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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
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-Minded
On What Does the World Stand?
And the Lord Said unto Abram
And They Went Forth with Them from Ur of the Chaldees
Go Forth to Correct Yourself
And I Will Make You a Great Nation - 1
But From the Wicked Their Light Is Withheld
And I Will Make You a Great Nation – 2
And Abram Went, as the Lord Had Spoken to Him
And Abram Took Sarai
And Abram Passed Through the Land
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And Abram Went Down to Egypt
And It Came to Pass, When Abram Came to Egypt
The Creator Plays with the Souls of the Righteous
And the Lord Plagued Pharaoh
At Night My Soul Longs for You
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And He Went on His Journeys
And There Was Strife between the Herdsmen of Abram's Cattle and the Herdsmen of Lot’s Cattle
And the Lord Said to Abram, After Lot Had Separated
Like an Apple Tree among the Trees of the Forest
And It Came to Pass in the Days of Amraphel
O God, Do Not Keep Silent
Melchizedek King of Salem
After These Things
The Word of the Lord Came Unto Abram in a Vision
Rabbi Hiya Went to See Rabbi Elazar
Bless the Lord, You His Angels
And Abram Said, “...What Will You Give Me?”
For Who Is God, Save the Lord? And Who Is a Rock, Save Our God?
מחזה שד"י, מחזה סתם
The Creator Makes Couplings
Night and Midnight
A Small Hey and a Big Hey
Sayings for the Brit Milah [Circumcision]
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chevron_rightVaYera
And the Lord Appeared to Him
Man’s Soul Rises from the Earth to the Firmament
The Soul at the Time of Its Demise
When Rabbi Eliezer Was Sickened
And Behold, Three Men - 1
Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord
Behold, Three Men - 2
And He Said, “I Will Surely Return” - 1
And Sarah Will Have a Son
Her Husband Is Known in the Gates
And He Said, “I Will Surely Return” - 2
And the Men Rose Up from There
Do I Hide from Abraham?
I Will Go Down and See
And Abraham Will Surely Become a Great Nation
If As the Outcry That Has Come to Me, They Have Done
Would You Indeed Sweep Away the Righteous with the Wicked?
And the Two Angels Came to Sodom
The Garden of Eden and Hell
And the Lord Rained on Sodom
But His Wife Looked Back
A Land without Scarcity
And Lot Went Up from Zoar
Ammon and Moab
And He Said, “She Is My Sister”
Standing to His Right to Accuse Him
And Shall Behead the Heifer There in the Valley
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
And the Lord Visited Sarah
And the Lord Did to Sarah
Your Wife Shall Be as a Fruitful Vine
The Calculation of the Time of the Messiah
The Son of Hagar the Egyptian
The Signs of the Messiah
And God Tested Abraham
And Saw the Place from Afar
Abraham, Abraham
In All Their Affliction He Was Afflicted
chevron_rightChayei Sara
They Carried – And Cast Him into the Sea
And Dumah Rises and Calculates
A King Who Becomes Servant to a Field
One Who Diminishes Himself
And the Life of Sarah Was
And the Cows Took the Straight Way
And I Will Put Enmity between You and the Woman
Your Eyes Have Seen My Golem
To Mourn for Sarah, And to Weep for Her
Dumah Takes Them In according to the Calculation, and Takes Them Out according to the Calculation
And Sarah died in Kiriat Arba
The Serpent of the Firmament
Types of Witchcraft – in Women
The Cave of Machpelah - 1
Four Hundred Shekels
The Cave of Machpelah - 2
And Abraham Was Old, Advanced in Days
The Righteous Have Several Places
Eden Dripping on the Garden
About the Revival of the Dead
You Will Not Take a Wife from the Daughters of the Canaanites
בתורה כל החיים
Behold, Rebecca Came Out
Prayer, Outcry, Tear
And Isaac Brought Her into the Tent
And Abraham Took Another Wife
Unto the Sons of the Concubines – Abraham Gave Gifts
Who Gave Jacob for a Spoil?
Toldot
VaYetze
VaYishlach
VaYeshev
Miketz
VaYigash
VaYechi
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Shmot
VaEra
Bo
BeShalach
Yitro
Mishpatim
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Truma
Sifra DeTzniuta
Tetzave
Ki Tisa
VaYakhel
Pekudei
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VaYikra
Tzav
Shmini
Tazria
Metzora
Acharei Mot
Kdoshim
Emor
BaHar
BeHukotai
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Bamidbar
Naso
BeHaalotcha
Shlach Lecha
Korach
Chukat
Balak
Pinchas
Matot
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VaEtchanan
Ekev
Shoftim
Ki Tetze
VaYelech
Haazinu
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New Zohar, Bereshit
New Zohar, Noah
New Zohar, Lech Lecha
New Zohar, VaYera
New Zohar, Toldot
New Zohar, VaYetze
New Zohar, VaYeshev
New Zohar, BeShalach
New Zohar, Yitro
New Zohar, Truma
New Zohar, Tzav
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New Zohar, Ki Tisa
New Zohar, Acharei
New Zohar, Behar
New Zohar, Naso
New Zohar, Chukat
New Zohar, Balak
New Zohar, Matot
New Zohar, VaEtchanan
New Zohar, Ki Tetze
New Zohar, Ki Tavo
New Zohar, Shir Hashirim
New Zohar, Midrash Ruth
New Zohar, Eicha
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Pesach
Shavuot
Rosh Hashana
Yom Kipurim
Sukkot
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אברהם
אדם הראשון
אהבה
אהבת חברים
אור
אותיות
גברים ונשים
גלות וגאולה
הטבע
השגה רוחנית
השכינה
זיווג
חיבור
טוב ורע
ימות המשיח
יציאת מצרים
יצר הרע ויצר הטוב
יראה
ירושלים
ישראל
ישראל והעמים
מדרגה רוחנית
מחשבת הבריאה
מטרת החיים
נשמות
ספר הזוהר
עליות וירידות בדרך
עניים ועשירים
ערב רב
צדיקים ורשעים
קו אמצעי
רבי שמעון בר יוחאי (רשב"י)
רצון
שלום
שמחה
תורה
תורה - לימוד בלילה
תיקון וגמר התיקון
תפילה
תפיסת המציאות
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Like an Apple Tree among the Trees of the Forest
 
