The Book of Splendor

Main Text (Zohar)

...that we have mentioned. And those troubles we spoke of shall be awakened against Israel, and then referencing earlier folios 17 and 38 "I will remember My covenant" Leviticus 26:42 and it shall be established. Afterward, when the King Messiah shall rest from the wars in all the world by the right hand of the Holy One, Blessed be He, then "The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man" Isaiah 42:13. Then "I will remember My covenant" to remember and to remember, and afterward "and I will remember the land" Leviticus 26:42; this refers to the final letter He [of the Divine Name], as it has been said. At that time it is written: "And the Lord shall be king over all the earth; in that day shall the Lord be one, and His name one" Zechariah 14:9.

At the end of another two hundred and six years, which are one hundred and thirty-two years The Zohar often uses complex numerical codes for cosmic cycles, the letters of the Holy Name The Tetragrammaton: Y-H-V-H shall be seen engraved in the heavens, complete and below as is fitting. And this spirit is the Holy One, above and below, and all those supports which are thirty-two referring to the 32 paths of Wisdom that are included in this spirit of the letters He and Vav and He—a spirit of perfection of one hundred and thirty-two. At the end of another one hundred and thirty-two years, there shall be fulfilled: "That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it" Job 38:13.

The Holy Land shall be purified, and the Holy One, Blessed be He, shall awaken the dead of the Holy Land, and their words shall stand as words. And then the hidden spark shall be awakened to strike the world, and the thirty-two paths shall be established to flow below, and the letters shall be established in their foundation the Sefirah of Yesod. For until now they were not in perfection, until the time when that supernal light shall be drawn down and extended as a union of the letters Vav and He, as has been said.

At the end of another five hundred and forty-four years, the rest of the dead of Israel who are in the lands of the nations shall be completed and awakened. Through all this calculation, the world shall be settled and established, and the Other Side Sitra Achra; the realm of evil or impurity shall be removed from the world. And when the lower world is restored, it shall be filled from the supernal flow, and it shall be crowned and shine in perfection. Then it is written: "Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold" Isaiah 30:26, until it is a Sabbath to the Lord, to gather souls in holy delights. This is the letter He, as has been said; that entire seventh millennium. This is the awakening of the holy heights of the people of Israel, to be clothed after the Sabbath in other holy bodies, to be called "holy," as it is written: "And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy" Isaiah 4:3.

Now there arose a new king. Rabbi Yose said: Every single day the Holy One, Blessed be He, makes angels as messengers over the world, as it is written: "Who maketh His angels spirits" Psalms 104:4. It does not say "He made," but "He maketh," because every single day He makes them. And at that time, a certain appointee was appointed over Egypt. And this is what is written: "Now there arose a new king" Exodus 1:8—a literal man—"who knew not Joseph." For they were from the place of separation. All lineage and precedence from that separation is in the vision of the Matron The Matronita; the Shekhinah or Divine Presence in her sovereign aspect. And because of this, he "knew not Joseph." He said that all unity is in the spirit of the cup called the Righteous One Tzadik; the Sefirah of Yesod, which represents the covenant and Joseph.

Rabbi Eleazar and Rabbi Yose were walking on the road, and they rose at the break of dawn to travel. They saw a star running from this side and another star from that side. Rabbi Eleazar said: Now the stars of the morning have reached the time to praise their Master, and they run in fear and awe of their Master to praise and sing to Him. This is what is written: "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy" Job 38:7. For they are all found in one unity before Him.

He opened his discourse and said: "For the Leader; upon the hind of the morning. A Psalm of David" Psalms 22:1. The "hind of the morning" Ayelet HaShachar is remembered as the face of the East, spreading a glow into the night. There is an appointee on the side of the East, and a certain damaging force [is removed] by the key of light from the side of the South, until the sun comes and goes out and breaks through the windows in the beauty of the firmament and illuminates the world. And that key removes the darkness of the night. Then the "hind of the morning" comes, and the light of Wisdom comes in the darkness to join with the day, and the day shines. And in the mountains of the day, it is included and drawn like a thread to that hind. And concerning this hind, when it is separated from the day after it has ceased, David said a song, as it is written: "For the Leader; upon the hind of the morning." And what does it say? "My God [Eli]..."