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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
Who Is She Who Looks Forth Like the Dawn
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
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Illuminations of Light and Illuminations of Fire
 

Illuminations of Light and Illuminations of Fire

128) “And God made the two lights.” This is a light, and that is a light. The sun is a light, and the moon is also a light in and of herself. This is why those lights that rise up are called “illuminations of light,” and those lights that come down are called “illuminations of fire,” since those illuminations of fire are degrees below, which rule over all the weekdays.

After TheZohar explained the Katnut ‎and Gadlut, that the moon could not remain in a state of two great lights on an equal level—Matzpatz, Matzpatz—and therefore diminished herself and returned to Ibur [impregnation], obtaining the Mochin ‎of face-to-face, it was possible to think that the state of two great lights was completely canceled after the diminution of the moon. And he tells us that the situation of the two great lights still illuminating in the world, as well, though as illuminations of fire, is because a change of the spiritual does not mean that the first state is absent and the next state takes its place. Rather, each change that is said regarding the spiritual means only an addition to the previous state, but the previous state is also not absent. For this reason, even after the moon was diminished, her previous state was not lost, for she was with ZA on an equal level—Matzpatz, Matzpatz.

The two great lights mean that the sun was a light and the moon was a light, not like after the diminution, when the moon herself was not an illumination at all, but receives light from the sun. Rather, at that time, the moon herself was an object that illuminates by itself, like the sun. For this reason, those lights that rise up are called “illuminations of light.” And since the moon was once an illuminating object, that state was not absent from her even after the diminution. However, in that regard, there is still a big difference between them because the light of the sun is illuminations of light, and the light of the moon is illuminations of fire.

This is so because the whole power of the ascent of the Nukva to ZA for an equal level is because during Katnut, the three Sefirot ‎Bina and TM of ZA were fallen in the degree of the Nukva and became a single degree with her. Hence, when ZA raised his fallen Bina and TM once more from the place of the Nukva, returning them to his degree, the Nukva rose along with them because she was regarded as being on the same degree with them. For this reason, the Nukva became as the actual degree of ZA, his Bina and TM.

However, at that time, they were regarded as right and left of the same degree, so the vessels KH of ZA that never fell from him remained now as right, illuminations of light, and Bina and TM—who fell to the Nukva and now returned to him—became left, illuminations of fire. For this reason, the lights that ascend are called “illuminations of light.”

The lights that illuminate above—in KH through the Chazeh, in whom there was no fall from the degree of ZA—became the right, light of the sun, and are called “illuminations of light.” Conversely, the lights that descended, his Bina and TM—who descended to the Nukva, and now ZA elevated them back to him along with the Nukva—are called “illuminations of fire,” as they are on the left in him, where there is the force of the fire. These are the degrees below the Chazeh, regarded as posterior vessels, and they rule on weekdays.

This does not mean that ZA remained only in KH, and the Nukva only in his Bina and TM. Rather, they are included in one another, and there are KHB TM to ZA and KHB TM to the Nukva. However, all five Sefirot of ZA are regarded primarily as his KH, which dominate him, and all five Sefirot of Nukva are regarded primarily as Bina and TM of ZA, since they govern her.

For this reason, when the Sabbath day ends, we bless on the candle, since then the illuminations of the fire are given permission to rule, for on the Sabbath day, ZON are in a coupling of Gadlut face-to-face, and the Nukva is subordinate to ZA and has nothing at all of herself, except that which ZA, her husband, gives her. It follows that at that time, the Nukva has no permission to disclose the light in her—the illuminations of fire—since at that time, she must be in diminution to disclose the lights of Gadlut ‎of face-to-face, which can illuminate in her only when she is in diminution. But at the end of the Sabbath, once the great coupling of ZON face-to-face had stopped, the Nukva has permission to disclose her illuminations of fire.

129) A man’s fingers are the concealments in the degrees and in the upper secrets. There are anterior [or “face”] and posterior [or “back”] ‎in them. The hands are HG of ZA, and at the time of Gadlut ‎they become HB, since during Gadlut, when he raises NHYM and completes his ten Sefirot, HGT rise to HBD and NHY to HGT. At that time, the three joints of the right hand are considered HBD of Hochma, and the three joints of the left hand as HBD of Bina.

According to the verse “Lift up your hands to the holiness,” when he raises the hands to the head, when HGT become HBD, the wrist along with the fingers are considered the first joint, Hochma. It is so because when raising up the hands, the fingers are at the top part, and the rest of the joints of the hand are below them. The second joint of the hand, the arm, is regarded as Bina, and the third joint, the arm, is connected to the shoulder and is regarded as Daat.

