be Upon Me
Create for Me a Pure Heart, O God
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Man Puts an End to Darkness
And It Came to Pass at the End
His Spirit Was Troubled
They Quickly Brought Him Out of the Pit
After God Has Informed You of All This
Now Jacob Saw that There Was Grain in Egypt
And Joseph Was the Governor
And Joseph Knew His Brothers
And Joseph Remembered the Dreams
And He Put Them All Together in Prison
He Took Simeon from Them
And the Men Were Afraid because They Were Brought into Joseph's House
And Saw Benjamin
The Morning Was Light
Two Sons Were Born to Joseph Before the Year of the Famine Came
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Then Judah Approached
Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama
For the Kings Assembled
Beautiful in Elevation
Sixty Breaths
And You Shall Eat and Be Satisfied, and Bless
Then Joseph Could Not Refrain Himself
And He Fell upon His Brother Benjamin’s Neck and Wept
And the Voice Was Heard in Pharaoh's House
Take Wagons from the Land of Egypt
And Joseph Prepared His Merkava [Chariot/Assembly]
Why Have You Brought Harm?
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Jacob Lived in the Land of Egypt
And the Time Drew Near that Israel Must Die, and He Called His Son Joseph
And He Called His Son Joseph – 1
Behold, Your Father Is Ill
At Evening Time There Shall Be Light
And He Said unto Jacob
And Israel Grew Stronger, and Sat upon the Bed
The Names Are Called “Hand”
Appeared to Me at Luz
I Will Make You Fruitful, and Multiply You
And Now Your Two Sons, Who Were Born
Rachel Died on Me on the Way
And Israel Saw the Sons of Joseph - 1
Whom God Has Given Me by This
And the Eyes of Israel Were Dimmed with Age
Jacob Lived
Two Camels
Mine Is the Silver, and Mine the Gold
The Time for Israel to Die Drew Near - 1
Rabbi Yitzhak Sat and Was Sad
When His Time Comes to Depart from the World
The Mother of the Children Is Happy
My Mother's Sons Were Angry with Me
Your Covenant with Death Will Be Atoned
Woe unto an Evil Wicked
The Tzelem
Four Species
A Lily and a Rose
And the Days for Israel to Die Drew Near - 2
And He Called His Son, Joseph – 2
And Solomon's Wisdom Excelled
And When I Lied Down with My Fathers
And Israel Bowed Down Upon the Bed's Head
The World Is Judged Four Times a Year
When the Sun Was Setting
And Israel Saw Joseph's Sons - 2
And He Blessed Joseph
And Hezekiah Turned His Face to the Wall
The Redeeming Angel – 1
Do Not Remember the Iniquities of Our Forefathers against Us
Serve the Lord with Fear
May My Prayer Be Counted as Incense
The Terrible Mountain
Three Watches [parts of the night]
The Redeeming Angel – 2
Three Colors
The Strength of the King Loves Justice
Praise, You Servants of the Lord
And He Blessed Them on That Day
Your Eyes Saw My Unformed Substance
What Is the Measure of My Days
All the Blessings—to This Degree
The Sound of the Rolling Wheel
Be Gathered, that I May Tell You
Reuben, You Are My Firstborn
Asher, His Bread Shall Be Fat - 1
Reckless as Water, You Shall Not Have Preeminence
Shimon and Levi Are Brothers
The Nations of the World Count by the Sun, and Israel by the Moon
Judah, You, Your Brothers Shall Thank You
He Ties His Foal to the Vine – 1
Do Not Fret Because of Evildoers
A Small Aleph
He Ties His Foal to the Vine - 2
Out of the Eater, Out Came Food
Two Corrections of the Females
Corrects in Twelve in Two Worlds
Zebulun Will Dwell by the shore of the seas
I Have Adjured, You, O Daughters of Jerusalem
Issachar Is a Strong-Boned Donkey
Dan Shall Judge His People
Gad, Regiments Will Come Forth from Him
Put Me like a Seal Over Your Heart
Three Souls
Asher, His Bread Shall Be Rich - 2
Naphtali Is a Doe Let Loose
Thought, Speech, Voice
Joseph Is a Fruitful Bough
Benjamin Is a Wolf; He Will Prey
This Is What Their Father Said to Them
And Jacob Concluded Charging His Sons
He Perished and Was Gathered to His Peoples
Mourning-Egypt
Cry Aloud with Your Voice, O Daughter of Gallim
Silver Counted for Nothing in the Days of Solomon
A Cup of Blessing
The Barn of the Lycium
Jacob’s Embalming
And Placed Inside a Coffin in Egypt
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And the Serpent Was Cunning
 
And the Serpent Was Cunning

437) “And the serpent was cunning.” The serpent is the evil inclination, who seduces to sin. The serpent was really a serpent, but indeed, it is all one because it was SAM and was seen riding a serpent. The shape of the serpent is Satan, the evil inclination, who seduces people to sin and then rises and slanders. Thus, it is all one. It can be said that the serpent is the evil inclination, and it can be said that it is a real serpent.

