Zohar - Parshat Vayakhel - Yonah Enters the Giant Fish - The Soul Entering the Body

ZOHAR PARSHAT VAYAKHEL Daf 199a

Matok Midvash pp. 230-232

YONAH ENTERS THE GIANT FISH

THE SOUL ENTERING THE BODY

SOMETHING FISHY!

[On Yom Kippur we read the story of the Prophet Jonah. He is commanded by G-d to inform the people of the city of Ninveh to repent. Not wanting to obey G-d’s command, Jonah takes a ship to Tarshish, and while in the middle of the journey, leaps off the ship he is on, into the sea where he is swallowed by a giant fish (whale.) In fact, as this Zohar points out in a discourse over many pages, "Jonah" is the soul of every Jew, that is placed into the body. The story of Jonah is actually the story of every Jew’s entire life, until death… and even onwards…]

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