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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
chevron_rightBeresheet - 2
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
chevron_rightNoach
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
A City and a Tower
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
Three Degrees NRN
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
NRN
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?
chevron_rightToldot
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
chevron_rightVaYeshev
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
chevron_rightMiketz
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
chevron_rightVaYigash
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?
chevron_rightVaYechi
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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chevron_rightShmot
These Are the Names
The Word of the Lord Came - 1
Come with Me from Lebanon, My Bride - 1
Do Not Eat the Bread of an Evil-Eyed Man
Three Are They Who Repel the Shechina
They Came Each with His Household - 1
The Wheels of the Holy Merkava [Chariot/Assembly]
With Jacob; They Came Each Man with His Household
The Word of the Lord Came Expressly - 2
Come with Me from Lebanon, My Brid - 2
Seventy Souls
Who Send Out Freely the Ox and the Donkey
And a New King Arose - 1
The Vision of Egypt
The Coming of the Messiah
And a New King Arose - 2
The Morning Star
Righteous to Whom It Happens according to the Deeds of the Wicked
And There Went a Man of the House of Levi
She Hid Him Three Months
And His Sister Stood from Afar
And the Daughter of Pharaoh Came Down
He Looked This Way and That
He Sat Down by a Well
Come from the Four Winds, O Wind
The Well of Moses and Jacob
I Am Black, and Beautiful
Run Away, My Beloved
Why Exile and Why to Egypt?
He neither Ate Bread nor Drank Water
Twelve Mountains of Persimmon
Eighteen Mountains of Persimmon
I Went Down into the Garden of Nut Trees
One Opposite the Other
The Sons of Israel, the Sons of Jacob
They Came Each Man with His Household - 2
The Dead Know the Affliction of the Living
While the King Sat at His Table
Israel Compared to the Rest of the Nations
Under a Slave When He Becomes King
Until the Day Breaks
And He Said unto His People
Their Valiant Ones Cry Outside
Two Tears to the Deep of the Great Sea
Let Us Deal Wisely
Against All the Gods of Egypt, I Will Execute Judgments
The Song of Songs that Is for Solomon
And There Went a Man
The King of Egypt Died
Two Tears to the Great Sea
Does the Lord Have a Sword?
And the Children of Israel Sighed
Sigh, Cry, and Outcry
My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His, He Pastures among the Roses
Moses Was Pasturing
In a Flame of Fire Out of the Midst of a Bush
chevron_rightVaEra
And I Appeared—In God Almighty [Shadai], and My Name Is HaVaYaH, I Am Not Known to Them
Visible Colors and Invisible Colors
Four Foundations: Fire, Wind, Water, Dust
I Will Bring, I Will Deliver, I Will Redeem, I Will Take
General and Individual
But They Did Not Listen to Moses for Shortness of Breath
Voice and Speech
Be Afraid of the Sword
These Are the Heads of Their Fathers’ Houses
Know This Day and Take It to Your Heart
Midnight and Midday
A Sea Monster Lies between the Niles
The Flaming Sword that Turned Every Way
Take Your Rod
And They May Become Blood
And Take It to Your Heart
And the Nile Shall Swarm with Frogs
He Was Seven Years in Building It
Ways—Paths—Pleasantness—and Peace
Behold, the Hand of the Lord
And I Will Make You a Great Nation
And Sarai Was Barren
chevron_rightBo
If There Is an Angel as Mediator for Him
There Was a Day When… Satan Also Came among Them
The Sea Monsters
And the Lord Will Pass Through … and when He Sees the Blood on the Lintel and on the Two Mezuzahs [Doorposts]
And It Came to Pass at Midnight
All Things Have I Seen
And He Smelled the Smell of His Garments
This Month Shall Be to You
A Lamb for a Household This month shall be to you
Sourdough and Leaven
Matzot [unleavened bread] of Judgment
Praising the Exodus from Egypt
The Passover Sacrifice
Sanctify to Me Every Firstborn
For He Will Give His Angels Charge over You
For You Saw No Manner of Image
Every Firstborn of an Ass You Shall Redeem with a Lamb
The Tefillin [Phylacteries]
chevron_rightBeShalach
And Elisha Passed Over to Shunem
There Were Three Deaths
And God Led the People Around
And the Lord Walks Before Them by Day
And He Took Six Hundred Select Chariots
And Pharaoh Drew Near
The Lord Will Fight for You, and You will Keep Silent
Why Are You Yelling Out to Me?
Lift Up Your Staff
And He Removed the Wheel of His Chariots
And the Angel of God Went
And ... Went, And It Came, And ... Stretched
And Israel Saw the Great Hand
Then Moses ... Will Sing
The Lord Is My Strength and Song
The Lord Is a Man of War
Pharaoh's Merkavot [chariots/structures] and His Army
Your Right Hand, O Lord, Majestic in Power
When Moses Entered the Cloud
In Your Great Excellence, You Overthrow Those Who Rise Against You
The Enemy Said, “I Will Pursue”
Who Is Like You among the Gods
