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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
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
VaYetze
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VaYeshev
Miketz
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New Zohar, Bereshit
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New Zohar, Ki Tisa
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Two Points
 

Two Points

120) Rabbi Hiya started, “Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, a good understanding for all who do them; His glory endures forever.” Should this verse not have said, “Fear of the Lord is the end of wisdom,” since fear of the Lord is Malchut, which is the end of wisdom [Hochma]? However, Malchut is the first to enter the degree of upper Hochma, as it is written, “Open for me the gates of righteousness,” the gates of Malchut, who is called “righteousness.” “This is the gate of the Lord.” Indeed, if he does not enter by this gate, he will never enter the upper King, for He is sublime, hidden, and concealed, and He makes gates for Himself, one atop the other.

Explanation: Because the fear of the Lord is the Sefira Malchut, which is at the end of the ten Sefirot, should he not have said, “Fear of the Lord is the end of wisdom”?

It was said about the upper King that he is sublime, hidden, and concealed, and He makes gates for Himself, one atop the other. This is not an allegory. Rather, it is the lesson itself, since He is a sublime, hidden, and concealed King, the thought cannot perceive Him whatsoever. Hence, He made many gates one atop the other, by which He made it possible to approach Him, as it is written, “Open for me the gates of righteousness.” These are the gates that the Creator has made and made it possible for the righteous to approach Him through those gates.

At the end of all the gates, He made a gate with several locks. That gate is called Malchut of Malchut, the final point of all the upper gates. This last gate is the first gate for the upper Hochma [wisdom]. That is, it is possible to be rewarded with the upper Hochma only after the attainment of this last gate specifically, as for attainment of the upper Hochma, it is the first gate. This is why it is written, “Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” since “Fear of the Lord” is called the last gate, which is the first for the wisdom of the Lord.

121) “At the end of all the gates, He made a gate with several locks,” several openings in several halls, one atop the other. He said, “Anyone who wishes to come into My place, this gate will be the first toward Me. One who enters will enter through this gate.” Here, too, the first gate for the upper Hochma is the fear of the Lord, which is Malchut, and this is the one called “first.”

We should thoroughly understand the meaning of locks, openings, and halls. Know that they are three forms that come one after the other over a single substance. This is a very deep matter and I will exert to clarify as best as possible, enough to somewhat understand the words of The Zohar before us. We should know that although it is clear that the thought cannot perceive Him whatsoever, the truth is that the thought of creation is to delight His creations, and no pleasure is perceived by the created being while he must be separated from the Creator. Moreover, we learn that the Creator craves to dwell in the lower ones.

The common thing in understanding those two matters, which deny each other, is that the world was created in complete oppositeness from the Creator, from one end to the other, in all one hundred points. This is so because this world was created with a desire to receive, which is the opposite form of the Creator’s, in whom there is not even a shred of this desire, as it is written, “And man is born the foal of a wild donkey.”

In that respect, all the issues of the governance of His guidance in this world are in total contrast to the thought of creation, which is only to delight His creatures, for it is according to the will to receive in us, which is our taste and our standard.

This is the meaning of the locks on the gates. First, all the many contradictions to His uniqueness, which we taste in this world, separate us from the Creator. Yet, when we exert to keep Torah and Mitzvot with love, with our soul and might, as we are commanded—to bestow contentment upon our Maker—all those forces of separation do not affect us into subtracting any of the love of the Creator with all our souls and might. Rather, in that state, every contradiction we have overcome becomes a gate for attainment of His wisdom. This is so because there is a special quality in each contradiction—revealing a special degree in attaining Him. And those worthy ones who have been rewarded with it turn darkness into light and bitter into sweet, for all the powers of separation—from the darkness of the mind and the bitterness of the body—have become to them gates for obtainment of sublime degrees. Thus, the darkness becomes a great light, and the bitter becomes sweet.

Hence, to the extent that previously, all the conducts of His guidance were for them forces of separation, now they have all been inverted into forces of unification, and they sentence the entire world to the side of merit. This is because now each force serves for them as a gate of righteousness, by which they will come to receive from the Creator everything that He has contemplated for them, to delight them with the thought of creation, as it is written, “This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous will enter through it.”

