Daily Zohar # 4828 – Vayikra – All this has come upon us

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Zohar Vayikra
Continued from previous DZ
#214
Rabbi Abba opened and said: “כָּל זֹאת בָּאַתְנוּ וְלֹא שְׁכַחֲנוּךָ וְלֹא שִׁקַּרְנוּ בִּבְרִיתֶךָ. כָּל זֹאת בָּאַתְנוּ” “All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we been false to Your covenant.” (Psalms 44:18) “כָּל זֹאת בָּאַתְנוּ” “All this has come upon us”—He asks: It should have said, “כָּל אֵלּוּ בָּאוּ עָלֵינוּ!” “All these have come upon us,” or, “כָּל זֹאת בָּאַתְנוּ” “have come upon us” in the feminine form, so why does it say “בָּאַתְנוּ, ba’atanu”? He answers: Rather, all the judgments from Above, which are included in “זֹאת, Zot” (This), Have come upon us. That is why it says “all zot” (זֹאת), because “Zot” refers to the Malchut, who encompasses all the judgments from above. and thus, it says “ba’atanu,” a feminine form in context since Zot is a feminine noun. “וְלֹא שְׁכַחֲנוּךָ” “And we have not forgotten You”—that means: we have not forgotten Your Torah. From here, we learn that anyone who forgets the words of Torah and does not wish to engage in it, it is as though he has forgotten the Holy One, Blessed be He, for the Torah in its entirety is the Name of the Holy One, Blessed be He.
Notes:
The phrase “All this (זאת) has come upon us” refers to the judgments of Malchut, who is called Zot, the Divine feminine Shechinah. Even when judgments come, the righteous cling to Torah, and in doing so, they remain faithful to Hashem. Because the Torah is not just instructions from Hashem—it is the Name and essence of Hashem Himself. Forgetting Torah is seen as forgetting God. This teaching challenges us to remain connected to Torah even in times of difficulty because, through it, we stay bound to the Hashem, even when judgments descend.

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