30-31) Rabbi Shimon said, \u201cI am surprised at the people of the world, who have no eyes to see or a heart to notice, and who do not know nor pay attention to looking into their Master\u2019s will. How are they asleep and not rising from their sleep before that day comes when darkness and murkiness cover them, and the creditor collects their debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe herald calls on them each day and their soul testifies to them each day and night, and the Torah raises voices to all sides, saying, \u2018Until when will fools love foolishness?\u2019 \u2018Whoever is a fool, let him come here. \u2018Heartless,\u2019 she said to him, \u2018Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine that I have mixed,\u2019\u2019 but there is no one to lend an ear or awaken his heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
32) In the last generations that will come, the Torah will be forgotten from them and the heartless will gather to their place, and there will be no one to close or open in the Torah. Woe unto that generation. Henceforth, there will not be such as that generation until the generation when the Messiah comes and knowledge awakens in the world, as it is written, \u201cFor they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
38-40) There are times for finding favor in the Creator, for finding blessings, and for making pleas. And there are times when there is no favor, blessings do not come, and harsh Dinim<\/em> awaken in the world. Sometimes the Din<\/em> persists. There are times in the year when the favor is present, and times in the year when the Din<\/em> is present. There are times in the year when the Din<\/em> is present and persists and threatens the world but does not operate. There are times in the month when there is favor, and times when there are Dinim<\/em>, which persist over everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are times in the week when there is favor, and there are times in the week when there are Dinim<\/em> in the world. There are times in days when the favor is present in the world and the world is perfumed, and there are days when Dinim<\/em> persist and exist. There are different times even in an hour. This is why it is written, \u201cAnd a time for will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 65-66) \u201cHow good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity, as well.\u201d These are the friends, as they sit together inseparably. At first, they seem like people at war, wishing to kill each other. Then they return to a state of brotherly love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Creator, what does He say about them? \u201cHow good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity, as well.\u201d The words, \u201cas well\u201d indicate the presence of Divinity with them. Moreover, the Creator listens to their words and He is pleased and content with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And you, the friends who are here, as you were in fondness and love before, you will not part henceforth, until the Creator rejoices with you and summons peace upon you. And by your merit there will be peace in the world. This is the meaning of the words, \u201cFor the sake of my brothers and my friends let me say, \u2018Let peace be in you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 92) \u201cMy dove, in the clefts of the rock,\u201d in the concealment of the degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My dove is the Assembly of Israel, Malchut<\/em>. As a dove never leaves her mate, the Assembly of Israel never leaves the Creator. \u201cIn the clefts of the rock\u201d are disciples of the wise, who are not at rest in this world. As they hide themselves from their enemies in the clefts of the rocks, in the concealment of the degree, the humble disciples of the wise, who hide their degree from people, among whom are pious, who fear the Creator, from whom Divinity never parts. Then the Creator demanded of the Assembly of Israel for them and said, \u201cLet me see your looks; let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet,\u201d since no sound is heard above but the sound of those engaging in Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 94) \u201cThat which is has been already, and that which will be has already been.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat which is has been already.\u201d Before the Creator created this world, He was creating worlds and destroying them, which is the breaking of the vessels, until the Creator desired to create this world and consulted with the Torah, who is the middle line. Then He corrected in His corrections, crowned in His crowns, and created this world. All that was in this world was at that time in front of Him, at the time of creation, and was corrected before Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 95) Before the leaders of the world in each generation came to the world, they all were before the Creator in their forms. Even all those souls of people, until they come to the world, they are all engraved before Him in the firmament in their very form of this world, and all that they learn in this world, they know everything before they come to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 96) At the time of the creation of the souls, while they were still above, before they came to this world under time, they were in eternity, above time, when present and future act at once, as is the nature of eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It follows that all the deeds that the souls will do one at a time when they come into this world are already there at once, as their actions in this world, since all the Torah that they will learn in this world during the days of their lives is already there entirely, and all their evil works are already depicted in their souls. And as they will cast the part of Kedusha <\/em>in this world, likewise there. If they are destined to sin in this world and repent one at a time, it is depicted above at once, as is the nature of eternity, that this, too, is already depicted there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 99) All true righteous, before they come into this world, they are all corrected above and are called by names. Since the day the Creator created the world, Rabbi Shimon was ready before the Creator and was with Him, and the Creator called him by his name. Happy is he above and below. It is written about him, \u201cLet your father and your mother be glad,\u201d \u201cYour father\u201d being the Creator and \u201cYour mother\u201d being the Assembly of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 115) Happy are Israel more than all the idol-worshipping nations for the Creator wishes to purify them and have mercy on them, for they are His lot and inheritance, as it is written, \u201cFor the portion of the Lord is His people.