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chevron_rightIntroduction of The Book of Zohar
The Rose
The Rose (Mirrors of the Sulam [Ladder)
The Flower Buds
Who Created These
Who Created These of Elijah
Mother Lends Her Clothes to Her Daughter
The Letters of Rav Hamnuna Saba
Hochma [wisdom], on which the World Stands
Lock and Key
BeHibaraam [When They Were Created] – BeAvraham [In Abraham]
The Vision of Rabbi Hiya
You Are in Partnership with Me
The Donkey Driver
Two Points
On the Night of the Bride
Heaven and Earth
Among All the Sages of the Nations of the World, There Are None Like You
Who Is This
Rejoicing in Holidays and Not Giving to the Poor
Torah and Prayer
Rabbi Shimon’s Exit from the Cave
The Commandments of the Torah, the First Commandment
The Second Commandment
The Third Commandment
The Fourth Commandment
The Fifth Commandment
The Sixth Commandment
The Seventh Commandment
The Eighth Commandment
The Ninth Commandment
The Tenth Commandment
The Eleventh Commandment
The Twelfth Commandment
The Thirteenth Commandment
The Fourteenth Commandment
General Explanation for All Fourteen Commandments and How They Divide into the Seven Days of Creation
Explanation of the Division of the Fourteen Commandments into Ten Utterances
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chevron_rightBeresheet - 1
He Carved a Carving in the Upper Light
The Brightness of the Firmament
Taamim, Nekudot [points], and Otiot [letters]
And the Land Was Tohu [Chaos] - 1
Let There Be Light
Let There Be a Firmament
Let the Waters Gather
Let the Earth Put Forth Grass
Let there Be Lights - 1
The Two Great Lights - 1
Explaining the Names Matzpatz, Matzpatz
The Two Great Lights - 2
Illuminations of Light and Illuminations of Fire
Three Lights
Moses and Jacob
Let Us Make Man - 1
I, I am He
Let Us Make Man - 2
A Prayer for the Poor
The Sling-Stone
Creates Worlds and Destroys Them
Five Kinds of Mixed Multitude
Moses and Two Messiahs
Pure Marble Stones
A River Comes Out of Eden
And Placed Him in the Garden of Eden
Idolatry, Bloodshed, Incest
And the Lord God Formed Every Beast of the Field
And the Lord God Built the Rib
Moses’ Hevel
Bad Mixtures
The Correction of the Lower World from the Upper World
And the Land Was Unformed [Tohu] and Void [Bohu] - 2
Three Letters Tov [Tet-Vav-Bet]
The Correction of PBP de ZON
The Voice of the Lord Is Upon the Waters
Opposite the Frame
Bet Resheet
The Hidden Light
If My Covenant Is Not Day and Night - 1
The Separating and Connecting Firmament
These Waters Conceived and Begot Darkness
If My Covenant Is Not Day and Night - 2
Let There Be Lights - 2
Let the Waters Swarm
And God Created the Sea Monsters
Let Us Make Man - 3
For He Did Not Shower Rain
And the Lord God Commanded the Man
And the Serpent Was Cunning
And the Lord Set a Token for Cain
Sin Crouches at the Door
Aza and Azael
This Is the Book of the Generations of Adam
My Spirit Shall Not Abide in Man
chevron_rightBeresheet - 2
Seven Palaces in the Garden of Eden
Seven Sections of the Upper and Lower Earth
Seven Sections of the Upper Earth
Seven Halls of the Upper Earth
Preface to the Seven Halls
Seven Halls of AVI of Beria
Let There Be Light - 1
And There Was Evening and There Was Morning
Let There Be Light - 2
Let There Be a Firmament
Let the Earth Put Forth Grass
Lights without Vav
Let the Waters Swarm
Let Us Make Man
And God Saw All that He Had Done
And the Heaven and the Earth Were Completed
And on the Seventh Day God Completed
Which God Has Created to Do
Sukkah [Hut] of Peace
And the Lord God Built the Rib
And the Lord God Formed the Man
Baal and Asherah
Reconciliation and Receiving Permission
One Who Sets Out on the Road
Voice and Speech
The Address of the LORD to My Lord
A Rising Flame
The World Was Divided into Forty-Five Colors and Kinds of Light
And They Heard the Voice of the Lord God Walking in the Garden
And the Children of Israel Were Stripped of Their Ornaments from Mount Horev
And They Sewed Fig Leaves
And He Drove Out the Man
And the Man Knew Eve
If You Do Well
When Cain Killed Abel
This Is the Book of the Generations of Adam
He Created Them Male and Female
And Enoch Walked with God
And the Lord Saw that the Wickedness of Man Was Great in the Earth
And He Was Saddened in His Heart
My Spirit Shall Not Abide
The Fallen Ones Were in the Earth
I Will Blot Out Man
Come, Behold the Works of the Lord, Who Has Wrought Desolations in the Earth
chevron_rightNoach
Noah and the Ark
Go See the Works
Good Is a Man Who Is Gracious and Lends
Drink Water from Your Cistern
And the Earth Became Corrupt
Had He Not Sinned, He Would Not Have Begotten Offspring
