Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 7
Of the First of Your Dough, a Portion
307. “Of the first of your dough, a portion, you shall make a donation.” This commandment is to set aside a portion to the priest.
A Hallah [potion/Sabbath bread] is forty-three in Gematria, indicating that a dough does not require setting aside a portion unless there are forty-three eggs in it, and a fifth of an egg. There is also one fifth of fifty, which is Nun [in Gematria]. The sign Mem-Gimel-Nun, which is Mem-Gimel with a long Nun is an acronym for Michael, Gabriel, Nuriel, who correspond to HGT of ZA.
The Hallah [portion] is the Shechina, since where those angels are, Mem-Gimel-Nun, the fathers are, HGT, and where the fathers are, HGT, the Shechina is, since HGT is three lines and Malchut receives from them.
In Malchut, “and pleaded,” since in her we pray, as she is called a “prayer,” as it is written, “And Moses pleaded with the Lord his God.” It is also written, “Lord, God, You have begun to show Your servant,” and in Malchut, a Hallah, meaning Mitchillah [from the beginning], ancestral merit, from the words “You have begun,” and in it, the ancestral merit ends for the wicked, for ancestral merit does not apply to them because they receive their reward in this world.
308. From the right side, there is Yod, Hochma, and Bina is on the left. They are Yod-Hey, which is the beginning of the name HaVaYaH, the Shechina, showing the merit of her children when she receives from the right, where there are 248 commandments to-do, which are Hassadim.
From the side of the bottom Hey of HaVaYaH, which is to the left of Gevura, since before Malchut receives from the right, she is built from the left side, where there are 365 not to do. The complete wicked are sentenced there, for whom ancestral merit has ended, and they have no Hassadim from HGT, called “fathers.”
The name HaVaYaH is overturned for them there into Hey-Vav-Hey-Yod, meaning in reverse, implying judgment. We learned from wicked Haman that he said, “All this is not worthwhile for me,” that the ends of the words of the verse, “this is not worthwhile for me,” imply Hey-Vav-Hey-Yod, indicating that it points to judgments.