Like an Apple Tree among the Trees of the Forest

195) Rabbi Elazar happened into a motel in Lod, and Rabbi Hizkiya was there with him. Rabbi Elazar rose at night to study Torah, and Rabbi Hizkiya stood by him because the place was narrow to them. Rabbi Elazar said, “The friends are in a narrow place,” meaning they were doing much Torah and little work, “This is why they are always encountered in narrow and small motels, for they have no money to rent spacious houses.”

196) He said further, “The Creator is like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, lovely and crowns in His colors,” in the three lines, HGT, which are considered the three colors—white, red, and green. “There is none like Him among all the other trees,” which are the seventy ministers, who resemble Kedusha [holiness] like a monkey before a man. “He is finer than all,” meaning He excels and there is none other like Him.

Because of the sin of the tree of knowledge, the Shechina was drawn to the side of the seventy ministers, which are the externality of ZA. Hence, after she was corrected and clung once more to ZA, who is called the Creator, the Shechina said, “Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the sons. In his shade I took great delight and sat, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.” This means that there is none other like Him among the seventy ministers to which she clung before, and now the merit of the Creator over them is as apparent as far as light excels over darkness.

197) Prior to her correction, the Shechina was under the shade of another, the shade of fig-leaves, the shade of the seventy ministers. It is written, “In his shade, I took great delight and sat.” Since when did she take delight? It cannot be said that she always took delight because due to the sin, she leaned toward the seventy ministers. But he says that it is from the day when Abraham came to the world and loved the Creator with love, as it is written, “Abraham, who loves Me.” Then he corrected the Shechina and she reunited with ZA.

“And his fruit was sweet to my taste” is Isaac, who is Abraham's holy fruit. This is so because while she leaned toward the seventy ministers, which are the illumination of the left, she was empty from both Hochma and Hassadim. And after Abraham corrected her to a coupling with ZA and she received the right line from him, the covered Hassadim, which are considered a shade, the left line illuminated in her once more, too, meaning illumination of Hochma that is clothed in Hassadim of the right. Thus, the illumination of Hochma is considered a fruit and an offshoot of the right line because she could not shine before, as it is written, “Abraham begot Isaac.”

