זוהר ויקרא — דף כד ע”ב

The altar continues its complaint: everyone else receives portions and shares, and what do you give me? The holy King answers: each day seven supernal days will surround you to bless you, and you will be given seventy portions each day (Rabbi Yossei: corresponding to the seventy bulls offered during the festival). Rabbi Yehuda adds: seven each day because she is blessed from all of them, and at the end of seven days she is blessed from the place of the anointing oil; afterward seven times corresponding to those seven days, to establish for her blessings from the wellspring of the river that flows continually and never stops, and then another seven times together to sustain those blessings from the supernal place from which the spring flows without interruption.<br />
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Every day it is proclaimed: "Until the barren woman has borne seven, and she who had many sons has languished" (1 Samuel 2) — "the barren woman bore seven" is the Community of Israel, blessed by seven each day and rising to a supernal count; "she who had many sons languished" refers to the idol-worshipping nations, who rise on the first day to a great count and then diminish day by day. Therefore the altar atones for Israel's sins, purifies them, and pours blessings down upon them from above.<br />
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"A branch of a leafy tree" (Leviticus 23) is the holy King who holds both sides; therefore the three-branched myrtle becomes "a branch of a leafy tree" holding every side. "Willows of the brook" are two pillars from which emerges what leads to "branches of palm trees," which hold above and below. The etrog emerges from among the thorns of the tree, and the "branches of palm trees" surely hold them — everything that emerges into the world emerges from here and comes from here.<br />
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Rabbi Yossei opens: "And I will come to the altar of God" (Psalm 43) — "the altar of God" is the altar above, sometimes called "the altar of the Lord," this is Isaac's well; from there the worlds inherit judgment and mercy, since it nurses from both sides.<br />
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The Ra'aya Meheimna explains the precept of one who embezzles consecrated property, who must bring the principal plus a fifth — the principal corresponds to the letter vav, the fifth to the letter heh; this is "the horn of the jubilee," the horn that was on the forehead of the bull that Adam the first man offered, the root of all sacrifices; the horn endures for the World to Come, and its fruits in this world — this is heh-heh.<br />
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"A soul that commits a trespass" (Leviticus 5) — Rabbi Yitzchak explains that it refers to the soul itself, as in "the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord your God" and "the soul of your enemies He shall sling out from the hollow of a sling" (1 Samuel 25).<br />
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Fortunate are the righteous who have a supernal portion in the Holy One, blessed be He, in the holy portion, in the King's sanctifications, because they sanctify themselves through their Master's sanctifications; whoever sanctifies himself, the Holy One sanctifies him, as it is said, "you shall sanctify yourselves and be holy" (Leviticus 20). A person sanctifies himself from below — he is sanctified from above, and when he is sanctified with his Master's holiness, he is clothed with a holy soul, an inheritance of the Holy One and the Community of Israel, and then he inherits everything — these are called sons to the Lord, as it is said, "you are sons to the Lord your God" (Deuteronomy 14).<br />
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Finally: "let the earth bring forth living souls" (Genesis 1) is interpreted as "living soul" plainly; from that portion King David inherited, and he was bound by a supernal bond and inherited kingship; therefore "the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life" — the soul is bound to the spirit, the spirit to the neshama, and the neshama to the Holy One. Fortunate is the portion of one who inherits this supernal inheritance.