Hukat [The Statute]
1) “This is the statute of the law.” “And this is the law that Moses set before the sons of Israel.” These are holy words of Torah. They are superior; they are sweet, as it is written, “They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold, and sweeter than honey.” One who engages in Torah, it is as though he stands by Mount Sinai each day and receives the Torah, as it is written, “This day you have become a people.”
27-29) “Who sends forth springs in the streams ... they give drink to all the animals of my fields.” King David said these verses in the spirit of holiness and they should be regarded. When the upper Hochma beat in its engravings, when the upper HB mated, although the upper Hochma is the most hidden of all that are hidden, since the Yod does not come out of the Avir in the upper HB, which are upper AVI, it is an opening from which a river stretches out. It is filled with high gates, which is Bina, YESHSUT, in whom the Yod comes out of the Avir and Hochma and Hassadim flow out of them.
He compared this matter of upper AVI and YESHSUT to a fountain and a water-source that fills a great lake from which springs, streams, and rivers extend to the right and to the left. Similarly, AVI and YESHSUT are for a thin one that is unknown, in the Zivug of Yesodot [pl. of Yesod] of upper AVI, who are unknown, in whom the Yod does not come out of the Avir. That river stretches out, stretching out of Eden, Bina, who went out of Rosh AA at the time of Katnut and returned to Rosh AA at the time of Gadlut.
Through this exit and coming, it fills that deep stream, YESHSUT, like the great water lake that is filled by the fountain and the source, who are upper AVI. From there, springs and streams extend to ZA and Malchut, and are filled by it with Hochma and Hassadim, as it is written, “Who sends forth springs in the streams.” These are the high and holy rivers of ZA, the pure persimmon, pure air that HGT of ZA receive, the pure persimmon from upper AVI. It is written, “They go among the mountains,” HGT de ZA, who are called “mountains,” and from whom Malchut receives. Also, ZA and Malchut both drink from that spring of the upper holy stream that stretches out, who is YESHSUT.
Once ZA and Malchut have drank, “They give drink to all the animals of my fields,” as it is written, “And from there it parted and became four heads.” These four heads are “All the animals of my fields,” which are four animals, ox, eagle, lion, and man, which are Malchut’s Merkava [structure/chariot].
They are the whole of the camps and hosts in BYA.
57) Righteous, who are rewarded with being attached to the bundle of life, Yesod de ZA, are rewarded with seeing the glory of the high and holy King, as it is written, “To behold the pleasantness of the Lord, and to visit in His palace.” Their abode is higher than all the holy angels and all their degrees, since neither the upper nor the lower are rewarded with seeing that high place, as it is written, “Neither has the eye seen a God besides You,” which is the upper Eden.
61) Best of all is one who comes to this world and does not part from the Creator, who is not revealed, and whose every word is in humbleness. This is a worthy pious, who observes the Mitzvot of Torah and keeps them, and engages in Torah day and night. He unites and enjoys a higher degree than all the people, and all burn from looking in the Huppah [canopy] of this one.
68) Happy are the righteous in this world and in the next world. And although they are in another place, in another, upper world, their merit remains in this world for all generations. When Israel repent before the Creator and are sentenced to a decree, the Creator summons the righteous who stand before Him up above and informs them, and they revoke that decree, and the Creator takes pity over Israel. Happy are the righteous, of whom it is said, “And the Lord shall guide you always.”
78) From this we learn that anyone who wishes to evoke things of above—in an act or in a word—if that act or that word is not done properly, nothing is evoked. All the people in the world go to the assembly-house to evoke a matter above, but few are the ones who know how to evoke. The Creator is near to all those who know how to call Him and to evoke a matter properly. But if they do not know how to call upon Him, He is not close, as it is written, “The Lord is near to all those who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.” “In truth” means that they know how to properly evoke a true matter. So it is in everything.
81-83) Anyone who knows how to properly set up an act, and properly set up words, it is certain that they awaken the Creator to extend high and upright matters. If not, he does not reconcile with them. Hence, the whole world knows how to arrange the act and set up the words. What is the importance of the righteous, who know the root of work and action, who know how to aim the heart and will more than those other ones who do not know so much?
Those who do not know the root of the act so much, but only an arrangement and not more, pull toward them a pull behind the Creator’s shoulders, meaning that their prayer does not fly in the air, which is called “Providence.” That is, it is Providence of the face, and they are only worthy of the “behind the shoulders.”
