Kabbalah Keluaran 34:7: Zohar, Ohr Ne'erav, Sha'ar HaKavanot & Idra Zuta

For, although all things were created¹i.e. in posse.. in the power of the Name Elohim, that which was created was not actually made¹i.e. in esse.. until Sabbath eve, when “God ended the work which he had made” (Gen. 11, 2); that is to say, Creation only received its permanency with its completion through making. In the same sense it says concerning the tables of stone that they were “the work (ma’ase, lit. making) of God”, which indicates that they were produced at the time when the consummation of the whole Creation took place through the act of God’s “making”-and not in the later period concerning which the Name in its fulness is mentioned-“TETRAGRAMMATON Elohim” (Gen. 2, 4), and only herewith was the world placed upon a firm basis and permanently established.

We learn from this passage that even if the harm [caused by] error is great, it nonetheless appertains only to one who is unqualified to teach and [yet] teaches. However, [with regard to] the subject of teaching oneself, there is no harm at all stemming from error. On the contrary, [such a person] receives a reward—though not as great a reward as that [given to] one who arrives at the truth. The difference between them is similar to that between the barren tree and those trees which bear fruit. Thus holiness increases and bears fruit in the light which emanates from the true Torah of one who knows its secrets and continually teaches them. The same [holds] for the other divisions of the Torah. There is no doubt that [such a teacher] will cause an emanation, and that this emanation and light which is created [through the teaching] will abide forever, bearing fruit for himself and for generations [to come]. Thus it is written, He keeps mercy to the thousandth generation (Exod. 34:7). He retains [His] mercy to a thousand generations with regard to the merit of the fathers and similar things. The essence of the good deed, which constitutes the essence of the light, is kept for him for the world-to-come, where he sits and enjoys [it].

The concept [behind] the custom practiced by the Ashkenazim on the first day of Rosh Hashanah to go after the afternoon service a little before sunset to the ocean or to a spring or a well of artesian water, which they call Tashlich: Behold, it is a good custom, but it is better if it is outside of the city. One should stand over the edge of the well or the spring and read the three verses of, Who is like You, etc. You will show truth to Jacob, etc., at the end of Micah (7:18-20), which is the aspect of the thirteen rectifications of the supernal beard of the Extended Face [Arikh Anpin]. And with the meaning of the words, one must have in mind how the 13 rectifications of the beard are hinted to, as is known, and where the place of each rectification on the supernal face of the Extended Face is, according to what we explained about the idea of and He passed over (Exodus 34:6) and the thirteen attributes in the weekday morning prayers, see there. And in the Idra Rabba (11:97), they are taught according to the order of [the words of the thirteen attributes of mercy]: Lord, Lord, God merciful and compassionate, etc.: Who is a God like You [corresponds to the] first; forgiving iniquity, the second; and remitting transgression, the third; against the remnant of His inheritance the fourth; Who has not maintained His wrath forever, the fifth; because He desires kindness, the sixth; He will take us back in mercy, the seventh; He will cover up our iniquities, the eighth; You will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea, the ninth; You will show truth to Jacob, the tenth; kindness to Abraham, the eleventh; as You promised on oath to our fathers, the twelfth; in days gone by, the thirteenth. And when you say, You will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea, you should have in mind that all of your sins and iniquities be hurled away and that the supernal prosecutor should be hurled into the supernal sea. As that is the reason to say it over the ocean or moving waters. However, you must [also] keep in mind what we explained in the teaching about the thirteen attributes on the ninth rectification that is hinted at in the word to the thousandth generation (Exodus 34:7). And I explained it concerning unifications.