438) At that time, Angel SAM descended from the heaven and rode that serpent, and all the people saw his shape and fled from him. SAM and the serpent engaged in conversation with the woman and caused death to the world. Indeed, it is with wisdom that SAM brought curses upon the world, that he cunningly seduced them into sinning, and sabotaged the first tree that the Creator created in the world, Adam ‎HaRishon.

439) That matter depended on SAM, meaning on him robbing the Mochin ‎and the blessings from Adam ‎HaRishon ‎with his cunningness, making him sin with the tree of knowledge. Finally, the other holy tree came, Jacob, and took the blessings back from SAM, so Angel SAM—Esau’s minister—would not be blessed from above, and so that Esau would not be blessed below, since SAM and Esau were built by the ruin of Adam ‎HaRishon. Through the ruin of SAM and Esau, the Kedusha ‎is rebuilt, hence because SAM robbed the blessings from the Kedusha ‎with his cunningness, Jacob retook the blessings from SAM and from Esau with cunningness.

And the reason why it was specifically Jacob who grew strong in that, to return the theft that SAM stole from Adam ‎HaRishon, is that Jacob was similar to Adam ‎HaRishon. Jacob’s beauty was as the beauty of Adam ‎HaRishon, hence as SAM denied the blessings from the first tree, who is Adam ‎HaRishon, Jacob, who is similar to Adam ‎HaRishon, denied the blessings from SAM above, and from Esau below. Everything that Jacob took, he took from his own, which SAM stole from Adam ‎HaRishon. This is why it is written, “And a man struggled with him,” being SAM.

440) “And the serpent was cunning.” The serpent is the evil inclination; it is the angel of death. And because the serpent is the angel of death, it caused death to the whole world, seducing Eve to sin with the tree of knowledge. It is written, “The end of every flesh has come before Me,” meaning the angel of death, who puts an end to every flesh, taking the souls from every flesh and is called so, “the end of every flesh.”

441) The serpent started with Af [“although” but also “ire”], saying, “Although God said.” Thus, he brought with him ire and anger to the world. He said to the woman, “With this tree the Creator created the world,” since the world was created by the Nukva. “Therefore, indeed eat from it and you will be as God, knowing good and evil, and you, too, will be able to create worlds through the Nukva.”

ZA is Elokim [God]. His name, the Nukva, is the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Therefore, if you eat from the tree of knowledge, which is his name, meaning they would adhere to the Nukva and to her abundance, then “you will be as God,” like ZA, and you’ll be able to create worlds like him.

442) However, the serpent did not say, “With this tree the Creator created the world.” Had He said so, it would have been good because the tree is like an ax in the hand of the one who carves with it, since the tree of knowledge is the Nukva of ZA. That is, had he said that ZA created the world through the Nukva, he would have been telling the truth because he is operating in the Nukva like an ax in the hand of the one who carves with it, for the Nukva has nothing of her own except that which ZA gives her. It follows that the operator is ZA, and this is certainly true.

However, the serpent did not say so. Rather, he said, “The Creator ate from this tree,” meaning that ZA received abundance from the Nukva, and then ZA created the world. Every craftsman hates his friend. Eat from the tree of knowledge and you, too, will be able to create worlds. But this is a complete lie because the Nukva receives everything from ZA, which is why he said, “Because God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will open and you will be as God, knowing good and evil.” Because He knows that you will be as God and will create worlds like Him, He commanded you not to eat from it.

443) All his words were lies. He was lying even in the beginning of the words, as it is written, “Although God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden,’” it is not so because it is written, “From any tree of the garden you may eat,” so He permitted him everything.

444) Rabbi Yosi said, “The Creator commanded him on idol worship, on blessing the Creator, on the judgments, on bloodshed, and on incest.” But how many people were in the world of whom the Creator had to warn him? All those seven Mitzvot ‎were only on that tree, the tree of knowledge, since all those Mitzvot ‎cling to it.

