זוהר, ויצא י׳Zohar, Vayetzei 10

Segment 1א׳

(שם) וַיִּיקַץ יַעֲקֹב מִשְּׁנָתוֹ וַיֹּאמֶר אָכֵן יֵשׁ ה' בַּמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה וְאָנֹכִי לא יָדַעְתִּי. וְכִי תְּוָוהָא הוּא דְּלָא יָדַע. אֶלָּא מַאי וְאָנֹכִי לא יָדָעְתִּי, כְּמָה דְאַתְּ אָמֵר, (שמואל א י״ג:י״ב) וּפְנִי ה' לא חִלִּיתִי. אָמַר, וְכִי כָּל הַאי אִתְגְּלִי לִי וְלָא אִסְתַּכַּלְנָא לְמִנְדַע אָנֹכִי, וּלְמֵיעַל תְּחוֹת גַּדְפֵי דִשְׁכִינְתָּא לְמֶהֱוֵי שְׁלִים.

AND JACOB AWARENED OUT OF HIS SLEEP, AND HE SAID: SURELY THE LORD IS IN THIS PLACE, AND I KNEW IT NOT. How, we may ask, could he have known? The truth is, however, that he meant much the same as Saul when he said: “and I have not entreated the Presence of the Lord” (I Sam. 13, 12). What Jacob really said was: “And I have not known Anokhi (I, i.e. the Shekinah)”; as much as to say: “Behold all this revelation has been vouchsafed to me whilst yet I have not reached the stage of a knowledge of Anokhi (I) and of entering under the wings of the Shekinah, so as to attain perfection”.

Segment 2ב׳

תָּא חֲזֵי, כְּתִיב, (בראשית כ״ה:כ״ב) וַתֹּאמֶר אִם כֵּן לָמָּה זֶה אָנֹכִי, כָּל יוֹמָא וְיוֹמָא חָמַאת רִבְקָה נְהוֹרָא דִשְׁכִינְתָּא, דְּהַוְיָא שְׁכִינְתָּא בְּמִשְׁכְּנָהָא וְצַלִּיאַת תַּמָּן. כֵּיוָן דְּחָמַאת עָאקוּ דִּילָהּ בִּמְעָהָא, מַה כְּתִיב וַתֵּלֶךְ לִדְרשׁ אֶת ה', נָפְקַת מִדַּרְגָּא דָא לְדַרְגָּא אָחֳרָא דְּאִיהוּ הוי"ה. בְּגִינֵי כָךְ אָמַר יַעֲקֹב, וְכִי כָּל כָּךְ חָמֵינָא, וְאָנֹכִי לֹא יָדַעְתִּי, בְּגִין דְּהֲוָה בִּלְחוֹדוֹי וְלָא עָאל תְּחוֹת גַּדְפֵי דִשְׁכִינְתָּא.

Similarly, Rebekah said: “If it be so, what boots me Anokhi (I)?” (Gen. 25, 22), because she saw every day the splendour of the Shekinah, but when she felt the pains of approaching childbirth, “she went to enquire of the Lord” (Ibid.), that is, she proceeded from the Shekinah grade to another grade, identical with the Lord (TETRAGRAMMATON). Hence Jacob said: “Have I seen all this without knowing Anokhi?”, because he was single, and had not yet come under the wings of the Shekinah.

Segment 3ג׳

מִיָּד (בראשית כ״ח:י״ז) וַיִּירָא וַיֹּאמַר מַה נּוֹרָא הַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה. מִלָּה דָא לִתְרֵין סִטְרִין אִיהוּ. מַה נּוֹרָא הַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה, חַד עַל הַהוּא מָקוֹם דְּקָאֲמַר בְּקַדְמִיתָא. וְחַד עַל אָת קַיָּימָא קַדִּישָׁא דְּלָא בַּעְיָא לְאִתְבַּטָּלָא.

Straightway: AND HE WAS AFRAID, AND SAID: HOW FULL OF AWE IS THIS PLACE. The word “place” here has a twofold significance. It refers in the first instance to the place mentioned by Jacob in the preceding verse; but it also refers to the mark of the holy covenant, which should not be left inoperative.