And God Saw the Earth
The Lord Has Done What He Devised
For After Seven More Days
And Noah Begot Three Sons
The Judgment of Hell
The End of All Flesh
Shrill Your Voice, Poor of Anatot
That Jew
The Offering
I Lifted Up My Hands in Prayer
And I Bring a Flood of Water - 1
I Said, “I Will Not See the Lord”
And I Bring the Flood of Water - 2
And I Will Establish My Covenant
And He Healed the Ruined Altar of the Lord
Come You and All Your Household
The Earth Is the Lord's, and All that Fills It
The Wicked Perish from the World
The Difference between Moses and the Rest of the World
And Noah Went into the Ark
And Lifted Up the Ark
And He Blotted Out the Universe that Was Upon the Face of the Ground
And God Remembered Noah
And Noah Built an Altar
And the Lord Smelled the Sweet Fragrance
And God Blessed Noah
And the Fear of You and the Dread of You
I Have Set My Bow in the Cloud
This Stone, which I Have Set Up as a Pillar
The Sons of Noah Who Came Out of the Ark Were...
These Three Sons of Noah
And Noah Began and Planted a Vineyard
Bat-Sheba and Uriah
He Was a Mighty Hunter before the Lord
And the House, While It Was Being Built
A City and a Tower
The Gate of the Inner Court
And the Lord said, “Behold, They Are One People”
chevron_rightLech Lecha
Listen to Me, You Stubborn-Hearted
On What Does the World Stand?
And the Lord Said unto Abram
And They Went Forth with Them from Ur of the Chaldees
Go Forth to Correct Yourself
And I Will Make You a Great Nation - 1
But From the Wicked Their Light Is Withheld
And I Will Make You a Great Nation – 2
And Abram Went, as the Lord Had Spoken to Him
And Abram Took Sarai
And Abram Passed Through the Land
Three Degrees NRN
And Abram Went Down to Egypt
And It Came to Pass, When Abram Came to Egypt
The Creator Plays with the Souls of the Righteous
And the Lord Plagued Pharaoh
At Night My Soul Longs for You
NRN
And He Went on His Journeys
And There Was Strife between the Herdsmen of Abram's Cattle and the Herdsmen of Lot’s Cattle
And the Lord Said to Abram, After Lot Had Separated
Like an Apple Tree among the Trees of the Forest
And It Came to Pass in the Days of Amraphel
O God, Do Not Keep Silent
Melchizedek King of Salem
After These Things
The Word of the Lord Came Unto Abram in a Vision
Rabbi Hiya Went to See Rabbi Elazar
Bless the Lord, You His Angels
And Abram Said, “...What Will You Give Me?”
For Who Is God, Save the Lord? And Who Is a Rock, Save Our God?
מחזה שד"י, מחזה סתם
The Creator Makes Couplings
Night and Midnight
A Small Hey and a Big Hey
Sayings for the Brit Milah [Circumcision]
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chevron_rightVaYera
And the Lord Appeared to Him
Man’s Soul Rises from the Earth to the Firmament
The Soul at the Time of Its Demise
When Rabbi Eliezer Was Sickened
And Behold, Three Men - 1
Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord
Behold, Three Men - 2
And He Said, “I Will Surely Return” - 1
And Sarah Will Have a Son
Her Husband Is Known in the Gates
And He Said, “I Will Surely Return” - 2
And the Men Rose Up from There
Do I Hide from Abraham?
I Will Go Down and See
And Abraham Will Surely Become a Great Nation
If As the Outcry That Has Come to Me, They Have Done
Would You Indeed Sweep Away the Righteous with the Wicked?
And the Two Angels Came to Sodom
The Garden of Eden and Hell
And the Lord Rained on Sodom
But His Wife Looked Back
A Land without Scarcity
And Lot Went Up from Zoar
Ammon and Moab
And He Said, “She Is My Sister”
Standing to His Right to Accuse Him
And Shall Behead the Heifer There in the Valley
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
And the Lord Visited Sarah
And the Lord Did to Sarah
Your Wife Shall Be as a Fruitful Vine
The Calculation of the Time of the Messiah
The Son of Hagar the Egyptian
The Signs of the Messiah
And God Tested Abraham
And Saw the Place from Afar
Abraham, Abraham
In All Their Affliction He Was Afflicted
chevron_rightChayei Sara
They Carried – And Cast Him into the Sea
And Dumah Rises and Calculates
A King Who Becomes Servant to a Field
One Who Diminishes Himself
And the Life of Sarah Was
And the Cows Took the Straight Way
And I Will Put Enmity between You and the Woman
Your Eyes Have Seen My Golem
To Mourn for Sarah and to Weep for Her
Dumah Takes Them in According to the Calculation, and Takes Them Out According to the Calculation
And Sarah Died in Kiriat Arba
The Serpent of the Firmament
Types of Witchcraft – in Women
The Cave of Machpelah - 1
Four Hundred Shekels
The Cave of Machpelah - 2
And Abraham Was Old, Advanced in Days
The Righteous Have Several Places
Eden Dripping on the Garden