445) Anyone who takes the tree of knowledge—the Nukva alone without her husband ZA—separates between ZA and Nukva. It follows that he takes her imparting in the masses below in the separated BYA, where there are the shells, which cling to the tree of knowledge.

By that, he takes upon himself the prohibitions of idol worship, bloodshed, and incest: 1) He breaches with idol worship in those appointed ministers to whom he extends the abundance from the tree of knowledge. It follows that he is working for the appointed, which is idol worship. 2) He breaches with bloodshed because the power of bloodshed depends on that tree, for it is on the left side, Gevura. By that, SAM, Esau’s minister was appointed. 3) He breaches with incest because the tree of knowledge is a woman. It is called “a woman,” Nukva of ZA, and it is forbidden to summon a woman alone, but together with her husband, so he will not be suspected of incest. The sin of the tree of knowledge is that he took the Nukva alone without her husband.

For this reason, in all seven Mitzvot, he was commanded with the prohibition of that tree, the tree of knowledge. Once he ate from it, he breached in all of them because they are all gripped to it.

446) Rabbi Yehuda said, “Of course the prohibition of the tree of knowledge is so, since it is forbidden to be alone with a woman unless her husband is with her.” What did that wicked one, SAM, do? He said, “But I have touched that tree and did not die. You too, come near and touch it with your hand and you will not die.” He added that of his own, for touching was not forbidden, but eating.

447) Promptly after she touched the tree of knowledge, it is written, “And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat.” Rabbi Yehuda said, “That tree was emitting fragrances, as it is written, ‘As the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed.’ And because the scent was coming up from it, she coveted it, to eat from it.” Rabbi Yosi says, “Her seeing brought her the coveting to eat from the tree of knowledge, and not the smell, since it is written, ‘And the woman saw.’” Rabbi Yehuda told him, “But after the sin it is written, ‘And the eyes of both of them were opened.’ Thus, she did not obtain seeing until after the eating. But prior to the eating, she obtained only smelling.”

Rabbi Yosi told him, “That seeing prior to eating was in the measure of the tree, a female light, and that seeing brought her the coveting. But the seeing that she obtained after the eating was to a great extent in regard to the tree. This is why it is written, ‘And the eyes of both of them were opened,’ as it is written, ‘And the woman saw.’ The words ‘The woman’ are accurate, showing that the seeing was in the light of a female.”

448) “And the woman saw that the tree was good.” It is written, “...and took of its fruit.” She saw and she did not see that the tree was good. She saw that the tree was good but she could not decide, since it is written, “...and took of its fruit,” and it is not written “And she took from it,” from the tree, since she did not make up her mind that the tree was good.

By taking from its fruit and not from the tree, she clung to the place of death and caused death to the entire world, separating life from death because the Yesod, attached to the Nukva, is called “bearing fruit,” and the Nukva is called “fruit.” When the Nukva is alone, without the Yesod, she is death. And when she took from the fruit and not from the tree, it is found that she clung to the place of death, and separated the Yesod, which is life, from the Nukva, which is death, when she is separated from the Yesod.

That sin caused the separation of Nukva from her husband ZA, since the voice, ZA, and the speech, Nukva, never part, and one who parts the voice from the speech—ZA from Nukva—becomes mute and cannot speak. And when the speaking is denied of him, he is given to the dust. This is why he was told, “And unto dust you shall return.”

449) “I was mute silent; I held my peace from good,” said the Assembly of Israel, Nukva of ZA, during the exile. It is so because the voice, ZA, leads the speech, the Nukva. And since she is in exile, the voice is separated from her, and the speech—Nukva—is not heard. This is why the Nukva said, “I was mute silent” since “I held my peace from good,” meaning ZA, who is called “good,” and who is the voice. It turns out that the voice is not going with her.

At that time, Israel say, “Unto You are silence and praise.” “Silence” is the praise for David, since Nukva is called “praise” when she is in Gadlut. She becomes silence in the exile, she is muted, soundless. “Unto You,” Israel say to ZA, “For You is she silent and mute,” since the voice, ZA, has moved away from her.

450) “And she took of its fruit.” Eve squeezed grapes and gave it to Adam. By eating them, they caused death to the entire world because death resides in the tree of knowledge. It is the tree that governs in the night, the Nukva, as it is written, “The small light for the governances of the night.” It is written about her, “She rises while it is still night.” And when she governs at night, all the people in the world taste the taste of death, since sleep is one part of 60 of death.

