Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 3
His Brothers Went to Graze
95) “And his brothers went to graze their father’s flock in Shechem.” Why does it write Et [in Hebrew, “of the.” [This doesn’t appear in the translation]? The word Et is punctuated above, to include the Shechina with them, because the Shechina is called Et. the Shechina was with them because they were ten—since Joseph was not with them and little Benjamin was at home. This is why the word Et is punctuated from above.
96) Thus, when they sold Joseph, they all partook with the Shechina and associated her with them when they took the oath and the boycott to not reveal the act of selling Joseph. And for this reason, until the selling of Joseph was revealed, the Shechina was not with Jacob.
97) the Shechina was with the tribes, for it is written, “There the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.” Thus, they were all righteous and pious, and the sustenance of all the people in the world, meaning that the whole world existed by their merit—existed above and existed below, the upper worlds and the lower world.