About the Revival of the Dead
You Will Not Take a Wife from the Daughters of the Canaanites
בתורה כל החיים
Behold, Rebecca Came Out
Prayer, Outcry, Tear
And Isaac Brought Her into the Tent
And Abraham Took Another Wife
Unto the Sons of the Concubines – Abraham Gave Gifts
Who Gave Jacob for a Spoil?
chevron_rightToldot
These Are the Generations of Isaac
And Isaac Was Forty Years Old
And Isaac Pleaded
And the Children Struggled
The Meal of the Righteous in the Future
Association of the Quality of Mercy with Judgment
And the Children Struggled Together within Her
The Gathering of the Exiles and the Revival of the Dead
And the Boys Grew – for He Had a Taste for Game
For He Had a Taste for Game
And Jacob Cooked a Stew
And There Was a Famine in the Land
She Is My Sister
And Abimelech Commanded
And He Called the Name of It Rehoboth
And His Eyes Became Too Weak to See
He Called for Esau and Said, “I Do Not Know the Day of My Death”
The Best Garments of Esau
In My Distress I Called… and He Answered Me
The Blessings
chevron_rightVaYetze
And Jacob Went Out from Beer-Sheba – 1
Seven Havalim
The Brightness of the Illuminating Mirror
SAM and a Woman of Harlotry
And Jacob Went Out from Beer-Sheba – 2
Arise, O Lord
And Jacob Went Out from Beer-Sheba - 3
Prophecy, Vision, and Dream
And Behold, the Lord Stood Above It
And Jacob Awoke and Said, “How Awful Is This Place”
And Behold a Ladder Was Set On the Earth
And Jacob Made a Vow
Rabbi Hiya Said to Elijah
And He Looked, and Behold a Well in the Field
And Jacob Went Out from Beer-Sheba
I Will Serve You Seven Years
Upper Righteous and Lower Righteous
Four Knots
And the Lord Saw that Leah Was Hated
The Tribes
This Time Will I Praise – She Called His Name Judah
His Thought Was of Rachel
And Found Mandrakes in the Field
When Rachel Had Borne Joseph
Maidens of Song
Each Set Is Only in Three
Remembering and Visiting
Death and the Shadow of Death
Then God Remembered Rachel
Name Me Your Wages
The Rods - 1
And Jacob Took Him Rods of Poplar
Blessings Are Upon the Head of the Righteous
I Have Not Seen the Righteous Forsaken
And God Placed Them in the Firmament of the Heavens
Two Firmaments: Beginning and End
The Trees of the Lord Have Their Fill
The Rods - 2
The Lord Lives, and Blessed Be My Rock
He Does Not Withdraw His Eyes from the Righteous
The Offerings of My Bread
The Idols
And the Angels of God Met Him
chevron_rightVaYishlach
And Jacob Sent Messengers
I Have Resided with Laban
The Prayer of the Righteous
And Jacob Was Left Alone
And a Man Struggled with Him
Let Me Go for the Dawn Has Broken
The Sinew of the Thigh-Vein
And Bowed Down to the Earth
And Embraced Him, and Fell on His Neck
Please My Lord Pass Over before His Servant
And Built Him a House
You Shall Not Plow With an Ox and a Donkey
Put Away the Foreign Gods
And He Built There an Altar
And God Went Up from Him
Jacob – Israel
Every Beginning Is Hard
If Thou Faint in the Day of Adversity
As Her Soul Departed
And Jacob Set Up a Pillar
And Reuben Went and Lay with Bilhah. Now the Sons of Jacob Were Twelve
Who Is This Coming Up from the Desert?
These Are the Generations of Esau
These Are the Kings
Jacob, Israel, and Yeshurun
Fear Not, Worm of Jacob
Midnight and the Morning Prayer
Who Found the Seas in the Desert
I Will Thank the Lord with All My Heart
You Are My Hiding Place
chevron_rightVaYeshev
And Jacob Sat
These Are the Generations of Jacob
For He Pays a Man According to His Work
He Shall Not Go in to the Veil
Behold, My Servant Will Be Enlightened
And Israel Loved Joseph
Joseph Dreamed a Dream
His Brothers Went to Graze
Jerusalem that Is Built
And A Man Found Him
I Seek My Brothers
There Is Anger and There Is Anger
The Pit Was Empty, Without Water
Zion and Jerusalem
And He Called His Name Er
Come to Your Brother's Wife and Mary Her
What He Did Was Bad in the Eyes of the Lord
She Removed Her Widow's Garments
Joseph Was Brought Down to Egypt
The Lord Was with Joseph
His Master's Wife Cast Her Eyes
As She Spoke to Joseph Day after Day
His Sin Waters the King of Egypt and the Baker
Let a Double Portion of Your Spirit Be Upon Me
Create for Me a Pure Heart, O God
chevron_rightMiketz
Man Puts an End to Darkness
And It Came to Pass at the End
His Spirit Was Troubled
They Quickly Brought Him Out of the Pit
After God Has Informed You of All This
Now Jacob Saw that There Was Grain in Egypt
And Joseph Was the Governor
And Joseph Knew His Brothers
And Joseph Remembered the Dreams
And He Put Them All Together in Prison
He Took Simeon from Them
And the Men Were Afraid because They Were Brought into Joseph's House
And Saw Benjamin
