Daily Zohar # 4104 – Toldot – You are my sister

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Zohar Toldot
Continued from previous DZ
#98
Abimelech was wise and used astrology to look through the “window”. He saw that It was not as Isaac said, but surely he was acting fondly with Rebbeca, and she was his wife, and then Abimelech called Isaac, and so on.
Rabbi Yossi said it would have been appropriate for Abimelech to do to Isaac and take his wife, as he did to Abraham, if the Holy One Blessed be He had not warned him earlier, in the act of Abraham, who said to him (Genesis 20:3), “הִנְּךָ מֵת עַל הָאִשָּׁה אֲשֶׁר לָקַחְתָּ וְהִוא בְּעֻלַת בָּעַל” “You are dead for the woman,” etc.

#99
Rabbi Abba said that Isaac said “My sister” about his wife to cling to the Shechina, as it is written;
Proverbs 7:4
“אֱמֹר לַחָכְמָה אֲחֹתִי אָתְּ וּמֹדָע לַבִּינָה תִקְרָא.”
“Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” And call understanding (Binah) your nearest kin.”
The wisdom is the Shechina that Isaac wanted to adhere to.

Genesis 20:11
“וַיֹּאמֶר אַבְרָהָם כִּי אָמַרְתִּי רַק אֵין יִרְאַת אֱלֹהִים בַּמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה וַהֲרָגוּנִי עַל דְּבַר אִשְׁתִּי.”
“And Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.”
The locals did not have “fear of God” because if they did, it would not have been necessary, but because there was no faith, he said, “she is my sister”;

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