How to Find Your Soulmate
Kabbalistic Insights from the Zohar on Parashas Vayigash 5783
'To match couples together is as difficult as the splitting of the sea.'
– Talmud, Sotah 2a
The Zohar in Parashas Vayigash says:
תָּא חֲזֵי, כָּל זִווּגִין דְּעַלְמָא קָשִׁין קַמֵּיהּ הַאי דַרְגָא
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Jewish tradition likens the difficulty of unifying two souls in marriage to the miracle of the parting of Yam Suf (Reed Sea a.k.a. Red Sea). Yam Suf was split when the Jewish People left Mitzrayim (Egypt) after spending some 210 years there. With Mitzrayim in hot pursuit, they stood at the shore of Yam Suf and Hashem split it so they could pass through to the other side. This act was against nature and the Sages compare it to the matchmaking of two persons because merging two worlds ranks
extremely high in difficulty, and just as miraculous.
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