Daily Zohar # 4438 – Vayechi – When the time comes to depart from this world

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Zohar Vayechi
Continued from previous DZ
#158
Rabbi Yitzchak awoke, laughing and his face glowing. Rabbi Shimon saw him and looked at his face, asking, “Have you heard something new?” Rabbi Yitzchak replied, “Indeed, I have heard,” and he recounted what he saw in his dream. Rabbi Yitzchak bowed down himself flat on the ground before Rabbi Shimon.

#159
From that day on, Rabbi Yitzchak held his son’s hand, engaging with him in Torah study and never letting him out of sight. When he entered Rabbi Shimon’s presence, he would leave his son outside, enter, and sit before Rabbi Shimon. He would then recite in front of him.
Isaiah 38:14
“כְּסוּס עָגוּר כֵּן אֲצַפְצֵף אֶהְגֶּה כַּיּוֹנָה דַּלּוּ עֵינַי לַמָּרוֹם אֲדֹנָי עָשְׁקָה לִּי עָרְבֵנִי.”
“Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O LORD, I am oppressed; be my security.”

#160
We have learned that on that difficult day when a person’s time comes to depart from this world, the four directions of the world correspond to Chessed, Gevurah, Tiferet, and Malchut, found in harsh judgment to judge the world from all directions. The four elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire, which are interconnected, become embroiled in harsh judgment and conflict. Each element seeks to separate and return to its universal element: the Fire within a person to the general Fire of the world, the Water to the Water of the world, and so forth, including Earth. This is how the four elements within a person disperse upon death.

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