However, prior to being rewarded with inverting the desire to receive in us through Torah and Mitzvot, into reception in order to bestow, there are strong locks on those gates to the Creator, for then they have the opposite role: to drive us away from the Creator. This is why the forces of separation are called “locks,” since they block the gates of approaching and drive us away from the Creator.

But if we overcome them so they do not affect us, to cool His love from our hearts, the locks become doors, the darkness becomes light, and the bitter becomes sweet, since over all the locks, we receive a special degree in His Providence, and they become openings, degrees of attainment of the Creator. And those degrees that we receive on the openings become halls of wisdom.

Thus, the locks, the doors, and the halls are three forms that come upon our substance, the will to receive in us. Before we turn it into reception in order to bestow contentment upon our Maker, that substance turns the light to darkness and the sweet to bitter, according to our taste, since all the conducts of His Providence remove us from Him. At that time, locks are made from the desire to receive in us, and after we repent, we are rewarded with receiving in order to bestow, all the locks become doors, and then the doors become halls. Remember this well henceforth, for I will not repeat the words.

He said, “Anyone who wishes to come into My place, this gate will be the first toward Me.” The end of all the gates, the last phase among them, the lowliest there is, can be called Malchut of Malchut. And he says that to be rewarded with the upper Hochma, this gate, the last of them, was made the first gate to the hall of upper wisdom.

In truth, all the gates serve as doors and as halls of the Creator’s wisdom, but it is impossible to obtain the upper wisdom unless by attaining specifically the last gate, since it is the first for the upper wisdom. This is why it is called “first,” meaning Beresheet [“In the beginning” but also, “At first”] in which the Torah begins, since Beresheet indicates the fear of the Lord in relation to the last gate, which is the first for obtainment of the upper wisdom.

122) The letter Bet from Beresheet [in the beginning] indicates that those two join together in Malchut. They are two points, one concealed and hidden, and one disclosed. And because they are not separated, they are called “first,” meaning only one and not two, for one who takes this one, takes that one, too. It is all one, for He and His name are one, as it is written, “That they may know that You alone, Your name is ‘the Lord.’”

Explanation: Those two points are the sweetening of the quality of judgment with the quality of mercy, when Malchut rose and was sweetened in Bina, the quality of mercy, as it is written, “And they both walked together,” Bina and Malchut. It follows that the screen that was established in Malchut consists of both, hence there are two points there, conjoined as one. One is hidden and concealed, and the other is disclosed, since the judgment in the point of Malchut is hidden and concealed, and only the mercy from the point of Bina is disclosed. Had it not been so, the world would not be able to exist, as we learn, “First, the world was created with the quality of judgment; He saw that the world could not exist, and associated it with the quality of mercy.”

And because they are not separated, they are called “first,” only one, and not “two,” for one who takes this one, takes that one, too. That is, although the quality of judgment is concealed, it does not mean that the coupling is not performed on her, for those two points have actually become one, and the point of Malchut receives this coupling with the point of Bina, too, albeit in secret and not openly. This is what the name Resheet [beginning]—in singular form—indicates, that they are both one.

“It is all one, for He and His name are one.” “He” indicates Bina, and “His name” indicates Malchut. In “He and His name are one,” both must be one because when they are one, Malchut, too, receives the upper coupling along with Bina, by which the quality of judgment itself is finally sweetened at the end of correction. And on that day, “The Lord will be one and His name One.”

Because of this quality of judgment, included in the letter Bet of Beresheet, she is called “first” to Hochma, as her correction will be at the end of correction. At that time, the upper Hochma will appear, as it is written, “The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord,” since the last gate is the first gate to Hochma. And it is written, “That they may know that You alone, Your name is ‘the Lord,’” for then the knowledge will be revealed in all the earth.

