61 passages in Kabbalah & Mysticism
Individual passages from Zohar, shown in source order. Page 2 of 2.
Zohar turns to The Chains Of The Messiah. Hebron, long ago. A city steeped in history, in faith, in the whispers of ancestors. And in this city lived Joseph, a man obsessed – in th...
The wise shine because Eden is still flowing. Zohar, Shemot 1 reads Daniel's promise that the wise will shine like the radiance of the firmament (Daniel 12:3) as a glimpse into the...
A person is never judged alone. In Zohar, Bo 1, Rabbi Judah teaches that accusations rise below and above. Human deeds awaken heavenly consequences. Ha-Satan appears not as a rival...
The Tabernacle of Moses is counted like heaven is counted. In Zohar, Pekudei 1, Rabbi Hiya reads "these are the accounts of the Tabernacle" through the verse, "All the rivers run i...
Knesset Yisrael is asleep, but her heart is awake. In Zohar, Ha'Azinu 1, Rabbi Judah reads Song of Songs as Israel speaking from the edge of loss. "I was asleep, but my heart was a...
Rabbi Hizkiah sees a lily trapped among thorns, and he sees Israel. In the opening of the Zohar, he reads "as a lily among thorns" (Song of Songs 2:2) as an image of Knesset Yisrae...
Creation begins with a mark cut into hidden light. Zohar, Bereshit 1:1-3 describes the King's will awakening before the world has shape. The King is God hidden in the language of m...
The earth was full before it ever bloomed. In Zohar, Vayera 1:1, Rabbi Hiya reads the flowers of Song of Songs as a secret about creation. When God made the world, the earth alread...
Jacob lived in Egypt, but his heart was already looking past Egypt. Zohar, Vayechi 1:1 reads "Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years" (Genesis 47:28) as more than the qui...
Balak looked at Israel with his eyes and with a darker wisdom. Zohar, Balak 1:1 asks what Balak saw when the Torah says he saw what Israel had done (Numbers 22:2). He saw through o...
The heavens go silent when judgment begins. Zohar, Shemot 7 opens Rabbi Simeon's eyes onto the holy chariot. Wheels roll. Voices sing. Thousands upon thousands of beings fall tremb...
Adam's separation did not leave the world empty. It filled the edges with danger. In Zohar, Achrei Mot 59, Adam withdraws from Eve for one hundred and thirty years after Cain kills...
David says he will not lack because the stream from Eden does not fail. In Zohar, Terumah 85, Psalm 23 becomes a map of heavenly nourishment. The green pastures are not only fields...
