Daily Zohar # 4230 – Tazria – Why wool and linen

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Zohar Tazria
Continued from previous DZ
#168
Leviticus 13:59
“זֹאת תּוֹרַת נֶגַע צָרַעַת בֶּגֶד הַצֶּמֶר אוֹ הַפִּשְׁתִּים אוֹ הַשְּׁתִי אוֹ הָעֵרֶב אוֹ כָּל כְּלִי עוֹר לְטַהֲרוֹ אוֹ לְטַמְּאוֹ.”
“This is the law of the leprous plague in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or woof, or in anything made of leather, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean.”
Rabbi Yossi said, why specify woolen garment or linen? He had to say simply garments. Rabbi Yitzchak said, the scripture teaches us, that the skin plague affects and rule everything. Because wool comes from Binah and linen from Malchut, the skin lesion rules over both.
Proverbs 31:13
“דָּרְשָׁה צֶמֶר וּפִשְׁתִּים וַתַּעַשׂ בְּחֵפֶץ כַּפֶּיהָ.”
“She seeks wool and linen, And willingly works with her hands.”
This teaches us that the Malchut is used in both wool and linen. We are also learned that the control over everything comes from a higher place, that is judgments from Malchut of Binah, (#153). The control is over both types, wool and linen. That is why the scripture says, “This is the law of the leprous plague in a garment of wool or linen”

#169
Rabbi Yitzchak was going to his father’s grape harvest. He saw a man with a load tied on his shoulders leaving the main road. He asked him, what is the purpose of the rope that adorns your shoulders? The man didn’t answer him, but Rabbi Yitzchak followed him, and saw that he enters a cave. He entered after him and saw steam and smoke rising from under the ground. That man entered through one hole, and disappeared. Rabbi Yitzchak was afraid and went out to the entrance of the cave.

#170
While he was sitting, Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Hezekiah passed by. He saw them and approached them. He told them what happened, and Rabbi Yehuda said, Blessed is the Merciful who saved you. This cave belongs to lepers, from the city of Saronia, and all the inhabitants of that city are sorcerers. They come to the desert to do sorcery with black snakes, which are ten years old or more. They do not protect themselves from the snakes, and they become lepers. In this cave they do all kinds of magic.

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