The Morning Was Light
Two Sons Were Born to Joseph Before the Year of the Famine Came
chevron_rightVaYigash
Then Judah Approached
Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama
For the Kings Assembled
Beautiful in Elevation
Sixty Breaths
And You Shall Eat and Be Satisfied, and Bless
Then Joseph Could Not Refrain Himself
And He Fell upon His Brother Benjamin’s Neck and Wept
And the Voice Was Heard in Pharaoh's House
Take Wagons from the Land of Egypt
And Joseph Prepared His Merkava [Chariot/Assembly]
Why Have You Brought Harm?
chevron_rightVaYechi
Jacob Lived in the Land of Egypt
And the Time Drew Near that Israel Must Die, and He Called His Son Joseph
And He Called His Son Joseph – 1
Behold, Your Father Is Ill
At Evening Time There Shall Be Light
And He Said unto Jacob
And Israel Grew Stronger, and Sat upon the Bed
The Names Are Called “Hand”
Appeared to Me at Luz
I Will Make You Fruitful, and Multiply You
And Now Your Two Sons, Who Were Born
Rachel Died on Me on the Way
And Israel Saw the Sons of Joseph - 1
Whom God Has Given Me by This
And the Eyes of Israel Were Dimmed with Age
Jacob Lived
Two Camels
Mine Is the Silver, and Mine the Gold
The Time for Israel to Die Drew Near - 1
Rabbi Yitzhak Sat and Was Sad
When His Time Comes to Depart from the World
The Mother of the Children Is Happy
My Mother's Sons Were Angry with Me
Your Covenant with Death Will Be Atoned
Woe unto an Evil Wicked
The Tzelem
Four Species
A Lily and a Rose
And the Days for Israel to Die Drew Near - 2
And He Called His Son, Joseph – 2
And Solomon's Wisdom Excelled
And When I Lied Down with My Fathers
And Israel Bowed Down Upon the Bed's Head
The World Is Judged Four Times a Year
When the Sun Was Setting
And Israel Saw Joseph's Sons - 2
And He Blessed Joseph
And Hezekiah Turned His Face to the Wall
The Redeeming Angel – 1
Do Not Remember the Iniquities of Our Forefathers against Us
Serve the Lord with Fear
May My Prayer Be Counted as Incense
The Terrible Mountain
Three Watches [parts of the night]
The Redeeming Angel – 2
Three Colors
The Strength of the King Loves Justice
Praise, You Servants of the Lord
And He Blessed Them on That Day
Your Eyes Saw My Unformed Substance
What Is the Measure of My Days
All the Blessings—to This Degree
The Sound of the Rolling Wheel
Be Gathered, that I May Tell You
Reuben, You Are My Firstborn
Asher, His Bread Shall Be Fat - 1
Reckless as Water, You Shall Not Have Preeminence
Shimon and Levi Are Brothers
The Nations of the World Count by the Sun, and Israel by the Moon
Judah, You, Your Brothers Shall Thank You
He Ties His Foal to the Vine – 1
Do Not Fret Because of Evildoers
A Small Aleph
He Ties His Foal to the Vine - 2
Out of the Eater, Out Came Food
Two Corrections of the Females
Corrects in Twelve in Two Worlds
Zebulun Will Dwell by the shore of the seas
I Have Adjured, You, O Daughters of Jerusalem
Issachar Is a Strong-Boned Donkey
Dan Shall Judge His People
Gad, Regiments Will Come Forth from Him
Put Me like a Seal Over Your Heart
Three Souls
Asher, His Bread Shall Be Rich - 2
Naphtali Is a Doe Let Loose
Thought, Speech, Voice
Joseph Is a Fruitful Bough
Benjamin Is a Wolf; He Will Prey
This Is What Their Father Said to Them
And Jacob Concluded Charging His Sons
He Perished and Was Gathered to His Peoples
Mourning-Egypt
Cry Aloud with Your Voice, O Daughter of Gallim
Silver Counted for Nothing in the Days of Solomon
A Cup of Blessing
The Barn of the Lycium
Jacob’s Embalming
And Placed Inside a Coffin in Egypt
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chevron_rightShmot
These Are the Names
The Word of the Lord Came - 1
Come with Me from Lebanon, My Bride - 1
Do Not Eat the Bread of an Evil-Eyed Man
Three Are They Who Repel the Shechina
They Came Each with His Household - 1
The Wheels of the Holy Merkava [Chariot/Assembly]
With Jacob; They Came Each Man with His Household
The Word of the Lord Came Expressly - 2
Come with Me from Lebanon, My Brid - 2
Seventy Souls
Who Send Out Freely the Ox and the Donkey
And a New King Arose - 1
The Vision of Egypt
The Coming of the Messiah
And a New King Arose - 2
The Morning Star
Righteous to Whom It Happens according to the Deeds of the Wicked
And There Went a Man of the House of Levi
She Hid Him Three Months
And His Sister Stood from Afar
And the Daughter of Pharaoh Came Down
He Looked This Way and That
He Sat Down by a Well
Come from the Four Winds, O Wind
The Well of Moses and Jacob
I Am Black, and Beautiful
Run Away, My Beloved
Why Exile and Why to Egypt?
He neither Ate Bread nor Drank Water
Twelve Mountains of Persimmon
Eighteen Mountains of Persimmon
