זוהר, בהר ז׳Zohar, Behar 7

Section 7 of 14 in Behar — 21 segments

Segment 1א׳

מָארֵי מְתִיבְתָּאן, בְּאוֹמָאָה עָלַיְיכוּ, לָא תַּעְדוּ מִנִּי, עַד דְּאַתְקִין קָרְבְּנִין לְּקוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא. דִּשְׁכִינְתָּא אִיהִי קָרְבָּן לַיְיָ', בְּכָל אֵבֶר וְאֵבֶר דְּמַלְכָּא, בְּחִבּוּרָא שְׁלִים, בִּדְכַר וְנוּקְבָּא. בְּכָל אֵבָרִים, דְּאִינּוּן: מִנְּהוֹן בְּרֵישָׁא, עַיְינִין בְּעַיְינִין. אוּדְנִין לְגַבֵּי אוּדְנִין. חוֹטָמָא בְּחוֹטָמָא. אַנְפִּין בְּאַנְפִּין. פּוּמָא בְּפוּמָא. כְּגוֹן (מלכים ב ד׳:ל״ד) וַיָּשֶׂם פִּיו עַל פִּיו וְעֵינָיו עַל עֵינָיו. וּבְדָא הֲוָה מְחַיֶּה הַיֶּלֶד. וְהָכִי יְדִין דְּמַלְכָּא, עִם יְדִין דְּמַטְרוֹנִיתָא, גּוּפָא בְּגוּפָא, בְּכָל אֵבָרִים דִּילֵיהּ. קָרְבְּנָא שְׁלִים.

Masters of the Academies, I adjure you: do not depart from me until I have set in order the offerings to the Holy One, blessed be He. For the Shekinah is an offering to the Lord in every limb and limb of the King, in perfect union, in male and female — in all the limbs, which are these: some of them in the head, eyes to eyes, ears towards ears, nose to nose, face to face, mouth to mouth, as in “and he put his mouth upon his mouth and his eyes upon his eyes” (II Kings 4, 34), and by this he revived the child. And so the hands of the King with the hands of the Matrona, body to body, in all His limbs: a perfect offering.

Segment 2ב׳

דְּבַּר נָשׁ בְּלָא אִתְּתָא, פַּלְגוּ גּוּפָא אִיהוּ, וּשְׁכִינְתָּא לָא שַׁרְיָא עָלֵיהּ. הָכִי (ס"א כד) קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא, לָאו אִיהוּ בְּקָרְבְּנָא עִם שְׁכִינְתָּא, בְּכָל יִשְׂרָאֵל, דְּאִינּוּן אַנְשֵׁי מִדּוֹת, דְּאִינּוּן אֵבָרִים דִּילָהּ. עִלַּת הָעִלּוֹת לָא שַׁרְיָא תַּמָּן, וּכְאִלּוּ לָא הֲוָה קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא חַד, בָּתַר דְּלָאו אִיהוּ עִם שְׁכִינְתֵּיהּ. וּבְחוּצָּה לָאָרֶץ דִּשְׁכִינְתָּא מְרַחֲקָא מִן בַּעְלָהּ, אִתְּמַר כָּל הַדָּר בְּחוּצָּה לָאָרֶץ, דּוֹמֶה כְּמִי שֶׁאֵין לוֹ אֱלוֹהַּ. בְּגִין דְּלֵית תַּמָּן קָרְבְּנִין בְּחוּצָּה לָאָרֶץ. וּלְזִמְנָא דְּקוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא מִתְקָרֵב עִם שְׁכִינְתֵּיהּ, אִתְקַיָּים בֵּיהּ הַאי קְרָא, (זכריה י״ד:ט׳) בַּיוֹם הַהוּא יִהְיֶה יְיָ' אֶחָד וּשְׁמוֹ אֶחָד. וְעִלַּת הָעִלּוֹת שַׁרְיָא עָלַיְיהוּ.

