Daily Zohar # 5266 – beresheet-b – Where converts placed in the Garden of Eden

Hebrew translation:

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Zohar beresheet-b
Continued from previous DZ
#11
And there, there is one opening that goes down opposite the opening of Gehinnom. From there the converts look at all those wicked ones, worshipers of idolatry, who did not convert and did not enter into the sign of the holy covenant. And they are driven out by destroying angels who drive them with burning fire. And the converts see and rejoice that they converted and were saved from this hard judgment. “טרד” (Aramaic) means “he drives out,” for in the verse “כַּיָּם נִגְרָשׁ” (“like the driven sea,” Isaiah 57:20) the Targum translates it as “like a sea that is driven.” Likewise (in Exodus 11), for “drive out,” Jonathan (a Torah Commentator) translates “to drive out.”
Notes:
From this hall an opening looks toward Gehinnom. The souls of converts see the idolaters who never entered the covenant being driven by destroying angels, and they rejoice that conversion saved them from that judgment.
#12
And three times a day they shine from the upper light and delight there. And he hints, by this, to the three upper lights drawn in this hall. For just as there are three aspects — Netzach- Hod- Yessod, Chessed- Gevurah- Tiferet, and the three upper ones (ג” ר) — in the halls as a whole, so there are these three aspects in each and every hall. And the first aspect, Netzach- Hod- Yessod in this hall, is “upper lights to look at, and the souls of those converts…” And the second aspect, Chessed- Gevurah- Tiferet, is the lights of precious stone and gold. And the third aspect, the three upper ones, is what it says here, “and three times a day…” And above them sit Obadiah the convert, Onkelos the convert, and the rest of the converts who are important like them, who converted. Like this was explained in this hall that is in the lower Garden of Eden, so is also the quality of the lower hall in the upper Garden of Eden, where the souls rise at the time that they can rise to be crowned there, that is, after they have been a sufficient time in the lower Garden of Eden, as above.
Notes:
This hall has three inner levels: Netzach- Hod- Yessod(נה” י) for the converts’ looking, Chessed- Gevurah- Tiferet (חג” ת) as stone and gold, and the three upper ones that shine three times a day. Distinguished converts such as Obadiah and Onkelos sit above. The same order exists in the matching lower hall of the upper Garden of Eden, to which souls rise after their time below.

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