## Sulam on Zohar, Introduction

###### Sulam on Zohar, Introduction 104:1
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קד) **ואע"ג דלא עאל** וכו': ואע"פ שלא נכנס במנין וחשבון שלהם, עם כל זה, וישימהו דוד אל משמעתו, שלא נפרד מלוח לבו לעולם, כי אין להם פירוד לעולם. דוד שם לבו אליו, והוא לא שם לבו לדוד. משום שהתשבחות והשירים והחסד, שהלבנה עושה לשמש, היא מושכת בזה אליה, שיהיה מגורו עמו. וזה הוא, וישימהו דוד אל משמעתו.

**The Sefaria Sulam, 2023:**
**104. “Even though he was still not included, etc.”**
**Even though he was still not included in their number and calculation, it is nevertheless written: “And David set him over his guard”** (II Samuel 23:23), [meaning] **that he was never parted from the tablet of his heart,** for **they will never be separated. David set his heart upon him, but he did not set his heart upon David. This is because the praises, songs, and mercies that the moon performs toward the sun thereby pull toward her, so that his dwelling is with her. This is** [the meaning of]**: “And David set him over his guard.”**


###### Sulam on Zohar, Introduction 104:2
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פירוש. דוד הוא בחינת המלכות, שהיא הרגל הרביעית של ג"ר. ואומר, דאע"ג שלא יכול לבא אל שלשים השנה העלאין שהן ג"ר, מ"מ **וישימהו דוד אל משמעתו**, שנתדבק בו ולא זז מלוח לבו **לעלמין**. והוא מטעם שכל בחינת השלמות שבמלכות מגולה בו, להיותו מהזווג הגדול דעתיק יומין המשבית כל הקליפות מהשם ב"ן, בסו"ה בלע המות לנצח. (כנ"ל אות צ"ד ד"ה והענין הוא, ע"ש).

**The Sefaria Sulam, 2023:**
Explanation: David is the aspect of *Malkhut*, the fourth leg of the first three [*sefirot*]. The meaning is that although [Benayahu] could not come to the supernal thirty years, which are the first three [*sefirot*], nevertheless “David set him over his guard,” meaning that [Benayahu] clung to [David] and **never** moved from the tablet of his heart. The reason is that aspect of wholeness within *Malkhut* was revealed through [David], since he is from the great fusion of the *Atik Yomin*, which detaches all the *kelippot* from the name *Ban*, in the mystical meaning of the verse: “He will eliminate death forever” (Isaiah 25:8, as stated in section 94, above, third paragraph; see there).


###### Sulam on Zohar, Introduction 104:3
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וז"ש, **דוד שם ליה לביה כנ"ל, דלא אתפרש מלוחא דלביה לעלמין** כי שלמותו בו. אבל **בניהו בן יהוידע**, לא שם לבו **לדוד** כי דוד הוא רגל רביעית לג"ר, וע"כ כמו שלא יכול לקבל מן ג"ר, כנ"ל. כן לא היה יכול לקבל **מדוד**. וע"כ לא שם אליו לבו.

**The Sefaria Sulam, 2023:**
[The *Zohar*] continues: **“David set his heart upon him,”** as stated above, **“that he was never parted from the tablet of his heart,”** since [David’s] wholeness was within him. However, **Benayahu Ben Yehoyada** did not set his heart **upon David,** because David is the fourth leg of the first three [*sefirot*]. Accordingly, just as [Benayahu] cannot receive from the first three [*sefirot*], he could not receive **from David**, and therefore he did not set his heart upon him.


###### Sulam on Zohar, Introduction 104:4
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**דתושבחן ושירין** וכו': ע"י המ"ן שהמלכות, הנקראת **סיהרא**, מעלה אל ז"א, הנק' **שמשא**, ע"י תשבחות ושירים ורחמים היא נמצאת ממשיכה אליה את הארת נשמת בניהו בן יהוידע, שהיא שלמותה האחרונה כנ"ל, **למהוי דיוריה בהדה**, שיתדבק בה לנצח.

**The Sefaria Sulam, 2023:**
**“Praises, songs** etc.” By means of the feminine waters, which the *Malkhut* – called the **moon** – raises to *Ze’er Anpin*], called the **sun**, through the praises, songs, and mercies, [the *Malkhut*] draws to itself the illumination of the soul of Benayahu Ben Yehoyada, which is the final wholeness [of *Malkhut*] (as stated), **“so that his dwelling is with her,”** that he will cleave to [the *Malkhut*] forever.