Tehillim 104:25
- "Ze hayam gadol u-rehav yadayim, sham remes ve-ein mispar, hayot ketanot im gedolot"- (Here is the great and spacious sea, teeming with countless creatures, small animals with large ones).
- "Here is the great and spacious sea" — this is a name for the Shekhinah, which stood above Yaakov's bed when he departed from this world;
- "Teeming with countless creatures" — this means that there is an innumerable multitude of exalted and holy angels there;
- "Small animals with the large ones" — this refers to the Twelve Tribes (the sons of Yaakov), established in perfection:
Small animals:
Yosef (lamb), Gad (kid); Dan (asp)
Large animals: Yehudah (lion), Naftali (doe), Yosef (wolf), Issachar (donkey), Naftali (hind), Benjamin (wolf).
(Zohar on Vayechi, Sulam, translated by Rabbi Tzvi Nisanzon)
