Daily Zohar # 5157 – Vayikra – She fled to the sea
Daily Zohar 5157
Hebrew translation:
320. וּבְסִפְרֵי הָרִאשׁוֹנִים אָמְרוּ, שֶׁהִיא בָּרְחָה מִן הָאָדָם מִקֹּדֶם לָכֵן, אֲבָל אָנוּ לֹא שָׁנִינוּ כָּךְ, מִשּׁוּם שֶׁהֲרֵי נְקֵבָה זוֹ נִמְצְאָה עִמּוֹ, אֲבָל טֶרֶם שֶׁקָּמָה הַנֶּפֶשׁ הַזּוֹ (שֶׁהֲרֵי נְקֵבָה זוֹ לֹא נִמְצְאָה עִמּוֹ, אֲבָל טֶרֶם שֶׁתֻּקְּנָה הַנְּקֵבָה הַזּוֹ) עִם אָדָם כָּרָאוּי, הָיְתָה מִזְדַּוֶּגֶת עִמּוֹ, וּכְשֶׁזּוֹ תֻּקְּנָה עִמּוֹ כָּרָאוּי, הִיא בָּרְחָה לַיָּם, וּמְזֻמֶּנֶת לְהַזִּיק לִבְנֵי הָעוֹלָם.
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Zohar Vayikra
Continued from previous DZ
#319
Once Li-lith saw this, she fled, and she is in the cities of the sea. And until now, she is ready to harm the children of the world. And when the Holy One, blessed be He, is destined to destroy wicked Rome and it will be desolate forever, this Lil-ith will ascend from the sea, and He will settle her in that desolation of Rome, because she is the destruction of the world. This is what is written: “אַךְ שָׁם הִרְגִּיעָה לִילִית וּמָצְאָה לָהּ מָנוֹחַ” “There Lilith shall repose and find for herself a resting place” (Isaiah 34:14).
#320
And in the early books, they said that Lili-th fled from the man beforeh and — that is, even before Chava (חוה, Eve) was rectified. But we have not learned thus, because this Nukva, Lil-ith, was found with him. But as long as this Nukva, Chava, was not yet rectified with Adam, Li-lith would couple with him. And when this one — Chava — was rectified with him, she, Lil-ith, fled to the sea, and was destined to harm the world.
Notes:
The Zohar describes Lil-ith as the primordial female aspect that was initially with Adam before the proper rectification and separation of Chava. When Chava was fully formed and united with Adam, Lil-ith fled to the cities of the sea, where she remains a constant threat to humanity.
At the end of days, during the final destruction of wicked Rome (the ultimate symbol of the forces of evil and exile), Lil-ith will rise from the sea and be placed in its ruins, embodying desolation itself. This reveals Lil-ith as a persistent impure force originating from the incomplete state of creation before the full male-female rectification. The verse from Isaiah 34:14 is understood as her destined resting place in the desolated kingdom of evil. The teaching underscores the ongoing spiritual danger of unrectified feminine forces and the importance of the proper union established with Chava.
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