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title: "The Kabbalah Unveiled"
author: "The Zohar (from Knorr von Rosenroth’s Latin)"
translator: "S. L. MacGregor Mathers"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Kabbalah"
section: 55 of 84
url: https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/55/
cite: "The Zohar (from Knorr von Rosenroth’s Latin), tr. S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Kabbalah Unveiled, section 55. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/55/"
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# The Kabbalah Unveiled

*The Zohar (from Knorr von Rosenroth’s Latin), tr. S. L. MacGregor Mathers*

Three books of the Zohar: the Concealed Mystery and the Greater and Lesser Holy Assemblies.

## 55. The Greater Holy Assembly · Chapter XLV · 2 of 2

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/55/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/kabbalah-unveiled-mathers/55/#p-N

[¶0] 1176. "And I spake unto them, and they answered: 'This is the portion of God the most Holy One--may He be blessed!--from the nuptials of Rabbi Schimeon and his companions.'

[¶1] 1177. "Blessed art thou, Rabbi Schimeon, and blessed is thy portion, and that of those companions who are sitting in thy presence.

[¶2] 1178. "How many paths are prepared for ye in the world to come! how many lights of lights are prepared that they may enlighten ye!

[¶3] 1179. "And come, behold! Therefore on this day there are bound together for thee fifty crowns for Rabbi Benchas Ben Yair, thy father-in-law, and I walk with him.

[¶4] 1180. "And all those are rivers of the mountains of pure balm, for assuredly his place and lot is chosen (otherwise: and I saw that he had, &c.).

[¶5] 1181. (Rabbi Schimeon) said unto him: "Are therefore the just united by the Union of the Diadems more on the days of the New Moon, of the feasts, and of the Sabbaths, than on any other days? "

[¶6] 1182. He answered unto him: "Most certainly; also all those who are without. Like as it is written, Isa. lxvi. 23: 'And it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath unto another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith Tetragrammaton.'

[¶7] 1183. "If those come, how much more the just!

[¶8] 1184. "Wherefore from one new moon unto another? Because the patriarchs surround the Holy Chariot.

[¶9] 1185. "And from one Sabbath unto another Sabbath, because the seventh day is surrounded by all the other six days.

[¶10] 1186. "Like as it is written: 'And the Elohim blessed the seventh day,' &c.

[¶11] 1187. "And thou, Rabbi Schimeon, art the seventh: thou shalt be the chief; and thou shalt be more crowned and sanctified than all.

[¶12] 1188. "And with three most delicious feasts of the seventh day shall the just be entertained because of thee in the world to come.

[¶13] 1189. "Also it is written, Isa. lviii. 13: 'Thou shalt call the sabbath a delight, the holy of Tetragrammaton, honourable.'

[¶14] 1190. "Who is He, the Holy One of Tetragrammaton? This is Rabbi Schimeon Ben Yochai, who is called very glorious (both) in this world and in (the world) to come."

[¶15] Hereunto is the Greater Holy Assembly.