Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 5
Riding on a Cherub and Shall Fly
922) It is written, “And I will make mere lads their princes, and capricious children will rule over them.” It is also written, “And you shall make two cherubim of gold.” Matat and Sandalfon are called “lads.” It is written, “Who sits with the cherubim.” It is also written, “And He rode on a cherub and flew.” Is there only one Cherub? “Who sits with the cherubim” is when the Creator is present to dwell with them in wholeness. Then it is written, “Who sits with the cherubim,” when He settles on both of them together. When the King is not sitting in the chair, when there is no coupling above between ZON, it is written, “And He rode on a cherub,” one, since the King, ZA, did not sit in this chair, Malchut. But “Who sits with the cherubim” means two.
