Daily Zohar # 5285 – Vayera – When they were created, for Abraham

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Zohar Vayera
Continued from previous DZ
#207
Rabbi Elazar said, Here for an individual and here for a community. For an individual there is a change of times, and for a community it is always in mercy, even when He sits in judgment. Here for one place there is a change of times, and here for the whole world it is always in mercy, and it does not change. And therefore He blessed Abraham at the time that He was in judgment on Sodom, for he is weighed against the whole world. As it is written, “אֵלֶּה תוֹלְדוֹת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְהָאָרֶץ בְּהִבָּרְאָם” “These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created” (Genesis 2:4). And we have learned that “when they were created”(בְּהִבָּרְאָם) is the letters of  “in Abraham,”(בְּאַבְרָהָם) for for his sake the world was created. Thus he is weighed as the whole world.
Notes:
For an individual or one place there can be a change of times, but for a community and for the whole world it is always in mercy, even in judgment. Abraham was blessed while judgment rested on Sodom, because he is weighed against the whole world. The verse “when they were created” contains the letters of “in Abraham,” for the world was created for his sake.
#208
“Will be” “יִהְיֶה” is in gematria thirty. Thus we have learned: thirty righteous ones the Holy One, blessed be He, prepared for the world, to be in every generation, as He prepared Abraham. That is, as it is written, “These are the generations… when they were created,” which was explained to be the letters of “in Abraham,” for his sake the world was created. And it says that so in every generation there are thirty righteous ones for whose sake the world was created, as it was created for the sake of Abraham.
Notes:
“Will be” “יִהְיֶה” equals thirty in gematria. Thirty righteous ones are prepared in every generation, for whose sake the world stands, as it was created for Abraham.

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