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Kabbalah distinguishes between two types of Divine light that emanate through the 10 sefirot (Divine emanations) from the Infinite , to create or affect reality. There is a continual flow of a "lower" light, the Mimalei Kol Olmin , the light of eminence that "fills all worlds" is the creating force in each descending world, that itself ...
Kabbalah uses subtle anthropomorphic analogies and metaphors to describe God in Judaism, both the God-world relationship, and the inner nature of the divine. These include the metaphor of the soul-body relationship, the functions of human soul-powers, the configuration of human bodily form, and female-male influences in the divine.
Kabbalistic Judaism often relates to various "aspects" of God (cf. Sephirot). As Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan puts it, "[E]very name and every description that we may give to God can only apply to His relationship to His creation" [ 9 ] Although God is not generally regarded as gendered in Judaism, Benjamin Blech writes that God has both masculine and ...
Kabbalah, the central system in Jewish mysticism, uses anthropomorphic mythic symbols to metaphorically describe manifestations of God in Judaism.Based on the verses "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Genesis 1:27) [1] and "from my flesh shall I see God" (Job 19:26), [2] Kabbalah uses the form of the human body to describe ...
Kabbalah's Panentheism expressed by Moses Cordovero and Hasidic thought, agrees that God's essence transcends all expression, but holds in contrast that existence is a manifestation of God's Being, descending immanently through spiritual and physical condensations of the divine light. By incorporating the pluralist many within God, God's ...
Binah is associated with the feminine aspect of divinity. The Bahir states: "For you shall call Understanding a Mother" (Bahir 75). [8] Classical Jewish texts further elaborate, stating that "Binah yeterah natun l'nashim" ("an extra measure of Binah was given to women"). [9] In its fully articulated form, Binah possesses two partzufim.
[35] The "feminine Jewish divine presence, the shekhinah, distinguishes Kabbalistic literature from earlier Jewish literature." [36] "In the imagery of the Kabbalah the shekhinah is the most overtly female sefirah, the last of the ten sefirot, referred to imaginatively as 'the daughter of God'. ... The harmonious relationship between the female ...
'tree') is a diagram used in Rabbinical Judaism in kabbalah and other mystical traditions derived from it. [1] It is usually referred to as the "kabbalistic tree of life" to distinguish it from the tree of life that appears alongside the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Genesis creation narrative and well as the archetypal tree of ...