Thus, the fingers are Hochma ‎of HB of ZA because the fingers of the right are Hochma‎ of Hochma, and the fingers of the left are Hochma of Bina. By that he describes what we learn, that the Creator is destined to make a dance for the righteous, and He is sitting in the midst of them in the Garden of Eden, and each and every one points with his finger: “This is our God,” since the fingers are Mochin of Hochma, and Mochin of Hochma ‎are vision and the light of the eyes. This is why we say, “Dots with His finger.”

“A man’s fingers are the concealments in the degrees and in the upper secrets.” A man should be a Merkava [chariot/assembly] to ZA, for the fathers, they are the Merkava, and they obligated the person to say, “When will my works reach the works of my fathers?” At that time, a man’s fingers are present, regarded as Hochma of Hochma ‎on the right, and Hochma of Bina on the left, the most hidden Mochin of all the degrees and upper secrets.

There is no degree without anterior and posterior, since there are ten Sefirot ‎KHB TM in each degree, and the KH in it are considered anterior vessels, and Bina and TM in it are considered posterior vessels. It follows that in the degree of the fingers, which are Hochma, the KH in it are anterior vessels of the fingers, and Bina and TM are the posterior vessels ‎of the fingers.

The posterior ‎of the fingers are on their exterior. This implies to the fingernails, for between the anterior vessels and the posterior vessels ‎there is a Parsa, a firmament that divides between the upper waters, KH, and the lower waters, Bina and TM. This is applied in general—the Parsa between Atzilut ‎and BYA, as well as in each particular degree, since there is no degree in which there aren’t ten Sefirot ‎KHB TM. There is also a Parsa between KH, and Bina and TM in her.

The fingernails are a particular Parsa to the degree of Hochma ‎in the fingers, separating the anterior vessels, KH in him, from the posterior vessels, Bina and TM in him, so that the interior of the fingers are KH of Hochma ‎and the fingernails are the Parsa below them. Also, Bina and TM of Hochma ‎are included in the nails because the Parsa includes anything that is below it.

This is why a man has permission to look at the nails at the end of the Sabbath, since then they illuminate from the same candle and the same fire, to rule on weekdays. The state of the Nukva and her Gadlut ‎from prior to her diminution is not canceled even after she has been diminished to obtain the Mochin ‎of face-to-face. However, she has no permission to use them because she must be annulled before ZA because they illuminate for her only when she is annulled before him. But after the Mochin ‎of face-to-face depart from the Nukva, after the end of the Sabbath, the Nukva is permitted to illuminate her illuminations of fire again, as she was during the two great lights.

In the state of the two great lights, Nukva is considered Bina and TM of ZA—his posterior vessels. It follows that at the end of the Sabbath, the posterior vessels ‎of the fingers—the nails—begin to illuminate, since they receive from the illuminations of fire of the Nukva—the posterior ‎of ZA—which begin to govern at that time. It is so because then they illuminate from that candle, meaning that the nails illuminate from what they receive from the Nukva from the state prior to her diminution, when she is called “illuminations of fire,” meaning the candle.

130) The nails are seen, but inside the fingers, there is no permission to see by the light of that candle because the interior of the fingers are the anterior vessels, KH, which cannot receive from the Nukva of ZA who has no anterior vessels, KH, at all.

The rule is that each phase must receive from its corresponding phase in the upper one. Hence, they must receive only from ZA, who has vessels KH. For this reason, the inner side of the fingers do not illuminate at all through the illuminations of fire and can illuminate only illuminations of light, which is ZA, in whom there are the vessels KH, for they illuminate only from above, from the anterior vessels, regarded as from Chazeh ‎and above, which are present only in ZA.

The interior of the fingers are called “inner face” [or “anterior”], as they are anterior vessels KH, as it is written, “And you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen,” so that the man will not look at the interior of the fingers when he blesses, “Creator of illuminations of fire,” at the end of the Sabbath. It is so because they are considered inner face, of whom it was said, “But My face shall not be seen.” It is written, “And you shall see My back.” These are the external face of the fingers, the nails, which illuminate at the end of the Sabbath. “But My face shall not be seen” are the inner face of the fingers, who cannot receive from the illuminations of fire.

The interior of the fingers governs during the Sabbath, for then they receive from their corresponding phase in ZA. The exterior of the fingers governs the weekdays, who then receive from their corresponding phase in the Nukva while he is considered illuminations of fire.