I Went Down into the Garden of Nut Trees
One Opposite the Other
The Sons of Israel, the Sons of Jacob
They Came Each Man with His Household - 2
The Dead Know the Affliction of the Living
While the King Sat at His Table
Israel Compared to the Rest of the Nations
Under a Slave When He Becomes King
Until the Day Breaks
And He Said unto His People
Their Valiant Ones Cry Outside
Two Tears to the Deep of the Great Sea
Let Us Deal Wisely
Against All the Gods of Egypt, I Will Execute Judgments
The Song of Songs that Is for Solomon
And There Went a Man
The King of Egypt Died
Two Tears to the Great Sea
Does the Lord Have a Sword?
And the Children of Israel Sighed
Sigh, Cry, and Outcry
My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His, He Pastures among the Roses
Moses Was Pasturing
In a Flame of Fire Out of the Midst of a Bush
chevron_rightVaEra
And I Appeared—In God Almighty [Shadai], and My Name Is HaVaYaH, I Am Not Known to Them
Visible Colors and Invisible Colors
Four Foundations: Fire, Wind, Water, Dust
I Will Bring, I Will Deliver, I Will Redeem, I Will Take
General and Individual
But They Did Not Listen to Moses for Shortness of Breath
Voice and Speech
Be Afraid of the Sword
These Are the Heads of Their Fathers’ Houses
Know This Day and Take It to Your Heart
Midnight and Midday
A Sea Monster Lies between the Niles
The Flaming Sword that Turned Every Way
Take Your Rod
And They May Become Blood
And Take It to Your Heart
And the Nile Shall Swarm with Frogs
He Was Seven Years in Building It
Ways—Paths—Pleasantness—and Peace
Behold, the Hand of the Lord
And I Will Make You a Great Nation
And Sarai Was Barren
chevron_rightBo
If There Is an Angel as Mediator for Him
There Was a Day When… Satan Also Came among Them
The Sea Monsters
And the Lord Will Pass Through … and when He Sees the Blood on the Lintel and on the Two Mezuzahs [Doorposts]
And It Came to Pass at Midnight
All Things Have I Seen
And He Smelled the Smell of His Garments
This Month Shall Be to You
A Lamb for a Household This month shall be to you
Sourdough and Leaven
Matzot [unleavened bread] of Judgment
Praising the Exodus from Egypt
The Passover Sacrifice
Sanctify to Me Every Firstborn
For He Will Give His Angels Charge over You
For You Saw No Manner of Image
Every Firstborn of an Ass You Shall Redeem with a Lamb
The Tefillin [Phylacteries]
chevron_rightBeShalach
And Elisha Passed Over to Shunem
There Were Three Deaths
And God Led the People Around
And the Lord Walks Before Them by Day
And He Took Six Hundred Select Chariots
And Pharaoh Drew Near
The Lord Will Fight for You, and You will Keep Silent
Why Are You Yelling Out to Me?
Lift Up Your Staff
And He Removed the Wheel of His Chariots
And the Angel of God Went
And ... Went, And It Came, And ... Stretched
And Israel Saw the Great Hand
Then Moses ... Will Sing
The Lord Is My Strength and Song
The Lord Is a Man of War
Pharaoh's Merkavot [chariots/structures] and His Army
Your Right Hand, O Lord, Majestic in Power
When Moses Entered the Cloud
In Your Great Excellence, You Overthrow Those Who Rise Against You
The Enemy Said, “I Will Pursue”
Who Is Like You among the Gods
You Stretched Out Your Right Hand, the Earth Swallowed Them
Building a Temple Below
And They Found No Water
And He Said, “If You Will Hear and Listen to the Voice of the Lord”
The Story of the Manna
The Creator Demands the Glory of the Righteous
Tzur and Sela [both words mean “rock”]
Is the Lord among Us
Then Amalek Came
And They Saw the God of Israel
And Moses Built an Altar
chevron_rightYitro
And Jethro Heard
And Her Two Sons
Then Jethro, Moses' Father-In-Law, Came
This Is the Book
You Will Behold the Secret of the Se’arot [Hair]
And You Will Behold the Secret of the Forehead
And You Will Behold the Secret of the Eyes
And You Will Behold the Secret of the Face
You Will Behold the Secret of the Lips
You Will Behold the Secret of the Eyes
You Will Behold the Secret of the Lines in the Palms
You Will Behold the Secret of Secrets
On the Third Month
And Moses Went Up to God
Thus You Shall Say to the House of Jacob
On Eagles' Wings
And It Came to Pass on the Third Day
There Were Voices and Lightning Flashes
And All the People Saw the Voices
And God Spoke
The Tablets Were the Work of God
I Am the Lord Your God - 1
You Shall Not Have
You Shall Not Make for Yourself
You Shall Not Bow Down to Them
You Shall Not Take
Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep It Holy – 1
Honor Your Father
You Shall Not Make with Me
I Am the Lord Your God - 2
You Shall Not Take the Name of the Lord In Vain
Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep It Holy - 2