198) “In his shade, I took great delight and sat” is Jacob, the middle line. Because he decides in the screen of Hirik, which diminishes the level, it is considered shade and sitting. “And his fruit was sweet to my taste” is Joseph, Yesod, who made holy fruits in the world, meaning the souls. This is why it is written, “These are the generations of Jacob, Joseph, for all those generations of Jacob stand in the righteous Joseph, who is considered the Yesod of Jacob, and this is why Israel are named after Ephraim, as it is written, “Ephraim my darling son.”

199) “Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest” is Abraham, who is like a fragrant apple. He excelled in whole faith more than all his contemporaries, and he excelled, as in, one above and one below, as it is written, “Abraham was one.”

200) He was one because there was none other in the world who excelled in faith in the Creator besides him. However, it is written, “And the souls that they had made in Haran.” This means that Abraham was converting the men and Sarah the women. Thus, there were others with faith in the Creator besides him, yet, they were not at the high degrees with which Abraham was crowned.

201) Abraham was not called “one” until he was incorporated in Isaac and Jacob. When he was mingled with Isaac and Jacob and all three together became the patriarchs of the world, Abraham was called “one.” In other words, after he was mingled as one with all three lines, he was called “one,” and not before. This is when he was called “an apple” in the world, meaning that he has three colors—white, red, and green—like an apple, which implies to the three lines, and he excelled above all his contemporaries.

202) “Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest” is the Creator, the right line. “My beloved” is the Creator, the left line. “In his shade” is the Creator, the middle line. “I took great delight and sat,” on the day when the Creator appeared on Mount Sinai and Israel received the Torah and said, “We will do and we will hear.” Then the Shechina said, “I took great delight and sat.”

203) “And his fruit was sweet to my taste” are the words of the Torah, which are sweeter than honey and the honeycomb. “And his fruit was sweet to my taste” are the souls of the righteous, all of whom are the fruits of the produce of the actions of the Creator, and stand with Him above.

204) The souls of the world, which are the produce of the actions of the Creator, are all one. Above, it is still not apparent that they are male and female until all the souls descend in the form of male and female, and each soul is male and female connected as one.

205) The female’s craving for the male makes a soul. And also, the male’s craving for the female and his adhesion with her produces a soul, which includes the soul from the craving of the female and takes it. Thus, the craving of the lower one, the female, is included in the craving of the upper one, the male, and the two souls become one, without separation.

206) And then the female contains everything, taking both souls and becoming impregnated by the male in them. The craving of the both of them becomes attached and they become as one. Hence, everything is mingled with each other and when the souls come out, male and female are mingled in them as one.

207) Afterwards, when they descend to the world, the male and female separate from one another; one turns this way and the other turns that way, and later, the Creator makes a coupling between them. But the key for the coupling is given to none other than the Creator, for only He knows their coupling, to unite them properly so they become male and female of the same soul.

208) Happy is the man who is rewarded with his actions and walks on the path of truth, to unite a soul with a soul for him, male and female, as they were before they descended into the world. But if he is not rewarded, he will not be given his mate. This is why it is written about him, “And his fruit was sweet to my taste,” since that man has been blessed with a proper correction of male and female. Also, the world will be blessed with sweet fruits from him, meaning handsome offspring, since everything depends on man’s actions, on whether or not he was rewarded.

209) The Creator said to the assembly of Israel, the Shechina, “From Me is your fruit found.” It does not say, “Is My fruit found,” but “Your fruit,” indicating to that craving of the female, who makes the female of the soul, which is included in the strength of the male. Also, the soul of the female is included in the soul of the male and they become one, mingled in one another. Afterwards, they are separated in the world.

Indeed, by the force of the male is the fruit of the female present in the world. “Your fruit,” the fruits of the female, the soul that is extended by her yearning. The text tells us that even the soul of the female is not from her own self, but from her incorporation with the soul of the male. This is why he said, “From Me is your fruit found.”

210) “From Me is your fruit found.” This is so because by the craving of the female herself, from which the female of the soul comes, the fruit of the male is found. Had it not been for the craving of the female for the male, there would be no fruits in the world, meaning there would be no offspring.