Daily Zohar # 1826 – Bamidbar – ‘Reapers of the field’

Daily Zohar 1826

Daily Zohar 1826

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Zohar Bamidbar

Isaiah 52:2
“הִתְנַעֲרִי מֵעָפָר קוּמִי שְּׁבִי, יְרוּשָׁלִָם; התפתחו (הִתְפַּתְּחִי) מוֹסְרֵי צַוָּארֵךְ, שְׁבִיָּה בַּת-צִיּוֹן.”
“Shake yourself from the dust, rise up and sit Jerusalem; Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.”

As we studied in DZ 1823 Jerusalem is the aspect of Malchut that when the Redemption comes it will no longer be with the negative side. The neck is the aspect of the Holy Temple. It connects the body (Malchut, vessel) to the head (upper three Sefirot, Life force). Without it the body (the entire world) is in darkness.

Zohar Vayigash #90, 94 (I suggest reading paragraphs #88 -#96)
90. צַוָּארֵךָ, דָּא בֵּית מַקְדְּשָׁא דִלְתַתָּא, דְּאִיהוּ קָאִים בְּתִקּוּנָא דְּשַׁפִּירוּ, כְּקַדְלָא לְגוּפָא. מַה צַּוָּאר, אִיהוּ שַׁפִּירוּ דְּכָל גּוּפָא, הָכִי נָמֵי בֵּי מַקְדְּשָׁא, אִיהוּ שַׁפִּירוּ דְּכָל עַלְמָא.
90. צַוָּארֵךְ – זֶה בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ שֶׁלְּמַטָּה, שֶׁעוֹמֵד בְּתִקּוּן שֶׁל יֹפִי כְּצַוָּאר לַגּוּף. מָה הַצַּוָּאר הוּא הַיֹּפִי שֶׁל כָּל הַגּוּף – כָּךְ גַּם בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ הוּא הַיֹּפִי שֶׁל כָּל הָעוֹלָם.

94. מַה צַּוָּאר, כֵּיוָן דְּאִשְׁתֵּצֵי, כָּל גּוּפָא אִשְׁתֵּצֵי עִמֵּיהּ. הָכִי נָמֵי בֵּי מַקְדְּשָׁא, כֵּיוָן דְּאִיהוּ אִשְׁתֵּצֵי וְאִתְחַשַּׁךְ, כָּל עַלְמָא הָכִי נָמֵי אִתְחַשַּׁךְ, וְלָא נָהִיר שִׁמְשָׁא, וְלָא שְׁמַיָא וְאַרְעָא וְכֹכְבַיָא.

see also Song of Songs 7:5

‘Daughter of Zion’ is Jerusalem and Malchut

Isaiah 55:12
“כִּי-בְשִׂמְחָה תֵצֵאוּ, וּבְשָׁלוֹם תּוּבָלוּן; הֶהָרִים וְהַגְּבָעוֹת, יִפְצְחוּ לִפְנֵיכֶם רִנָּה, וְכָל-עֲצֵי הַשָּׂדֶה, יִמְחֲאוּ-כָף.”
“”For you will go out with joy And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.”
The prophecy tells us that when the Light comes to unify Zion and Jerusalem, we will go out of exile with joy. The mountains are the aspect of the patriarchs, and the hills are the aspect of the matriarchs.
The trees of the fields in the verse refer to those who achieved connection to the Tree of Life when they were at the level of Malchut. They reveal the secrets of the Torah and benefit from the revealed Light.

Rabbi Shimon uses the term ‘reapers of the field’ in the first paragraph of the study of the Idra Rabba. (find it inside Zohar Naso).

The field is Malchut that God created for us to work on (Genesis 2:3 “created to make”). We are born to work the field and bring out fruits. On the spiritual level we use the Zohar as a tool to dig out ‘fruits’ from the Torah. The study of the verse above reveals its concealed secrets and is an example of ‘reaping the field’. This is the essence of ‘To Receive’ in word Kabbalah.

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