Daily Zohar # 4334 – Shelach Lecha – Mitzva – the gate of YHVH

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Zohar Shelach Lecha
Continued from previous DZ
#343
Malchut is called Mitzvah as we read (2 Kings 18:36) “כִּי מִצְוַת הַמֶּלֶךְ הִיא ” “for the king’s commandment (Mitzvah) was,” and King (הַמֶּלֶךְ) implies Malchut.
We learned that Yessod, the last sefira of Zeir Anpin, and Keter, the root of all, are adorned together in Malchut. Malchut is the memory and the opening to all the other Sefirot, as it is written;
Psalm 118:19,20
“פִּתְחוּ לִי שַׁעֲרֵי צֶדֶק אָבֹא בָם אוֹדֶה יָהּ.”
“זֶה הַשַּׁעַר לַיהוָה צַדִּיקִים יָבֹאוּ בוֹ.”
“Open to me the gates of righteousness (צֶדֶק); I will go through them, And I will praise YH (יָהּ).”
“This is the gate of YHVH, Through which the righteous shall enter.”
Malchut is called righteousness (צֶדֶק), and after it, we read, “This is the gate of YHVH,” being the gate to all the sefirot. And so it is written, “and remember all the commandments of YHVH ” (Numbers 15:39), which the scripture came to include in Malchut all the other sefirot, called Mitzvot.
We learned that the sefirot of Zeir Anpin are in the aspect of witness that reveal the illumination of Chokmah, called witness. And they do not stand in their place in Zeir Anpin because the Tzitzit is the secret of Malchut, called a mitzvah, and the Sefirot of Zeir Anpin included in it are called Mitzvot, and so they are not in their place, in Zeir Anpin, but in Malchut.

#344
We learned that the tools of a mitzvah, meaning Malchut, are thrown away. Lulav and Arava (willow branches) are tools of holiness because they connect to Zeir Anpin. Lulav alludes to Yessod of Zeir Anpin, and the two Arava are Netzach and Hod of Zeir Anpin. If they are used for holiness, why do we throw them? He answers because even though they are related to Zeir Anpin, they are used for a Mitzva and can be thrown away.

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