Two Gemstones
Honor Your Father and Your Mother
You Shall Not Kill; You Shall Not Commit Adultery...
chevron_rightMishpatim
These Are the Ordinances
If You Buy a Hebrew Slave
The Old Man [The Grandfather]
If Men Struggle
Returning a Loss
Setting Aside Cities of Refuge
Mem-Tet and Mot [rod/pole]
Redeeming a Hebrew Slave
Doubled-Edged Sword
A Vow and an Oath
Barn and Winery
Watching Through the Windows
You Shall Not Follow the Masses in Doing Evil
Keep Away from a False Matter
The Order of Judgments in Laws of Torts [damages]
Written in the Signs of the Creator and His Shechina
A Spirit that Ascends and Descends Each Night
Two Messiahs
Concerning Tithing
You Shall Be Holy Men unto Me
Administer Justice in the Morning
The Rooms of the Tabernacle
And in All the Things That I Have Said to You Be Watchful
Any Man of Israel Who Was Circumcised Should Be Seen
The Creator Is Called ADNI
Neshikin [Kisses]
Behold, I Am Sending an Angel before You
You Are Not To Boil a Kid [Young Goat] in Its Mother's Milk
And unto Moses He Said, “Go Up to the Lord”
And upon the Nobles of the Sons of Israel
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chevron_rightTruma
When the Creator Created the World
How Great Is Your Goodness, which You Have Hidden
A Persimmon and a Sedan Chair
From the Trees of Lebanon Are the Six Days of Creation
And They Shall Take a Donation for Me - 1
Three Colors in a Flame
Gold and Silver and Bronze - 1
Evening and Morning and Noon
The Watchman Says, “Morning Comes”
A Bed, a Table, a Chair, and a Lamp
Hear O Israel, Blessed Be the Name of the Glory of His Kingdom Forever and Ever
They Will Take a Donation for Me - 2
As They
Bless the Blessed Lord
The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God
Rejoice [in the Lord] You Righteous
To David, when He Changed His Demeanor
A Prayer for Moses
Sing to the Lord a New Song
A Psalm, a Song for the Sabbath Day
The Soul of Every Living Thing
And You, O Lord, Be Not Far Off
Gold and Silver and Bronze – 2
Who Has Aroused One from the East
God, You Are My God, I Shall Seek You
And They Will Take a Donation for Me - 3
Opening and Light Cover over the Holy Land
Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama
A Song of Ascents. They Who Trust in the Lord
The Song of Songs, which Is Solomon's
From Every Man Whose Heart Moves Him
Kisses
This Is the Donation
Moses, Aaron, and Samuel
Gold and Silver and Bronze – 3
Let There Be Light
And the Lord Gave Solomon Wisdom
Azure - 1
And Behold, It Was Very Good
Hell’s Judgment
There Is a Place in the World Where No One Dies
Bezalel Knew How to Join Letters
Azure - 2
You Shall Make a Table - 1
And You Shall Eat and Be Satisfied, and Bless
You Shall Make a Table – 2
Time to Do for the Lord
A Time of Good Will
Wisdom Strengthens the Wise
Soul Food
The Middle of the World
A Cup of Blessing
Menorah [the Hebrew candelabra], Shekalim [Shekels], This Month
And They Shall Make an Ark
See and Make in Their Pattern
Three Names Included Together
The Letters
Hear O Israel
To You It Was Shown to Know – 1
And I Was Beside Him an Amon [Apprentice]
To You It Was Shown to Know – 2
The Tefillin
And You Shall Love the Lord Your God
You Shall Make the Tabernacle with Ten Curtains
With All Your Heart, and with All Your Soul, and with All Your Might
The Righteous are the Face of Divinity
Let Me Go, for the Dawn Has Risen
If the Lord Does Not Build a House
In a Multitude of People Is a King's Glory
Wherever Letters Were Added, It Is a Subtraction
Seven Firmaments
Lift Up a Song for Him Who Rides through the Prairies
For a Candle Is a Mitzva and Torah Is Light
207 on the Right, 103 on the Left
Light Is Sown Regularly
Light, Water, and Firmament
Cain and Abel, Seth, Enoch, and Mahalalel
The Meaning of the Blessing for the Food
The Seven Blessings of the Bride
וכל בנייך לימודי ה'
And You Shall Make the Boards
The Lord Is My Shepherd; I Shall Not Want
Man’s Nourishments Are as Hard as the Tearing of the Red Sea
Zivugim Are as Hard for the Creator as the Tearing of the Red Sea
The Stars
Three Watches of the Night
I Will Thank the Lord with All My Heart
The Whole of the Soul Shall Praise the Lord
Moses Did Not Die
Circumcision, Redemption, and Wed Him with a Woman
Until Jacob, a Person Died without Illness
Until Hezekiah There Was No Sick Who Was Cured
Happy Are You, O Land Whose King Is of Nobility
Mated Hochma in His Trails
Who Has Measured Water in His Step
Riding on a Cherub and Shall Fly
The Hooks of the Pillars
Who Is She Who Looks Forth Like the Dawn
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And Jacob Sent Messengers
 
