Kabbalah Library

Zohar for All, Volume 6

Hallel During Passover

137. It is written, “Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your homes.” The joy is during all seven. ‎Hence, why do they not say a complete Hallel [praise, consists of selected Psalms] all seven days of the ‎Passover, as is done on Sukkot, when a complete Hallel is said for the joy every day?

138. On Passover, Israel were not completely tied as they were tied later. For this reason, on ‎the first night, when there is the coupling of ZON and everyone is in a state of joy, and Israel are ‎connected in that joy, we create wholeness and the Hallel is complete. But later, through the ‎rest of the days of Passover, although all seven degrees HGT NHYM shine on the seven days ‎of Passover, Israel are still not connected to them and have not made the exposing, to ‎make the holy record appear in them. They have not received the Torah and have not entered ‎the degrees HGT NHYM, which entered later.

For this reason, there is wholeness on Sukkot, ‎but on Passover, they have not been rewarded and there was no wholeness in them yet. ‎Although all seven days are present, meaning HGT NHYM of ZA, on the seven days of ‎Passover, they are not revealed and Israel have not been properly connected to them until after ‎the giving of the Torah.

139. Hence, the joy of all and the complete Hallel is on the first night of Passover because of ‎that part to which Israel was tied. This is because the coupling is at that night, and the whole ‎connection of all the degrees that were revealed is from the side of the coupling, from the awakening ‎from above, and not from Israel. When the coupling of ZA is in Malchut, the two degrees, HB are on her, too. When they are present, the whole Guf [body], the whole of the level of ZA is present ‎with them. And then it is the completeness of everything and the joy of everything, and the Hallel is ‎completed, since then the moon, Malchut, is crowned with everything. But this is not so after ‎the first night, for each of the seven days there are HGT NHYM, but Israel have not yet been ‎rewarded with them. Thus, the Hallel is not complete, as it is on other times.