123) “Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, a good understanding for all who do them.” Why is Malchut called “Fear of the Lord?” It is because Malchut is the tree of knowledge of good and evil. When one is rewarded, it is good. If he is not rewarded, it is bad. Hence, there is fear in that place. She is the gate to come into all the good that is in the world. “A good mind” is those two gates, the two points that are as one. Rabbi Yosi said, “A good mind is the tree of life, for it is a good mind without any evil at all. And because there is no evil in it, it is a good mind, without evil.”

The last gate is called “the fear of the Lord,” of which it is written, “Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” This is the tree of knowledge with which Adam HaRishon sinned, for on this point, his punishment is death, and the great fear is not to blemish it. At the end of correction, when this point is completely corrected, in the full perfection, the verse “Death will be swallowed up forever” will come true. This is why it is called “The fear of the Lord.”

This is why it was said that there is fear in that place, and that she is the gate for all the good in the world, since the disclosure of the upper Hochma is all the good in the world, included in the thought of creation. And since the fear of the Lord is the first gate to the upper Hochma, it follows that it is the gate to all the good in the world.

“A good mind” is those two gates, the two points that are as one. The two points are included in the letter Bet of Beresheet together, and when he does not say “two points,” but “two gates,” it refers to after the correction of BON, when the two points are called “two gates,” for then both of them are good without any evil at all. Hence, the words “A good mind” are possible. But prior to the end of correction, they are called “the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”

Rabbi Yosi said, “A good mind is the tree of life, for it is a good mind without any evil.” Rabbi Yosi does not dispute Rabbi Hiya, since Rabbi Hiya explains the verse after the correction of BON, when the two points have become two gates. There is no evil in them, they are a good mind without any evil, and Rabbi Yosi explains the verse prior to the end of correction, when they are considered the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This is why he says, “A good mind is the tree of life,” ZA in Mochin of Ima, called “the tree of life,” which is all good without any evil, even before the end of correction. However, the two points are good and evil prior to the end of correction, for which the Malchut is called “the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”

124) “For all who do them” are the faithful followers of David, the keepers of the Torah. Those who keep the Torah are seemingly the ones who make it. There is no doing in all those who engage in Torah while they are engaged in it. However, there is doing in those who keep it, and by that, the verse “His glory endures forever” comes true, and the throne is properly sustained.

Explanation: The gate of the fear of the Lord is the last gate. It is the first gate to the upper Hochma. It follows that all those who engage in Torah, who have already corrected the last gate and the two points have become two gates for them—which are a good mind without evil—it is considered that there is no doing in them, which is the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, there is doing, which is good and evil, in those who have not yet been rewarded with the end of correction, those who are called “keepers of the Torah,” since they have not yet corrected the sin of the tree of knowledge.

Also, those who keep the Torah are seemingly the ones who make it because all those forces of separation are inverted and become gates, each lock becomes a door, and each door becomes a hall of wisdom. By those who keep the Torah, all the sublime degrees that are included in the thought of creation to delight His creations come and become revealed.

It follows that all the wisdom and the whole Torah are revealed only by those who keep the Torah, meaning those in whom there is doing, in whom there is good and evil. This is why they are called “keepers of the Torah,” for it appears only through them. The verse calls them those “who do them,” for they are seemingly the ones who make the Torah. This is so because were it not for their concealments, which have become gates through their prevailing, the Torah would not have been revealed.

This is why it was said, “Those who keep the Torah are seemingly the ones who make it.” That is, they are regarded as the ones who seemingly make it, revealing it. It was said that the Torah seemingly preceded the world. Certainly, the Creator made it, but were it not for the good deeds of those who keep the Torah, it would never have been revealed, hence they are regarded as the doers and the makers of the Torah.

By that, the verse “His glory endures forever” is sustained, meaning by the force of those who keep the Torah. You find that His glory, which is all the wisdom and all the Torah, endures forever and ever, including after the end of correction, since then, too, they will need the fear of the Lord. After the correction of the tree of knowledge, they will have nowhere to take fear of the Lord except the past, from the keepers of the Torah. It follows that they establish the glory of the Creator forever and for all eternity. This is why it was said, “The throne is properly sustained,” for by that the throne of the Lord is properly sustained forever.