Daily Zohar # 4420 – Vayeshev – Yehuda went down

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Zohar Vayeshev
Continued from previous DZ
#150
Genesis 38:2
“וַיַּרְא שָׁם יְהוּדָה בַּת אִישׁ כְּנַעֲנִי וּשְׁמוֹ שׁוּעַ וַיִּקָּחֶהָ וַיָּבֹא אֵלֶיהָ.”
“And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he married her and went into her.”
The question is asked: Was he a Canaanite? After all, the patriarchs did not intermarry with the Canaanites. The answer given before is that: “Canaanite” here means a merchant, as explained in Pesachim 50 ( Pesachim.50a.15).
Yehuda had three sons, but only one of them remained, which was Shelah. That is to say, it is included in the verse, “And Judah went down” because he had sons and buried them, which is a great descent and a punishment.

#151
Rabbi Elazar, Rabbi Yosi, and Rabbi Chiya were walking on the road. Rabbi Yosi said to Rabbi Elazar, “Why is it written regarding the first of Judah’s sons, ‘And he called his name Er,’ in the masculine form, while for the other two sons, it is written, ‘And she called his name Onan,’ and ‘And she called his name Shelah,’ in the feminine form?”

#152
Rabbi Elazar responded, “This section is a supreme secret, and everything is as it should be. ‘And Judah went down from his brothers’ signifies that the moon, which is the Nukva, was covered and descended from its first level into a lower level where the Snake connected to her. As it is said, ‘and he turned into a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah,’ meaning he separated himself from his brothers, the house of Israel, who represent holiness, and connected with a foreigner, not of the house of Israel, with whom the Snake is attached, as the impurity of the Snake has not ceased from the foreigners.

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