Ki Tissa [When You Take]
54-55) All those friends, who do not love each other, depart the world before their time. All the friends in Rashbi’s time had love of soul and love of spirit among them. This is why in his generation, the secrets of Torah were revealed. Rabbi Shimon would say, “All the friends who do not love each other cause themselves to stray from the right path. Moreover, they put a blemish in the Torah, since there is love, brotherhood, and truth in the Torah. Abraham loved Isaac; Isaac loved Abraham; and they were embraced. And they were both gripped to Jacob with love and brotherhood, and were giving their spirits in one another. The friends should be like them, and not blemish them, for if love is lacking in them, they will blemish their value above, that is, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which are HGT.”
In the future, when we see Divinity face to face, all the faces will be supported, for they will be shining in that secret.
106) Before Israel sinned, while they were standing at Mount Sinai, the filth of the serpent was removed from them, since then there was the annulment of the evil inclination in the world, and it was repelled from them. At that time, they united in the tree of life and rose to the uppermost degrees and did not come down. Then they knew and saw the highest visions of ZA, their eyes shone and they were delighted to know and to hear. At that time, the Creator girded them with belts of letters of the Holy Name, which are jewels from Mount Horev, so the serpent would not be able to rule over them and would not defile them as before in Egypt.
104) The friends came and kissed Rabbi Shimon’s hands. They said, “If we had come to the world only to hear this thing, we would have been content.” They wept and said, “Woe unto us. When we depart from the world, who will shine and reveal the lights of Torah?” This thing shines to the top of the heaven, and is written in the King’s throne, and the Creator is now delighted about this thing. And how much joy over joy was added before the Holy King? Who will evoke words of wisdom in the world as you do?
120) Happy are the righteous who know the secrets of Torah and cling to the Torah, and keep the verse, “But you shall meditate on it day and night.” By her merit, they will be rewarded with the life of the next world, as it is written, “For this is your life and the length of your days.”
New Zohar, Ki Tissa [When You Take]
46) One who considers making a Mitzva is as though he had done it because with his thought, he caused great abundance of blessings to come from the high thought to the place called Mitzva, Malchut. For this reason, it is as though he had done it, the Malchut. “And you shall do them.” A thought is certainly the beginning of everything.
56-59) “The heavens tell the glory of God.”
Heaven is the Creator, ZA. “Tell” means that they illuminate to a place called “the glory of God.” “The glory of God” is the daughter of Abraham, Malchut. “God” is Abraham, Hesed. “Tell” is as it is written, “Then he saw and told it.” “And told it,” as it is written, “Her stones are the place of sapphire,” from the word illumination. Those heaven, ZA, correct her in all the corrections for the glory of the God, Malchut.
This is why Israel below bring light to the Malchut in secret from the fountain above, from ZA, and say, “Blessed be the name of the glory of His kingdom forever and ever,” and the place called “heaven” testifies about them.
When Israel are in wholeness, they testify a complete testimony about them, the Creator and the Assembly of Israel, ZA and Malchut. At that time the dew of above is drawn from the place of Atik, Keter. It is so when ZA and Malchut are in unity, as it is written, “My head is filled with dew.” Dew has the count of “The Lord is one,” the Creator and the Assembly of Israel, since at that time Israel are worthy of the dew.
82-83) First, one must exert in fear, Malchut, who is the door to everything, and afterwards, in the written Torah, ZA who is above. It is so because any person who does not fear sin has no permission to enter that door of faith, which is Malchut. And once he is repelled from that door, he is repelled from everything because he has no door through which to enter everything, as it is written, “This is the gate to the Lord.”
Anyone whose fear of sin precedes his wisdom, his wisdom persists, since the wisdom sits on a “Stock which Your right has planted,” which is the fear, called “the glory of God.”