131) And on the Sabbath day, the Creator is the sole ruler in this inner face, on His throne, all are included in Him, and the governance is His. On the Sabbath day, the Nukva is annulled before ZA like the small light, as this is why she diminished herself, so she could receive the Mochin ‎of face-to-face that illuminate on the Sabbath. It follows that ZA rules alone. At that time, his anterior vessels, KH, illuminate.

“The Creator is the sole ruler in this inner face, on His throne.” It is so because the Nukva is considered a throne, and she is annulled before these anterior vessels—all the phases ‎below ZA are included in ZA—and the governance is his. For this reason, the Creator bequeaths rest to all the worlds, and the holy people, who are “One nation in the land,” inherit the inheritance of that day.

Because on the Sabbath day the governance is only the Creator’s, there is no grip at all to judgment‎s and slandering on that day, He bequeaths rest to all the worlds, and the children of Israel, who are one nation in the land, can inherit the Mochin ‎of the Sabbath day that are carried from ZA, since there is no fear of the grip of the shells. The reason why the great Mochin ‎of Sabbath are called “inheritance” is that all the Mochin ‎that the children of Israel receive from their father in heaven is by an awakening below, as we learn, “You have labored and found? Believe.”

It is as people purchase possessions in this world. The greater the possession, the greater should be the exertion that they give for it. But the Sabbath lights do not require any labor, and no awakening from below helps in regard to them. Rather, the abundance comes to Israel only by the upper governance. This is why the abundance of the Sabbath is called “inheritance,” for the son inherits the treasures of his Father in heaven and is rewarded with them without any labor or awakening of his own.

But the truth is that he who did not labor on the eve of the Sabbath, what will he eat on the Sabbath? It is so because the lights of the Sabbath, too, require labor on the eve of Sabbath. However, this relates to the awakening from below that is necessary at the time of reception of the abundance. On the actual Sabbath day, when receiving those great lights, there is no awakening from below at all in them. It is rather like an inheritance.

The illuminations of light come from the right side, the first light that was on the first day of the seven days of creation, the light on which it was written on the first day, “Let there be light.” On the Sabbath day, only those illuminations of light illuminate and rule, and all the worlds below Atzilut ‎receive and illuminate from them.

132) When the Sabbath ends, the illuminations of light are concealed so they would not be disclosed, and the illuminations of fire rule in the world, each in his place. The Sabbath day is the place of the ruling of illuminations of light, and the weekdays are the place of the ruling of illuminations of fire. The time of their ruling is from the end of the Sabbath to the eve of the [next] Sabbath. This is why they need to receive their illumination from that candle at the end of the Sabbath.

133) “And the animals ran to and fro.” The eye does not control them because they run to and fro. These are the revealed animals, meaning the lower animals, of whom it was written, “And you shall see My back.” Although they are revealed animals, they still run to and fro.

That wheel stands in the midst of them, and it is Matat, who includes all those lower animals. When he runs to, he is called Nuriel. When he runs fro, he is called Matat, who is bigger and more important than the rest of those animals, and five-hundred parasangs higher than them.

Matat is the face of a man, drawn to lower animals because of an incorporation ‎in the upper coupling above the Chazeh. He is the Nun in Shinan [Hebrew acronym for Ox, Eagle, Lion, Man], since Matat is the small Adam. The face of Adam [man] is only from Chazeh ‎and above. None of it reaches the lower animals, but only an incorporation ‎from above. This is why he is called “small Adam.” And because the face of a man [Adam] includes all the forms, Matat includes all the animals of the lower Merkava, as he is their “Face of Adam.” And since he is extended from the incorporation ‎in the face of Adam above the Chazeh, it is considered that he is higher than the animals by five-hundred parasangs.

It is so because from Chazeh ‎and above, Mochin of Bina illuminate, whose numbers are hundreds. The five Sefirot ‎KHB TM in her are five-hundred. And since Matat receives them only from the Parsa that stands at the place of Chazeh and not above the Parsa, for there is the place of coupling and incorporation, the Mochin ‎are called parasangs, meaning they are received from the Parsa.

It was said, “five-hundred parasangs higher,” meaning that the Mochin ‎receives KHB ZON from the Parsa at the Chazeh, where the rest of the animals have no share because they are only lion, ox, and eagle below the Chazeh.