You Stretched Out Your Right Hand, the Earth Swallowed Them
Building a Temple Below
And They Found No Water
And He Said, “If You Will Hear and Listen to the Voice of the Lord”
The Story of the Manna
The Creator Demands the Glory of the Righteous
Tzur and Sela [both words mean “rock”]
Is the Lord among Us
Then Amalek Came
And They Saw the God of Israel
And Moses Built an Altar
chevron_rightYitro
And Jethro Heard
And Her Two Sons
Then Jethro, Moses' Father-In-Law, Came
This Is the Book
You Will Behold the Secret of the Se’arot [Hair]
And You Will Behold the Secret of the Forehead
And You Will Behold the Secret of the Eyes
And You Will Behold the Secret of the Face
You Will Behold the Secret of the Lips
You Will Behold the Secret of the Eyes
You Will Behold the Secret of the Lines in the Palms
You Will Behold the Secret of Secrets
On the Third Month
And Moses Went Up to God
Thus You Shall Say to the House of Jacob
On Eagles' Wings
And It Came to Pass on the Third Day
There Were Voices and Lightning Flashes
And All the People Saw the Voices
And God Spoke
The Tablets Were the Work of God
I Am the Lord Your God - 1
You Shall Not Have
You Shall Not Make for Yourself
You Shall Not Bow Down to Them
You Shall Not Take
Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep It Holy – 1
Honor Your Father
You Shall Not Make with Me
I Am the Lord Your God - 2
You Shall Not Take the Name of the Lord In Vain
Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep It Holy - 2
Two Gemstones
Honor Your Father and Your Mother
You Shall Not Kill; You Shall Not Commit Adultery...
chevron_rightMishpatim
These Are the Ordinances
If You Buy a Hebrew Slave
The Old Man [The Grandfather]
If Men Struggle
Returning a Loss
Setting Aside Cities of Refuge
Mem-Tet and Mot [rod/pole]
Redeeming a Hebrew Slave
Doubled-Edged Sword
A Vow and an Oath
Barn and Winery
Watching Through the Windows
You Shall Not Follow the Masses in Doing Evil
Keep Away from a False Matter
The Order of Judgments in Laws of Torts [damages]
Written in the Signs of the Creator and His Shechina
A Spirit that Ascends and Descends Each Night
Two Messiahs
Concerning Tithing
You Shall Be Holy Men unto Me
Administer Justice in the Morning
The Rooms of the Tabernacle
And in All the Things That I Have Said to You Be Watchful
Any Man of Israel Who Was Circumcised Should Be Seen
The Creator Is Called ADNI
Neshikin [Kisses]
Behold, I Am Sending an Angel before You
You Are Not To Boil a Kid [Young Goat] in Its Mother's Milk
And unto Moses He Said, “Go Up to the Lord”
And upon the Nobles of the Sons of Israel
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chevron_rightTruma
When the Creator Created the World
How Great Is Your Goodness, which You Have Hidden
A Persimmon and a Sedan Chair
From the Trees of Lebanon Are the Six Days of Creation
And They Shall Take a Donation for Me - 1
Three Colors in a Flame
Gold and Silver and Bronze - 1
Evening and Morning and Noon
The Watchman Says, “Morning Comes”
A Bed, a Table, a Chair, and a Lamp
Hear O Israel, Blessed Be the Name of the Glory of His Kingdom Forever and Ever
They Will Take a Donation for Me - 2
As They
Bless the Blessed Lord
The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God
Rejoice [in the Lord] You Righteous
To David, when He Changed His Demeanor
A Prayer for Moses
Sing to the Lord a New Song
A Psalm, a Song for the Sabbath Day
The Soul of Every Living Thing
And You, O Lord, Be Not Far Off
Gold and Silver and Bronze – 2
Who Has Aroused One from the East
God, You Are My God, I Shall Seek You
And They Will Take a Donation for Me - 3
Opening and Light Cover over the Holy Land
Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama
A Song of Ascents. They Who Trust in the Lord
The Song of Songs, which Is Solomon's
From Every Man Whose Heart Moves Him
Kisses
This Is the Donation
Moses, Aaron, and Samuel
Gold and Silver and Bronze – 3
Let There Be Light
And the Lord Gave Solomon Wisdom
Azure - 1
And Behold, It Was Very Good
Hell’s Judgment
There Is a Place in the World Where No One Dies
Bezalel Knew How to Join Letters
Azure - 2
You Shall Make a Table - 1
And You Shall Eat and Be Satisfied, and Bless
You Shall Make a Table – 2
Time to Do for the Lord
A Time of Good Will
Wisdom Strengthens the Wise
Soul Food
The Middle of the World
A Cup of Blessing
Menorah [the Hebrew candelabra], Shekalim [Shekels], This Month
And They Shall Make an Ark
See and Make in Their Pattern
Three Names Included Together
The Letters
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Two Out of a Hundred
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Bezalel Made the Ark
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One Who Eats Without a Prayer
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You Shall Fear Your God
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Then Those Who Feared the Lord Spoke
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They Made the Ornament
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You Shall Make an Altar as a Place for Burning Incense
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The Rose
 