A man without a wife is half a body, and the Shekinah does not rest upon him. So too (another reading: when) the Holy One, blessed be He: when He is not in the offering together with the Shekinah in all Israel, who are men of attributes and who are her limbs, the Cause of causes does not rest there, and it is as though the Holy One, blessed be He, were not one, since He is not with His Shekinah. And outside the Land, where the Shekinah is far from her Husband, it is said: whoever dwells outside the Land is like one who has no God, because there are no offerings there, outside the Land. And at the time when the Holy One, blessed be He, draws near with His Shekinah, this verse is fulfilled in Him: “On that day the Lord shall be one and His name one” (Zech. 14, 9); and the Cause of causes rests upon them.

Segment 3ג׳

אַף עַל גַּב דְּתָקִינוּ אֲבָהָן צְּלוֹתִין בַּאֲתַר דְּקָרְבְּנִין. הַאי אִיהוּ לְקָרְבָא נַפְשִׁין וְרוּחִין וְנִשְׁמָתִין דְּאִינּוּן שִׂכְלִיִּים לְּקוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא וּשְׁכִינְתֵּיהּ. כְּאֵבָרִין לְגַבֵּי גּוּפָא אֲבָל מִסִּטְרָא דְּכוּרְסְיָין וּמַלְאָכִין, דְּאִינּוּן גּוּפִין וְאֵבָרִין, דִּלְבַר מִמַּלְכָּא וּמִמַטְרוֹנִיתָא, לֵית תַּמָּן קָרְבְּנָא. וּבְגִין דָּא אִתְּמַר בְּכוּרְסְיָּיא, (שמות י״ז:ט״ז) וַיּאמֶר כִּי יָד עַל כֵּס יָהּ. (כס, חסר מכס א') (נ"א ה"ו חסר משם הוי"ה) (ירמיהו י״ז:י״ב) כִּסֵּא כָּבוֹד מָרוֹם מֵרִאשׁוֹן מְקוֹם מִקְדָּשֵׁנוּ. וְאֵבָרִין בְּפֵרוּדָא מִן גּוּפָא. אִיהוּ לְגוֹ, וְאִינּוּן לְבַר. הֲדָא הוּא דִכְתִיב, (ישעיהו ל״ג:ז׳) הֶן אֶרְאֶלָּם צָּעֲקוּ חוּצָּה, חוּצָּה וַדַּאי.

Although the patriarchs ordained the prayers in the place of the offerings, this is to bring near the nefashot, ruhot and neshamot (vital souls, spirits and souls), which are of the intellect, to the Holy One, blessed be He, and His Shekinah, as limbs to the body. But from the side of the thrones and the angels, which are bodies and limbs outside the King and the Matrona, there is no offering there. And therefore it is said of the throne, “and he said: for the hand is upon the throne of Yah” (Ex. 17, 16) — (kes, wanting the aleph of kisse) (another reading: He-Vav, wanting from the Tetragrammaton) — “a throne of glory, on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary” (Jer. 17, 12). And the limbs are in separation from the body: He is within and they are without. This is as it is written, “Behold, their valiant ones cry outside” (Isa. 33, 7) — outside, assuredly.

