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Zohar Lessons

Vayera

• זוהר I 114a · Bereshit זוהר בראשית — דף קיד ע”א וידאו + PDF Rabbi Shimon weeps and says: since the evil serpent seduced man, it rules over the world, and the world will not leave its punishment…
• זוהר I 114b · Bereshit זוהר בראשית — דף קיד ע”ב וידאו + PDF The sound of the shofar rises to the throne of judgment, the voice of Jacob is set right above, and the Holy One, blessed…

Toldot

• זוהר I 138b · Bereshit זוהר בראשית — דף קלח ע”ב וידאו + PDF The Zohar explains that every month a goat is offered, and on the Day of Atonement the goat, in order to draw it to…

Vayetzei

• זוהר I 151a · Bereshit זוהר בראשית — דף קנא ע”א וידאו + PDF Rabbi Ḥiya explains that David asked forgiveness first for himself and then for all: when the wicked are many, the books of judgment are…
• זוהר I 151b · Bereshit זוהר בראשית — דף קנא ע”ב וידאו + PDF The Zohar concludes the episode of Elijah and Rabbi Ḥiya: as long as the sages rejoice in the Torah, Samael cannot prevail over them,…
• זוהר I 165a · Bereshit זוהר בראשית — דף קסה ע”א וידאו + PDF Rabbi Yitzhak explains that Jacob swore “by the fear of his father Isaac” and not by the God of Abraham, so as not to…
• זוהר I 165b · Bereshit זוהר בראשית — דף קסה ע”ב וידאו + PDF The Zohar explains that Jacob recognized the camps of angels as the ones he had seen in his dream, and that the Divine Presence…

Vayishlach

• זוהר I 165b · Bereshit זוהר בראשית — דף קסה ע”ב וידאו + PDF The Zohar explains that Jacob recognized the camps of angels as the ones he had seen in his dream, and that the Divine Presence…
• זוהר I 178a · Bereshit זוהר בראשית — דף קעח ע”א וידאו + PDF The Zohar explains that Israel is called a “worm” because its strength is in its mouth, and that it resembles the silkworm, which dies…
• זוהר I 178b · Bereshit זוהר בראשית — דף קעח ע”ב וידאו + PDF The Zohar explains that the Yemim are spirits that endured in neither one day nor the other, and that Anah, born of a forbidden…

Vayechi

• זוהר I 241a · Bereshit זוהר בראשית — דף רמא ע”א וידאו + PDF Israel left Egypt in great haste, for had they stayed longer they would have sunk into impurity beyond recovery. The Holy One, blessed be…
• זוהר I 247b · Bereshit זוהר בראשית — דף רמז ע”ב וידאו + PDF The secret of the paths that emerge from above, the essence of the Torah, inherits the heaven encompassing twenty-two letters. From there they emerge…

Vaera

• זוהר II 25a · שמות זוהר שמות — דף כה ע”א וידאו + PDF The five expressions of redemption — and I took out, and I delivered, and I redeemed, and I took, and I brought. The greatest…

בא

• זוהר II 34b · שמות זוהר שמות — דף לד ע”ב וידאו + PDF God created the great serpent-dragons — the secret of the Leviathan and his mate. Tanninim is written deficiently because the Holy One killed the…
• זוהר II 35a · שמות זוהר שמות — דף לה ע”א וידאו + PDF The light of Creation shone from above and rested upon the breath of the abyss. Waters flowed from its forehead and sparkled into seventy-two…