זוהר, פנחס קי״חZohar, Pinchas 118

Segment 1א׳

פָּתַח רַעְיָא מְהֵימָנָא, (ד"א רבי שמעון) וְאָמַר, כְּתִיב בְּפַרְשְׁתָּא דָּא, וְהִקְרַבְתֶּם אִשֶּׁה עוֹלָה לַיְיָ. וְאוֹקְמוּהָ, דְּעוֹלָה לָאִשִּׁים. וּבְגִין כָּךְ סָמַךְ עוֹלָה לְאִשֶּׁה. וְעוֹד אוֹקְמוּהָ, דְּלֵית עוֹלָה אַתְיָא אֶלָּא עַל הִרְהוּר הַלֵּב.

The Faithful Shepherd opened (a variant reads: R. Simeon) and said: It is written in this portion, “But you shall present a fire-offering (isheh), a burnt-offering to the Lord.” And they explained it: the burnt-offering is for the fires; and therefore burnt-offering is set beside fire-offering. And further they explained it: the burnt-offering comes only for the thought of the heart.

Segment 2ב׳

וַדַּאי, כָּל קָרְבְּנִין לָא אַתְיָין, אֶלָּא לְכַפְּרָא. כָּל קָרְבְּנָא וְקָרְבְּנָא, עַל כָּל אֵבָרִין דְּבַּר נָשׁ, כְּפוּם הַהוּא חֵטְא דְּהַהוּא אֵבֶר. עַל טִפִּין דְּמוֹחָא, (שמות י״ב:ל״ט) עוּגוֹת מַצּוֹת כִּי לֹא חָמֵץ. אִי זָרִיק טִפִּין קַדְמָאִין, קֹדֶם דְּאַחְמִיצּוּ, בַּאֲתָר דְּלָאו דִּילֵיהּ. וְעַל אִלֵּין דְּאַחְמִיצּוּ, וְזָרִיק לוֹן בַּאֲתָר דְּלָא אִצְּטְרִיךְ, צָּרִיךְ לְאַיְיתָאָה עָלַיְיהוּ לֶחֶם חָמֵץ, וְאִינּוּן לַחְמִי תּוֹדָה הָכִי הֲווֹ, מִנְּהוֹן חָמֵץ, וּמִנְּהוֹן מַצָּה. פָּרִים מִסִּטְרָא דְּדִינָא, כְּבָשִׂים וְאֵילִים וְעַתּוּדִים וְעִזִּים. בְּגִין דְּאִינּוּן אַנְפֵּי דְּשׁוֹר, כֻּלְּהוּ שְׁחִיטָתָן בַּצָּפוֹן, וְקִבּוּל דָּמָן בִּכְלֵי שָׁרֵת בַּצָּפוֹן.

Surely all the offerings come only to atone. Each and every offering is for all the limbs of a man, according to the sin of that limb. For the drops of the brain: “unleavened cakes, for it was not leavened” (Ex. 12, 39) — if he cast the first drops, before they had leavened, in a place that is not his. And for those that had leavened, and he cast them in a place where it was not needed, he must bring leavened bread for them; and the loaves of the thank-offering were thus: some of them leaven, and some of them matzah. Bullocks are from the side of judgement; lambs and rams and he-goats and goats — because they are the face of the ox — all of them are slaughtered in the north, and the receiving of their blood in vessels of ministry is in the north.

Segment 3ג׳

שְׁחִיטָה וְקַבָּלָה וּזְרִיקָה כֻּלָּם בַּצָּפוֹן. לְבַסְּמָא מִדַּת הַדִּין, דְּאָתֵי לְבֵית דִּין מִסִּטְרָא דִּגְבוּרָה. בֵּית דִּין הַגָּדוֹל מִסִּטְרָא דִּגְבוּרָה, דְּתַמָּן בִּינָה. בֵּית דִּין הַקָּטָן, מִסִּטְרָא דְּמַלְכוּת. וְכָל אִינּוּן שׁוֹפְכֵי דָּמִים לְמִצְּוָה, אִינּוּן מִסִּטְרָא דִּגְבוּרָה.

Slaughtering and receiving and sprinkling — all of them in the north: to sweeten the attribute of judgement, which comes to the court from the side of gevurah. The Great Court is from the side of gevurah, for binah is there; the Small Court is from the side of malchut. And all those who shed blood for a commandment are from the side of gevurah.