Segment 4ד׳

יְהֵא רַעֲוָא דִּילָךְ, לְאַחְזְרָא לָן לְבֵי מַקְדְּשָׁא, לְקַיֵּים צְּלוֹתָא דְּאוֹקְמוּהָ קַדְמָאֵי, יְהִי רָצּוֹן מִלְּפָנֶיךָ יְיָ' אֶלֹקֵינוּ וִאלֹקֵי אֲבוֹתֵינוּ שֶׁתַּעֲלֵנוּ בְשִׂמְחָה לְאַרְצֵּנוּ וְתִטָעֵנוּ בִּגְבוּלֵנוּ וְשָׁם נַעֲשֶׂה לְפָנֶיךָ אֶת קָרְבָּנוֹת חוֹבוֹתֵינוּ תְּמִידִין כְּסִדְרָן, כָּל חַד בְּסִדּוּרָא דִּילֵיהּ, וּמוּסָפִין כְּהִלְכָתָן. דִּכְעָן לְבַר מֵאַרְעָא דְּיִשְׂרָאֵל, לֵית תַּמָּן קָרְבְּנִין, כְּגוּפִין דִּבְרִיאָה, דְּקוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא וּשְׁכִינְתֵּיהּ, מִסִּטְרָא דַּאֲצִּילוּת דִּילֵיהּ, לֵית תַּמָּן פִּרוּדָא וְאַפְרָשׁוּתָא. דִּשְׁכִינְתָּא אִיהִי יִחוּדֵיהּ, וּבִרְכָתֵיהּ, וּקְדוּשָׁתֵיהּ. וְלָא אִתְקְרִיאַת גוּפָא, אֶלָא כַּד אִתְגַשְׁמוּ בְּכוּרְסַיָין, וּמַלְאָכִין דִּבְרִיאָה, כְּנִשְׁמָתָא דְּאִתְלַבְּשָׁא בְּגוּפָא שְׁפָלָה. וּבְגִין דָּא, כַּד שְׁכִינְתָּא אִיהִי לְבַר מֵהֵיכָלָא דְּבֵי מַקְדְּשָׁא, וּלְבַר מִכּוּרְסְיָין דִּילָהּ, כִּבְיָכוֹל כְּאִלּוּ לָא הֲוָה חַד עִמֵּיהּ.

May it be Your will to bring us back to the Temple, to fulfil the prayer which the ancients ordained: “May it be Your will, Lord our God and God of our fathers, that You bring us up in joy to our land and plant us within our borders, and there we shall perform before You the offerings of our obligations, the daily offerings in their order” — each one in its own order — “and the additional offerings according to their law.” For now, outside the land of Israel, there are no offerings there, as there are bodies of creation. For the Holy One, blessed be He, and His Shekinah, from the side of His emanation, have there no separation and no division, since the Shekinah is His unity and His blessing and His holiness. And she is not called a body except when they are made corporeal in the thrones and the angels of creation, like a soul that is clothed in a lowly body. And therefore, when the Shekinah is outside the palace of the Temple and outside her thrones, it is, so to speak, as though He were not one with her.

Segment 5ה׳

מִסִּטְרָא דְּכִסֵּא עֶלְיוֹן דְּאִיהוּ גּוּפָא לְּקוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא, וּמַלְאָכִין דְּתַּלְיָין מִנֵּיהּ, כְּאֵבָרִין דְּתַּלְיָין מִן גּוּפָא, דְּאִינּוּן דְּכוּרִין. וְנִשְׁמָתִין דְּאִתְגְּזָרוּ מִנֵיהּ דְּכוּרִין. כִּסֵּא תִּנְיָינָא, גּוּפָא דִּשְׁכִינְתָּא, וְכָל נִשְׁמָתִין דְּתַּלְיָין מִנֵּיהּ, נוּקְבִין. וּמַלְאָכִין דְּתַּלְיָין מֵהַהוּא כּוּרְסְיָיא, נוּקְבִין. וּקָרִיבוּ דִּלְהוֹן בְּקוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא וּשְׁכִינְתֵּיהּ.

From the side of the supernal throne, which is a body to the Holy One, blessed be He, and the angels that depend from it, like limbs that depend from the body, they are male; and the souls that were hewn from it are male. The second throne is the body of the Shekinah, and all the souls that depend from it are female; and the angels that depend from that throne are female. And their drawing near is in the Holy One, blessed be He, and His Shekinah.

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Zohar — Vocalized Zohar, Israel 2013, via Sefaria

English: rendered from the Aramaic for this app — The Gematria's own rendering program. A rendering of the words, not a commentary; the Zohar is learned with a teacher