\u201d They unite above, in ZA<\/em>, hence the love of the Creator clings to them, as it is written, \u201cI have loved you, says the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 144) Anyone who has been rewarded with the Torah and satiates his soul with it, the Creator declares several benefits for him, to benefit him in this world and in the next world, as it is written, \u201cAnd a good rumor.\u201d From which place is it good? \u201cFrom a faraway land,\u201d for initially, the Creator was far from him, for he was hateful of him at first, from that place he is greeted, as it is written, \u201cFrom afar the Lord appeared unto me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 155-156) When half the night is through, all those who engage in Torah unite with Divinity. When the morning comes and the queen, Divinity, bonds with the king, ZA<\/em>, they are with the king and the king spreads his wings over all of them, as it is written, \u201cBy day the Lord will command grace [Hesed<\/em>], and at night, His song is with me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the morning rises, the patriarchs, HGT <\/em>de <\/em>ZA<\/em>, come with the queen and rush to speak with her and bond with her. And in them the Creator, ZA<\/em>, speaks with her and calls her to spread His wings over her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 174-175) \u201cGod, God the Lord has spoken and called the earth.\u201d \u201cGod, God the Lord\u201d are HGT<\/em>, the wholeness of everything. \u201cSpoken\u201d means bestowal. \u201cEarth\u201d is Malchut<\/em>, to be in the Assembly of Israel in wholeness, in joy, from Yesod <\/em>de <\/em>Malchut<\/em>, called Zion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the Creator wished to create the lower world, He made it as perfect as above. He made Jerusalem the middle of the whole earth, and a place on it, called Zion, Yesod<\/em>, a place from which it is blessed. From that place of Zion, the world began to be built, and from it, it was built. \u201cOut of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God appeared.\u201d That is, \u201cOut of Zion,\u201d who is \u201cThe perfection of beauty,\u201d of the world, \u201cGod appeared.\u201d Jerusalem, Malchut<\/em>, was blessed only from Zion, Yesod<\/em>, and Zion was blessed from above, ZA<\/em>. Everything connects one in one, ZA<\/em> and Malchut<\/em>, one in one, unite through Zion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 206-208) \u201cAs the deer yearns for the water brooks, my soul yearns for You, O God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Happy are Israel more than all the nations because the Creator has given them the holy Torah and has inherited them holy souls from a holy place to do His commandments and to delight in the Torah. Anyone who delights in the Torah is afraid of nothing, as it is written, \u201cWere Your law [Torah] not my delight, I would be lost in my affliction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy delight\u201d is the Torah, for the Torah is called \u201cdelights,\u201d as it is written, \u201cAnd I will be delighted day by day.\u201d We learned that the Creator comes to delight in the Garden of Eden, to delight so He would rejoice in them. Happy are the righteous, of whom it is written, \u201cThen shall you delight in the Lord,\u201d to be delighted with that potion of the stream, which is Bina<\/em>. It seems that the Creator delights in them from that potion of the stream in which the righteous delight. This is why He comes to be delighted with the righteous, and anyone who engages in Torah is rewarded with being delighted with the righteous from that potion of the stream that is Bina<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs the deer yearns by the water brooks.\u201d This is the Assembly of Israel, Malchut<\/em>. \u201cYearns by the water brooks\u201d means to be given the potion of the spring of the stream, Bina<\/em>, by the righteous, Yesod<\/em>, will yearn. \u201cSo my soul yearns for You, O God,\u201d to be watered by You in this world and in the next world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 216) A person needs to worship the Creator in wholeness, \u201cAnd you shall love the Lord your God.\u201d He should love the Creator truly with his soul. This is complete love, love of his soul and spirit. As they, the soul and the spirit, clung in a body, and the body loves them, so should man love the Creator and cleave to Him, as the love of his soul and spirit, as it is written, \u201cMy soul, I have desired you at night,\u201d truly my soul, clothed in a body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 217-218) \u201cWith my spirit within me have I sought You,\u201d that I may cling to You with great love in the night. A man should rise each night out of love of the Creator to engage in His work until the morning rises and draws upon him a thread of grace [Hesed<\/em>]. Happy is a man who loves the Creator with this love. Those true righteous who love the Creator so, the world exists because of them and they govern all the harsh decrees above and below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That righteous one who clings above to the holy king with his spirit and soul\u2014with love as it should be\u2014rules the earth below, and everything he sentences for the world comes true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 244-245) Before the Creator created the world, He created repentance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Creator said to repentance, Bina<\/em>, \u201cI wish to create man in the world provided that if they return to you from their iniquities you will be willing to pardon their iniquities and atone them.