And Jacob Sent Messengers

1) When a person come into the world, the evil inclination immediately comes along with him and always complains about him, as it is written, “sin crouches at the door.” Sin crouches—this is the evil inclination. “At the door”—the door of the womb, meaning as soon as one is born.

2) David called the evil inclination by the name, “sin,” as it is written, “and my sin is ever before me,” because it makes man sin before his Master every day. And this evil inclination does not leave man from the day he is born and for all time. And the good inclination comes to a person from the time he comes to be purified.

3) And when does one come to be purified? When he is thirteen years of age. At that time, a man connects in both the good inclination on the right, and the evil inclination on the left. And these are really two appointed angels, and they are always with man.

4) If a man comes to be purified, the evil inclination surrenders before him and the right governs the left. And both the good inclination and the evil inclination join to keep man in all the roads he travels, as it is written, “For He will give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”

5) The Creator summoned angels with Jacob, camps of appointees, since he comes complete with the upper tribes, who were all properly whole, as it is written, “And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.” After he was saved from Laban and parted from him, the Shechina joined him and camps of Holy Angels came to surround him. And he sent of these angels to Esau, as it is written, “And Jacob sent messengers.” Certainly, they were real angels.

6) It is written, “The angel of the Lord encamps round about them that fear Him, and delivers them.” It is written, “For He will give His angels charge over you,” meaning many angels. However, “For He will give His angels charge over you” are regular angels, and the angel of the Lord encamps round about is the Shechina, as it is written, “And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush,” meaning the Shechina. Hence, “the angel of the Lord encamps round about them that fear Him,” to surround them from all sides so as to save them. And when the Shechina dwells within man, all the Holy hosts come there.

7) When King David was saved from Achish, king of Gath, then it is written, “The angel of the Lord encamps,” because the Shechina has surrounded him and he was saved from Achish, from his people, and from all who attacked him, as it is written, “and [King David] feigned himself wanton in their hands.” Why is it written “wanton”? It should have said, “and feigned himself mad in their hands.”

