Kabbalah Library

Zohar for All, Volume 8

Ten Shofars

141. Ten Shofars, Tki’a Shvarim Trua’a Tki’a, Tki’a Shvarim Tki’a, Tki’a Trua’a Tki’a,* in which Hey-Aleph Yod-Vav-Dalet Vav-Aleph-Vav He-Aleph are clothed. All those letters are to other sides and to the wicked, like fetters, lances, and swords. Trua’a is a chain. Two Truot [pl. of Trua’a] are in ten Shofars, and they are one.

*Three types of blowing the Shofar

142. It is written, “And the mother lying over the nestlings.” Israel tweet to her with several tweets of the prayers, and she does not want to come down to them, to shine from above downward; she does not want to change from Katnut [smallness/infancy]; she lies and shines only from below upward.

What do Israel do? They take the mother with them, the Shechina, and tie her with a knot of Tefillin. When they get to the Shema reading, her children call on her with the six words of unification “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one,” which are HGT NHY of ZA from Gadlut [greatness/adulthood].

They go down to their mother, the Shechina, and tie them with her in the unification “Blessed be the name of His kingship forever and ever.” This is the meaning of the words, “the appointed feasts of the Lord … which you shall proclaim.” You shall proclaim the VAK of Gadlut of ZA so they shine in the Shechina, and then she will shine the Hassadim from above downward. This is her time, the time of her coupling, as it is written, “These are my feasts,” “which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them,” in my time.