Daily Zohar # 3536 – Shemot – A message from a ‘bird’

Daily Zohar 3536

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Zohar Shemot

#78
Rabbi Chiya said that thirty days before a decree or a crisis comes to the people, it is announced in the world. Sometimes through a child and sometimes through people with weak minds, and sometimes the message is delivered through the mouth of birds, and there is no one that can listen to them. When the people are righteous, the message is given to the top righteous of the world, so they would let the people repent and reconnect with Hashem.

#79
One day Rabbi Elazar was sitting by the gate of Lod, the city. With him was Rabbi Aba, Rabbi Yehuda, and Rabbi Yossi. Rabbi Yossi tells them that when he woke up to the light of the morning, he saw a bird in the sky that raised himself three times and lowered himself once. He was saying; ‘Exalted ones, exalted ones, on this day skies are soaring, and three appointed ones, upright, govern the world. One of them sits and not sits, even though he would like to stand and not sit. He was removed from his dominion by fire. And three columns, supernal rulers, stand over the world.

#80
Rabbi Yossi continues and says that he threw a lump of earth toward the bird, and asked him, ‘bird, bird, tell me who are the three appointed ones and who is the one that lost his dominion?’. The bird three back three arrows from its right-wing, and one from his left-wing. Rabbi Yossi tells his friend that he didn’t understand what is the new thing that the bird wanted to teach him.

Rabbi Ashlag explains that the morning light is the light that comes from Zeir Anpin. The ‘bird’ is the angel that serves the unification of Zeir Anpin and Malchut that happens in the morning. The three higher levels are the three columns, Chessed, Gevurah, and Tiferet. The fourth one, is lower and came from the Left to impose its light over the others, but the three removed him to have the proper control over the world.

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