Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 7
One Who Is Not Rewarded in This Place
185. In the meantime, the two messengers came and found him with his head between his knees. They said to him, “Hello sir, hello the one whom upper ones and lower ones wish to greet hello; arise.” Rabbi Shimon arose and was glad about them. They said to him, “Were you not pleased with what your master has done for you? Did you not see the light of the Temple in the firmament?” the illumination of the coupling of Malchut with ZA, who is called ‘firmament’?” He said to them, “I saw.”
They said to him, “At that time, the Creator took out the abyss, the screen, of the Temple, Malchut, and took it through the great sea, Bina. And from its light, the light of the sweetening of the screen in Malchut in Bina, she shone in the firmament in the shape of the Temple, and this is the coupling.”
186. They said to him, “The head of the seminary sends his regards. He knew that we were sent to you, and several new things from Atik were innovated in the Torah on that night. He said to them, “Please do say one of them.” They said to him, “We were not given permission to reveal them to you by coming to you, but we do have one new thing to you now.”
187. It is written, “And the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go forth from your land,’” since the light shone in him in this manner, and because of this, the Creator said to him, “Go forth,” since the light could not shine in him differently, but rather in this way, since one who is not rewarded in this place will go and take himself to a different place and be rewarded there.
The burning tree, and the light does not rise and shine in it, let them shake it and the light will rise and shine in it. The messengers said, “We were willing to hear the rest of the words from the head of the seminary, but because we had to come to you, we did not want to stall.” Rabbi Shimon was glad.
188. They said to him, “You are a holy Hassid; all our words in the Torah are short words in everything, as they were said very succinctly. But these short words, how great and sublime they are, immeasurably so. We have no doubts, but rather the clarification of the Torah to the fullest.” Now the head of the seminary clarified abstruse matters about the essence of the soul, why it does not shine in this place, and is rewarded with shining in another place, and until now we have not been rewarded with them since we had to come to you.”
189. But one thing we were rewarded with hearing from him: “A spirit that walks naked in that world, without sons, his wife becomes for him a vessel that he will be built by her marrying his brother [Yivum], since his wife is a candle that is lit by him, and they were both one candle, this light that emerged from that light. The one who died without sons has quenched, and it is actually lit from within his wife, since they were one light.”