8) However, this concerns the verse, “For I was envious at the wanton.” The Creator told him, “You will still need it.” Because he arrived in the house of Achish and was attacked, it is written, “and feigned himself wanton in their hands,” and then the Shechina came and stayed around David.

9) Thus, the Shechina dwells only in her domain, the Holy Land. Thus, why was the Shechina over him at Gath, which is abroad? She is certainly not abroad, so they will be able to suckle abundance from her. However, to save, she dwells abroad, as well. And here, when Jacob came from the house of Laban, all the Holy camps surrounded him and he did not remain alone.

10) Hence, why is it written, “And Jacob was left alone, and a man struggled with him”? Where were all the camps of messengers that surrounded him and came with him, since he brought danger upon himself when he remained alone at night, and saw the danger with his eye? And since they came to guard him only from an invisible danger, they parted him. And then, before he put himself in danger, he said, “I am not worthy of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which Thou hast shown unto Thy servant.” These are the camps of holy messengers that surrounded him, and now parted him for he had put himself in visible danger.

11) The messengers parted him in order to leave him alone with Esau’s appointee, which came to him by permission from the Upper One. And these messengers went to chant in song, since at that time it was their time to chant in song before the Creator.

The messengers parted him for two reasons: 1. To leave him alone with the angel so he would fight him. 2. It was their time to chant in song; afterwards, they returned to him.

Jacob said, “I am not worthy of all the mercies and all the truth … and now I have become two camps.” The camp of the Shechina and all his house were one camp, as it is written, “This is God's camp.” Hence, why does it say, “two camps”? It indicates that he was complete with both discernments, both parts: white and red, Hassadim and Hochma, right and left.

12) That night was the dominion of the side of Esau—left without right. At that time, it is written, “Let there be light,” without the [Hebrew letter] Vav. This is the fourth night, which cannot shine because it is without Hassadim. For this reason, it is written, “Jacob was left alone.” Jacob, who is the sun, ZA, remained alone—without the moon, the Nukva, since she was covered from the sun, although the Creator’s guard was not entirely removed from Jacob, which is why he could not prevail over him, as it is written, “And he saw that he did not prevail against him.”

13) Why did he not prevail against him? It is because the angel looked to the right of Jacob and saw Abraham, the wholeness of the right line. He looked to Jacob’s left and saw Isaac, the wholeness from the left line. He looked to Jacob’s body and saw that he was included from right and left, the wholeness of the middle line, and there is no grip to the Sitra Achra in a place of wholeness, but rather in a place of deficiency. This is why he could not prevail against him.

Then, “he touched the hollow of his thigh,” which is a pillar that is near the body, which is outside the body. There is a deficiency there, and hence the angel clung to it, as it is written, “and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained.”

14) “The angel of the Lord encamps round about them that fear Him, and delivers them.” Surrounded him from all sides so as to save him from Esau’s minister. And when the Shechina dwelt within him, several armies and camps of messengers came with him, and from among these messengers, he sent to Esau.

15) Why did Jacob awaken to send messengers to Esau? Would it not be better to keep silent from him? However, Jacob said, I know that Esau is anxious for the father’s respect, and never vexed him. And I know that since my father is alive, I do not fear him. Therefore, now, as long as my father is alive, I want to appease him. He immediately hurried and sent messengers before him.

16) “Better is he that is ignoble and has a servant, than he that plays the man of rank and lacks bread.” This verse was said about the evil inclination because it always complains against people. And the evil inclination raises man’s heart and desire with pride, and man follows it, curling his hair and his head, until the evil inclination takes pride over him and pulls him to Hell.

17) One who does not follow the evil inclination and is not proud at all, who lowers his spirit, his heart, and his will toward the Creator, the evil inclination overturns and becomes his slave, since it cannot control him. On the contrary, that man controls it, as it is written, “and thou may rule over it.”

18) “…that plays the man of rank”: one who respects himself, curls his hair and prides in his spirit. He lacks bread—lacks faith, as it is written, “the bread of his God does he offer…the bread of their God do they offer.” Bread is the Shechina. Here, too, bread is lacking, meaning lack of faith, which is the Shechina.

19) “Better is he that is ignoble…” this is Jacob, who lowered his spirit before Esau so that afterwards, Esau will be his slave and he will rule over him and the verse, “Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee,” will come true in him. Now it was not at all his time—for Jacob to rule over him. And he was ignoble because Jacob left him to the end of days. And in the end of days, the one who was of rank will be his slave. The one who will then lack bread, Esau, will be a slave to Jacob, the one who was given plenty of grain and wine, to Jacob.

20) Because Jacob knew that he was now needy of him, he became ignoble before him. By that, he was wiser and shrewder than on any deed he had ever done against Esau. And had Esau sensed this wisdom, he would have killed himself, so he would not come to it. But Jacob did everything wisely.