However, those faithful ones hurry and give her their Nefashot [souls] as deposits, saying before they go to sleep, “In Your hand I commit my spirit.” And because the Nefashot are deposited in the Nukva during the governance of the taste of death, they are not harmed, and the Nefashot return to their places by morning, meaning to the bodies. It is written about it, “And Your faith in the nights,” for faith, the Nukva, rules at night.

451) “And the eyes of both of them were opened.” They were opened to know the evils of the world, which they did not know thus far. Once they know and their eyes were opened to know evil, it is written, “And they knew that they were naked,” for they lost the upper brightness that was hovering over them. It departed from them and they were left naked.

452) “And they sewed fig-leaves,” meaning they clung to cover in the shades of the tree from which they had eaten because the leaves of the tree cast shade beneath them. There is a shade from the Kedusha, as it is written, “In its shade I delighted to sit,” and there is a shade from the shell, as it is written, “God has made one opposite the other.” Once they sinned in the tree of knowledge, it cast upon them the shade of the tree of death, which is the shadow of death. And where they initially had the upper brightness, which was a canopy over them, they were now in the shade of the shell, called fig-leaves.

“And made themselves girdles.” Once they knew of this world and clung to it, they saw that this world was led by those leaves of the tree and made themselves strengthening by which to be strengthened in this world. It is so because prior to the sin, the world was led only by the Kedusha. By the sin of the tree of knowledge, they cast the Mochin ‎from the degrees of Kedusha, the shells ‎were filled by the ruin of the Kedusha, and the guidance was placed in the hands of the Sitra ‎Achra, as it is written, “The earth was placed in the hand of the wicked.”

It follows that along with the sin of the tree of knowledge, the fig-leaves, which are the shades of the Sitra ‎Achra ‎that dominated this world, were given power and governance. Then they know every kind of charm in the world and wish to gird arms because of those leaves of the tree to protect themselves.

453) Three entered the judgment‎ and were sentenced: the serpent, Adam, and Eve. The bottom world has been cursed and did not return to its state due to the filth of the serpent, until Israel stood by Mount Sinai. At that time, the filth stopped.

454) After the sin, the Creator clothed them in clothes that the skin enjoys and not the Nefesh, as it is written, “Garments of skin.” Initially, they had garments of light, which the upper ones would use on their way up, since high angels would come to Adam ‎HaRishon ‎to enjoy that light, as it is written, “You have made him a little lower than God, and You crown him with glory and majesty.” But now that they sinned, they were given garments of leather, which the skin enjoys, the body and not the soul.

455) Afterwards, they begot the first son, who was the son of the filth of the serpent. Two came over Eve, Adam and the serpent. She conceived from them and begot two, Cain and Abel. One came out to the side of its progenitor, and the other came out to the side of its progenitor. Their spirit was separated—one to the side of Kedusha ‎and one to the side of impurity. One resembles its phase, and the other resembles its phase, the side from which they emerged.

By heeding the advice of the serpent, he cast his filth in her, and the filth of the serpent mixed in Eve’s body. Later, Adam came up on her, and it is considered that she was impregnated from both, from the serpent’s filth and from Adam ‎HaRishon’s Kedusha. First emerged Cain, who was mixed with the serpent’s filth. Afterwards, once the filth had come out of Eve along with the birth of Cain, Abel came out in the Kedusha ‎of Adam ‎HaRishon.

456) All the sections of evil kinds, spirits, demons, and charmers come from Cain’s side. From Abel’s side more mercy is drawn out to the world, but not in completeness. It is like a good wine mixed with bad wine. The world was not corrected by him until Shet [Seth] was born and all the generations of the world’s righteous were related after him, and the world was established with him, while from Cain came all the insolent, sinners, and wicked of the world.

457) When Cain sinned, he feared because he saw before him various armed camps that came to kill him. When he repented, he said, “Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden ... and whoever finds me will kill me,” for he feared the camps that came to kill him.

“From Your face I will be hidden” because he said, “I will be hidden and ruined from my structure,” since Cain was a husbandman, and once He drove him out of the land, his whole structure came apart and nothing was left for him in the world. Moreover, “From Your face I will be hidden,” as it is written, “And He did not hide His face from him.” It is also written, “And Moses hid his face.” Cain said about that, “From Your face I will be hidden,” saying, “I will be hidden from Your face so I am not noticed.” Hence, “Whoever finds me will kill me.”