NOTICE THE PATTERN
Recognize the invitation that opens a Zoharic teaching.
תא חזי is a recurring discourse formula. Learn its literal words and its textual function: it calls the reader to look more deeply at the matter that follows. Recognizing it immediately frees attention for the new teaching.
Zohar I 5b · exact recurring invitation
תָּא חֲזֵי
Ta hazi
Pedagogical pointing supplied; the cited Wikisource witness is unpointed.1Read aloud2Identify the form3Retrieve its function4Return to the source