The Rose

1) Rabbi Hizkiya began: “It is written, ‘As a rose among the thorns.’” What is a rose? It is the assembly of Israel, Malchut. There is a rose, and there is a rose. Just as a rose among the thorns has red and white, the assembly of Israel has judgment and mercy. Just as a rose has thirteen petals, the assembly of Israel has thirteen qualities of mercy that surround it on all sides.

Also, God, in the verse “In the beginning God created,” God elicited thirteen words to surround the assembly of Israel and to keep her: THE, HEAVEN, AND-THE, EARTH, AND-THE EARTH, WAS, EMPTY, AND-CHAOTIC, AND-THE DARKNESS, OVER, THE FACE, OF THE ABYSS, AND-THE SPIRIT, up to the words “of God hovered” [In Hebrew, “and” is written in conjunction with the word following it, so it is regarded as one word].

Explanation: There are ten Sefirot: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gevura, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod, and Malchut. However, essentially, they are only five: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Tifferet, and Malchut, since the Sefira [singular of Sefirot] Tifferet contains six Sefirot HGT NHY within it. They became five Partzufim [plural of Partzuf]: AA, AVI, and ZON. Keter is called Arich Anpin (AA), Hochma and Bina (HB) are called Aba ve [and] Ima (AVI), Tifferet and Malchut are called Zeir Anpin and Nukva (ZON).

The seven days of creation are the two Partzufim Zeir Anpin and Nukva of Atzilut. They contain seven Sefirot HGT NHY and Malchut. The writings of the work of creation explain how AVI, which are HB, emanated them from the beginning of their formation to the end of the Gadlut [adulthood/greatness], which take place in them over six thousand years.

Rabbi Hizkiya begins with the explanation of Nukva of ZA, explaining the order of her emanation from Ima, Bina, which is called Elokim [God]. This is the meaning of Rabbi Hizkiya beginning with the explanation of the rose, which is the Nukva of ZA. At the time of Gadlut, the Nukva of ZA is called “the assembly of Israel,” and this is why he said, “What is a rose? It is the assembly of Israel.”

There are two states to the rose: 1) Katnut—the beginning of her formation, in which there is only the Sefira Keter in her, in which her light of Nefesh is clothed, and her bottom nine Sefirot fall outside of Atzilut, in the world of Beria. 2) Gadlut—when her bottom nine rise from the world of Beria to the world of Atzilut and with them, she is built into a complete Partzuf with ten Sefirot. At that time, she rises with ZA, her husband, to an equal level with AVI of Atzilut and they clothe them. Then ZA is called Ysrael [Israel], with the letters Li Rosh [a Rosh (head) to me], and the Nukva is called “the assembly of Israel,” for she assembles within her all the lights of Israel, her husband, and gives them to the lower ones.

Katnut [infancy/smallness] is called “a rose among the thorns” since her bottom nine were emptied from the light of Atzilut and remained as thorns. Gadlut is called plainly “a rose” or “the assembly of Israel.” This is why it was said, “There is a rose, and there is a rose.”

The red color indicates that there is a grip to the outer ones there, for the shells to suckle from her. This is in Katnut, when her bottom nine are in Beria. There is also white in her vessel of Keter, where there is no grip to the outer ones. This is why it was said, “Just as a rose among the thorns has red and white, the assembly of Israel has judgment and mercy.” This indicates that even in her Gadlut, called “the assembly of Israel,” although at that time, she rises and clothes the Bina, judgment still remains in her because she needs the screen that is set up in her for the coupling by striking.

