The Zohar · Ki Teitzei
זוהר, כי תצא י״בZohar, Ki Teitzei 12
Section 12 of 30 in Ki Teitzei — 4 segments
Segment 1א׳
וּבְזִמְנָא דְּנוּקְבָּא פְּתִיחָא, כָּל מַאן דְּהֲוָה נָפִיל תַּמָּן, לָא הֲוָה סְלִיק. וּמָשִׁיחַ בֶּן דָּוִד נָפַל תַּמָּן עִם מָשִׁיחַ בֶּן יוֹסֵף. דְּחָד אִיהוּ (זכריה ט׳:ט׳) עָנִי וְרוֹכֵב עַל חֲמוֹר. וְחַד אִיהוּ, (דברים ל״ג:י״ז) בְּכוֹר שׁוֹרוֹ, דָּא מָשִׁיחַ בֶּן יוֹסֵף. וְהַאי אִיהוּ (שמות כ״א:ל״ג) כִּי יִכְרֶה אִישׁ בּוֹר וְלֹא יְכַסֶּנּוּ וְנָפַל שָׁמָּה שׁוֹר אוֹ חֲמוֹר. וּבְגִין דָּא אִקְרֵי מָשִׁיחַ, בַּר נַפְלֵי. וְאִיהִי נַפְלַת בַּתְרַיְיהוּ, וְאִתְּמַר עָלָהּ, (עמוס ה׳:ב׳) נָפְלָה לֹא תוֹסִיף קוּם בְּתוּלַת יִשְׂרָאֵל. וְאַנְתְּ הוּא (שמות כ״א:ל״ד) בַּעַל הַבּוֹר יְשַׁלֵּם כֶּסֶף יָשִׁיב לִבְעָלָיו. וְהַמֵּת יִהְיֶה לּוֹ, דָּא מָשִׁיחַ בֶּן יוֹסֵף, דְּעָתִיד לְאִתְקָטְלָא. (מצאתי כאן חלק כמו ד' שורות ונראה שחסר)
And at the time when the hole was open, everyone who fell there did not come up. And Messiah the son of David fell there with Messiah the son of Joseph. For the one is “poor and riding upon an ass” (Zech. 9, 9), and the other is “the firstling of his herd” (Deut. 33, 17) — that is Messiah the son of Joseph. And this is, “And if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls into it” (Ex. 21, 33). And therefore Messiah is called bar niflei, the son of the fallen. And she fell after them, and of her it is said, “She is fallen, she shall no more rise, the virgin of Israel” (Amos 5, 2). And you are “the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the owner of them” (Ex. 21, 34) — “and the dead beast shall be his own”: this is Messiah the son of Joseph, who is destined to be slain. (I found here a blank of about four lines, and it appears that something is missing.)
Segment 2ב׳
נָחַת בְּגִינֵיהּ. דְּוַדַּאי אַרְבַּע גָּלִיוֹת הֲווֹ, תְּלַת, לָקֳבֵל תְּלַת קְלִיפִּין דֶּאֱגוֹזָא, דְּאִינּוּן תֹּהוּ, קַו יָרוֹק, קְלִיפָּה יְרוֹקָא דֶּאֱגוֹזָא. תִּנְיָינָא בֹּהוּ, אֲבָנִין מְפוּלָּמִין, דְּאִינּוּן סְלָעִים תַּקִּיפִין, דְּמִכָּל מָקוֹם פַּסְקוּ מִינַּיְיהוּ כַּמָה פְּסָקוֹת, וְנָקִיט לוֹן, לְאַפָּקָא מַיָּא דְּאוֹרַיְיתָא. וּבְגִין דָּא אִתְקְרִיאוּ אֲבָנִים מְפוּלָּמוֹת, דְּמִנַּיְיהוּ מַיִין נָפְקִין. קְלִיפָּה תְּלִיתָאָה, דְּקִיקָא, גָּלוּתָא תְּלִיתָאָה, דְּהֲוָה זְעֵיר, וְהַאי אִיהוּ וְחֹשֶׁךְ. גָּלוּתָא רְבִיעָאָה, תְּהוֹם רַבָּה, חָלָל דֶּאֱגוֹזָא. וְהַאי אִיהוּ, (בראשית א׳:ב׳) וְחֹשֶׁךְ עַל פְּנֵי תְהוֹם.
He went down for his sake. For assuredly there were four exiles: three of them corresponding to the three shells of the nut, which are tohu — a line of green, the green shell of the nut; the second, bohu — the moist stones, which are hard rocks, from which in every place they broke off many sections and took them, to bring out the waters of the Torah, and therefore they are called moist stones, for from them waters come forth; the third shell, the thin one — the third exile, which was small, and this is “and darkness”. The fourth exile is the great abyss, the hollow of the nut; and this is, “and darkness was upon the face of the deep” (Gen. 1, 2).
Segment 3ג׳
וְאִתְקְרֵי בּוֹר, דְּנָפַל שָׁמָּה שׁוֹר, דָּא דִּכְתִיב בְּיוֹסֵף, (דברים ל״ג:י״ז) בְּכוֹר שׁוֹרוֹ הָדָר לוֹ. דְּאִתְּמַר בֵּיהּ, (בראשית ל״ז:כ״ד) וַיַּשְׁלִיכוּ אוֹתוֹ הַבּוֹרָה. נוּקְבָּא בִּישָׁא. וְהַבּוֹר רֵק, דְּכוּרָא (נ"א דבורא), רֵק בְּלָא תּוֹרָה, אֲבָל נְחָשִׁים וְעַקְרַבִּים יֵשׁ בּוֹ. וְדָא גָּלוּתָא רְבִיעָאָה, דּוֹר דִּרְשָׁעִים מָלֵא נְחָשִׁים וְעַקְרַבִּים, רַמָּאִים כִּנְחָשִׁים וְעַקְרַבִּים, דְּעַקְרִין מִלֵּי דְּרַבָּנָן, וְדַיְינִין לְשַׁקְרָא, עָלַיְיהוּ אִתְּמַר, (איכה א׳:ה׳) הָיוּ צָרֶיהָ לְרֹאשׁ.
[The fourth exile] is called a pit where an ox has fallen. This is why it is written of Yosef, "The firstling of his herd, grandeur is his" (Deut. 33:17), of him it says, "And they...cast him into a pit" (Gen. 37:24), which is the female; "and the pit was empty" is the male, which is empty, without Torah, but with snakes and scorpions in it. This is the fourth exile, which is a generation of evil people, filled with snakes and scorpions that are scoundrels like snakes and who are scorpions (akrabim) since they uprooted (akru) the words of the sages and give false judgments. Of them it says, "Her adversaries have become the chief" (Eichah 1:5). "And he looked this way and that, and when he saw that there was no man" (Shemot 2:12) of Yisrael among the wicked mixed multitude. This will be at the end of exile. And because of that the end, the time of redemption bores all the way to the great abyss. And the Faithful Shepherd: Tehom [abyss see Gen. 1:2] is Hamavet [the death'] spelled backwards, and death is no other than poverty. It has been clarified up high, before the Tannaim and Amoraim, that they will all descend for your sake into the deep [the fourth exile], to help you.
Zohar — Vocalized Zohar, Israel 2013, via Sefaria
English: Sefaria Community Translation (CC0)
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