## Zohar, Beha'alotcha

###### Zohar, Beha'alotcha 23:1
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וְהָמָן (במדבר י״א:ז׳) כִּזְרַע גָּד הוּא. אָמַר רִבִּי יוֹסֵי, לְקַיְּימָא זַרְעָא וְחֵילִין בְּאַרְעָא, כְּמָה דְאַתְּ אָמֵר (בראשית מ״ט:י״ט) גָּד גְּדוּד יְגוּדֶנּוּ. מַה זַרְעָא דְּגָד נַטְלֵי חוּלָקֵיהוֹן בְּאַרְעָא אַחֲרָא, כַּךְ מָן שַׁרְיָא עָלַיְיהוּ דְּיִשְׂרָאֵל, לְבַר מֵאַרְעָא קַדִּישָׁא.

**The Zohar; London, Soncino Press, 1933:**
NOW THE MANNA WAS LIKE CORIANDER (*gad*) SEED. Said R. Jose: ‘The term *gad* (lit. troops) signifies that the manna had the virtue of inducing propagation. It implies further that in the same way as the seed of Gad took their portion in another land,¹ so the manna hovered over Israel outside the Holy Land.

footnotes:
¹ i.e. outside the border of the Holy Land proper, in Transjordania.


###### Zohar, Beha'alotcha 23:2
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דָּבָר אַחֵר כִּזְרַע גָּד הוּא. כְּזַרְעָא דְּגָד חִוָּורָא, וְאִקְפֵּי כַּד נָחִית לַאֲוִירָא, וְאִתְנֵגְרִיס (ס"א ואתגשים) (ס"א ואתבלע) בְּגוּפָא, וְהָא אוּקְמוּהָ חַבְרַיָּיא. וְעֵינוֹ כְּעֵין הַבְּדוֹלַח, כְּהַהוּא בְּדוֹלְחָא דְּאִיהוּ חִוָּור, כְּגַוְונָא דִּימִינָא (ס"א חיוורא דעינא) דִּלְעֵילָּא. (כזרע גד הכי לא אקרון בארעא דמצראי אבל לכך מחרשי זריעא כזרע גד הוא כזרע גדא חוורא ואתקפיה כד נחית מלעילא לתתא)

**The Zohar; London, Soncino Press, 1933:**
We may also explain the words to mean that it was white in appearance, like coriander seed, and coagulated when it reached the atmosphere, and was transmuted into material substance¹ inside the body.¹ AND THE APPEARANCE THEREOF AS THE APPEARANCE OF BDELLIUM, to wit, it was white in colour like bdellium, this being the colour of the Right in the supernal sphere.’

footnotes:
¹ i.e. out of its ethereal state.
¹ Al. “it was absorbed by the body”, i.e. without leaving any waste, as with material food. v. T. B. Yoma, 75b.