Kabbalah Zakharia 14:1: Sha'arei Orah & Heikhalot Rabbati

In response to this, King David, peace be upon him, composed his songs-zemirot-זמירות, in order to clear the path for the prayers to pass. This is because all those camps are like a cloud that obstructs the prayers from ascending. About this it states,¹¹Lamentations 3:44 “You have covered Yourself in a cloud that prayer cannot penetrate.” However, now that David came and composed songs-zemirot-זמירות, when a person recites these songs-zemirot-זמירות, then these destroyers, spoilers and obstructers withdraw and go away. They are called songs-zemirot-זמירות from the term “machete-mazmer-מזמר,” as in the verse,¹²Isaiah 18:5 “He will cut down the young branches with machetes-mazmerot-מזמרות.” About this scripture states,¹³Psalms 119:54. This verse is usually translated, “Your statutes were music to me in my house of residence.” “Your statutes were like machetes-zemirot-זמירות for me in the house of my fears-megurai-מגורי.” This is to say that in those places on the way that I was in fear and terror-magor-מגור, I scattered and cut through them with those machetes-zemirot-זמירות (songs).

Lo, a day of the Lord is coming (Zechariah 14:1): On that day that Gog and Magog come against the land of Israel, they will shake the earth and the heavens, and there will be a great earthquake in Israel, and they will come to capture Jerusalem, as it is stated, For I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:2). At that time, He will make war against Gog and Magog, and seven shepherds, and eight princes among men [alluding to Micah 5:4] will go out with him. David is in the middle [with] Adam, Seth, Enosh, and Methuselah; to his right are Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Moses, and Aharon; and to his left are the eight princes among men, Saul, Samuel, Amos, Zephaniah, Elijah, Malkitsedek, Jesse and Hezekiah. At that time, the minds of the ministering angels cooled off before the Holy One, blessed be He. For at the time that the Holy One, blessed be He, trod upon Rome, He trod upon it only by Himself, as it is stated, I trod out a vintage alone (Isaiah 63:3). The ministering angels say before the Holy One, blessed be He, "Master of the world, from which side are You coming?" He said to them, "From above." They say to him, "Why is your clothing so red?" (Isaiah 63:2). He would say before Him, "Master of the world, is there a king that goes to war but his riders are not with him? Why did you not request us to go with You?" He said to them, "I had a small vat, so you were not needed by Me." Nevertheless, their minds were not cooled off. He said to them, "Wait for Me a little, I have another large vat, so I will need you, as it is stated, And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach, etc. (Zechariah 14:4).

Opposed to this stone-Even-אבן is another stone called, “a large stone-Even Gedolah-אבן גדולה,”⁶⁹Genesis 29:2 and when it covers the mouth of the well-Be’er-באר, Israel is subjugated beneath it,⁷⁰Also see Zohar I 151b that this is a reference to the evil inclination which is called (Isaiah 8:14), “a stumbling stone-Even Negef-אבן נגף.” (See also Psalms 91:12.) “until the coming of the executor of judgment, when I will deliver him [into his hands].”⁷¹Ezekiel 21:32 This is indicated by the verse,⁷²Genesis 29:10 “Yaakov came forward and rolled the stone-Even-אבן off the mouth of the well-Be’er-באר,” and is the meaning of the mystery of the Torah portion,⁷³Genesis 33:17 “Yaakov journeyed to Sukkot,” and the section in Prophets that states,⁷⁴Zachariah 14:1 – That is, the era of the true and complete redemption upon which (14:9), “HaShem-יהו״ה will be King over all the land; on that day HaShem-יהו״ה will be one and His Name one.” “Behold, a day is coming for HaShem-יהו״ה.”