Daily Zohar # 5301 – Toldot – I will not let you go unless you bless me

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Zohar Toldot
From where do we have this? For it is written, “וַיֹּאמֶר שַׁלְּחֵנִי כִּי עָלָה הַשָּׁחַר וַיֹּאמֶר לֹא אֲשַׁלֵּחֲךָ כִּי אִם בֵּרַכְתָּנִי” “And he said, Let me go, for the dawn has risen. And he said, I will not let you go unless you bless me” (Genesis 32:27). “And he said, Let me go,” he, because Jacob held him. And he asks, “How can a man who is flesh and blood hold an angel, who is actual spirit?” As it is written, “עֹשֶׂה מַלְאָכָיו רוּחוֹת מְשָׁרְתָיו אֵשׁ לֹהֵט” “He makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flaming fire” (Psalms 104:4).
Notes:
Jacob held the angel and would not let him go until he blessed him. How can flesh and blood hold an angel who is spirit, as the verse says that He makes His angels spirits and His ministers a flaming fire?
#163
And he answers: Rather, it is heard from here that the angels, the messengers of the Holy One, blessed be He, when they descend to this world, they are wrapped, and they wrap themselves and are clothed in a body, in the likeness of this world, because so it is fitting to be, not to change from the custom of the place to which he went.
Notes:
When angels descend to this world, they wrap themselves and are clothed in a body like this world, so as not to change from the custom of the place.

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