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Zohar – Parshat Vayakhel – Jonah Enters the Giant Fish – The Soul Entering the Body

Whale
Jonah and the Whale

ZOHAR PARSHAT VAYAKHEL Daf 199a
Matok Midvash pp. 230-232
Translation and notes: Rabbi Eliyahu Shear

YONAH ENTERS THE GIANT FISH
THE SOUL ENTERING THE BODY
SOMETHING FISHY!

[On Yom Kippur we read the story of the Prophet Jonah. He is commanded by G-d to inform the people of the city of Ninveh to repent.  Not wanting to obey G-d’s command, Jonah takes a ship to Tarshish, and while in the middle of the journey, leaps off the ship he is on, into the sea where he is swallowed by a giant fish (whale.) In fact, as this Zohar points out in a discourse over many pages, “Jonah” is the soul of every Jew that is placed into the body. The story of Jonah is actually the story of every Jew’s entire life, until death… and even onwards…]

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Zohar – Parshat Ha’azinu – When I Call in the Name of God

Heaven and Earth
Heaven and Earth

ZOHAR PARSHAT HA’AZINU Daf 297a
MATOK MIDVASH pp 542-543
Translation: Rabbi Eliyahu Shear

Calling in the Name of God

[The Zohar begins its commentary on a passage from Deuteronomy, chapter 32 vv 3-5. This is the song that Moses sang to the Jewish people just before he died, bringing heaven and earth to act as witnesses to the calamities that will befall the Jewish people if they sin, and the ultimate reward that awaits them at the final redemption.  The language of verse 3 is not clear, since it speaks of calling out in the Name of G-d. When one calls, one usually calls directly to G-d Himself. Why the need to call ‘In the Name of G-d’? What do the extra words ‘In the Name of’ come to teach and add in understanding the process of calling to G-d?]

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