\u201d Each and every hour, repentance is ready for people. When people repent from their iniquities, this repentance, Bina<\/em>, returns to the Creator giving Mochin <\/em>to ZA<\/em> and atones for everything. Then the Dinim<\/em> surrender and all are perfumed, and the man is purified from his iniquities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When is one purified from his iniquity? When he properly enters repentance. When he repents before the upper king and prays a prayer from the bottom of the heart, as it is written, \u201cFrom the depths I have called You, O Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 245) Happy are the righteous in this world and in the next world, for they are all holy. Their Guf<\/em> [body] is holy, their Nefesh<\/em> [soul] is holy, their Ruach<\/em> [spirit] is holy, and their Neshama<\/em> [soul] is holy of holies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 368) Woe unto people for they are all obtuse and blind, and do not know nor hear or notice how they are in the world. But there is counsel and healing before them, yet they do not look because people can be saved only by the counsel of the Torah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 391) Happy are the righteous in this world and in the next world, for the Creator desires their glory and discloses to them high secrets of His holy Name, which He did not disclose to the high and holy angels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 412) It is written, \u201cOne thing I have asked of the Lord, that shall I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the pleasantness of the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Happy are the righteous, for whom several high treasures are hidden in that world, Bina<\/em>, for the Creator plays with them in those worlds, for which He asked to behold the pleasantness of the Lord, the illumination of Atik<\/em> extended in Bina<\/em>. \u201cBut in a flood of great waters they will not reach him,\u201d indicating lights of Atik<\/em>, who is unattainable. However, there are righteous who are rewarded with that, as well. This means that there are righteous who are rewarded with the light of Atik<\/em>, as it is written, \u201cNeither has the eye seen a God besides You, will do for he who waits for Him.\u201d \u201cWill do\u201d implies Atik<\/em> because life extends from luck, from Dikna <\/em>de <\/em>Atik<\/em>. Thus, they can receive and draw abundance from Atik<\/em>, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New Zohar, Aharei Mot<\/em> [After the Death]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 51-54) \u201cMy beloved went down to his garden, to the beds of perfume, to pasture in the gardens and to gather lilies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n All the songs are holy, and the Song of Songs is the holy of holies. The Assembly of Israel, Malchut<\/em>, praises the Creator and says to Him: \u201cMy beloved,\u201d as it is written, \u201cMy beloved is white and ruddy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n When it is midnight, a flame awakens and comes under the wings of the rooster, who calls. At that time the Creator goes down to His garden, which is the upper Garden of Eden, and at that time the rooster above awakens and says, \u201cArise, all who have sleep in the holes of their eyes. It is time for the deer, Malchut<\/em>, to unite with her husband, ZA<\/em>.\u201d Happy is a man who rises at midnight to engage in Torah, for the Creator and all the righteous listen to his voice, as it is written, \u201cYou who sits in the garden, friends are listening to your voice, let me hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n At that time, a thread of grace is poured over one who engages in Torah, and at that time the Creator goes down to His garden, Malchut<\/em>. \u201cHe went down to the beds of perfume.\u201d Perfumes are illumination of Hochma<\/em>. Rosh<\/em> [head] is GAR<\/em>, and those righteous who have those Mochin <\/em>of perfumes of the Rosh<\/em> are called \u201cthe beds of perfume.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTo pasture in the gardens,\u201d in two gardens, the Garden of Eden of above, Bina<\/em>, and in the Garden of Eden of below, in Malchut<\/em>. They are called \u201cthis world,\u201d Malchut<\/em>, and \u201cthe next world,\u201d Bina<\/em>. \u201cTo gather lilies\u201d means the righteous who engage in Torah, whose lips whisper the Torah. It is written, \u201clilies\u201d; do not pronounce as Shoshanim<\/em> [lilies], but as Sheshonim<\/em> [repeating], for they repeatedly delve in the Torah. That is, even in the grave their lips whisper the Torah. It is said about them, \u201cTo gather lilies,\u201d that he gathers them from this world prematurely so they would not sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 64) There are three \u201cI will be.\u201d \u201cI will be with you in the first exile.\u201d It was said, \u201cWhen they exiled into Egypt, Divinity was with them.\u201d And \u201cI will be with you in the second exile.\u201d It was said, \u201cWhen they exiled into Babel, Divinity was with them.\u201d And \u201cI will be with you in the third exile.\u201d It was said, \u201cWhen they exiled into Greece, Divinity was with them.\u201d He did not reveal to them the \u201cI will be\u201d of the fourth exile.\u201d Rather, \u201cIn its time, I will hasten it.\u201d If they are rewarded, I will hasten it. 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