Because of the judgment in the screen, it strikes the upper light and reflects it back. By this, it raises ten Sefirot of reflected light, which is called the light of judgment. Within them, it draws ten Sefirot of direct light called “light of mercy.” Hence, there are judgment and mercy in the assembly of Israel, as well, corresponding to the red and the white that the rose among the thorns has.

This is the sea that Solomon made, which stands on twelve oxen, for her bottom nine that fell into Beria have been established there in twelve oxen, and the point of Keter that remained in Atzilut is the sea that stands atop them. All together, they are called “the thirteen petals of the rose.”

The Mochin of Gadlut of Nukva that have illumination of Hochma are extended from the thirteen names, called “the thirteen qualities of mercy.” This is why the assembly of Israel has thirteen qualities of mercy, as well. The main thing that Rabbi Hizkiya comes to teach by this comparison between the rose among the thorns and the assembly of Israel is that everything that the Nukva has in her state of Gadlut must, correspondingly, have a preparation and qualification in the beginning of her formation, in the state of Katnut. This is why it was said that opposite the white and red in Katnut, judgment and mercy come out in her in Gadlut, and opposite the thirteen petals in Katnut, thirteen qualities of mercy emerge in her in Gadlut.

Elokim [God] in the verse “In the beginning God created” is the Bina that emanates to the Nukva of ZA. He elicited thirteen words: THE, HEAVEN, AND-THE, EARTH, AND-THE EARTH, WAS, EMPTY, AND-CHAOTIC, AND-THE-DARKNESS, OVER, THE-FACE, OF-THE-ABYSS, AND-THE-SPIRIT, up to the second Elokim. These thirteen words imply the same thirteen petals of the rose among the thorns, the sea that stands over the twelve oxen, which are preparation and qualification for the assembly of Israel to receive the thirteen qualities of mercy, to surround the assembly of Israel and to keep her since the thirteen qualities of mercy—the complete Mochin of Nukva—are regarded as surrounding and illuminating her on all sides from all around. Through them, she is kept from contact with the outer ones because as long as the great Mochin in illumination of Hochma from the thirteen qualities are not in her, there is nursing for the outer ones in her.

2) Afterwards, the name Elokim is mentioned another time, as it is written, “...of God hovers” to elicit five hard leaves that surround the rose. These five leaves are called “salvations,” and they are five gates. It is written about it, “I shall lift up the cup of salvations.” It is a cup of blessing.

A cup of blessing must be over five fingers and not more, like the rose that sits on five hard leaves that correspond to the five fingers, and this rose is a cup of blessing.

There are five words from the second name Elokim to the third name Elokim: HOVERED, OVER, THE-FACE, OF-THE-WATERS, AND ... SAID [in Hebrew Elokim comes after the “said”], corresponding to the five leaves. Henceforth, when it writes, “God ... Let there be light,” it is the light that was created and concealed, and was included in that covenant that entered the rose and produced a seed in her. This is called “a fruit bearing tree” with which they sowed. And that seed is found in the very token of the covenant.

Explanation: Five hard leaves are the five Gevurot [plural of Gevura] of Nukva, which are ten Sefirot of reflected light that the Nukva raises through a coupling by striking with the upper light, called “light of judgment,” for the ten Sefirot of direct light are called five Hassadim HGT NH, and clothe the five Gevurot HGT NH of reflected light.

Those five hard leaves are the power of judgment in the screen that detains the upper light from clothing from the screen down. This is why now it is only called “five hard leaves,” since she is still unfit for coupling on them. At the time of Gadlut, when a screen comes in a coupling with the upper light, they are called five Gevurot.

These five hard leaves are five words that there are from the second Elokim to the third Elokim: HOVERED, OVER, THE-FACE, OF-THE-WATERS, AND ... SAID. And why was it mentioned another time, implying that there is a new action here? It is in order to bring these five hard leaves out of the Nukva, which are a preparation for a coupling at the time of Gadlut.

Ten Sefirot of reflected light are called five Gevurot HGT NH. They are not called KHB TM because they extend only light of Hassadim. Hence, KHB descended from their degree, and they are called HGT, and TM are called NH.

In Gadlut, when the five hard leaves became five Gevurot, they are considered five gates, open to receive the five Hassadim of direct light. Also, they are called “salvations,” and then the Nukva is called “a cup of salvations” or “a cup of blessing” since through them, the Nukva becomes a vessel that holds the blessing, five Hassadim.

The number of Sefirot is ten. Essentially, they are five phases, or thirteen, like the thirteen qualities of mercy. Ten indicates the Sefira ZON, in which there is only light of Hassadim. Thirteen indicates the Mochin of illumination of Hochma, which is received for ZON.

