Kabbalah Library
Zohar for All, Volume 10
Why Nourishments for Disciples of the Wise Are Not Awakening
10. Righteousness awakens in everyone the tree of life, corporeal life and spiritual life. It is a place that gives nourishment to the whole world. Disciples of the wise, what do they do? After all, they are gripped in righteousness, and thanks to them, all the people in the world are nourished, while they themselves cannot really be nourished since they are engaged in Torah, and one who engages in Torah, engages in the tree of life, from which all the people in the world are nourished.
It follows that disciples of the wise awaken the nourishment and the peace in the world, and if the nourishments awaken to all the people in the world through them, why does the nourishment not awaken for them, themselves?
11. A disciple of the wise is the actual tree of life, ZA, who is nourished only by the next world, Bina, and the next world is not in this world. Rather, after he exits this world and enters that world, he is nourished from the next world and his roots are planted in it.
12. Now, in this world, they eat from the fruits of the three lines, from the place that is found in the poor one, Malchut, who is called “poor” since she has nothing of her own except what ZA gives her. She is called the “fruit of the tree that is within the garden.” They eat from that fruit, Malchut, in this world.
13. For this reason, the righteous are nourished by the arm, which is Gevura, and are destined for the next world, since nourishments of the next world are not in this world. Rather, a small restriction of its power is found in the sweetness of the Torah. They taste this from that fruit of the lower tree, Malchut, and this is their joy and nourishment.
14. Once they exit this world, several high streams of the next world surround their places and they are rooted in it in the next world, and rise above the next world. Then it is written about them, “An eye has not seen a God besides You; will do for he who awaits Him.”
Who will do? Yovel, Bina, the next world. “For he who awaits Him” are the righteous, who do not want nourishments in this world before they have established their nourishment, and their nourishment is in the next world. For this reason, they are worthy in everything, and it is written about them, “An eye has not seen a God besides You; will do for he who awaits Him.”
