Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 8
Rosh Hashanah, Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot
143. Similarly, we read the Mochin from ZA to shine in their time in the Shechina, in the Matza, who is invited to the seven days of Passover. Also, seven species are invited to the seven days of Sukkot: Lulav [palm branch], Etrog [citron], Hadasim [three branches of myrtle], Aravot [two branches of willow tree]. On Shavuot, we read the Mochin of ZA in the Torah. Rosh Hashanah is the day of judgment, each in its kind.
144. Anyone who called, meaning drew Mochin from ZA to Malchut, each degree in its kind, the verse “Then you shall call and the Lord will answer” shall come true in him. The word “then” is the seven days of Sukkot, and the first day of the Shmini Atzeret Eighth of the Assembly]. “Then” is Matza and the seven days of Passover.
“Then,” Aleph [in the Hebrew word Az (then)] is a Sukkah, and the seven species of the Lulav, three branches of myrtle, two branches of willow, the palm branch and the citron, are incorporated in four species: Hadasim [myrtle], Aravot [willow], Lulav [palm branch], and Etrog [citron], and with the seven elements, they are eleven, as the sum of Hey-Vav. A Hallel [praise] should be said about them, for there, there is Halleluiah, meaning Yod-Hey, to complete the name Yod-Hey Vav-Hey.
145. Malchut must be raised with four species up to the thought, Hochma, as it is written, “I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree.’” “I will climb” is a sign, an acronym for Etrog, Arava, Lulav, Hadas. The thought is the explicit name, HaVaYaH filled with the letters Aleph, Hochma of ZA in which there are ten letters Yod-Vav-Dalet Hey-Aleph Vav-Aleph-Vav Hey-Aleph. With the four species, the sum of fourteen is completed in her, like the fourteen joints in the right hand of ZA, Hesed, with which one should hold the Lulav.
Thus, Matan Torah [festival of giving the Torah], Shavuot, seven in seven, seven days in seven weeks, which amount to fourteen, which is the high hand, the middle line. On Rosh Hashanah, they are also fourteen. The sound of the Shofar with the three elements in it, fire, wind, water, are four, and with ten Shofars, they are fourteen.
146. On Passover, the Shechina is the great hand from the side of Hesed. On Rosh Hashanah, she is the mighty hand from the side of Gevura. On Matan Torah, she is the high hand from the side of the middle pillar, Tifferet, and three times fourteen are forty-two. With the three patriarchs from which they hang down, they amount to the number forty-five, as the number of Yod-Vav-Dalet Hey-Aleph Vav-Aleph-Vav Hey-Aleph.
