כִּֽי־אַתָּ֣ה אָבִ֔ינוּ כִּ֤י אַבְרָהָם֙ לֹ֣א יְדָעָ֔נוּ וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֣א יַכִּירָ֑נוּ אַתָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ אָבִ֔ינוּ גֹּאֲלֵ֥נוּ מֵֽעוֹלָ֖ם שְׁמֶֽךָ׃
你本是我們的父；亞伯拉罕不認識我們，以色列也不承認我們。永恆者啊，你是我們的父，你的名自古以來就是『我們的救贖者』。
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).