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The Zohar · Noach

זוהר, נח ט״זZohar, Noach 16

Section 16 of 44 in Noach — 12 segments

Segment 1א׳

(נדפס בפקודי רכא א, רסח ב) אָמַר רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אֲרֵימַת יְדָאי בִּצְלוֹתִין לְעֵילָא, דְּכַד רְעוּתָא עִלָּאָה לְעֵילָא לְעֵילָא קָיְימָא עַל הַהוּא רְעוּתָא דְּלָא אִתְיְדָע וְלֹא אִתְפַּס כְּלַל לְעָלְמִין רֵישָׁא דְּסָתִים יַתִּיר לְעֵילָא. וְהַהוּא רֵישָׁא אַפִּיק מַאי דְאַפִּיק וְלָא יְדִיעַ וְנָהִיר מַאי דְנָהִיר כֹּלָּא בִּסְתִימוּ.

R. Simeon said: ‘When praying, I raise my hand on high, that when my mind is concentrated on the highest, there is higher still that which can never be known or grasped, the starting-point that is absolutely concealed, that produced what it produced while remaining unknowable, and irradiated what it irradiated while remaining undisclosed.

Segment 2ב׳

רְעוֹ דְּמַחֲשָׁבָה עִלָּאָה לְמִרְדַּף אֲבַתְרֵיהּ וּלְאִתְנְהָרָא מִנֵּיהּ. חַד פְּרִיסוּ אִתְפְּרִיס. וּמִגּוֹ הַהוּא פְּרִיסָא בִּרְדִיפוּ דְּהַהִיא מַחֲשָׁבָה עִלָּאָה מָטֵי וְלָא מָטֵי עַד הַהוּא פְּרִיסָא נָהִיר מַה דְּנָהִיר. וּכְדֵין (ס"א ההוא) אִיהוּ מַחֲשָׁבָה עִלָּאָה נָהִיר בִּנְהִירוּ (בסתימו) סָתִים דְּלָא יְדִיעַ וְהַהוּא מַחֲשָׁבָה לָא יָדַע.

It is the desire of the upward-striving thought to pursue after this and to be illumined by it. In the process a certain fragment is detached, and from that fragment, through the pursuit of the upward-striving thought, which reaches and yet does not reach it, there is a certain illumination. The upward-striving thought is thus illumined by a light undisclosed and unknowable even to that thought.

Segment 3ג׳

כְּדֵין בָּטַשׁ הַאי נְהִירוּ דְּמַחֲשָׁבָה דְּלָא אִתְיְידַע בִּנְהִירוּ דְּפַרְסָא דְּקָיְימָא דְּנָהִיר מִמַּה דְּלָא יְדִיעַ וְלָא אִתְיְידַע וְלָא אִתְגַּלְיָיא. וּכְדֵין (נ"א האי) דָּא נְהִירוּ דְּמַחֲשָׁבָה דְּלָא אִתְיְידַע בָּטַשׁ בִּנְהִירוּ דִּפְרִיסָא וְנָהֲרִין כְּחֲדָא וְאִתְעֲבִידוּ תֵּשַׁע הֵיכָלִין.

That unknowable light of Thought impinges on the light of the detached fragment which radiates from the unknowable and undisclosed, so that they are fused into one light, from which are formed nine Palaces (Hekaloth).

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Zohar — Vocalized Zohar, Israel 2013, via Sefaria

English: The Zohar — Soncino Press, London 1933 (public domain)