Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 7
Folds His Hands and Consumes His Own Flesh
280. The fool, the Sitra Achra, folds his hands with his bitterness and fastidiousness, and afterwards eats his own flesh, necessarily, since the Sitra Achra has no permission to rule over anything but flesh. What does he enjoy? All that he slandered and toiled and labored in until he put it to death. Afterwards, he has no permission to enjoy it, but only what is his, the flesh, since the Sitra Achra gives man the flesh.
Afterwards, he dances and rejoices like a fool, without any understanding, and worthlessly goes and eats the flesh, and in the rest, he has no permission. He is bitterness above and below, when Israel are in trouble and their enemies eat them and they do not place strength in their good deeds to pull them out from the Sitra Achra.
281. Even from the flesh that is of that side, bad before the holy king, to give it to the Sitra Achra, since He is merciful and gracious. But over what is His, the Creator’s, the holy spirit and the holy soul, the upper ones and lower ones cannot control at all.
Hence, all the libels and everything that that evil one had slandered, the Sitra Achra, who contemplated controlling the holy spirit, in the end he cannot, and will return and eat his own flesh. So what was the benefit from his slandering?
