Daily Zohar # 3528 – Vayigash – Refrain your voice from weeping, Rachel
Hebrew translation:
103. וְהַקֹּל נִשְׁמַע, לְמַעְלָה לְמַעְלָה. מָה הַטַּעַם? מִשּׁוּם שֶׁוָּא”ו הִתְרַחֵק וְהִסְתַּלֵּק מִמֶּנָּה, וְאָז רָחֵל מְבַכָּה עַל בָּנֶיהָ מֵאֲנָה לְהִנָּחֵם עַל בָּנֶיהָ כִּי אֵינֶנּוּ. כִּי אֵינֶנּוּ? כִּי אֵינָם צָרִיךְ הָיָה לִהְיוֹת! אֶלָּא כִּי אֵינֶנּוּ, וְהִנֵּה בֵּאַרְנוּ כִּי אֵינֶנּוּ, שֶׁבַּעְלָהּ לֹא נִמְצָא עִמָּהּ, שֶׁאִלְמָלֵא הָיָה בַּעְלָהּ נִמְצָא עִמָּהּ, תִּתְנַחֵם עֲלֵיהֶם, שֶׁהֲרֵי אָז בָּנֶיהָ לֹא יִהְיוּ בַּגָּלוּת, וּמִשּׁוּם שֶׁאֵינֶנּוּ, אֵינָהּ מִתְנַחֶמֶת עַל בָּנֶיהָ, מִשּׁוּם שֶׁבָּנֶיהָ הִתְרַחֲקוּ מִמֶּנָּה עַל שֶׁאֵינֶנּוּ עִמָּהּ.
104. בֹּא רְאֵה, בֵּית פַּרְעֹה – זֶה הוּא סִימָן לַדָּבָר לְמַעְלָה, הַבַּיִת שֶׁנִּפְרָעִים וּמִתְגַּלִּים מִמֶּנּוּ כָּל הָאוֹרוֹת וְכָל הַמְּאוֹרוֹת, כָּל מַה שֶּׁהָיָה סָתוּם מִשָּׁם הִתְגַּלָּה, וּמִשּׁוּם כָּךְ הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא הוֹצִיא אֶת כָּל הָאוֹרוֹת וְכָל הַמְּאוֹרוֹת, כְּדֵי לְהָאִיר לְאוֹתוֹ הַקּוֹל שֶׁנִּקְרָא קֹל בְּלִי וָא”ו.
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Zohar Vayigash
#102
The voice that is ‘קֹל’ (voice) without Vav וא”ו is Joseph’s voice that cried for the destruction of the first and second Holy Temples.
Jeremiah 31:14
“כֹּה אָמַר יְהוָה קוֹל בְּרָמָה נִשְׁמָע נְהִי בְּכִי תַמְרוּרִים רָחֵל מְבַכָּה עַל בָּנֶיהָ מֵאֲנָה לְהִנָּחֵם עַל בָּנֶיהָ כִּי אֵינֶנּוּ.”
“Thus says YHVH: “A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted for her children, Because he is no more (אֵינֶנּוּ).”
‘Ramah’ ‘רמה’ means an elevated place. It refers to the supernal Jerusalem, which is Binah, where the voice is heard.
Because Zeir Anpin is not with us, it is said; Isaiah 22:12
“And in that day YHVH GOD of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girded with sackcloth.”
#103
The voice is sounded above because the ואו, Zeir Anpin distanced himself from Malchut. Rachel, who represents Malchut, is weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted for her children because he is no more. The verse refers to her children that is a plural form and says ‘because he is no more’ ‘אֵינֶנּוּ’ in a singular form. It implies that Malchut is without her husband, Zeir Anpin, who is represented by the letter ואו.
She refuses to be comforted because her children are away in Exile.
If her husband was with her, the children would stay with her and won’t be in exile.
#104
The ‘House of Pharaoh’ (Genesis 45:16) represents a spiritual place above, where lights and luminaries come out and are revealed in this world.
It tells us that when Joseph cried and the sound was heard in the ‘House of Pharaoh’, The Holy One Blessed be He, released all the Lights to illuminate the voice that was without the וא”ו.
Lesson;
Rachel and Leah ‘built’ the ‘house of Israel’. Rachel is closer to us and she is considered as the landlady. She keeps crying daily for our return home, and for that, the Holy One Blessed Be He, tells her; (Jeremiah 31:15)
“Thus says YHVH: “Refrain your voice from weeping, And your eyes from tears; For your work shall be rewarded, says YHVH, And they shall come back from the land of the enemy.”
We started seeing the return of the children to the Holy Land, and now we are waiting for the Light of Zeir Anpin that would be revealed in the world when Mashiach comes.
Until then we should cry daily for the lack of light that we experience every day. If we could feel for a moment the awesome Light of Zeir Anpin in this world we would not stop crying for losing it.
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