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Zohar Vayera

Continued from previous DZ

#200

Rabbi said: It is a mitzvah for a person to pray for the wicked, so that they return to the good path and do not enter Gehinnom. As it is written: “וַאֲנִי בְּחָלוֹתָם לְבוּשִׁי שָׂק”, “And I, when they were sick, wore sackcloth” (Psalms 35:13 ). And Rabbi said: It is forbidden for a person to pray for the wicked to be removed from the world. For if the Holy One, blessed be He, had removed Terach from the world when he was serving idolatry, Abraham our father would not have come into the world, and the tribes of Israel would not have been, and King David, and King Mashiach, and the Torah would not have been given, and all those righteous ones, and the pious, and the prophets, would not have been in the world. Rabbi Yehuda said: When the Holy One, blessed be He, sees that nothing is found in the wicked from all those matters, what is 

written? “וַיָּבֹאוּ שְׁנֵי הַמַּלְאָכִים סְדֹמָה”, “And the two angels came to Sodom” (Genesis 19:1).

Notes:

This Zohar passage interprets וַאֲנִי בְּחָלוֹתָם לְבוּשִׁי שָׂק (Psalms 35:13 ) and וַיָּבֹאוּ שְׁנֵי הַמַּלְאָכִים סְדֹמָה (Genesis 19:1), continuing #199. It is a commandment to pray for the wicked’s repentance to avoid Gehinnom, as Terach’s survival enabled Abraham’s lineage, the tribes, David, Mashiach, and Torah. When no merit is found, angels come to Sodom for judgment.

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