134) The hidden animals are under the high and hidden letters, the Yod-Hey of the name HaVaYaH, which govern the Vav-Hey of the name HaVaYaH. The hidden animals are from Chazeh of ZON and above, where there are GAR, implied in the two letters Yod-Hey, of which it is written, “The secret things are to the Lord our God,” in whom there is no attainment whatsoever. Hence, the animals that stand there are also hidden and concealed, and there is no attainment in them.

The animals below the Chazeh, Vav-Hey of HaVaYaH, are as it is written, “The revealed are for us and for our sons,” for there is the place of the revealed Hassadim, and there is seeing and attaining there, as it is written, “And you shall see My back.”

These letters Vav-Hey are a Merkava ‎for the letters Yod-Hey who reveal their illumination, like a rider who is seen on his carriage. Likewise, the lower animals are a Merkava [carriage/assembly/structure] for the upper animals who reveal their illumination. The most hidden of all that is hidden, who is not known at all, Ein‎ ‎Sof, implied in the tip of the Yod of the name HaVaYaH, rules over all of them and rides over all of them, and all the degrees reveal His dominion in the worlds.

The lower animals that appear are below those hidden animals, receiving their illumination from them and journeying by their force. That is, the lower animals have no power or operation of their own except what they receive from the upper animals.

135) The upper, hidden animals are all included in the firmament of the heaven. It is written about them, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven.” The verse teaches us that all the lights are hanging in the firmament of the heaven, and that it is the firmament over the animals, of which it is written, “And an image over the heads of the animal was a firmament like the terrible ice,” which is that first firmament.

In general, we find two firmaments, as it is written, “And from the end of the heaven to the end of the heaven.” A firmament is the Sium of the second restriction, which took out Bina and TM of each degree to the degree below it, which is the Parsa that stands at the place of Chazeh ‎of each Partzuf. The beginning of its disclosure is in the middle of Partzuf ‎Bina of Atzilut, called YESHSUT, between GAR of YESHSUT—that stand from Chazeh of AA and above—and their ZAT, their Bina and TM, which stand from Chazeh of AA and below.

This is why that firmament inside Bina is called “the primordial firmament.” It is also called “the end of the heaven above,” since that firmament lowers the tip of Partzuf ‎Bina, her Bina and TM, into the heaven, ZA. There is another firmament, which stands at Chazeh of ZA and lowers the tip of Partzuf ‎ZA, its Bina and TM, to the Nukva who ends Atzilut. This is why that firmament is called “the end of the heaven below.”

All the upper animals from Chazeh of ZON and above are included in the primordial firmament of the heaven, standing at the place of Chazeh ‎of Partzuf ‎Bina, to distinguish the lower animals from Chazeh of ZON and below, who are not included in that primordial firmament. Any posterior ‎of an upper one, from his Chazeh ‎downward, are clothed in the anterior vessels of the lower one—in its vessels KH above the Chazeh. But the posterior ‎of the upper one is never clothed inside the posterior vessels ‎of the lower one, from his Chazeh ‎and below, since the reason for the clothing is the ascent of Malchut ‎to Bina, which is done during the Katnut ‎of the Partzufim.

At that time, through that ascent, each Partzuf ‎is completely devoid of the vessels from his Chazeh ‎and below, and how can the posterior ‎of the upper one clothe in posterior ‎of the lower one when they are absent in him? After all, the lower animals of ZON, from the Chazeh ‎and below, have no connection or incorporation ‎with the primordial firmament, the posterior of Bina, since they had never clothed in them.

136) From there and above, from the primordial firmament, there is no one who can learn and know because he is concealed in the thought, since above the primordial firmament, above Chazeh of Partzuf ‎Bina of Atzilut is GAR of Bina, considered a thought, and there is no perception whatsoever in the GAR. There is no one in the whole world who can attain and know the thought of a man, much less matters that depend on the upper thought—there is none who can attain them. And the thought itself is all the more unattainable.

The Sefira Bina is considered GAR and thought. Of her ten Sefirot, the GAR in her are her own essence, and the ZAT in her are not her own essence, but are ZON that are included in her. Even ZAT of Bina, which are only included in, and depend on the thought, on Bina, attainment does not perceive them in their own place, but only in the place of ZON, much less the GAR of Bina, which are the essence of Bina. No attainment perceives there, more internal than the thought, which is Bina. Who can affect any notion there, since there is no understanding there to even ask, much less to know, since above Bina is AA, Keter of all the Partzufim of Atzilut, Ein‎ ‎Sof, in whom attainment does not perceive at all?