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The Zohar · Terumah

זוהר, תרומה ט׳Zohar, Terumah 9

Section 9 of 98 in Terumah — 17 segments

Segment 1א׳

וּכְתִיב (תהילים נ״ה:י״ח) עֶרֶב וָבֹקֶר וְצָהֳרַיִם וְגוֹ', הַאי קְרָא אוּקְמוּהָ וְאִתְּמַר, אֲבָל הָכָא עִדָּן עִדָנִין הוּא דִּצְלוֹתָא דְּכָל יוֹמָא. וְחַבְרַיָּיא אִתְּעָרוּ בְּהָנֵי תְּלַת זִמְנִין. עֶרֶב, דָּא הִיא אַסְפָּקָלַרְיָאה דְּלָא נָהֲרָא. וָבֹקֶר, דָּא הִיא אַסְפָּקָלַרְיָאה דְּנָהֲרָא. וְצָהֳרַיִם, (לאו האי אתר דאקרי חשך, אלא אתר איהו דקיימא בין האי להאי, אבל זמנא דצלותא דמנחה) אֲתָר דְּאִתְקְרֵי חֹשֶׁךְ אִיהוּ, דְּאָחִיד בַּעֶרֶב, וְקַיְּימָא דָּא עִם דָּא.

It is written: “Morning and evening and at noon will I pray and cry aloud ” (Ps. 55, 17). We have referred on another occasion to this verse. It speaks of three seasons for prayer, and the companions have interpreted the significance of the three times in the following way’ “Evening” is the mirror which has no radiance, “morning” the radiant mirror, while “noon” is symbolic of a place which should properly be called “darkness”, because it adjoins the evening, only it is designated by the very opposite by a certain elegance of language,

Segment 2ב׳

וּמַה דְּאִתְּמַר צָהֳרַיִם, דְּאִיהוּ תּוּקְפָּא דְּשִׁמְשָׁא. לִישָׁנָא מַעַלְיָא נָקַט. וְהָכִי אִיהוּ אָרְחָא, לְבַר נָשׁ אוּכָם, קָרָאן לֵיהּ חִוָּור, וְלִישָׁנָא מַעַלְיָא נָקַט, וּלְזִמְנִין לְחִוָּור קָרָאן לֵיהּ אוּכָם, דִּכְתִּיב, (במדבר י״ב:א׳) כִּי אִשָּׁה כּוּשִׁית לָקָח (עמוס ט׳:ז׳) הֲלֹא כִבְנֵי כוּשִׁיִּים אַתֶּם לִי וְגוֹ'.

just as, on occasion, black is called white, while sometimes white is called black; we read, for instance, of Moses’ wife that she was black (Num. 12, 1), and Israel are compared to the Aethiopians (Amos 9, 7).

Segment 3ג׳

עֶרֶב דָּא, צְלוֹתָא דְּעַרְבִית. וּבְגִין דִּבְעֶרֶב דָּא אִתְעֲרָב בֵּיהּ סִטְרָא אַחֲרָא, דְּחָשִׁיךְ נְהוֹרֵיהּ, וְשָׁלְטָא בְּלֵילְיָא, שַׁוּוּ לֵיהּ רְשׁוּת, וְלֵית לֵיהּ זְמַן קָבֻעַ, (קמ"א ע"א, קס"ב ע"א) אֵמוּרִין וּפְדָרִין מִתְאַכְּלִין בְּהַאי זִמְנָא, וּמִכָּאן אִתְּזָנוּ כַּמָּה חֲבִילֵי טְהִירִין, דְּנָפְקִין וְשַׁלְטִין בְּלֵילְיָא.

The evening prayer is not obligatory, and there is no fixed time for it, because the evening is influenced by the “other side”, which is dark and rules by night. The limbs and fatty portions of sacrifices used to be burnt on the altar in the evening, and from that moment numbers of groups of demons which issue and have sway by night receive their nourishment.

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Zohar — Vocalized Zohar, Israel 2013, via Sefaria

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