Chasidut sobre Levítico 21:23

It is explained in the Zohar (Vayeishev, 181a): Rabbi Shimon opened and said. “He shall not go to the veil or come near the altar.” (Vayikra, 21:23, in reference to a blemished Cohen.) At the time when the river runs forth,⁴⁴⁰The Soncino Zohar translates, “At the time when the perennial stream releases human souls.” it brings all souls to the female. The female becomes pregnant. They are all within her, in a room within a room whose walls are covered with tapestries. The souls themselves are pure and holy. Yet since they emerged at the time when the moon is blemished from the influence of the Serpent, then wherever the souls reach they are broken and blemished with various pains and afflictions. God wants these souls in all of their sadness and all of their brokenness. This is the secret. They exist below as they are above; the body is blemished, and the soul within is just as it is above, one according to the other. Because this is so, they need to be renewed with the renewal of the moon. On this it is written (Yeshayahu, 66), “On each new moon and each new Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship Me, says the Lord.”