Daily Zohar # 5143 – Vayikra – Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel Your servants

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Zohar Vayikra
Continued from previous DZ
#295
Rabbi Yitzchak opened: “זְכֹר לְאַבְרָהָם לְיִצְחָק וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵל עֲבָדֶיךָ” “Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel Your servants” (Exodus 32:13).
This verse is difficult. It should have been written “לְאַבְרָהָם וּלְיִצְחָק וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵל” — what is the meaning that it is written “לְיִצְחָק” without a Vav?
And he answers: Rather, thus we have learned: In every place the left is included in the right, and is in the generality of the right, for this right is always rectified to include the left within it. And therefore it does not separate by writing “וּלְיִצְחָק,” for the Vav would have separated between Abraham and Isaac. To include Isaac, who is on the left, within Abraham, who is on the right, and because of this, it is written “לְאַבְרָהָם לְיִצְחָק” as one general term.
And afterward “וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵל” is the second general term, for he holds both of them by their wings — that is, through the concealment called “wings,” which emanates from the Masach of Chirik in the middle line, which is called Israel. He unifies the two lines — right and left — called Abraham and Isaac, and includes them together, and he is complete in everything.
Notes:
Rabbi Yitzchak explains the deliberate omission of the Vav before “Isaac” in Moshe’s prayer. This shows that Isaac (the left side, Gevurah) is not separate but fully included within Abraham (the right side, Chessed). The right side is always rectified to encompass and sweeten the left.
Israel (Tiferet, the middle line) then unifies both sides through the Masach of Chirik. By “holding them by their wings,” Israel completes the harmony between right and left, making the entire structure whole. The verse thus encodes the sefirot order: Chessed includes Gevurah, and Tiferet harmonizes both. Moshe invokes the patriarchs in this unified way to arouse complete mercy after the sin of the Golden Calf.

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