Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 10
To Bequeath Those Who Love Me with Substance
1. Rabbi Shimon said, “to bequeath those who love Me substance, and I will fill their treasuries.” What is “those who love Me?” It is Abraham, of whom it is written, “The descendants of Abraham, who loves Me.” Rabbi Elazar said, “But Ishmael and the children of Keturah came from him? Thus, the one who love Me is Jacob, whose bed is complete.”
2. Rabbi Shimon wondered. In the meantime, Elijah came and told him, “Rabbi Shimon, Rabbi Elazar spoke well, that the one who loves Me is but Jacob’s descendants, as it is written, ‘Yet, I have loved Jacob.’” Rabbi Shimon was happy and kissed Rabbi Elazar on his head. He said to him, “My son, if your heart is wise, my heart rejoices, too. Arise my son, and the meaning of this verse will be revealed to you.” Rabbi Elazar was shaken and arose to his feet.
3. Rabbi Shimon said, “to bequeath those who love Me substance.” “Substance” is Shmita [remission of land tilling every seventh year], and Yovel [50th year anniversary/jubilee], since Hochma is called “substance,” and Shmita and Yovel are Malchut and Bina in illumination of Hochma, which the Creator did not hand down to the rest of the nations, but rather to the holy nation. When Israel observe the year of Shmita properly, the souls of the righteous in the Garden of Eden are delighted and returned to being new. It is written about them, “Those who hope for the Lord will renew their strength.”
4. The Creator dips all the souls in the river of fifty in the upper Garden of Eden, River Dinor, from which they receive their purity and wholeness.
5. In the Shmita and in the Yovel, the Creator accepted the prayer of Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah, all of whom were written with the letter Hey at the end of the name, which is Shmita and Yovel, Malchut, the bottom Hey in the name HaVaYaH, which is called Shmita. Yovel, Bina, is the first Hey in the name HaVaYaH.
6. Because Rachel saw that the name Shmita and the name Yovel were written in Leah’s name, with a Hey at the end of the name, and that she did not have a record of the letter Hey, she immediately said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah,” in whom there were two letters Hey; one Hey will be for me. The letter Lamed at the end of Yovel is in the beginning of the name Leah, and at the end of the name Rachel.
