Daily Zohar # 4267 – Behaalotcha – Please rise and face us
Daily Zohar 4267
Hebrew translation:
130. וְעַל כָּךְ, כְּשֶׁהָאָרוֹן הָיָה נוֹסֵעַ, מֹשֶׁה אָמַר קוּמָה ה’, לֹא תַעֲזֹב אוֹתָם, הַחֲזֵר פָּנִים אֵלֵינוּ, וְאָז נוּ”ן חוֹזֶרֶת לְגַבֵּיהֶם כְּצוּרָה זוֹ, כְּמִי שֶׁמַּחֲזִיר פָּנָיו לְמִי שֶׁאוֹהֵב. וּכְשֶׁהָיָה מַתְחִיל הָאָרוֹן (וְיִשְׂרָאֵל) לִשְׁרוֹת, אָז הֶחֱזִירָה נוּ”ן פָּנֶיהָ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל, וְהָחְזְרָה לְגַבֵּי הָאָרוֹן, וּבַכֹּל הָחֳזַר.
131. אָמַר רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן, אֶלְעָזָר, בְּוַדַּאי כָּךְ הוּא, אֲבָל כָּאן לֹא הֶחֱזִיר פָּנָיו מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל, שֶׁאִם כָּךְ, צְרִיכָה נוּ”ן לְהִתְהַפֵּךְ מִגָּוֶן שֶׁל אַחֵר עֶלְיוֹן (שֶׁלְּמַעְלָה), זֶה מְנֻזָּר לְאָחוֹר, וְזֶה בְּדֶרֶךְ יָשָׁר לְגַבֵּי הָאָרוֹן.
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Zohar Behaalotcha
DZ 4267
Continued from previous DZ
#129
The Ark was travelling in front of them for three days and the letter “נ” representing the Shechina would not be separated from the Ark, and would travel with it. And out of the love of Israel, Hashem returned his face to Israel, and the Shechina turned herself to the Ark. Like a young doe when she walks she turns her face back to the place she came from. Therefore, when the Ark was traveling, the “נ” would turn her face towards Israel and her shoulders towards the Ark.
#130
And therefore, when the ark was traveling, Moses said;
Numbers 10:35
“וַיְהִי בִּנְסֹעַ הָאָרֹן וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה קוּמָה יְהוָה וְיָפֻצוּ אֹיְבֶיךָ וְיָנֻסוּ מְשַׂנְאֶיךָ מִפָּנֶיךָ.”
“So it was, whenever the ark set out, that Moses said: “Rise up, O YHVH! Let Your enemies be scattered, And let those who hate You flee before You.”
He said “Rise up, O YHVH” so Hashem would not leave us and return his face back to us. Then the “נ” turned her face back to them like a “reversed nun” like someone who turns his face to the one who loves him. And when the ark began its rest, he turned his face away from Israel and turned his face back to the Ark, and everything restored.
#131
Rabbi Shimon said, Elazar, surely it is so, that there should be two nuns here facing each other before and after her. like you said. But here after and when the Ark was traveling, the Malchut did not turn her face away from Israel, that is, its influence and nourishments did not cease from Israel as Rabbi Elazar said, if so, this written nun, it should be reversed, like the upper nun, which is the king’s crown, because this nun is backwards, and and this supreme one, which is the Malchut, is on the right path with the Ark, meaning that it is unification with Zeir Anpin and because of that her face is surely turns to Israel, and not as Rabbi Elazar said.
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