A cup of blessing indicates the extension of five Hassadim within her five Gevurot. It must be five fingers and not more, meaning only in the number ten, HGT NH and not more, with the exception of the number thirteen since the Nukva is unfit to receive Hochma from thirteen except by clothing of Hochma in Hassadim. For this reason, first there must be an extension of blessing, which are five Hassadim, specifically through the five fingers, which are five Gevurot, and then she can receive from the thirteen, as well.

This means that it refers to the five fingers of the left hand, which are five Gevurot, since the five fingers of the right hand are five Hassadim. Thus, the cup of blessing must be raised with both hands, meaning with the five fingers of the left hand, as well, to indicate the intention of the five Gevurot. However, afterwards, in the beginning of the blessing, only the five fingers of the right hand should remain on the cup to avoid awakening the gripping of the Sitra Achra, which nurses from the left.

The third Elokim in the verse “Let there be light” is to emanate the Gadlut of Nukva, which is five Hassadim and the thirteen qualities of mercy, where the five Hassadim are five times “light” in the verses “Let there be light,” “And there was light,” “That the light was good,” “Between the light,” “The light, day.” The thirteen qualities of mercy are implied in the words “And there was evening and there was morning, one day,” since one is thirteen and also thirteen in Gematria.

These five lights are the light that the Creator created on the first day. Adam was watching it from the end of the world to its end. When the Creator looked at the generation of the flood and the generation of Babylon and saw that their actions were corrupt, He stood and concealed it from them. It is written, “God, ‘Let there be light.’” This is the light that was created and concealed and included in that covenant, meaning entered the rose, that the five Hassadim were first incorporated in Yesod of ZA and did not come straight from Bina, from Elokim, to the Nukva, and the covenant, Yesod of ZA, which entered the rose and gave them to her.

These five Hassadim that emerge on five Gevurot are called “seed.” The power of the judgment and the Gevurot in the screen, by whose power it strikes the upper light and repels it, is mainly found only in Ateret Yesod of ZA, which it extended from Mazal veNakeh in Dikna while the Nukva receives from it only an illumination and a branch.

For this reason, the coupling on the screen, which raises the five Gevurot that extend and clothe the five Hassadim, which are five lights, is done mainly in Yesod of ZA, and he is the one who gives them to the Nukva. That seed, five Hassadim and five Gevurot, is found in the very token of the covenant, since in the token of the covenant, which is Ateret Yesod of ZA, there is the actuality of the Gevurot that extend five Hassadim called “seed.” However, the Yesod of the Nukva receives only the form of his Gevurot. This is why the Yesod of the Nukva is called only by the name of the form of the covenant.

3) As the form of the covenant was sown in forty-two couplings from the seed, the engraved and explicit Name was sown in the forty-two letters of the work of creation.

Explanation: The name “forty-two letters” is simple HaVaYaH, HaVaYaH with a filling, HaVaYaH with a filling of filling, in which there are forty-two letters. That seed, which is found in the token of the covenant—which are five Hassadim and five Gevurot—extends from the name “forty-two.”

Therefore, as the form of the covenant, Yesod of Nukva, was sown in forty-two couplings from the seed of the token of the covenant, the engraved and explicit Name was sown in forty-two letters of the work of creation.

There are two phases in Nukva: 1) The construction of her Partzuf, which was built by Bina, and 2) Her copulation with ZA, which is called “the coupling.”

As the form of the covenant, Yesod of Nukva, was sown in forty-two couplings from that seed of the token of the covenant, where the difference is in the coupling, so you deduce in the order of the emanation of the construction of the Nukva, called “the work of creation,” through the Bina, who was in the name “forty-two,” as well.

There are two states in the construction of the Nukva: Katnut and Gadlut. The Katnut is called “engraving,” meaning engraving into a receptacle of the lights of the time of Gadlut, since all that is received by the Nukva at the time of Gadlut requires preparation and qualification for them from the days of Katnut. The Gadlut is called by the explicit Name because all that is concealed during the Katnut is explained and becomes known during the Gadlut.

Thus, “The engraved and explicit Name” is sown in the forty-two letters of the work of creation. The Nukva is called “a name.” “Engraved” means her Katnut, “explicit” is her Gadlut, and they, too, were sown and built in forty-two letters like the forty-two couplings in the coupling in the token of the covenant. Also, the forty-two letters of the work of creation are the forty-two letters presented from Beresheet [In the beginning] through the Bet of Bohu [Tohu veBohu means “unformed and chaotic”].