זוהר, בראשית ט׳Zohar, Bereshit 9

Segment 1א׳

וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים יְהִי מְאוֹרוֹת וְכוּ'. מְאֹרֹת חָסֵר. דְּאִתְבְּרֵי אַסְכְּרָה לְרַבְיֵי. דְּבָתַר דְּאִתְגְּנִיז נְהִירוּ אוֹר קַדְמָאָה. אִתְבְּרֵי קְלִיפָּה לְמוֹחָא, וְהַהִיא קְלִיפָּה אִתְפַּשַּׁט וְאַפִּיק קְלִיפָּה אָחֳרָא. כֵּיוָן דְּנַפְקַת סַלְקָא וְנַחֲתָא מָטַת לְגַבֵּי אַנְפֵּי זוּטְרֵי, בָּעאַת לְאִתְדַּבְּקָא בְּהוּ וּלְאִצְטַיְירָא בְּגַוַויְיהוּ וְלָא בָּעאַת לְאַפְרְשָׁא מִנַּיְיהוּ, אַפְרַשׁ לָהּ קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא מִתַּמָּן וְנָחִית לָהּ לְתַתָּא, כַּד בְּרָא אָדָם בְּגִין לְאַתְקָנָא הַאי בְּהַאי עָלְמָא.

AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHTS, ETC. The,word for “lights” (meoroth) is written defectively, as if me’eroth (curses), for the reason that the children’s disease, croup, was through them created. For after the primordial light was withdrawn there was created a “membrane for the marrow”, a k’lifah, and this k’lifah expanded and produced another. As soon as this second one came forth she went up and down till she reached the “little faces”. She desired to cleave to them and to be shaped as one of them, and was loth to depart from them. But the Holy One, blessed be He, removed her from them and made her go below.

Segment 2ב׳

כֵּיוָן דְּחָמַת לְחַוָּה דְּקָא מִתְדַּבְּקָא בְּסִטְרוֹי דְּאָדָם דְּשַׁפִּירוּ דִּלְעֵילָא וְחָמַאת דִּיוּקְנָא שְׁלִים, פָּרְחָא מִתַּמָּן, וּבָעאַת כְּמִלְקַדְמִין לְאִתְדַּבְּקָא בְּאַנְפּוֹי זוּטְרֵי. אִנּוּן נָטְרֵי תַּרְעִין דִּלְעֵיל לָא שַׁבְקוּ לָהּ. נָזַף קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא בָּהּ וְאַטִּיל לָהּ בְּשִׁפּוּלֵי יַמָּא.

When He created Adam and gave him a partner, as soon as she saw Eve clinging to his side and was reminded by his form of the supernal beauty, she flew up from thence and tried as before to attach herself to the “little faces”. The supernal guardians of the gates, however, did not permit her. The Holy One, blessed be He, chid her and cast her into the depths of the sea,

Segment 3ג׳

וְיָתְבַת תַּמָּן עַד דְּחָטָא אָדָם וְאִנְתְּתֵיהּ. כְּדֵין אַפִּיק לָהּ קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא מִשִּׁפּוּלֵי יַמָּא, וְשָׁלְטָא עַל כָּל אִנּוּן רַבְיֵי אַפֵּי זוּטְרָא דִּבְנֵי נְשָׁא דְּאִתְחֲזוּן לְאַעֲנָשָׁא בְּחוֹבֵי דְּאֲבוּהוֹן. וְאִיהִי אָזְלָא מְשַׁטְּטָא בְּעָלְמָא. קְרֵיבַת לְתַרְעֵי גַּן עֵדֶן דְּאַרְעָא וְחָמַת כְּרוּבִים נָטְרֵי תַּרְעֵי דְּגַּן עֵדֶן וְיָתְבָא תַּמָּן לְגַבֵּי הַהוּא לַהַט הַחֶרֶב בְּגִין דְּהִיא נָפְקַת מִסִּטְרָא דְּהַהוּא לַהַט.

where she abode until the time that Adam and his wife sinned. Then the Holy One, blessed be He, brought her out from the depth of the sea and gave her power over all those children, the “little faces” of the sons of men, who are liable to punishment for the sins of their fathers. She then wandered up and down the world. She approached the gates of the terrestrial paradise, where she saw the Cherubim, the guardians of the gates of Paradise, and sat down near the flashing sword, to which she was akin in origin.