Kabbalah Library

Zohar for All, Volume 7

The Halls of the Female Souls

196. In one hall, there is Batia, daughter of Pharaoh, and several myriads and thousands of righteous women are with her. Each of them has places of light and subtleties without any pressure whatsoever. Three times a day, heralds call out, “Behold the shape of Moses, the faithful prophet, is coming,” and Batia comes out to a place of one partition that she has, and sees the shape of Moses. She bows before him and says, “Happy am I for having raised that light.” This is her most special pleasure.

197. Batia returns to the women and engages in the commandments of the Torah. They are all in the forms that they had in this world, in a clothing of light, like the males’ garments, except for the fact that they are not as luminous as the males’ garments. The commandments of the Torah that they did not merit observing in this world, they engage in them and in their flavors in that world.

All those women sit with Batia, daughter of Pharaoh in one hall. They are called “complacent women,” who were not afflicted at all by the afflictions of Hell.

198. In one hall, there is Serach daughter of Asher, and several myriads and thousands of women are with her. Three times a day, it is declared before her, “Behold, the shape of righteous Joseph is coming.” She is glad and comes out to a partition that she has, and sees the light of the shape of Joseph; she is glad and bows to him, and says, “Happy is that day when I awoke your enunciation to my old man.”

Afterwards, she returns to the rest of the women and they engage in praises to the master of the world and to think His name. Each one has several places and joy, and then they return to engaging in the commandments of the Torah and their flavors.

199. In another hall, there is Yocheved, the mother of Moses, the faithful prophet, and ‎several thousands and myriads are with her. There are no declarations at all in that hall. ‎Rather, three times a day, she thanks and praises the master of the world, she and all those ‎women with her. They sing the singing of the sea each day, and she alone begins from the verse, ‎‎“And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.” All those righteous in the ‎Garden of Eden listen to the sound of her tunes, and several holy angels thank and praise the ‎holy name with her.

200. In another hall, there is Prophet Deborah. All the women with her also thank and sing the singing that she said in this world. Who saw the joy of the righteous and the righteous women who are serving the Creator? Before those halls, there are four hidden halls of the holy mothers, who were not given to be revealed. There is no one who saw them; each day they are alone.

201. Each night, they all incorporate together, since the time of coupling is midnight, whether in this world or in that world. The coupling of that world is the adhesion of soul to soul, light to light. The coupling of this world is body to body. Everything is as it should be, a kind after its kind, a coupling after coupling, a body after a body. This is in this world. The coupling of that world is light after light.

The halls of the four mothers are called “halls of trusting daughters.” I was not rewarded with seeing them. Happy are the righteous, men and females, who walk on the straight path in this world and are rewarded with all the pleasures in that world.