Daily Zohar # 5018 – Vayishlach – The mother of the children would rejoice

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• Zohar Vayishlach
  Continued from previous DZ
  #173
  While they were still walking, Rabbi Yossi said to Rabbi Elazar: We have learned that when Rachel died, the One who was supposed to be completed through the twelve tribes took the house, that is, the Shekhinah. He asks, “Why did Rachel die immediately?” What does this depend on?
  He answered him: So that the Shekhinah would be adorned as is proper, that is, so that she would attain the three upper Mochin (ג” ר), and become “אֵם הַבָּנִים שְׂמֵחָה” “the mother of the children would rejoice” (Psalm 113:9).
  In other words, Rachel died so that the lower Shekhinah (Rachel) and the upper Shekhinah (Leah) would become one single countenance. Then the lower Shekhinah attains the upper three (ג” ר), and the upper Shekhinah, the mother of the children (אֵם הַבָּנִים), rejoices in the rectification of the twelve tribes, and that is why Leah did not die. With Benjamin, the Shekhinah began to take hold of the house and to be rectified, for he is the aspect of Yessod of the twelve tribes, and therefore, he is the first to rectify the Shekhinah. And for this reason, Benjamin is always in the west in the camp, because Yessod is the aspect of the west and not another side.
  Notes:
  Rachel’s death is explained as necessary for the final union of the two Shekhinot:
  Leah = upper Shekhinah (from the chest and above)
  Rachel = lower Shekhinah (below the chest)
  Only when Rachel dies do the two merge into one complete countenance, allowing the lower Shekhinah to receive the three upper Mochin and the upper Shekhinah to rejoice in the completed twelve tribes.
  Benjamin (Yessod) begins this ultimate rectification, which is why he is positioned in the west (direction of Yessod).
  #174
  And with him — with Benjamin — the Shekhinah begins to be rectified through the twelve tribes, and with him the Kingdom of Heaven begins to be known on earth. The first king of Israel, Saul, came from his descendants. And this is the secret: every beginning that comes to be revealed comes with difficulties. Therefore, it contains the aspect of death, and only afterward does it settle and endure.
  Notes:
  Benjamin (Yessod) marks the moment the Shekhinah’s full rectification through the twelve tribes begins, and the Kingdom of Heaven becomes manifest on earth. The first royal expression of this kingship was Saul, Benjamin’s descendant, whose reign started amid hardship and ended in death, embodying the principle that every new revelation of holiness first appears through struggle and judgment before it becomes stable and eternal.
  #175
  Here, when the Shekhinah desired to be rectified and to take the house in the rectification of the twelve tribes, judgment was executed upon Rachel — she died — and only afterward was the Shekhinah able to settle and endure, as explained above.
  Likewise, when kingship wished to be revealed on earth, it began with judgment. The kingdom did not settle in its proper place until judgment was aroused against Saul according to his deeds — he was killed on Mount Gilboa — and only afterward did kingship settle with David and become rectified.
  Notes:
  There are parallels in Rachel’s death and Saul’s death.
  Both are necessary acts of judgment that clear the way for permanent rectification:
  Rachel’s death enabled the Shekhinah to receive the complete twelve-tribe structure and endure.
  Saul’s death (from the tribe of Benjamin) removed the harsh beginning so that true, lasting kingship could settle with David.
  Every new revelation of holiness on earth must first pass through a phase of severe judgment before it can become stable and eternal.

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