Kabbalah Mazmur 19:10: Zohar, Sha'arei Orah & Idra Zuta

R. Abba quoted here the verse: “Who is like thy people Israel, one nation in the earth?” (I Sam. 7, 23). ‘God’, he said, ‘chose Israel alone of all peoples, and made them one unique nation in the world and called them “one nation”, after His own name. He gave them many precepts to be crowned withal, including the phylacteries of the head and the arm, wherewith a man becomes one and complete.

With which Sefirah was the sea split? With the one hinted in the verses,⁸⁴Exodus 14:19-21 [that form the Divine Name], “VaYisa-ויס״ע,” “VaYavo-ויב״א,” “VaYeit-וי״ט,” which is the kindness-Chessed of Avraham. With which Sefirah was the Torah given? With the one hinted in the verse,⁸⁵Exodus 20:1 “God-Elohi”m-אלהי״ם spoke all of these statements, saying,” and,⁸⁶Deuteronomy 5:20 “The mountain was burning in fire-Aish-אש.” Which Sefirah is called the Written Torah? The one hinted in the verses,⁸⁷Malachi 2:6 “The Torah of Truth-Emet-אמת was in his mouth,” and,⁸⁸Psalms 19:10 “The judgments of HaShem-יהו״ה are true-Emet-אמת,” and,⁸⁹Micah 7:20 “Give truth-Emet-אמת to Yaakov.” You thus find that the Written Torah, the Judgments of Truth-Mishpetei Emet-משפטי אמת, and Yaakov, are all of one stalk, which is the middle line-Kav HaEmtza’ee-קו האמצעי, about which it states,⁹⁰Isaiah 49:3 “Israel, in whom I shall take Pride-Etpa’er-אתפאר,” and,⁹¹Deuteronomy 26:19 “To make you supreme over all the nations the He made, for praise, for renown, and for Splendor-Tiferet-תפארת.”

We thus find that our forefather Yaakov took possession of the two qualities called right-Yemin and left-Semol, thus adhering to both the quality of kindness and the positive mitzvot, and the quality of punishment and the negative mitzvot. We thus find he adhered to the quality of HaShem-יהו״ה, Who is Truth-Emet-אמת, and is the secret of the verse,⁵¹Jeremiah 10:10 “But HaShem God is True-v’HaShem Elohi”m Emet-ויהו״ה אלהי״ם אמת.” Moreover, He adhered to the signet of Justice-Mishpat-משפט, as written,⁵²Psalms 19:8 “The judgments of HaShem are True-Mishpetei HaShem Emet-משפטי יהו״ה אמת.” He also adhered to the Torah, about which it states,⁵³Malachi 2:6 “The Torah of Truth-Torat Emet-תורת אמת was in his mouth.” We thus find that Yaakov stands in the place of all three forefathers, in that he adheres to all three qualities. Even so, no comparison can be made between the one who brought out and manifested the quality first, and the one who subsequently adhered it. Nonetheless, we find that Yaakov, who is position in the center, is the one who binds these qualities as one.