Каббалистические видения

[41]My discussion here follows closely upon that of the Zoharic text and com­mentary in Tishby and Lachower,Wisdom oftheZohar,2:810-830.

[42]Talmud, TractateBerakhot57b. See Zohar I:206b, where we learn that King David never slept consecutively for more than 59 breaths in order to avoid being entrapped by the "taste of death" and an "evil power" (Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,2:283).

[43]В Кабале женский аспект Бога часто связывается с "левой стороной" древа сфирот и таким образом со строгим судом.

[44]Zohar 111:119a; Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,5:170-171.

[45]Zohar II:213b-2l4a; Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,6:225-226. "The souls of the righteous, in ascending in the night into their own celestial spheres, are woven into a crown as it were, with which the Holy One, blessed be He, adorns himself....There all the souls are absorbed in the Supreme Point; as a woman conceives a child, so does the Supreme Pointconceive them__The souls then re-emerge, that is to say, they are bornanew, each soul being fresh and new as at its former birth."

[46]Zohar III:121b; Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,5:178-179.

[47]Zohar I:83a; see Zohar 11:213b; Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,4:225: "at night all things return to their original root and source." SeealsoTishbyandLachower,WisdomoftheZohar,2:810-811, 828.

[48]Каббалисты считали, что каждый человек обладает четырьмя душами, из которых нешама является высшей и ближайшей к Богу.

[49]Zohar 111:25a; Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,4:377; See also Tishby and Lachower,Wisdom of the Zohar,2:811

[50]Zohar III:222b,Raya Mehemna(TheRaja Mehemnais an "addition" to the basic Zohar text that is included in all traditional editions of the Zohar but which is not translated by Sperling and Simon). See also, Zohar 1:183b; Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,2:200: "For nothing happens in the world but what is made known in advance by means of a dream or by means of a proclamation." See Tishby and Lachower,Wisdom of the Zohar,2:827.

[51]Zohar I:200a; Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,2:259-260.

[52]Zohar 1:83a, as translated in Tishby and Lachower,Wisdom of the Zohar,2:818. See also Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,1:277.

[53]Zohar 1:183a; Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,2:199.

[54]Zohar I:130a-130b; Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,2:19.

[55]See Zohar 1:199b; Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,2:258; Tishby and Lachower,Wisdom of the Zohar,2:822.

[56]Talmud,Berakhot55b

[57]Zohar 1:183a; "Since the dream contains both falsehood and truth, the word has power over it, and therefore it is advisable that every dream should be interpreted in a good sense" (Sperling and Simon,The Zohar,2:199).