Those who know and aim the heart and desire find blessings from the place of thought, Hochma, and come out in all the trunks and roots of the degrees properly, as it should be, until the upper ones and lower ones are blessed, and the holy upper name is blessed by them. Happy are they because the Creator is near to them and is before them. When they call Him, He is ready for them. And when they are in trouble, He is with them. He respects them in this world and in the next world, as it is written, “Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.”
New Zohar, Hukat [The Statute]
11-12) How strong is repentance, superior to everything. When a person repents before his Master, the well of living waters, Malchut, is filled and her fountains flow to all sides, and a rod extends to all in 12 gates, to water small animals with great ones, which are the 12 tribes called “lion and wolf,” the great animals, and “lamb and kid,” which are small animals.
When Israel repented they said psalms. Those seven degrees that they returned brought them back with their psalms and elevated the upper well, Malchut, up to Bina, since from Malchut to Bina are seven degrees. The serpent parted from the world, as it is written, “Then shall Israel sing ... ‘Spring up, O well,’ they replied to it,” since the well, Malchut, rose up above to Bina and the lower mother, Malchut, connected to the upper one, Bina.
60) “And the children of Israel sighed.” When they saw the hard work, until the upper covenant was mentioned to them and upper Ima, Bina, awakened in mercy for her children, as it is written, “And their cry rose up to the God,” upper Ima—in whose hands is all the freedom—and opened to Israel the upper doors, which are 50 gates, bringing them out of there, and the lower Ima, Malchut, was filled with mercy over them. Then Moses came out to the world, appointed, a father, to shepherd Israel in the Torah.
102-103) The love of Tzedek [justice], since Tzedek, Malchut, is Your love, a small love. It is so because Malchut is called “small love,” and when she unites with ZA above, in Hassadim, she becomes big, since Hesed is called “great love.” Also, ZA is great by bonding with her, as it is written, “Great is the Lord and greatly glorified in the city of our God,” when He is connected to Malchut, who is called “The city of our God.” For this, the queen pulls him with these words of love.
“Tell me, the one whom my soul loves.” This means that You, in whom is all the love of my soul, if You do not bond with me, how will You feed the world? How will you feed yourself from the upper depth, from Bina, for you and for others? After all, the blessings above are present only in a place of male and female.
107-108) “How good and how pleasant it is for brothers also to dwell together.” Dwelling together means bonding of the brother, Zeir Anpin, with Tzedek [justice], Malchut. “Also” comes to include Israel, who are the Merkava [chariot/assembly] for this unification. This is why she told him, “How will you feed yourself, how will you rest these herds of Jacob? “Oil of gladness from your friends” are the upper fathers who joined within you first.
Israel are brothers and friends of ZA, anointing him with the oil of gladness over their heads in their prayers. The oil of gladness are those 12 rivers of pure persimmon that illuminate in her, from the 12 Behinot in ZA. Then there is joy in the worlds, desire in the worlds, and the anger departs from the world.
111) There is no joy before Him from all of His Merkavot [chariots/assemblies] as the joy of the souls of the righteous that are near Him.
119-121) “Listen, daughter, and see.” “Listen,” since hearing depends on you, for when Israel return in repentance before Me, “Listen,” bring their prayers before Me, for the door to everything is in you. I have placed it in your hands to lead the lower world, hence “Listen, daughter, and see,” for you are the mirror of everything, since the Hochma, called “mirror,” appears only in Malchut. For this reason, you are called “A well for the living who see.” Hence, you should ask about the deeds of the people of the world each day, to give to each person according to his works.
When the Creator created the world, He placed His palace in the hands of the queen to watch over the world. When the people of the world are worthy, joy is added above.
“Lend your ear to receive the prayer of everyone.” So she did as well with all the prayers, to bring the crown to the righteous, Yesod, since all the prayers are to bring the crown to the righteous. These are the forms of MAN over which the righteous will pour MAD.
131) In the days of the Messiah, the knowledge will be renewed in the world and the Torah will illuminate before everyone, for it is written, “They shall all know Me from the least of them unto the greatest of them.”
139) The Creator is destined to reveal supernal wisdom, which is the existence of all the worlds, to His children, when knowledge awakens in the world, when each and everyone of Israel attains attainment in the upper Hochma, who is the meaning of the name of the Creator. This is a benefit that never stops, forever and ever.