כִּֽי־אַתָּ֣ה אָבִ֔ינוּ כִּ֤י אַבְרָהָם֙ לֹ֣א יְדָעָ֔נוּ וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֣א יַכִּירָ֑נוּ אַתָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ אָבִ֔ינוּ גֹּאֲלֵ֥נוּ מֵֽעוֹלָ֖ם שְׁמֶֽךָ׃
Sapagkat Ikaw ang aming Ama; sapagkat hindi kami kilala ni Abraham, at hindi kami kinikilala ni Israel. Ikaw, Walang-Hanggan, ang aming Ama; ang aming Manunubos mula pa noong una ang Iyong pangalan.
Zohar
THEN JUDAH CAME NEAR UNTO HIM, ETC. R. Eleazar discoursed on the verse: For thou art our Father; for Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us; thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name (Is. 63, 16)….1The passage omitted is a repetition, in a shortened form, of pp. 2b, 3a. He said:1The first twenty lines of the Hebrew text do not appear in the English translation as per the translator’s note on page 205a.
Idra Zuta
Higher Eden and lower Eden
This Chochmah of the thirty-two paths is called Eden. This Eden flows from the most concealed highest Eden, which is the concealed brain. It is considered a beginning starting with this Eden, which is Chochmah of the thirty-two paths; that is, a beginning for shining on lower beings. For neither beginning nor end is considered in Atika, that is, in the concealed brain; beginning and end are supernal Chochmah and lower Chochmah. For the concealed brain does not shine on lower beings from itself; rather, its illumination is via Mazala and into the brain of the thirty-two paths, and that brain does have a beginning, since it contains Chochmah of the left column; and it does have an end, that is, Malchut that is called lower Chochmah, where this Chochmah can be revealed. And since Atika has neither beginning nor end, it is not called “you,” in the second person, but “he,” that is, the hidden third person. And the place that does contain a beginning, that is, Chochmah of the thirty-two paths, is called ‘you’ and ‘father,’ as written, “You… are our father” (Yeshayahu 63:16).
This Chochmah of the thirty-two paths is called Eden. This Eden flows from the most concealed highest Eden, which is the concealed brain. It is considered a beginning starting with this Eden, which is Chochmah of the thirty-two paths; that is, a beginning for shining on lower beings. For neither beginning nor end is considered in Atika, that is, in the concealed brain; beginning and end are supernal Chochmah and lower Chochmah. For the concealed brain does not shine on lower beings from itself; rather, its illumination is via Mazala and into the brain of the thirty-two paths, and that brain does have a beginning, since it contains Chochmah of the left column; and it does have an end, that is, Malchut that is called lower Chochmah, where this Chochmah can be revealed. And since Atika has neither beginning nor end, it is not called “you,” in the second person, but “he,” that is, the hidden third person. And the place that does contain a beginning, that is, Chochmah of the thirty-two paths, is called ‘you’ and ‘father,’ as written, “You… are our father” (Yeshayahu 63:16).