...and one post to bind them...

This new peirush on the Zohar מתוק מדבש by Daneil Frish is just amazing!! I must have read this Zohar in the beginning of Parshat Trumah 3 or 4 separate times and never did I have the clarity that I got from reading it with the מתוק מדבש! To me this does for Zohar what Rashi did for Gemara.

Anyway, things have already become too complex to type all the interconnections out so all I want to do is just annotate it all. See the מתוק מדבש on the Zohar 127a on the sugya of אפריון ואפרסמון , then... compare with the following posts:

Wife or Porna

Phone Call

Difference Yud Makes

Phone Call

The gematria of the hebrew suffix פון being equal to that of קול, both rendering 136. Hence the term Phone (Fon) Call (Kol).

Came to me when calculating the value of סנדלפו"ן . Interestingly enough the name can be broken into two parts, 136 + 144, or קדם + קול , together yielding 280, פר, and מנצפ"ך.

Not that I know what to make of it of course...

Additionaly, this i found from Hebrew Wikipedia regarding the name:

פירוש השם

החוקר מאיר בר-אילן טוען‏‏^[1] כי השם סנדלפון מורכב משני בסיסים ביוונית: "סון" (=אחד ) ו-"(א)דלפון" (=אח), כלומר: 'מי שאינו נשלח לבדו'. פירוש זה עולה בקנה אחד עם האמונה כי סנדלפון הוא אחיו של מטטרון.

בספר הזוהר ('רעיא מהימנא') מוסבר שמו כרמז להיותו כמו הנעל והסנדל לכבוד השכינה, כלומר למרות עצמתו וגודלו העצום הוא רק הסנדל של כבוד האל.

פירוש אחר הוא לפי פירוק השם להברות: 'סנ-דל-פון' ותרגומן "שנואי דל פונה", כלומר המלאך פונה לתפילותם של ישראל גם כשהם דלים ממצוות ושנואים על ידי אומות העולם.

Random Fact - Horse and Donkey Chromosomes

Find it intriguing although have no idea what to do with it. Read it in Wikipedia.

Horses have 64 chromosomes. Donkeys have 62. When they mate a mule has 63 chromosomes and hence cannot reproduce.

וצע"ע

דרך קשת

The phrase דרך קשת.

Hebrew Wikipedia explains on the pshat level that in olden times archers needed to hold down their bows with their feet while they fastened the bow's upper string. See there.

Struck me today though that both words are used in contexts of sexuality and יסוד.

דרך גבר בעלמה -- משלי

ותשב באיתן קשתו ויפזו זרועי ידיו -- בראשית מט

Interesting Quote - Blaise Pascal

Got an email containing quotes from a number of world renowned gentiles and their flattering words regarding jews.... too long for me to post it all but I like Math and Pascal is just someone I gravitate towards so here's his quote for those interested:

"It is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar people, separated from the other peoples of the world and this is called the Jewish people....

This people is not only of remarkable antiquity but has also lasted for a singular long time... For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things over such a long spell of years. They have always been preserved,however, and their preservation was foretold... My encounter with this people amazes me..."

בזעת אפיך תאכל לחם

The Zohar on the Pasuk of וזרעו מבקש לחם understanding לחם as reference to כי אם הלחם אשר הוא אוכל

With that in mind then I was wondering how would it be understood the pasuk of בזעת אפיך תאכל לחם... could it be a reference to the fact that post-Gan Eden sexual reproduction is by definition mortality...

I.e, in contrast to an Edenic existence ignoring process (שנים עלו במטה וד' ירדו) , we now have the introduction of Life as process and hence:

תני, כל מי שיש לו תולדות, מת ובלה ונברא ואינו בורא,

וכל מי שאין לו תולדות אינו לא מת ולא בלה ובורא ואינו נברא (Br"R 12:7)

... it's then a little problematic though how this would jive with Chazal's point of כל זיעה סם המוות, חוץ מזיעת הפנים, וסימן לדבר בזיעת אפיך תאכל לחם

... seemingly indicating that if anything, זיעת אפים is a function of life, not death . Also note Berachot 57:  ששה דברים סימן יפה לחולה וכו' זיעה שנאמר בזעת אפיך תאכל לחם


וצע"ע.

Dreams - והנה

Was struck by it over Shabbat. The consistent usage time and again in the Torah of the word והנה in any context of dreams. Check and see. Amazing! But what's the pshat?! What's the connection??

I'm thinking along the lines of the gematria being 66 or if separating the 'Vav' it being 6 + 60 ... and the concept of חלום אחד מששים בנבואה . Also see Zohar where dreams are referred to as emanating from דרגא שתיתאה.....

וצע"ע....