Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 4
If There Is an Angel as Mediator for Him
1) See how people must follow the path of the Creator and keep the commandments of the Torah so that through it, they will be rewarded with the next world, and be saved from all the slanderers above and below. This is so because as there are slanderers in the world below, there are slanderers above who are ready to slander people.
2) Those who keep the commandments of the Torah and walk on the straight path fearing their Master, how many advocates do they have above, as it is written, “If there is an angel as mediator for him”? It is also written, “Then let him be gracious to him, and say, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’” For this reason, happy is he who keeps the commandments of the Torah.
3) And why the need for an angel to advocate a person? After all, it is written, “For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.” It is also written, “The Lord will keep you from all evil,” that the Creator sees all that a man does in the world, both good and bad, and it is written, “Can a man hide himself in hiding places so I do not see him?” Hence, why do we need an angel to recommend or slander?
4) The Creator certainly sees everything. Yet, it is written in Job, “Then Satan answered the Lord and said, ‘But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh … you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.” He was given into the hands of the other side, to slander the things in the world and to have them given to him.
And those things are hidden from the Creator and you are unworthy of following them and studying them, since they are the laws of the Creator and people are not permitted to scrutinize them, except those true righteous who know the secrets of the Torah and walk by the path of wisdom, to know those things that are hidden in the Torah.
It is written, “Happy is the people that know the joyful shout,” meaning they know the ways of the Creator—that He shouts for joy and benefits through messengers although He can do it by Himself, as it is written, “Come unto Pharaoh,” that the Creator wanted Pharaoh to send the children of Israel even though He could have delivered them against his will.
